I’m going to be honest, I’ve never cooked with pumpkin before. I’ve Carved them up and stuck candles in them but never considered them something to cook with, especially to compliment lamb. But here we are dropping knowledge bombs like ‘did you know pumpkin’s are part of the squash family’?
Side note. Oven baked pumpkin seeds taste like Twiglets. So if you’re a marmite fan, BINGO.
This is, as usual for Sixty Sheep an absolute belter of a last minute, running late, whip up, bung in and GO meal! Yam.
Need to Knows
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 35 mins
- You’re gonna get your hands mushy
Ingredients
- 4-6 Sixty Sheep Lamb Cutlets
- 2 large potatoes chopped into squares
- Handful of cherry tomatoes (halved)
- Pumpkin (the small variety)
- 1 x red onion
- Garlic
- Rosemary sprigs
- Olive oil
- If you’ve been following any of my other recipes the ingredients should be readily available by now
Method
- Turn your oven on to 190c,
- Chop potatoes, pumpkin (instructions below),tomatoes & onion
- Spread all ingredients onto a large baking tray and lay cutlets on top (give the cutlets a nice distance between them all)
- Sprinkle with garlic, oil & rosemary sprigs
- Cook on the middle shelf for 35 minutes & enjoy
How to cut pumpkin
For any of you first time pumpkin foodies, let me assist with ‘how do you cut a pumpkin’. Firstly, you’ll need the smaller pumpkin variety so don’t go buying yourself a whacking great big monster. A, you’ll never eat it all and B. The smaller ones taste better.
- Start by cutting the top off (as if you were going to decorate). Remove the seeds and the mush associated with the seeds. (Add seeds to a baking tray and cook for Twiglet experience, approx 20 mins on 190c.)
- From the top of the pumpkin draw your knife down to the bottom and then about an inch next to it, snap the pumpkin strip at the base & remove. Wallah, 1 cook-able pumpkin strip.
- Remove any stringy bits from strip by running your knife down the fleshy side, but not too deep as to remove the stringy bits (you’ll see what i mean).
- Repeat as desired for as much pumpkin required.
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