Doce de Abóbora

Name: Doce de Abóbora
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Cap-Vert
Ingredients: 1000 g — cubed pumpkin flesh; 300 g — sugar; 40 g — lime juice; 100 ml — drinking water; 2 g — ground cinnamon

Doce de Abóbora — Prepared with cubed pumpkin flesh, sugar, lime juice.

Ingredients

1000 g — cubed pumpkin flesh
300 g — sugar
40 g — lime juice
100 ml — drinking water
2 g — ground cinnamon

Preparation

Weigh peeled edible fruit or pumpkin flesh.

Cut evenly and combine with sugar, lime and water in a heavy saucepan.

Heat gently to dissolve sugar, then simmer about 40 minutes, stirring often; mash partly if desired.

Test a cooled spoonful: thick but spreadable.

Add listed cinnamon.

Cool promptly in a clean container and refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze.

This is not a shelf-stable canning recipe.