Description

• Also called the Jap or Delica
• Small pumpkin usually between 1 and 3kg
• Mottled green and yellow skin
• Golden yellow flesh
• Very sweet taste
• Said to resemble sweet potato in texture and taste
• Many different Japanese varieties are grown, such as Ken’s Special Hybrid, Delica, Kurijiman and Pacifica
• Delica, Kurijiman and Pacifica are also called ‘Kabocha’
• Available: all year

It is simmered in sweetened coconut milk as a warm dessert – often with tapioca pearls. The Thais hollow it out, fill the cavity with a duck egg custard and steam it.

Season: Summer,Autumn,Winter,Spring

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Availablity: January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December

Growing Areas: 

QLD – Atherton, Beaudesert, Bowen, Bundaberg, Fassifern Valley, Lockyer Valley
NSW – Bathurst, Cowra, Dareton, Finley, Forbes, Gosford, Griffth, Hunter Valley, Mudgee, Naro, Windsor
VIC – Ballarat, Melbourne Metropolitan Area, Sunraysia, Warrnambool
SA – Adelaide Plains, Riverland
WA – Gin Gin, Perth Metropolitan Outer Areas, Waroona
NT – Darwin, Katherine