‘Crown Prince’ is a beautiful blue-skinned pumpkin with thick flesh and a full flavour.
Could you get a more solid, more reassuring pumpkin than the Crown Prince? I love this, and this year it loved me by producing two big fat fruits on one vine. Here’s one of them:
Over the past few weeks, the mottling on the skin has grown a little, which means I need to get a move on with slicing, dicing and roasting. The flesh is so good that it’s worth using it on its own rather than throwing into stews or soups. I’ve used this pumpkin in salads, roasting its flesh without any herbs or sugar or fancy pants things that we often use to compensate for an absence of flavour in the vegetable itself. ‘Crown Prince’ doesn’t lack flavour, so it can fight its own corner.
Look at those incredibly thick walls of flesh! There was enough from this one fruit to more than fill two deep roasting dishes. And some good chunky seeds for roasting, too.
