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🍽️ Crispy Pumpkin and Mozzarella Stack

327 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Cut the pumpkin flesh into 12 equal slices that are about 1 centimeter thick.
  2. 2. Season the pumpkin slices with salt and pepper.
  3. 3. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan.
  4. 4. Fry the pumpkin slices in the hot oil on each side until they are light brown.
  5. 5. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes briefly to loosen the skin (this is called blanching).
  6. 6. Remove the skin from the tomatoes.
  7. 7. Cut the peeled tomatoes into quarters and remove the seeds.
  8. 8. Dice the tomato flesh into small pieces.
  9. 9. Heat the remaining oil in a pan.
  10. 10. Add garlic and shallot to the hot oil and sauté them until they are soft and translucent (glassy).
  11. 11. Add the diced tomatoes to the onion mixture in the pan.
  12. 12. Season the tomato mixture with salt and pepper.
  13. 13. Let the tomato mixture simmer for about 5 minutes.
  14. 14. Drain the mozzarella.
  15. 15. Slice the mozzarella into 12 pieces.
  16. 16. Take 8 of the pumpkin slices and spread some of the tomato sauce on them.
  17. 17. Season the sauce-covered pumpkin slices with salt and pepper.
  18. 18. Place one mozzarella slice on each of the 8 pumpkin slices.
  19. 19. Take two of these topped pumpkin slices and stack them on top of each other.
  20. 20. Cover this stack with the remaining 4 intact pumpkin slices.
  21. 21. Add a little more tomato sauce on top of the uppermost pumpkin slice.
  22. 22. Place another mozzarella slice on the sauce.
  23. 23. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
  24. 24. Place the pumpkin stack in the preheated oven.
  25. 25. Bake the dish for about 15 minutes until the cheese is melted and browned.
  26. 26. Serve the pumpkin stack with the remaining tomato sauce.

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