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🍽️ Crispy Pumpkin and Mozzarella Stack
327 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 800 g pumpkin flesh
- 6 tomatoes
- 2 balls mozzarella (approx. 150 g each)
- 1 tbsp chopped basil
- 1 clove garlic (chopped)
- 1 shallot (chopped)
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- salt
- pepper (from the mill)
Instructions
- 1. Cut the pumpkin flesh into 12 equal slices that are about 1 centimeter thick.
- 2. Season the pumpkin slices with salt and pepper.
- 3. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan.
- 4. Fry the pumpkin slices in the hot oil on each side until they are light brown.
- 5. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes briefly to loosen the skin (this is called blanching).
- 6. Remove the skin from the tomatoes.
- 7. Cut the peeled tomatoes into quarters and remove the seeds.
- 8. Dice the tomato flesh into small pieces.
- 9. Heat the remaining oil in a pan.
- 10. Add garlic and shallot to the hot oil and sauté them until they are soft and translucent (glassy).
- 11. Add the diced tomatoes to the onion mixture in the pan.
- 12. Season the tomato mixture with salt and pepper.
- 13. Let the tomato mixture simmer for about 5 minutes.
- 14. Drain the mozzarella.
- 15. Slice the mozzarella into 12 pieces.
- 16. Take 8 of the pumpkin slices and spread some of the tomato sauce on them.
- 17. Season the sauce-covered pumpkin slices with salt and pepper.
- 18. Place one mozzarella slice on each of the 8 pumpkin slices.
- 19. Take two of these topped pumpkin slices and stack them on top of each other.
- 20. Cover this stack with the remaining 4 intact pumpkin slices.
- 21. Add a little more tomato sauce on top of the uppermost pumpkin slice.
- 22. Place another mozzarella slice on the sauce.
- 23. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
- 24. Place the pumpkin stack in the preheated oven.
- 25. Bake the dish for about 15 minutes until the cheese is melted and browned.
- 26. Serve the pumpkin stack with the remaining tomato sauce.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 327
- Protein: 14 g · Fett/Fat: 24 g · Carbs: 14 g