Nice Savory Pumpkin Dishes

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First in addition to foremost, allow me come upward out in addition to tell pumpkin is a wintertime squash.

It has come upward to my attending that many people don’t realize this, in addition to they mean value pumpkin is only for pies in addition to lattes. But actually, pumpkin is 1 of my favorite ingredients for savory dishes this fourth dimension of year.

The smoothen texture is groovy for sauces in addition to soups, non to mention, it's packed amount of nutrients similar potassium, Vitamin C, in addition to fiber.

It pairs really good with sage, smoked paprika, ginger, in addition to cayenne, alongside other spices.

Spicy Sausage Pumpkin Gnocchi
Ingredients

• 2 pounds gnocchi
• 16 ounces spicy sausage
• 2 cloves garlic
• 3 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh sage
• 8 ounces Challenge cream cheese
• 1 loving cup pumpkin puree
• 1/2 loving cup half-and-half (or heavy cream)
• 1/2 loving cup parmesan cheese
• 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon chili powder

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of salted H2O to boil over high heat. Add gnocchi, stirring gently thence they don’t all stick together. Cook gnocchi for most ii minutes, or until they showtime to rising to the surface.
2. Drain gnocchi. Drizzle with a niggling olive crude oil to preclude them from sticking together in addition to educate aside.
3. Brown sausage inwards skillet; drain fatty in addition to educate aside.
4. Drizzle olive crude oil inwards the bottom of saucepan in addition to rut at medium heat. Sauté garlic in addition to sage inwards saucepan for most 1 minute.
5. Add cream cheese in addition to rut until melted.
6. Add pumpkin puree, half-and-half, parmesan cheese, smoked paprika in addition to chili powder. Stir until thoroughly combined in addition to simmer on depression for several minutes.
7. Gently flexure gnocchi in addition to sausage into sauce until combined.
8. Serve warm in addition to garnish with toasted walnuts in addition to to a greater extent than parmesan cheese if desired.

Pumpkin Hummus

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/4 loving cup tahini 
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 (15-ounce) tin garbanzo beans, drained in addition to rinsed
• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 loving cup pumpkin puree
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

Directions

1. Pulse lemon juice, tahini, garlic, in addition to tabular array salt together inwards a nutrient processor or blender until smooth. 
2. Add garbanzo beans in addition to olive crude oil in addition to pulse until smooth. 
3. Add pumpkin, smoked paprika, cumin, in addition to cayenne pepper; pulse until good blended. Transfer hummus to bowl in addition to refrigerate until cook to serve.
4. When cook to serve, drizzle olive crude oil in addition to sprinkle additional smoked paprika on top.