Pumpkin with chestnut honey

Once cooked, brush the pumpkin with chestnut honey to enhance the taste of your recipe.

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Ingredients

1 medium size pumpkin

extra virgin olive oil

salt and pepper

fresh thyme

a teaspoonful of chestnut honey

sunflower seeds

pumpkin honey
© Laura La Monaca

Preparation

Evenly slice the pumpkin so that it will be perfectly cooked. Cover a baking pan with greaseproof paper and brush the pumpkin with oil.

Preheat the oven at 150°C. Put the pumkin on the tray, season with oil, salt and pepper and bake until golden but not burned.

Brush with chestnut honey, add sunflower seeds and serve baked pumpkin with chestnut honey warm.

 

Why a recipe with honey?

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© Laura La Monaca

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