Candied pumpkin

This is the stuff you get by the cash register at Mexican restaurants or in little Mexican grocery stores. It's been one of my favorites since I was, oh, 6 or 7 and got some at Olviera Street. I add the cinnamon and cloves because I like it spicy, but traditionally it's just pumpkin and sugar. Really labor-intensive, but so worth it! Do not use carving pumpkins, use sugar-pie or other cooking pumpkins (which the computer does not recognize.) Cook time is for unattended resting time.

Dulce De Calabaza recipe for traditional Mexican pumpkin candy slices with a hint of anise. Delicious dried and crystalized or soft and syrupy.

Try candied pumpkin—two ways, and a sugar-free alternative! The regular version and one made with slaked lime that only very few get to taste outside of Turkey.

PrintCooks in Greece get a little slaked lime from the yards that sell construction materials(!) to make this, as well as some other preserves that require the fruit to remain firm and crunchy as it cooks in the syrup. I have adapted the recipe with pickling lime that is available online and in most cook’s […]

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Candied Pumpkin Seeds are a quick and easy fall snack recipe. Pumpkin seeds are coated in brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon, then roasted in the oven.

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Pumpkin Slaked lime (also sold as pickling lime) Water Sugar Cilantro (coriander) seeds Stick cinnamon Cut pumpkin open and clean out seeds* and fibrous strands. Peel pumpkin and cut into oblong pi…

Try candied pumpkin—two ways, and a sugar-free alternative! The regular version and one made with slaked lime that only very few get to taste outside of Turkey.

Candied pumpkin is a delicious dessert that has its roots wet in Mexican cuisine. It is also known as Calabaza En Tacha. It is sweet, and tenderly cooked pumpkin pieces that taste rich and are utterly delicious.