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How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Puree Recipe Using Fresh Pumpkins

Learn how to make a homemade pumpkin puree recipe using fresh pumpkins. This month, we’re making all things pumpkin, and this fresh pumpkin puree is a fall favorite!

Easy Homemade pumpkin puree using fresh pumpkins

 

Have you caught the pumpkin craze bug yet?

I sure have! Fall is the season for all-pumpkin-everything, and I love it so much. To continue with the theme, we wanted to try something with a favorite that is right on time for the fall season: PUMPKIN.

I have always wanted to try to make fresh homemade pumpkin puree for my fall baking recipes. I had a few small pumpkins that we were going to paint and decided that I would give it a shot.

Small Baby Pumpkin

How to make fresh pumpkin puree

It turns out, making homemade pumpkin puree from fresh pumpkin is super easy. Just cut and bake and blend, and you’ve got yourself a bunch of pumpkin-y goodness in no time! There are so many uses for pumpkin, anyone for pumpkin pie, muffins, or pumpkin cheesecake? Maybe pumpkin smoothies, lattes, or a pumpkin cider?

Pumpkin puree inside the blender

Easy homemade pumpkin puree recipe

This fresh pumpkin puree recipe is easy to follow and only uses two ingredients. The next time you visit the pumpkin patch, grab a few of the small pie pumpkins and prepare to eat them up. Here’s how to use those real pumpkins to make your own puree!

Ingredients needed to make fresh pumpkin puree:

yields 2 cups of puree

  • small pie pumpkins
  • water

Homemade Pumpkin puree baby pumpkin cut in half

Cut your pumpkin in half

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Start by cutting your small pumpkin in half. You may have to cut off the top first.

Gut the pumpkin, scooping out the seeds

Next, scoop out the seeds and strings the best you can from the inside of the pumpkin. Once that’s complete, cut each half, in half, to make four quarters.

How to make your own pumpkin puree bake the pumpkin in the oven

Bake the pumpkin in the oven

Place pumpkin quarters face up on a baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool. The skin should be somewhat hard and the flesh should be nice and soft.

Baked pumpkin flesh scooped out into a bowl

Scoop out the flesh and blend

Take a spoon and remove all of the inner pumpkin flesh from each quarter of the pumpkin. Put the pumpkin flesh and water into a blender, food processor, or other machine and puree until smooth.

If the pumpkin mixture is too thick, add a little more water until you get it to the consistency you desire. You don’t want watery pumpkin puree, so be careful!

Making your own fresh pumpkin puree in a blender

Homemade Pumpkin puree baby pumpkin cut in half

Homemade Pumpkin Puree Recipe

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Blend 5 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 2 cups

Equipment

  • 1 blender

Ingredients
  

  • 2 small pumpkins
  • 1/4 cup water

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cut pumpkin in half. You may have to cut off the top first.
  • Scoop out all of the seeds and strings the best you can from the inside of the pumpkin. Once that's complete, cut each half, in half, to make four quarters.
  • Place pumpkin quarters face up on a baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool. The skin should be firm and the flesh should be nice and soft.
  • Using a spoon, remove all of the inner pumpkin flesh from each quarter of the pumpkin. Put the pumpkin flesh and water into a blender, food processor, or other machine and puree until smooth.
Recipes using fresh pumpkin puree

Try some of these delicious sweet and savory recipes that use pumpkin puree.

Savory pumpkin soup in a mug
What will you make with your homemade pumpkin puree?

Be sure to try this pumpkin recipe out, it is a great way to use those pumpkins for fresh puree for your baking needs. Enjoy this homemade pumpkin puree recipe and have a wonderful fall season.

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4 Comments

    • wow you look so gorgeous! I would say even better than with makeup, espeaiclly since when someone looks at us and we do have the eyeliner and heavy eyeshadow and etc (I hate it but guys have told me this) they assume that you need all that makeup to look decent, and not that it's for fun.

    • dit :Et bin moi j’ai collé des sitckers sur mon siphon phon phon ….trop beau !Par contre j’adore l’idée des sacoches de cuisson pour le riz : ça me botte bien ce truc ! Pour mes fils étudiants …pas mal !

  • This looks absolutely delicious! I want to make this for my dad who has Cancer and has several side effect’s getting in the way of his eating habit’s. Which include the way and how he eats. We both love pumpkin, so this is very ideal! Great recipe!!!

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