Healthy thanksgiving side dishes ? roasted pumpkin

Name: Healthy thanksgiving side dishes ? roasted pumpkin
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 7
Cuisine: En
Ingredients: 1 Sugar Pie Pumpkin (size depends on number of people you’re serving); Olive Oil; Kosher Salt; 1/4 Cup Raw Pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds); 1/4 Cup Manchego Cheese (cut to small cubes); 2 Cloves Roasted Garlic; Kosher Salt; Fresh Ground Black Pepper; Olive Oil

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Main Dish

Very Easy

50 min

Ingredients

1 Sugar Pie Pumpkin (size depends on number of people you’re serving)
Olive Oil
Kosher Salt

Manchego Pesto:

1/4 Cup Raw Pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds)
1/4 Cup Manchego Cheese (cut to small cubes)
2 Cloves Roasted Garlic
Kosher Salt
Fresh Ground Black Pepper
Olive Oil

Preparation

Preparation15 min

Cook time35 min

Preheat Oven to 500 degrees Farenheit. Cut pumpkin in half from the top (stem) down.
Clean out the seeds and strings from inside the pumpkin. Save seeds for later roasting.
Slice pumpkin into 3/4″ – 1″ wedges and peel off skin with peeler. Place pumpkin slices on large baking sheet.
Drizzle olive oil over the top of the pumpkin. Using your hands, rub the oil onto all of the slices.
Place garlic cloves into a small piece of foil. Drizzle olive oil over the garlic. Close up the foil around the garlic cloves leaving a seam on top.
Place pumpkin and garlic into the oven. Cook for 25 – 30 minutes. (This time could vary depending on the moisture content of your pumpkin.
It’s done when the edges are a golden brown.). Remove pumpkin and garlic from the oven.
While the pumpkin is cookin. Add the pepitas, garlic, a pinch of kosher salt, a few grinds of black pepper and 2 tablespoons of olive oil to your food processor (should use a small processor, but could also use a mortar and pestle).
Turn on the processor and puree until pepitas are still in large chunks. Add the manchego cheese to the processor and 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Puree until pepitas are quite small but manchego is still fairly chunky. Continue adding olive oil until the desired consistency is reached.
To serve, place several pieces of pumpkin on a plate and drizzle with pesto.