Kaye and Geoff's Recipes - Vegetables

Pumpkin and ginger

1 medium pumpkin		1 medium onion
1 litre chicken stock		small bunch spring onions
1 small ginger root		80 ml soy sauce
50 gm dried shitaki mushrooms	30 gm dried orange peel

Cut a small slice from the base of the pumpkin so that it sits level (better still buy one with a flat base to start with). Cut off a lid and scoop out the seeds. Place all ingredients, except spring onions, inside the pumpkin and replace lid. Steam pumpkin for one hour or until flesh is soft (test with a skewer). Stir in spring onions (cut into 1 cm lengths). Remove from steamer onto warm serving plate. When serving use a Chinese ladle to scoop out the soup and the pumpkin flesh.