Pumpkin, Herb and Emmental Gratin

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 45mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    6
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    496

Layered pumpkin in a creamy cheesy sauce, flavoured with herbs and garlic. This makes a great side dish in a big family dinner. We recommended using Crown Prince, Uchiki Kuri or Kabocha pumpkin varieties, but most cooking pumpkins or squash will work. If scaling the recipe up for a large party divide it between two baking dishes to keep the cooking time down and ensure all the pumpkin softens.

recipe updated 1 Apr. 2026

Ingredients

  • Garlic clove icon
    Garlic clove
    3
  • Fresh sage icon
    Fresh sage
    2
  • Red onion icon
    Red onion
    300 g
  • Pumpkin icon
    Pumpkin
    800 g
  • Emmental cheese icon
    Emmental cheese
    100 g
  • Thickened cream icon
    Thickened cream
    450 g
  • Full cream milk icon
    Full cream milk
    250 g
  • Fresh thyme icon
    Fresh thyme
    2 sprigs
  • Fresh rosemary icon
    Fresh rosemary
    1 sprig
  • White pepper icon
    White pepper
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    25 g
  • Olive oil icon
    Olive oil
    1 tablespoon
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon kCook Multi
  • kCook icon Small bowl
  • kCook icon Jug

Step preview

  1. Assemble the Direct Prep attachment with the Coarse grating disc, and turn it to position 2
  2. Grate cheese into a small bowl and set aside
  3. Fit the Stir Tool
  4. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl, attach the lid without the filler cap
  5. Cook until thickened - 5 minutes, 85ºC, speed 2
  6. Strain the mixture into a jug and discard the herbs and garlic
  7. Clean the appliance bowl and fit the Stir Tool
  8. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl, attach the lid without the filler cap
  9. Heat until melted - 120ºC, speed 3
  10. Then add the next ingredients
  11. Cook until golden - 15 minutes, 110ºC, speed 1
  12. Preheat the oven - 180ºC
  13. Add a layer of pumpkin to the bottom of the baking dish
  14. Then add a layer of onions and pour some of the infused cream on top to cover the pumpkins
  15. Then add a layer of grated cheese
  16. Repeat the steps until the baking dish is full
  17. Finish with a layer of grated cheese on top
  18. Cover with foil and bake until the pumpkin softened - 45 minutes, 180ºC
  19. Remove the baking dish from the oven and remove the foil
  20. Increase the oven temperature - 200°C
  21. Bake until golden brown - 20 minutes, 200°C
  22. Remove from the oven and let cool - 5 minutes
  23. Serve
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