Pumpkin Fries
Sweet potato fries have been a big trend the last few years, which made me think, why not pumpkin fries?
Mr. K was really skeptical, but these came out great. I chose to bake them rather than fry to make them healthier. They came out crunchy on the outside, soft and sweet on the inside, and taste very similar to sweet potato fries –but more pumpkiny.
It’s also a great way to use up excess pumpkin. I bought a “pumpkin pie” pumpkin because they have more flesh and less seeds. They are smaller than the carving pumpkins and are usually labeled as “for pumpkin pie” in the grocery store. But you can also make the fries with the large carving pumpkins too. Now you don’t have to waste any of the pumpkin.
If you love pumpkin you might like my Pumpkin Hummus, too.
Baked Pumpkin Fries
Ingredients
- 1 small pumpkin pie pumpkin
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ground cinnamon, optional
Instructions
- Slice raw pumpkin flesh into thick fry slices and remove the skin (because of the high water content of pumpkin, they will shrink a lot when baked so make sure that you cut them bigger than you want them to end up when they are finished).
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Place the pumpkin fries on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush the fries generously with olive oil. Bake for 20 minutes or the until edges are lightly browned and the fries are crispy.
- Dust the fries with ground cinnamon, if desired. Dip in ketchup or your favorite sauce. (I like honey mustard sauce).
Would it taste the same like roasted pumpkin?
Very similar! We hope you try them.
I seen A video doing this exact same thing with butternut squash, and I tried it with pumpkin today, amazing and so yummy 🙂
Interesting on the butternut squash!
Brilliant! I like making sweet potato and butternut squash fries, so pumpkin is an obvious next step… but it never occurred to me! What is the dipping sauce in the picture? It looks something like mustard, but not quite. Honey mustard, maybe? That’d probably be good. I’d be tempted to dip them in a sweet cranberry sauce, which is what I do with sweet potato fries.
Yup, it was a honey mustard.
Omg what a great idea!!!
def try it out!
Ooh great idea! When I was in TW a couple of years ago, I saw that they dusted sweet potato fries with sour plum powder (I’m sure you’ve seen it, they dust it on fruits and everything) and it was really good. I bet it’d go well with pumpkin, too!
Oh interesting. I have lots of little packets of the plum powder. I should try it out.
You know the way to my heart …..
Pumpkin.
haha. Expect a lot of pumpkin posts this Fall!
interesting.