Roasted Pumpkin with Brown Butter, Sage and Pine Nuts

, from Issue #29. September, 2015
Photography by Manja Wachsmuth.
Roasted Pumpkin with Brown Butter, Sage and Pine Nuts

Serves: 6–8

INGREDIENTS

1 buttercup pumpkin, about 1 kilogram
olive oil
sea salt and freshly ground pepper

Brown butter
80 grams butter
12 fresh sage leaves
2 tablespoons pine nuts
1 tablespoon lemon juice

METHOD

Preheat the oven to 200˚C.

Wash, halve and seed the pumpkin. Cut into 2 cm thick wedges and brush with olive oil. Season. Place on an oven tray and roast until tender but not falling apart, turning once during cooking.

Brown butter: Melt the butter in a sauté pan, add the sage leaves and pine nuts and cook until the butter is a nutty brown and the sage is crisp. Stir in the lemon juice.

To serve: Arrange the pumpkin on a serving platter and spoon over the sage butter.