The Easiest Way to Cook a Whole Pumpkin – Instant Pot Style
The only and easiest way to cook a whole pumpkin!
Equipment
- 1 Instant pot (multicooker or magic pot)
Ingredients
- 1 pumpkin (approx 1-2kg)
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Weigh your pumpkin and work out how long you need to cook it for. You will need 10 minutes per kilogram of pumpkin. For example 1kg = 10 minutes.
- Add the cup of water
- Wipe your pumpkin clean and place it on the trivet inside of your pressure cooker.
- Place the lid on and turn it to the locking position.
- Pressure cook on high for your allocated time. For example my pumpkin was 2.3kg so I cooked it for 23 minutes.
- Once the cooking time has finished allow the steam to release naturally.
- If your pumpkin does not fit in the magic pot in it’s entirety. You may need to play Tetris with large pieces of pumpkin.
- Once your pumpkin is cooked use the back of a spoon to peel the skin away. You will be so surprised how easy it is to peel the pumpkin.
- Peel all the skin away so you only have orange flesh.
- Cut the pumpkin in half and scoop out the seeds.
- Now mash to make a puree, add to a soup, or simply freeze to use another day.