6 Best Ways To Eat Pumpkin This Halloween🎃🍂

As Halloween approaches, pumpkins are everywhere—decorating homes, lighting up doorsteps, and of course, featured in delicious dishes. Beyond the classic pumpkin pie, there are numerous creative and mouth-watering ways to enjoy this versatile gourd.

Whether you're a fan of savory treats or have a sweet tooth, there's a pumpkin dish for everyone. From hearty soups and flavorful curries to delightful desserts and spiced beverages, pumpkins can be transformed into culinary masterpieces that celebrate the season. 

Did You Know?

Eating pumpkins regularly helps lower blood pressure, boost vision, reduces the tendency to over eat, gives you healthier skin and also benefits the heart!? If these wonder benefits aren’t enough to make you eat good old kaddu then these yummy pumpkin recipes surely will! 

Dive into our favourite pumpkin recipes that will add a festive and delicious touch to your Halloween celebrations! 

Most Delicious Soup -

Pumpkin pairs beautifully with a variety of ingredients to create soups that are both nutritious and flavorful. Try an aromatic roasted onion, garlic, and pumpkin soup, or a hearty pumpkin and lentil soup that serves as a complete meal. For a twist, whip up a nourishing peas and pumpkin soup that brings together two contrasting colours making it even more interesting and antioxidant-rich!

Snack It!

Pumpkins make fantastic snacks! Try making pumpkin cheese balls, that are crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. Or simply try your hands at quick and easy Pumpkin Fritters. For a twist on a classic, create Pumpkin Idlis, soft and spongy with a hint of sweet.

Pumpkin Pasta Sauce, Anyone?

Keep the calories minimum and the taste top notch by tossing your pasta in a smooth silky pumpkin sauce. You can make a creamy pumpkin risotto or try this penne with roasted pumpkin and ricotta which you can enjoy piping hot for dinner one night and also right out of the fridge for brunch the next day. 

Roast It, I Say!

Roasting pumpkin enhances its earthy, sweet taste. A roasted pumpkin hummus offers a refreshing change from the regular variety, and is loaded with Vitamin A and fibre. You can use it as a spread or as a dip for just about any savoury appetizer; pumpkin helps lower cholesterol and is heart healthy in contrast to other high calorie commercial spreads. 

Dessert Bhi!

Soft, creamy and just the right amount of sweet in the center, these chocolate coated red pumpkin bars are a healthy post dinner sweet option for the entire family. Another fabulous way to boost your beta-carotene and antioxidant intake is by trying a more desi recipe - red pumpkin ki launjee – pumpkin fingers cooked in sugar syrup and tossed with crunchy nuts. 

Cut a pumpkin cake

Ever thought eating cake can be healthy? Turns out, it can be. This pumpkin cake has a bunch of nourishing ingredients like pumpkin puree, oats, olive oil and buttermilk keeping it light, soft and high on fibre. Experiment by adding pumpkin to a traditional carrot cake recipe for more goodness or try these apple and pumpkin muffins. Along with a sweetened hung yogurt topping – they are like a little energy boosting snacks! 

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