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All parts of pumpkin are edible, including stalks, leaves and soft roots. In Italy roots are added in an omelet or soup. Flowers are used for stuffing, salads and risotto; pumpkin “pulp” may be used for almost everything, seeds for a delicacy. Even the peel is edible! In the south of Italy, namely in Kalberia, all a peel is dried at first, during winter time it is soaked, rolled in a flour and baked in deep fat.
Secrets of cooking

If you want to soften a pumpkin, steam boiling is more preferable to cooking in water.

Pumpkin can be baked in an oven, without adding any liquid. It may be baked whole.

It is fried, if one wants to make pumpkin chips. To get rid of superfluous moisture, it is recommended to cook it as vegetable marrows - to salt pieces of pumpkin and set aside for a couple of hours.

The pumpkin is good also for a grill. For this purpose it is cut sliced or cubed, greased with olive oil and fried on a grill up to softness.