Marinated pumpkin with chocolate sorbet

Name: Marinated pumpkin with chocolate sorbet
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: about 450 g pumpkin, in one piece; coarsely crushed pistachios to garnish; 100 g dark chocolate, preferably Valrhona or a good Belgian; 150 g caster sugar; 2 teaspoons arrowroot mixed with 2 teaspoons cold water; Chocolate tuiles for serving; 2 pieces of stem ginger in syrup, sliced; 100 ml milk; chocolate, chopped; 20 g cocoa powder; 2 tablespoons liquid glucose; 250 ml freshly squeezed orange juice; caster sugar to taste

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

About

This was inspired by a Turkish dish of pumpkin in syrup with green walnuts. You must use a ripe French pumpkin for this, not one that is woody or fibrous.

Ingredients

about 450 g pumpkin, in one piece
250 ml freshly squeezed orange juice
2

Asia
Turkey
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Autumn

Method

Remove the skin and seeds from the pumpkin, then weigh the flesh. You need 250 g, in one piece. Use a vegetable peeler to cut ribbons from the pumpkin, cutting lengthways down the cut side of the piece, not the back or the curved front. Put the orange juice in a saucepan with