Vegetables perhaps kinds of dishes not all people desired to eat. They are attractive in color but some people think they are tasteless, however some can keep up with the taste. Even when one kind of vegetables tastes sweet, for instance pumpkin, those who dislike vegetables wouldn’t mind to step back from it. However, this anxiety won’t be problem anymore if you know how South Africans do their magic to vegetables especially pumpkin.

Most of South Africans love vegetables like pumpkin. You wouldn’t be surprise to find it in most restaurants as vegetables side dish along with another vegetable like spinach. At home, particularly when the season comes, South Africans serve pumpkin in an easier way. They just boil pumpkin with a needed amount of water and spice it with simple usage of ingredients like salt and some cinnamon. Usually, they use any varieties of pumpkin that grow in certain season and few examples of them are butternut squash, herbert squash, and red pumpkin.

Yet, if you prefer not only a light serving you can cook pumpkin with flour, salt, and some eggs and mix them together. Then, bake the doughy pumpkin with a little bit of oil and serve it warmly with cinnamon sugar as topping. To South Africans, it is called “pampoenkoekies”.

“Pampoenkoekies” is not the only traditional cook made of pumpkin, here you can try a generation-to-generation recipe of South African named “pampenmoes”. In serving “pampoenmoes” you can choose two easy ways, boil or bake it.

First, let’s get start it by preparing the needed ingredients:

• 8 slices of white bread.
• Butter.
• Apricot jam.
• 2 cups of pumpkin (1 butternut squash is preferable.).
• Salt.
• Sugar.
• Cinnamon.

Second, follow the easy serving steps below:

• Spread each slice of bread with butter on the both sides and place it on ovenware. Make an addition by spreading the apricot jam on one side of the bread facing up.
• Take the pumpkin and slice it thinly. Season it with a pinch of salt and place it on top of the bread.
• Blend the sugar and cinnamon and shower it on top of the pumpkin slice.
• Put another pumpkin slice on every top of the seasoned pumpkin and as finishing dot the top of the extra pumpkin slice with butter.
• Place them into 180°C preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes to an hour.

Enjoy the hot “pampoenmoes” with the desirable dishes you wish. Your friends will be impressed with this recipe, so try and enjoy.(fallen)