Side Dish Recipes

Pumpkin and Habanero Cheddar Soufflés

Habanero Cheddar Soufflés are baked inside tiny pumpkins for individual side dishes that will delight everyone at your table.

Pumpkin and Habanero Cheddar Souffles

Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 8 mini pumpkins
  • 4 large eggs
  • 4 teaspoons King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 ounces Cabot Habanero Cheddar, diced (about 3/4 cup)
  • Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Place uncut pumpkins in large shallow dish and add 1/4 inch of water; cover tightly with foil and bake for 40 minutes, or until tender. Let cool.
  3. Reheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  4. With paring knife, remove tops from pumpkins. Remove and discard seeds, then scoop out flesh, leaving 1/4-inch-thick shell.
  5. Place four cups of pumpkin flesh in mixing bowl. Separate eggs, stirring yolks into pumpkin flesh and placing whites in separate bowl.
  6. Stir flour and baking powder into pumpkin mixture, then stir in cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. Whip egg whites into stiff peaks. Fold into pumpkin mixture. Spoon soufflé mixture into pumpkin shells.
  8. Place on baking sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until puffed and set.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Cabot Creamery Co-operative

Recipe courtesy of Chef Jeffrey Weiss.



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