Pumpkin Marmalade: How to Make It

I admit, pumpkin marmalade doesn’t sound all that inviting. If I were to choose, I’d much rather have a pumpkin soup. Surprisingly, that one is actually REALLY good.

But, we had a quite large pumpkin and it was too big to make just soup out of it. Therefore we decided to make marmalade. Again

Here’s how to make it.

Preparation

Slay the damn thing!

Split the pumpkin, take out the seeds, peel the skin off and cut into smaller pieces.

Ingredients

You’ll need some pumpkin (duh!), apples, apple juice, lemon juice, cinnamon and dried vanilla fruits. Also needed is sugar and (Gelfix) pectin, which are not shown on the picture.

Blending the fruits

Cut the pumpkin into smaller pieces with a food processor and blend it with hand blender. For easier blending, pour in 1,5dcl of apple juice.

I didn’t blend the apples with a hand blender because I wanted to have a slightly larger pieces of apples in the marmalade.

Adding the rest of the ingredients

Now we’ve come to the dried vanilla fruit. Here’s what you do with it.

Split it down the middle and scrape what’s inside.
Add everything (yes, even the skins) to the mix.

Leave the mix to sit for two hours.

Cooking the marmalade

After two hours it’s time to cook the marmalade.

When it starts to boil, cook the marmalade for about 8 minutes. Stir constantly.

After 8 minutes, take out the skins of vanilla fruit and pour the marmalade into jars as quickly as possible.