Dishes made with pumpkin
22 dishes from around the world that list pumpkin as a main ingredient.
Hāngī
🇳🇿 New ZealandFood slow-cooked in an earth oven with hot stones, a Māori tradition
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MantiMeat
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan and 5 moreSpiced meat dumplings wrapped in thin dough, steamed, boiled or baked
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Locro
🇦🇷 Argentina and 5 moreA thick Andean stew of squash, corn, potato and meat, eaten across South America
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
Callaloo
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago and 4 moreLeafy Caribbean stew made with taro, amaranth or other greens
Stew or curry, Breakfast, Lunch
Bolani
🇦🇫 AfghanistanAfghan flatbread filled with vegetables or meat and fried until crisp
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
Qutab
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan and 2 moreThin dough folded around savory or vegetable fillings and cooked on a griddle
Main dish, Snacks, Lunch
HumitaVegetarian
🇵🇪 Peru and 4 moreFresh corn dough wrapped in husks and steamed or boiled
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
TinutuanVegan
🇮🇩 IndonesiaVegetable rice porridge from Manado, North Sulawesi, served hot for breakfast
Main dish, Breakfast
Pasteles
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico and 4 moreBanana leaf-wrapped parcels of seasoned dough with savory fillings, steamed or boiled
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Miyan taushe
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 1 morePumpkin and groundnut soup from northern Nigeria, served with starchy sides
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Dhansakધાનશાક
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreParsi sweet and sour curry of meat, lentils and vegetables served with caramelised rice
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
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🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreFermented fish and vegetable curry from Sylhet, cooked without oil
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Porotos granadosVegetarian
🇨🇱 ChileChilean summer stew of cranberry beans, corn and squash
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Ifisashi
🇿🇲 ZambiaZambian greens simmered with ground peanuts and served hot
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dhansak: Miansari66, CC0, source
- Hāngī: einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Porotos granados: User:Pachanka, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Miyan taushe: Aykunya13, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ifisashi: LittleT889, CC BY 4.0, source
- Manti: Peretz Partensky, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bolani: arnold | inuyaki, CC BY 2.0, source
- Callaloo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/67276179@N08/, CC BY 2.0, source
- Locro: Horacio Cambeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tinutuan: Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Humita: Marcos Katz, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pasteles: The Eloquent Peasant, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hutki shira: এম আবু সাঈদ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source