Levi Roots

Pumpkin Rice

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8–9

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Caribbean Food Made Easy
Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

  • About

This brightly coloured rice looks and tastes beautiful with the Caribbean Lamb Shanks. We have a riddle that goes: ‘How water walk to ah pumpkin belly?’ The answer is the long vine that leads to the pumpkin.

Ingredients

  • 550 ml (just under a pint) water
  • 400 g (14 oz) pumpkin, peeled, d

Method

  1. Put the water, pumpkin, 2 sprigs of thyme and salt in a saucepan. Put on a lid. Bring to the boil, turn down the heat and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes or until soft. Remove the thyme and very roughly mash the pumpkin into the liquid with a potato masher. You are not after a