Calabaza En Tacha—Candied Pumpkin
Calabaza en Tacha (candied pumpkin), is a traditional Mexican pumpkin dish cooked in brown sugar cane syrup, served as a snack, dessert or breakfast. A calabaza is a type of winter squash, with a sweet flavor and very firm texture.
Also it’s one of the traditional foods served for Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Super delicious flavorful pumpkin with sweet rich caramel sauce. In the sauce they use piloncillo (unrefined whole cane sugar) and you can buy it in a local Mexican grocery store, but you can easily replace it with brown sugar and molasses.
Serve hot, room temperature or cold depending on your taste and try with milk or ice cream.
I promise you a sweet and spicy “holiday” aroma in your kitchen after cooking this great Fall dish!
Calabaza En Tacha—Candied Pumpkin Recipe
By Published: October 30, 2017
Calabaza en Tacha (candied pumpkin), is a traditional Mexican pumpkin dish cooked in brown sugar cane syrup, served as a snack, …
Ingredients
- ~1.5 kg pumpkin cleaned inside but with peel
- 500 g brown sugar
- 6 tsp molasses
- 6 pcs cloves
- 1 anise star
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 500 ml water
- 1 orange zest and juice
Instructions
- Cut the pumpkin into medium strips, and then into medium pieces. In a large saucepan pour the water, add sugar, molasses, cloves, anise, cinnamon, orange juice and zest, and bring to a boil. Add the pumpkin pieces, reduce the heat and simmer for about an hour, occasionally mixing carefully the pieces of pumpkin. I love the soft pumpkin when it's completely soaked with syrup, so I cook it a little longer than necessary. The difference of cooking time also depends on the pumpkin variety too, so try the pumpkin while cooking.
- Carefully take the pieces of pumpkin and continue to cook the syrup, about 20 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Then remove the spices. Place the pumpkin pieces on a dish and top with syrup.
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