Kabocha, Japanese pumpkin, is popularly used in Japanese cooking. Kabocha pumpkin have some sweetness. The skin is really hard, so cook lightly in microwave before slicing a kabocha. Please be careful when cutting it.
Simmered Sweet Kabocha
Kabocha is simmered with sugar. It's the most popular kabocha dish in Japan.
Simmered Kabocha with Soboro Ankake Sauce
It's a variation of kabocha amani (simmered sweet kabocha) and is served with ankake (thick sauce). Soboro are crumbled and seasoned meat/fish/egg in Japanese cooking.
Kabocha Pumpkin Soup
Kabocha soup is often cooked in fall/winter. It keeps you warm. How about cooking hot soup on Halloween night.
Kabocha Pumpkin Custard Pudding
It's a recipe to make custard pudding with Japanese kabocha, which is called kabocha purin. It's a popular sweet in Japan.
Kabocha Pumpkin Cookies
This pumpkin cookies are soft and are slightly sweet. You can make various shaped cookies.
Kabocha Manju Cakes
Kabocha manju is a Japanese steamed cake with kabocha pumpkin filling.
Kabocha Pumpkin Salad
This pumpkin salad recipe uses onion and kabocha pumpkin.








