About: Engineer, researcher, youth worker and pastor by education and/or trade | proud dad of Joris and Arne | #cycling and #camping enthousiast | always craving for creative ideas and good tasty food

This fail-proof recipe will help you to make a boosting pumpkin dish for the coming winter months and will give you lots of power, vitamins and minerals that you can use to lift your record pumpkins.

The dish combines the inside of a pumpkin (which you will probably have laying around from carving out a lantern) and quinoa, a very healthy grain. We throw in some wonderful flavours and serve it in the pumpkin itself.

So, as a bonus, you won't have to do the dishes afterwards, you can just throw away your pumpkin bowl. If you have nice carving skills, you can even decorate your bowl. But first, let's start cooking!

This recipe is based on a recipe I saw from a local chef called 'Jeroen Meus' who made a stew from quinoa and pumpkin. I added some extra flavours, simplified the cooking process and changed how to serve it. I would like to thank him for the inspiration I got for this dish.