What to do with pumpkins

So you're just finished with halloween and you have an enormous amount of pumpkins in your pantry. What do you do? Besides making pumpkin soup, here's another way to use up the orange squash. 

Steamed Fish with pumpkins

1-2 big banana leaves (you can get this frozen in the asian supermarket)
1 Trout, cleaned and descaled
2 Shallots
2 cloves garlic chopped
3 cilantro roots, chopped
1Tbsp soya sauce
2 lemongrass stalks, halved crosswise and crushed
8 thin slices galangal
200g pumpkin, cut into wedges
1 handful of basil to garnish

1/ Rinse the fish and rub the inside and outside with salt

2/ Coarsely pound shallots, garlic, cilantro root in motar and pestle

3/ Add soya sauce and stuff mixture in fish cavity

4/ Lay banana leaves in a shallow bowl and place the bowl in a steamer

5/ Put lemongrass and galangal on the banana leaf. Lay the fish over and arrange pumpkin around it

6/ Steam for 20 mins

Recipe adapted from Thailand, the Cookbook, by Jean-Pierre Gabriel)