🍽️ Crispy Pumpkin Fries with Fresh Orange Spinach Salad

Name: Crispy Pumpkin Fries with Fresh Orange Spinach Salad
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 600 g Butternut squash; 1 egg; 20 g cornstarch (2–3 tbsp); pepper; paprika powder; 0.25 tsp dried thyme; 100 g baby spinach; 1 red onion; 1 clove of garlic; 1 orange; 2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar; 1 tbsp rapeseed oil; 1 tsp honey; salt; 45 g pumpkin seeds; coarse sea salt

193 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

600 g Butternut squash
1 egg
20 g cornstarch (2–3 tbsp)
pepper
paprika powder
0.25 tsp dried thyme
100 g baby spinach
1 red onion
1 clove of garlic
1 orange
2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp rapeseed oil
1 tsp honey
salt
45 g pumpkin seeds
coarse sea salt

Instructions

1. Remove the seeds and the skin from the pumpkin.
2. Cut the flesh into thin sticks, similar to french fries.
3. Separate the egg: Use the yolk for another purpose and keep only the egg white.
4. Whip the egg white stiffly with a mixer or whisk until it is firm.
5. Set the whipped egg white aside.
6. Mix the starch with the spices in a shallow bowl.
7. Toss the pumpkin pieces in the starch mixture first.
8. Then toss the dusted pumpkin pieces in the whipped egg white.
9. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
10. Place the pumpkin fries on the tray.
11. Preheat the oven.
12. Bake the fries at 200 degrees conventional heat, 180 degrees fan-forced, or gas mark 3 for about 15 minutes.
13. Switch the oven to the highest grill setting.
14. Brown the fries for another 5 minutes under the grill.
15. Wash the spinach thoroughly.
16. Shake the spinach dry.
17. Roughly chop the spinach if the leaves are very large.
18. Peel the onion.
19. Slice the onion into rings.
20. Peel the garlic clove.
21. Finely chop the garlic.
22. Peel the orange.
23. Cut the fruit segments out of the orange.
24. Catch the released orange juice in the process.
25. Mix the orange juice with vinegar, oil, honey, the chopped garlic, salt, and pepper.
26. Stir the ingredients into a uniform dressing.
27. Place the spinach into small bowls.
28. Distribute the orange segments over the spinach.
29. Add the onion rings on top.
30. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds over it.
31. Drizzle the salad with the dressing.
32. Take the fries out of the oven.
33. Sprinkle sea salt over the hot fries.
34. Serve the fries together with the spinach salad.

Nutrition per serving

kcal: 193
Protein: 9 g · Fett/Fat: 9 g · Carbs: 18 g