Pumpkin

Posted by Andrew Barrow in Food and Wine, 1:15pm 01/11/2007. Leave a comment

Pumpkins are like, so yesterday; and, if you pop down your local Waitrose^*, they are bound to be dirt cheap.

Now is the time to indulge in grown-up seasonal fare (who actually eats the chiselled out flesh from the face making exploits?) with a cheap glut of squash. American wine magazine The Spectator has published an interesting sounding Pumpkin Risotto with Curried Pumpkin Seeds and Goat Cheese Croutons recipe. Perhaps slightly over-the-top on the pumpkin front but still...

I'm not really up on pumpkin varieties but they recommend using a small pumpkin, like Sugar Treat or New England Pie but I guess any old English pumpkin would work just as well.

For a wine match the suggestion is for a Greco di Tufo - which makes perfect sense really. The dish is basically a risotto so an Italian wine should be the first choice. Add vegetables and goats cheese and a crisp, white is a must.

Our Greco di Tufo is from Vesevo, a small, quality producer, just inland from Naples. Greco is a local white variety that, in the right hands (here those hands belong to famed wine maker Mario Ercolino) it can produce scented, white-stone-fruit flavoured wines with great structure.

Greco di Tufo, Vesevo 2006 available for £10.25.

^* other supermarkets are available.

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