Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin
Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, halloween kabocha squash gratin. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tender chunks of sweet kabocha, umami mushrooms and macaroni in a creamy béchamel sauce, topped off with panko breadcrumbs and baked until crispy golden. Kabocha Gratin with a Japanese twist is the ultra comfort food in cold weather months. Kabocha is a Japanese squash or pumpkin.

Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have halloween kabocha squash gratin using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin:
  1. Make ready 1 Kabocha squash
  2. Get 1 A Halloween Forest (refer to Step 3)
  3. Get Kabocha Gratin
  4. Take 25 small Shrimp
  5. Take 1 Chicken meat
  6. Prepare 1 Onion
  7. Prepare 1 can White mushrooms
  8. Prepare 1 Consomme soup stock cube
  9. Prepare 40 to 50 grams Butter
  10. Take 40 to 50 grams White flour
  11. Take 500 to 600 ml Milk
  12. Prepare 100 grams Macaroni (optional)
  13. Make ready 1 Salt and pepper

Kabocha squash has a pale green rind and light orange flesh. Substitute butternut squash or pumpkin if you have trouble finding kabocha. Prepare the gratin a day ahead and refrigerate; store the breadcrumb topping separately. Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen.

Instructions to make Halloween Kabocha Squash Gratin:
  1. Heat the kabocha in the microwave until it's tender enough to carve with a knife (I microwaved it for 10 minutes, flipped it over and microwaved for another 10 minutes. Depending on the size, 6 minutes each side may be enough).
  2. Cut the top part off and scoop out the inside with a spoon.
  3. [To make the Halloween forest] Place the lid upside down and put into the hollowed kabocha. Make a mountain out of mashed potatoes, and stick in stalks of parsley and rosemary.
  4. Sculpt a pumpkin out of the scooped-out kabocha flesh. Cut out a carrot hat and lay it on top of a boiled egg jack-o'-lantern. Make a house out of daikon radish and nori seaweed. Construct a gravestone out of konnyaku and cheese. Spread a pavement of nuts and seeds.
  5. [To make the kabocha gratin] Microwave the scooped-out flesh from Step 2.
  6. Melt butter in a pot, sauté the shrimp and chicken cut into desired sizes, add the thinly sliced onions, then the mushrooms.
  7. Once the onions are tender, remove the pot from heat, add flour, then mix thoroughly with a spatula.
  8. Mix in milk a little at a time, stirring in as you go, then add a consomme cube.
  9. Return the pot to heat and simmer until you reach your desired thickness while stirring with a spatula. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
  10. Add the kabocha from Step 5 and the gratin is finished. You can also add cooked macaroni at this stage.
  11. Pour the gratin into the kabocha shell from Step 2, after it has cooled down. (If it's too full, the lid will not close, so add more when you bake it in the oven.)

Both butternut and kabocha squash provide lots of vitamin A and C to bolster your immune system, especially important during cold and flu season. So head to your local farmer's market and pick up some butternut and kabocha squash for the recipe I am sharing with you. A healthy Halloween Kabocha cheesecake that is entirely gluten-free and sugar-free! I really like using Japanese kabocha squash in recipes as it has a really great taste and texture and is very versatile in its uses. You can use it in sweets, instead of potatoes, in soups, in custards, in purees, in.

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