Joanne Harris, Fran Warde

Citrouille au Jambon de Bayonne

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in
The French Market
The French Market

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2005

  • About

This simple but striking combination of air-dried ham and sweet, tender pumpkin makes a wonderful autumn dish. Don’t discard the pumpkin seeds; just toast them in the oven with some olive oil and rock salt, and add them to a green salad for a satisfying crunch.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg pumpkin
  • 12 thin slices Bayonne ham
  • olive oil

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C/gas 4.

Cut the pumpkin into 6 wedges. Cut these in half, remove the seeds, and wrap each piece with the Bayonne ham (if you can’t get this, Parma or Serrano ham works very well). Place on a roasting tray, drizzle with olive oil and season with sea salt and b