Recipe of the week from the vegetable box with pumpkin and white cabbage

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Pumpkin:

• Promotes digestion and detoxifies the intestines
• Supplies the body with vitamin A – important for eyes and skin as well as for bones and teeth
• Strengthens the protective cover of the nerves and has a calming effect
• Lowers the blood fat level, relieves the pancreas
• Strengthens the immune system

White cabbage:

• Revitalizes nerves and brain, improves mood
• Calms the nerves and makes you more resistant to stress
• Ensures vitality and performance
• Ensures vitality and performance
• For better sleep and relaxation
• Contains many B-vitamins

Ingredients for 2 persons:
350 g pumpkin
250 g white cabbage
1/2 stick leek
15 g butter or margarine
25 g (coarse) mustard
150 ml whipped cream or soy cream

Spices:
Salt
Pepper
1 tablespoon caraway seeds
2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds
2 tablespoons pumpkin seed oil

3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons of water

Preparation:

• Clean white cabbage, remove outer leaves. Cut cabbage crosswise into 1.5 cm thick slices, leaving the slices as whole as possible. Clean the pumpkin and remove the seeds with a spoon. Cut pumpkin crosswise into 10-12 slices. Cut leek into fine strips.
• Roast caraway seeds in a coated pan without fat until they smell nice. Roast pumpkin seeds in the same pan until they crack and are slightly roasted, then press them lightly in a mortar.
• Peel potatoes and cut or slice them finely.
• Melt butter or margarine in an ovenproof (!) pot. Sauté the leeks for 3-4 minutes at medium heat. Stir in caraway and mustard.
• Add cream or soy cream and 350 ml water and bring to the boil once, season with salt and pepper.
• Put pumpkin and white cabbage in layers in the pot, season with salt and pepper. Place potato slices close together on the vegetables, season with salt.
• Cover the stew and cook in the oven at 200 degrees (gas 3, convection oven 45-50 minutes at 180 degrees) on the 2nd rack from below for 55 minutes.
• Serve stew sprinkled with some pumpkin seeds. Serve with the rest of the pumpkin seeds and pumpkin seed oil. Bon appetite!

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