Kabocha Pumpkin Fest

 

My grandma harvested a pumpkin from her garden for us.  I made some air fried pumpkin, then also some spicy pumpkin salad with it. Yum!

See my previous blog posts for my pumpkin recipes.

• Easy Airfried Pumpkin: https://www.abundanceofvegetables.com/2020/09/easy-air-fried-pumpkin.html
  

• Airfried Spicy Pumpkin Salad: https://www.abundanceofvegetables.com/2019/12/air-fried-spicy-roasted-pumpkin-salad.html
  

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• IG  Pumpkin - clean, cut, and bag (Reel)
• IG Easy Airfried Pumpkin (Reel
• IG Airfried Spicy Pumpkin Salad (Reel)
  

• YouTube Pumpkin - clean, cut and bag (Full video with captions)
• YouTube Easy Airfried Pumpkin (Full video with captions)
• YouTube Airfried Spicy Pumpkin Salad (Full video with captions)
  

 

Airfried Ranch Okra

 

I got some ranch seasoning from Trader Joe's and decided to try it with okra.  It turned out great.  All you need is two ingredients - olive oil and ranch seasoning.

Ingredients:

• olive oil
• ranch seasoning

Instructions:

1. Rinse okra and dry with paper towel.
2. Pour some olive oil and ranch dressing over okra.
3. Toss well.
4. Airfry for 10 minutes at 400 degrees, flipping halfway through.
5. Enjoy!

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Delicata Squash

I bought this little squash because it was really cute and I had never had it before.  I didn't know how it would be best cooked and didn't google it, which is unusual of me.  I usually look up ideas and make something I see or make my own variation of it.

Anyway, long story short, I chopped it up, added my go-to seasonings, air fried it, and enjoyed it with some sweet potato fries and baba ganoush.

Ingredients:

• 1 delicata squash, chopped
  
• 1 Tablespoon avocado oil
• 1 Tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 Tablespoon onion powder
• dash of salt
• dash of pepper

Instructions:

1. Prepare squash as indicated above.
2. Add remaining ingredients and toss well to distribute seasonings evenly.
3. Air fry for 15-20 minutes, until fork tender.
   
4. Enjoy!
   

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Air Fried Blue Cheese Pork Panko Chicken Tenders

 

This is a variation of my most popular post, which is the Air Fried Ranch Panko Chicken Tenders that I shared a year ago.  Here is the link if you'd like to see what it was all about.  https://www.abundanceofvegetables.com/2019/10/air-fried-ranch-panko-chicken-tenders.html

Happy Anniversary to Abundance of Vegetables! As of right now, as I'm typing this, that video has received 12,876 views.  It also got a few shares.  I don't know how to go back and get the names of the accounts that shared and gave me credit. Lol!

Obviously, I don't only eat and cook plants.  I'm not vegan or vegetarian.  I like the ideas and inspiration from them, but I can't go all out.  I just try to make sure there's some type of vegetable in the meal.  The tossed greens are the vegetable here.  Anywho, enjoy!

Ingredients:

• Chicken tenders
• Blue cheese dressing
• Pork Panko (ground pork rinds)
  

Instructions:

1. Defrost the desired amount of chicken tenderloins.
2. Toss chicken in blue cheese dressing.
3. Roll blue cheese coated chicken in pork panko.
4. Arrange chicken into air fryer pan, making sure not to overlap for even cooking.
5. Cook at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
6. Enjoy!
   

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Easy Airfried Pork Panko Crusted Eggplant

I didn't think is really need a recipe because it was so simple.  But I just wanted to type it out here in case I forget and want to find it again in the future.  I can just type what I'm looking for in my blog's search box instead of scrolling through my IG account.  So here it is.

Ingredients:

• eggplant
• egg
• pork panko (ground pork rinds)
  

Instructions:

1. Slice the eggplant
2. Dip the eggplant slices in egg
3. Dip eggplant slices in pork panko
4. Airfry for 15 minutes at 380 degrees
5. Enjoy!

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Tortang Talong with Pork Panko

  

This is roasted eggplant with the skins peeled off, then coated in pork panko, air fried, and served with a tomato/fish sauce salsa.  This is a spin off the regular tortang talong dish with a delicious crispy crust.  

If you're interested in the regular tortang talong recipe, you can view it here: https://www.abundanceofvegetables.com/2020/06/tortang-talong-fire-roasted-battered.html

Here's the recipe for this pork panko version. I have not listed measurements for this as you use as much panko as you need to coat the amount of eggplants you'd like to cook.  The tomato/fish sauce salsa is optional, but is a traditional side to tortang talong.

 

Ingredients for eggplant:

• long eggplants
• pork panko 

Ingredients for tomato/fish sauce salsa:

• diced tomatoes
• fish sauce, to taste
  

Instructions:

1. Rinse eggplants.
2. Poke holes through eggplant skins, all around.
3. Air fry for 20 minutes at 400 degrees, flipping halfway through.
   
4. Put eggplant in a closed container and let sweat for about 10 minutes.
5. Peel skins off eggplant and discard.
6. Flatten eggplant with a fork.
   
7. Coat eggplant with pork panko.
8. Lay pork panko coated eggplants in air fryer pan, making sure not to overlap. Lining your airfryer helps with sticking.
   
9. Air fry for 20 minutes at 400, flipping halfway through.
10. Serve with diced tomatoes and fish sauce.
    
11. Enjoy!

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Air Fried Fish

 

I bought a package of flounder fish fillets from Costco.  I never ate flounder before so I was taking a chance.  It has a light, flaky texture and it is fine.  The recipe I used for my first taste of flounder is from www.beautyandthebenchpress.com.  She has a recipe for crispy, battered, air fried fish.  It turned out delicious.  The only things I did differently was not cut it up into sticks and added some dried parsley to the batter.  Here's the link to her original recipe: https://beautyandthebenchpress.com/air-fryer-fish-sticks/

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Easy Air Fried Eggplant

I made this with just three ingredients.  One of my friends gifted me a package of pork panko and I’ve been experimenting cooking with it. This is one of the recipes.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggplants
• 1 egg
• pork panko (ground bread crumbs - enough to coat eggplant)

 Instructions:

1. Rinse eggplants. 
2. Slice into half-inch pieces.
3. In a separate container, beat egg.
4. In a separate container, pour out some pork panko.
5. Dip eggplant pieces in egg, then in pork panko.
6. Air fry for 15 minutes at 380 degrees.
7. Enjoy!

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Easy Air Fried Pumpkin

I love roasted pumpkin and tried air frying it this time.  It turned out better.  I really like the faster cook time, and the crispier, drier texture.  By dry, I don't mean that it's dried out.  I mean that it doesn't get soggy the way it does in the oven.  Any who, here's my recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 bag precut pumpkin (you can cut your own up if you prefer)
• 5 Tablespoons olive oil
• 1 Tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 Tablespoon onion powder
• dash of salt
• dash of pepper

Instructions:

1. Put pumpkin in a bowl.
2. Add remaining ingredients.
3. Toss.
4. Arrange in air fryer pan so that pieces are not overlapped.
5. Air fry at 400 for 20 minutes.
6. Enjoy!

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Air Fried Garlic Broccoli and Okra

I have been waiting (impatiently) for my vegetables in my container garden to be ready to eat.  So far, only one okra was ready to be harvested.  I didn't want to let it keep growing until others were ready.  I would risk the chance of it getting too old, hard, and fibrous to consume.

So I decided to cook it with some broccoli that I already had on hand.  I kept it simple, tossed it with some some olive oil and minced garlic and cooked it up in my air fryer.  My recipe is below.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups broccoli florets
• 1 okra (😜 Yes, I only had one)
• 1/4 c olive oil
• 1 Tablespoon garlic, minced

 Instructions:

1. Harvest and rinse the okra.
2. Put broccoli and okra into a container that has a lid.
3. Add olive oil and garlic.
4. Close container and shake well to toss ingredients together.
5. Air fry for 10 minutes at 320 degrees.
6. Serve.

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