Ingredients (serves 4):

• Pumpkin, a quarter (500g)
• Water, 3 cups
• Mirin, 2 tablespoons
• Sugar, 2 tablespoons
• Soy Sauce, 2 tablespoons

Instructions:

1. Remove all pumpkin seeds and cut into bite-size pieces.
2. Boil pumpkin pieces with water in Thermos® Shuttle Chef® inner pot over medium heat. Once boiling, add Mirin and sugar, and cover inner pot with lid and continue heating for 5 minutes.
3. Add soya sauce and simmer. Remove from heat and insert inner pot into outer pot for pumpkin to simmer for 30 minutes.

Enjoy! 

Tip: Pumpkin is rich in β-carotene, which transforms into Vitamin A and is good for the eyes and skin.