How to Make Award-winning Gunpowder Squash

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, gunpowder squash. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Gunpowder Squash is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Gunpowder Squash is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have gunpowder squash using 32 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Gunpowder Squash:

1. Prepare Gunpowder spice
2. Take 40 g (1/4 cup) idli rice
3. Make ready 85 g (1/2 cup) urad dal
4. Make ready 1 tbsp chana dal
5. Make ready 2-4 whole dried Kashmiri chillies depending on your spice level
6. Get 8 dried curry leaves
7. Get 5 g asafoetida
8. Get 1/2 cinnamon stick
9. Get seeds from 2 green cardamom pods
10. Make ready 1 tbsps black pepper
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp sesame seeds
12. Get pinch salt
13. Prepare Pumpkin
14. Take 1 small pumpkin
15. Prepare 1 tbsp organic cold-pressed rapeseed oil
16. Make ready 2 tbsps gunpowder spice
17. Get 2 small twigs of rosemary
18. Prepare 100 g (2/3 cup) naked Tofoo, cubed
19. Prepare 1 small apple, sliced and cut into batons
20. Prepare dash wild orange or lemon juice
21. Make ready 30 g (1/3 cup) fennel, sliced and cut into batons
22. Take 50 g (1/4 cup) forbidden rice
23. Take 2 tbsps pomegranate seeds
24. Get handful kale, blanched and ripped roughly
25. Take 2 spring onions, sliced thinly
26. Take freshly ground black pepper
27. Take Dressing
28. Get 1 tbsp tahini
29. Prepare juice of 1 medium wild orange or a lemon
30. Prepare 1 clove garlic, crushed
31. Make ready 1 tsp organic cold-pressed rapeseed oil
32. Get lava or sea salt

Steps to make Gunpowder Squash:

1. To make the spice blend. Set a tawa or frying pan over a medium heat. Add the rice, urad and chana dal and dry roast for 2 minutes or until the mixture turns light brown in colour. Transfer to a large plate and set aside to cool. Add the chillies (1 for mild and 4 for hot) to the same pan and dry roast for 30 seconds until charred. Remove the chillies and place with the rice/lentil mix. Add in the dried curry leaves and leave to cool. Add the remaining ingredients and grind to a coarse powder.
2. Heat the oven to 180 degrees C. Cut the pumpkin in two. Remove the seeds and keep to one side.
3. Cut crisscross slits in the pumpkin flesh and brush with a little oil and top with the rosemary. Place in a baking dish and bake for 40 minutes. Wash the pumpkin seeds, pat dry and roast for 5 minutes.
4. Cube the Tofoo, roll in the gunpowder spice, place on an oiled baking sheet and cook in the centre of the oven for 10 minutes.
5. Cook the forbidden rice in boiling, salted water until al dente, approximately 20 minutes.
6. Mix the apple and fennel with a dash of wild orange juice or lemon juice. Add to the cooked black rice, pomegranate seeds, kale and spring onions. Add the baked Tofoo and season with a few grinds of black pepper and combine. Whisk all the dressing ingredients together and drizzle on top. Sprinkle with the roasted pumpkin seeds and a grind of lava salt.
7. Remove the rosemary from the pumpkin and add the rice mixture into the hollows. Return to the oven and bake for a further 10 minutes.

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