News: Pumpkin season, do you know how to pearl it and cut it without risk?

Although pumpkins have practically all seasons of the year, it is the fall season when Butternut squash and other winter varieties invade our market.

We have already begun to include it in our meals a few weeks ago, because we wanted to, although with the summer temperatures we are having this fall month, the more we enjoy it is in salads, we make spaghetti or just thin sheets.

If you have not tasted this pumpkin raw, you do not know what you are missing ... it is like a treat. If you are one of those who likes to kill hunger with a carrot, cherry tomatoes or something, prepare some (finite) squash sticks that you will love. In addition, you will be taking advantage of the nutrients of a healthy food, if you want to remember the nutritional properties of the pumpkin, you can read this post.

About the pumpkin we have talked a lot, both in the comments and in recipes and techniques to prepare this vegetable before cooking, but of course, there are many new followers and sometimes you can escape some publications, so, before the new season pumpkin we ask you: do you know how to pear it and cut it without risk?

And is that this vegetable is one of those that can offer resistance because it has a harder skin than most vegetables. That's why there are specific utensils to peel pumpkins, and there are also tricks to make it easier, and this is the first thing we will remember, our favorite trick to peel a pumpkin easily. As we told you here, it consists of introducing the whole piece, clean and with some incisions made with the tip of the knife, in the oven at 200º C. After about 10-20 minutes (depending on the weight of the pumpkin), the skin will be somewhat more soft and can be peeled easily.

You have to be careful that the pumpkin does not finish cooking if it is later to be incorporated in some raw recipe, you will get the point. There are also those who do the same, but in the microwave, and the time is quite inferior, but we can not tell precisely. When we put it into practice with several pieces and we'll tell you, and if any of you do it normally, let us know.

But surely there will be some who want to save this step, because it is also true that often the butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata) has a thin skin, are pieces that are not very large, and a good knife and / or a peeler is enough of vegetables to remove the skin (it is curious how the knives dull and how long the sharpening of the peelers lasts, right?). About the method to peel a pumpkin with a peeler is not much to say, but you can access this post.

And to finish with the recommendations to prepare the pumpkin, peel it and cut it without risk, we also want to remember a video that we shared with you some time ago, in which the cook Jamie Oliver shows his technique, very practical and safe, so we leave it again under these lines.