Cooking for nerds #1: Pumpkin one pot pasta

I don’t like cooking, but I like good food. I therefore like recipes which are easy to implement.

https://breifreibaby.de/kuerbis-one-pot-pasta/ is one of those recipes.

Unfortunately, like most recipes, it is written in running text. I will therefore try to simplify this recipe as much as possible and add my own improvements and fixes.

Utensils

  • one big cooking pot
  • kitchen scale
  • chopping board
  • plastic gloves for slicing pumpkin
  • bowl for measuring weight of pasta
  • bowl for pumpkin pieces and cut carrots
  • bowl for kitchen scraps
  • big sharp knife for slicing pumpkin
  • sharp knife for cutting onion and carrots
  • small knife for peeling onion
  • small bowl for diced onion
  • small bowl for spices
  • wooden spoon
  • spoon to hollow out pumpkin
  • tablespoon
  • teaspoon
  • measuring cup
  • stove
  • (optional) tools for opening containers

Ingredients

  • 350 g hokkaido pumpkin meat
    • wash
    • don’t remove skin
    • hollow out
    • cut into rectangular (~1cm) pieces
  • 120 g carrots
    • remove green stuff
    • wash
    • cut into thin slices
  • 1 small onion
    • peel
    • dice
  • 400-500 ml coconut milk
  • 400 ml vegetable broth
    • use 1 flat teaspoon of vegetable broth powder and dissolve it in cooked water
  • 250g pasta (not spaghetti)
  • 2 tablespoons frying oil (no need for container -> fist ingredient)
    • use colza oil, sunflower oil or regular frying oil

Spices - put all in small bowl:

  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1 flat teaspoon pepper
  • 0.5 flat teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 flat teaspoon turmeric

Recipe

  • prepare everything as described in Ingredients
  • prepare two timers for 2 and 3 minutes
  • set stove to level 5/10
  • add frying oil to big cooking pot
  • add cut onion to big cooking pot
  • wait 2 - 4 minutes -> stir regularly
  • add carrots to big cooking pot
  • add pumpkin to big cooking pot
  • wait 3 minutes -> stir regularly
  • add vegetable broth to big cooking pot
  • add coconut milk to big cooking pot
  • add pasta to big cooking pot
  • stir everything well
  • wait 2 minutes
  • repeat stiring and waiting (approx. 11 minutes) until
    • pasta is al dente
    • pumpkin and carrots are well done
  • season the food with the spices mentioned in Ingredients
  • stir everything well so that the spices are evenly distributed