Pumpkin doughnuts, rougail sauce and tomato emulsion

Pumpkin is in season

This is the most important thing, since pumpkins are the tastiest and the cheapest.

I am not one of those people who blindly follows trends. So, I am not the one to start making everything pumpkin just because I saw it on instagram.

But, going through books, magazines and instagram I decided to make pumpkin doughnuts. I mean, I wanted to eat doughnuts, so why not make them from pumpkin.

It’s something I think everyone loves…doughnuts, not pumpkin. The pumpkin just goes with doughnuts 🙂

Rougail sauce

Let me explain what Rougail sauce is first. Of course, it has French connections, just like my cuisine in general.

Rougail sauce originates from Reunion island (French territory in the Indian ocean) and Mauritius. Both of these islands are located west of Madagascar. If this doesn’t mean anything to you, then that’s west of Africa in the Indian ocean. On the Reunion island, the word “rougail” is used to determine a combination of spices that you can always carry with you.

There are several types of rugail. Rugail alone comes in the form of a sauce or a paste. It’s very spicy, traditionally made from vegetables or fruit cut into pieces, onion and chilli pepper. It is always put in a cold or fresh dish no matter if it is made from vegetables or fruit and you can carry it with you wherever you go.

Today’s rugail is made from tomatoes, roasted pepper, spring onions, garlic, pepper, lemon, coriander, vinegar and olive oil.

Let me just say this. It’s worth every ingredient. And when you put it on pumpkin doughnuts, I have nothing to add.

It’s not hard to make by mixing all these ingredients while previously cleaning them.

There is also one tip for garlic if you are not a fan. If you don’t like garlic, you can do this:

1. throw it out completely (but the rugail will lose its essence then)
2. blanch it for a few seconds three times in cold water 

All the best chefs do the blanching 🙂

The entire preparation video is here

Pumpkin doughnuts

To make doughnuts, you need flour. And to make pumpkin doughnuts tasty, you need spices.

Pumpkin goes well with: 

• Butter
• Pimento (here you can find how to use it and with what)
• Cheese (feta)
• Cooking cream
• Cinnamon
• Clove
• Ginger
• Nutmeg
• Sage
• Salt, pepper, sugar

Some of the good combinations are: 

Pumpkin + Pimento + Cinnamon + Salt + Bay laurel

Pimento +Pumpkin + Cinnamon +Ginger

Pumpkin + Apples + Curry

Honey +Pumpkin +  balsamico

Pumpkin + cream cheese + orange + rum

Butter + Pumpkin + Garlic + Chicken soup + Thyme

Our pumpkin doughnuts went with spring onions, garlic, cumin, ginger, cayenne pepper.

While we’re at spring onions, you can put it in as much as you want. I love it, and sometimes put too much.

The rest is in the video and the pictures.

If you think something is unclear, feel free to write to me or leave a message here.

Tomato emulsion

In this part, I will reveal how the tomato emulsion is made in modern cuisine. So, anyone who doesn’t like modern cuisine can skip this part.

This is where we come to the “sustainable cooking”. You do not throw away anything, and you use everything. When I cut tomatoes and removed the seeds, I also removed part of the tomato juice. I did not throw it away, but collected them in a separate bowl. I strained the juice in the end, added a bit of juice from rugail sauce (see the video) and added a bit of lecithin soy powder.

To make steady foam. modern cuisine uses soy lecithin which you put in a ratio relative to the liquid. On average, it’s 2 gr per one litre of liquid. You need special beam scale to measure that small quantity. However, you can also measure approximately.

So, if you want to try this, and you don’t have a beam scale for small quantities, then do a pinch.

You can get soy lecithin in health food stores or stores that sell ingredients for cakes and cookies.

Bonus

For those of you who like trends and want to try these flavours:

Pumpkin burgers

Crispy pumpkin pie with gorgonzola cheese

French pumpkin biscuit

Creamy pumpkin soup