This autumn dish will reveal the ability of pumpkins to balance on the verge flavors, mashed potatoes that just melt in your mouth, when served properly may well pass for a gourmet dish that looks from the cover restaurant menu. Recent trends have brought in a lot of vegetables that allowed the cooks to release what they consider tasty and healthy. This versatile side dish successfully combines a variety of flavors. and texture of ingredients. Mashed potatoes can be served with pork, beef, lamb or turkey. Roasting apples, if desired with leek, you can add one /2 tbsp to them. l maple syrup. The amount of butter can be reduced by about 2 times: the taste will be rich enough. Share with friends: 
Time: 1 hour. 20 minutes. Difficulty: easy Servings: 4 – 6 Recipes used volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 2 acorn squash, cut across and take out the seeds
- 1 head garlic wrapped in foil
- 7 tbsp. l butter
- 1 leek, diced (white parts only, green throw it away)
- 1 gala apple, core and cut into cubes 1 cm in size.
- 1 tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves
Recipes with similar ingredients: pumpkin puree, pumpkin acorn, leek, garlic, apples, thyme
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Lay the pumpkin with slices down in glass baking dish. Place a container in the oven. Pour water into the pan so that its level reaches half height of the form (this will help to steam the pumpkin, so it will not dry out and it will be easier to knead). Place the foil-wrapped garlic straight on the oven grate. Bake it with pumpkin until they will become very soft (about 1 hour). Let cool slightly.
- Melt 1 tbsp. l (15 gr.) Butter in a small thick-bottomed pan over medium-high heat. Add leek and apple, fry until soft with a crispy texture (approximately 6 minutes). Salt to taste.
- Take chilled pumpkin pulp with a spoon and spread her in a big bowl. Using a crush, mash the mass to homogeneity. Expand the garlic and squeeze its pulp into a mashed potato from pumpkins. Add the remaining 6 tbsp. l (90 gr.) Butter and crush the pusher. Stir in thyme and salt to taste. Put mashed potatoes in a serving bowl and put on top the fried with leek apple. You might be interested in another a dish that can be served in a restaurant, Celery root puree and potatoes.
