Making your own pumpkin puree is as easy as pie! This homemade option is just so easy so why not give it a try…..and it’s really 100% pure pumpkin. Now you have options and we all love options when deciding what we eat.

As soon as September rolls around folks start thinking about fall after a long hot summer. It is hard not too with all of the fresh local apples and pumpkins that begin to flood the markets.

Ingredients

1 Pie Pumpkin

Look at that ingredient list. Just pumpkin.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Cut the top stem area off the pumpkin. This is probably the most difficult step in the whole process.

Next, cut the pumpkin into quarters.

Remove the seeds and stringy pulp from the center. Save those pumpkin seeds for roasting later!

Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil. Place pumpkin quarters on the sheet pan. Place into the oven and bake for 1 hour, or until soft when the tines of a fork are inserted. I’ve personally never had to bake one more than one hour.

When cooking time if finished, remove the pumpkin from the oven and allow to cool.

How to make pumpkin puree from a pie pumpkin

Once the pumpkin has cooled, peel the skin away, I just use my fingers. It’s really easy to remove.

Break up the pumpkin into small pieces and pulse in a food processor or mash with a fork to puree.

Add two cups of the pumpkin puree to a zip-lock back and freeze until needed. I also do a couple of bags with one cup. The option thing, you know.

You can bake more than one pumpkin at a time. One pumpkin typically gives about 2 1/2 cups of puree. I usually bake two or three so I have plenty of pumpkin on hand for baking.

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How to Make Pumpkin Puree

Homemade pumpkin puree from a pie pumpkin

Prep Time5

Cook Time1

Total Time1 5

Servings: .5 cups of Puree

Calories: 81kcal

Author: Julia Jordan | Julia’s Simply Southern

Ingredients

1 Pie Pumpkin
1 teaspoon Olive Oil – optional to brush over foil before placing pumpkin on baking sheet

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Prepare the pie pumpkin for the oven by cutting off the stem piece and then cutting the pumpkin into quarters. Remove the seeds.
Next, place the pumpkin quarters on a foil lined sheet pan and bake for 1 hour.
Allow the baked pumpkin wedges to cool and scrape out the pulp.
Use a fork or food processor to smooth the cooked pumpkin.
Store in freezer storage bags until ready to use.

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