Yummy Pumpkin

[09.09.2013]
On Tuesday I presented you Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook 'Save with Jamie' and one recipe banned my at once so I cooked it the day before yesterday. It is called 'Squash & spinach pasta rotolo'. But instead of spinach I took mangel from our garden and everything is 100% home made. Today I'll show you the 'striver version' but I'll add the alternatives as well. 

For five portions you need:

* a squash

* 500g frozen spinach or mangel

* ca. 8 lasagna sheets or

[* 250g flour

 * two eggs]

* 800ml passata or

[* a tin whole tomatoes

 * 500ml sieved tomatoes

 * one carrot

 * one small onion, a glove of garlic

 * some basil leaves]

* one onion

* 60g feta

* cheese for grating

* salt, pepper, sugar, nutmeg, oil, water

So and now I'll start. The book presents a length of 2 hours, 20 minutes for the dish. I'll give you the time after each step.

At frist halve the pumpkin and remove the pips and these odd threads with a spoon, then rub the squash with a oil-salt-pepper-mix before putting it at 180°C into the oven for about 80 minutes. Duration is 4-5 minutes.

After this I prepared the tomato sauce, if you take a finished product this will be dropped of course. For the sauce chop an onion and the garlic glove and braise it lightly in a pot with oil, then add the cubed carrot and deglaze it with the tomatoes. After boiling it up you have to season it with spices and the basil, all this needed about 12 minutes. 

Now you should prepare the pasta dough, if you don't take finished sheets. For this mix the flour and the eggs, if the consistency isn't right add flour or any water but if you put it into the fridge for 30 minutes it will become a bit moister. Preparing and rolling takes about 15 minutes.

For the next step you prepare the spinach stuffing. Chop again an onion and braise it lightly then add the spinach or mangel. After this taste it with salt, pepper and some nutmeg and boil it up a little bit. Duration is about 7 minutes. 

After about 80 minutes the squash should be soft, test it with a fork and next put the pulp alway from the skin in a bowl. If you're ready with this you nearly made it. You only have to mice the pulp and taste it with nutmeg, salt and pepper. Now it's stuffing time! 

Oh, at first put the tomato sauce into a large baking dish.
Spread the pasta sheets [if you take finished ones cook the a little bit, so you can roll it], coat them with squash, add a bit spinach and the some feta. 

Roll it and cut it into some pieces [mine were about 6cm]. Put the roulettes in the baking dish, it doesn't matter if they fall over, they're always yummy. Now just bake the casserole at 180°C for 30-40 minutes.

As I already told you, you can find the a bit modified recipe in Jamie Oliver's new book ‚Save with Jamie‘. I was very surprised that this dish is sooo yummy and I'll cook it again very soon.

The 'finished version' works pretty fast and with less effort, just the pumpkin needs some time.
A lot of fun and good appetite. 

_Marie_

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