Pumpkin powder, also known as pumpkin flour

Pumpkin powder, also known as pumpkin flour, is an excellent way to preserve your annual bounty of everyone’s favorite fall gourd.

If you’ve frozen homemade pumpkin puree, you know how quickly it can take over your freezer. Pumpkins are about 90% water, so when you think about it, storing it as frozen puree doesn’t make a lot of sense. You’re making large pumpkin ice cubes and taking up all that precious freezer real estate with excess water.

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By dehydrating the pumpkin, you’re removing the water and leaving behind the flesh. In effect, you reduce its volume by about 90% when you dehydrate the puree and powder it. The lost water is easily added in again when you need to make puree. In the end, the finished pumpkin powder takes up about 1/10 of the room that the puree would.

Let me show you how to easily make pumpkin powder at home – and how to rehydrate it when you need to… (see comments) See less