Slow-Cooked Pumpkin Butter

Name: Slow-Cooked Pumpkin Butter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h 10 min
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients: 3.75 cups pumpkin puree; 1 cup rice syrup (or raw honey); 2 tablespoons organic pumpkin oil; 0.5 cup apple cider; 1 teaspoon vanilla pod extract; 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice; 1 drop lemon essence; 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder; 1 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg; 1 teaspoon fresh grated ginger; 1 tablespoon sea salt; 0.25 teaspoon freshly ground cloves powder; 0.25 teaspoon freshly-powdered cardamom; 2 drops cardamom essential oil; 2 drops cinnamon essential oil

Por Dada Shivananda·Iniciante

When you return home and step into the house, and there's the aroma of something delicious simmering away in a pot, you know that you will be served a luxurious meal—a nutritious treat for everyone. It takes time and love to cook a delicious meal. Unfortunately, not many of us do that today. If you do cook, this recipe is for you.

A slow-cooked pumpkin butter makes a traditional homemade gift for the entire family and friends. Pumpkin soup is a family favorite in homes across Europe and elsewhere. For this pumpkin butter recipe, all you need are a few ingredients, a slow cooker or pot, some glass containers, and time—4 to 6 hours for slow cooking—to impress everyone.

Pumpkin butter is similar to apple, zucchini, or carrot butter but made exclusively with pumpkins. It's fantastic on toast, pancakes, oatmeal, or waffles, mixed into soups, or enjoyed on its own. The natural antimicrobial properties of spices like cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and cardamom provide extra health benefits and elevate the final flavor.

This golden spread boosts your metabolism, fights diseases and infections, and helps balance blood sugar, while the spices, loaded with antioxidants, help decelerate aging and prevent coronary heart disease and cancer. Plus, this pumpkin butter is completely natural—giving your family and friends a treat free from preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, and colors. This recipe is also gluten-free, paleo-friendly, vegetarian, and can be made vegan when you opt for rice syrup instead of honey.

Nutritional Benefits: Pumpkins boost metabolism, fight diseases and infections, and help balance blood sugar due to their rich content of vitamins A, B2, C, and E, along with zeaxanthin, lutein, potassium, copper, manganese, and fiber. The antioxidants in warming spices decelerate aging and help prevent coronary heart disease and cancer.