Rice with pumpkin and milk

A few days ago Sean Fraser commented on my frozen blog: “…I guess you could always make some pumpkin soup to warm you up.” No, I didn’t make pumpkin soup. First, it’s not traditional here. Second, as it’s not traditional I never made it and my mom never cooked it either. Third, as it’s not traditional and my family didn’t have any experience making it my taste receptors couldn’t appreciate pumpkin soup and I didn’t want to risk trying untested recipe from the Internet.

Instead I called my mom to write down details of cooking rice with pumpkin and milk. You see, the idea of making something with pumpkin caught me.

So here is the recipe.

1) First we need to prepare pumpkin. Take your pumpkin, pare it, remove its core and seed if it haven’t done before. Slice it into cubes. (here can go also small amount of carrots, apples)

Put some water in a pot and place it on stove. Wait until it starts boiling. Then throw cubes of pumpkin there.

Cubicles of pumpkin boiling in water

Pumpkin gets ready very fast so it will be 5 to 10 minutes as it becomes a little squashy.

It’s time to take the pot off. Remove water that left in the pot. You can keep some amount of water for further if you like though.

Smash pumpkin. It’s not necessary to make it indiscrete mass, bigger and smaller piece are acceptable.

Smashed pumpkin

2) It’s time to prepare some rice. Millet, oats or barley can be used instead of rice also.

First we need to put some milk into the pot (you can use that one where we just boiled pumpkin and you can mix milk with water left after pumpkin). Bring it to the boil it, don’t forget to check it constantly to catch the moment when it’s ready.

As soon as milk gets boiling put rice into the pot. I took 250 mg or less of rice for one liter of milk.

Mingle it almost all time with short pauses. I forgot to do that though my mom said “Don’t forget!” and rice glued a little. It took some efforts to detach it.

3)When rice gets puffy put mashed pumpkin into the pot. Put a pinch of salt and two spoons of sugar or less.

Rice and pumpkin boiling with milk in the pot

Now boil until it gets ready. I don’t know how long it takes. Just try if it feels like ready.

Put some milk fat into it.

And it’s ready.

Yummy!

P.S. I have to read more recipes on English. I’m not very well with cooking expressions. I don’t even know how many times I wrote “put”, or what are terms for different kinds of cutting, etc.