Ingredients
- 1kg potatoes – van Rosa or Agria (Ettrick Gardens, Caithness Farm, Oamaru Organics)
- 300g pumpkin (Ettrick Gardens, Rosedale Orchard)
- ¼ really,really finely cut onion (red is best)
- 50g butter
- 1tsp salt
Potato Sunshine
Method
- Scrub the potatoes then cut into smallish chunks (3cm cubes)
- Start the potatoes steaming
- Peel pumpkin (unless you are using a bush fire pumpkin, then you can leave the skin on) and remove seeds
- Add the pumpkin and continue to steam for about 18 minutes in total
- Check that everything is totally soft
- Transfer to a bowl, add the very fine raw onion and butter then mash
- Check flavour, add salt, pepper and perhaps more butter
Comments
I love mashed potato, and a bit of pumpkin really gussies it up. This is not fancy food, but is tasty and quick. I find steaming the potatoes and pumpkin really fast and easy.
Thanks to Brydone Organic Growers for providing the potatoes and onion, and to Kakanui Produce for the pumpkins used in the demonstration.
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