Pumpkin Soup / Pampuna Lélé
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Pampuna Lélé is a traditional Curaçao pumpkin dish that combines pumpkin with salted meat, pork tail, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and ripe plantain. Lightly seasoned with nutmeg and cloves and balanced with a touch of sugar, this hearty dish brings together the savory and slightly sweet flavors commonly found in traditional Curaçao home cooking.
Ingredients
- 1 medium pumpkin.
- 1 lb. pork tail.
- 1 lb. salted beef.
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg.
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves.
- 1 tablespoon butter.
- 2 tablespoons sugar.
- 3 sweet potatoes.
- 3 potatoes.
- 1 ripe plantain (yellow with a few black spots).
Preparation
Cool the stem and meatá. His manise after washing them well puts them on the cushioná in a pot with water (four fingers above the meat), nutmeg, garlicó and butter. To save time, cut the pumpkin out of its mundongo, shelléand then puté in the pan with the meats that have meanwhile become a little soft and let them continue to cooká. When the pumpkin is cookedábecomes soft lélé. Before this happens, the meat is removed and placed in a bowl and léléthe pumpkin. When ready put the meat back in the pumpkin. Then put the sweet potatoes, potatoes, banana candies and súwith in the pot. Simmer a little longer for the cooked potatoes and bananasá become soft and then the pumpkin is ready. The pumpkin lélé here is good to serve with mushrooms, nothing more. Six people can eat the tremendous pumpkin lélé here.