Sweet and sour pumpkin is a tasty side dish that is also great to serve as an appetizer or as a snack spread on slices of toasted bread. You can easily prepare sweet and sour pumpkin in a pan and then store it in the refrigerator for 3/4 days in a container with a lid. If you also love pumpkin, don’t miss other PUMPKIN RECIPES, I’m sure you’ll find other recipes to try. Now let’s see how to make sweet and sour pumpkin and if you try it, let me know. Barbara
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter
Ingredients to prepare Sweet and Sour Pumpkin
- 1.1 lbs pumpkin
- 3.5 oz onion
- 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp sugar
- to taste salt
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- to taste nutmeg
Tools
- Mandoline
How to prepare Sweet and Sour Pumpkin
Let’s start preparing the sweet and sour pumpkin, clean the pumpkin from seeds and internal filaments, remove the skin and then cut into small pieces. Also clean the onion and thinly slice it with a mandoline or knife.
Pour some extra virgin olive oil and the onion into a pan, let it brown for a few minutes, then add the pumpkin, stir and cook for a few minutes.
Then add the white wine vinegar and sugar, adjust the salt and add the grated nutmeg, cook on low heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, if you see that the pumpkin dries out, add some water and continue cooking.
When the sweet and sour pumpkin is cooked, remove from the heat and serve it or let it cool and store it in a container with a lid.
How to store the Sweet and Sour Pumpkin
The Sweet and Sour Pumpkin can be stored in the refrigerator for 3/4 days in a closed container with a lid
