Pumpkins

[ChunkyKitKat]

A very silly question here.

Are pumpkins the same thing as butternut squash? Closely related? I didn't carve ours up for Halloween and need to make it into something!

No, not the same but similar. Same family.

Pumpkins are more watery and I think they have less taste.

Are you asking whether you could substitute pumpkin in a recipe that calls for butternut squash? If so, I'd say yes. What is the recipe?

Hi, thanks for reply jam.

It's a curry recipe, Pumpkin and Chick Pea Curry but on the ingredients list it says butternut squash, not pumpkin. It says also to use Thai yellow curry paste, do you think green curry paste would be OK as a substitute?

Yes - would do the green curry - sounds fab

In Oz, it's called butternut pumpkin, not squash anyway - I was really surprised to come over here and find one of my favourite vegetables had been demoted from pumpkin-hood. Well, that and that people didn't tend to eat much pumpkin and there seem to be so many fewer sorts of pumpkin over here (I've never seen an ironbark pumpkin in the supermarket - you would never call those watery). I grew up with roast pumpkin as a mandatory addition to the Sunday roast.