This Garlic Thyme Roasted Pumpkin Slices Recipe is just 34 calories for over 1 cup (1/4 of a pumpkin!)
You can enjoy this recipe for pumpkin slices as a side dish, over salads, in lunch wraps, or as a snack (it’s amazing dipped in Homemade Ranch Dressing!)
Savory pumpkin recipes make great side dishes in Fall and Winter, when you can easily find small pumpkins.
The side of pumpkin you are looking for is melon size, about the side of a cantaloupe. But if all you can find is large pumpkins, those will work too… they will just make more servings.
This Garlic Thyme Roasted Pumpkin Slices Recipe is just 34 calories for over 1 cup!
Garlic Thyme Roasted Pumpkin Slices
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make savory baked pumpkin recipes.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find low calorie tips and tricks for making low calorie pumpkin French fries, a nutrition label, and more.
To make this roasted pumpkin side dish recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
You can read through them for helpful information… or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Pumpkin Fries (shopping list!)
- How to Make Pumpkin Fries
- Garlic Thyme Roasted Pumpkin Slices (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Baked Pumpkin Slices
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these pumpkin side dish recipes to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list and low calorie tips for cooked pumpkin recipes…
Ingredients in Pumpkin Fries
It’s shockingly easy to make a recipe for roasted pumpkin low in calories, carbs, and sugar!
Pumpkins are naturally all 3 (low calorie, low carb, low sugar) but most recipes pack the squash full of sugar, fat and excess calories.
These tips will help you make yummy, low calorie savory fresh pumpkin recipes that are super healthy, and super yummy!
Low Calorie Tips for Pumpkin Side Dishes Recipes:
- Olive oil spray… Instead of soaking the pumpkin fries in olive oil, lightly spray them with it. This will save you calories AND fat!
- Parchment Paper... When you use parchment paper, you don’t need as much oil (because the pumpkin fries won’t stick to the baking sheet) so you can save even more calories and fat! Best of all… parchment paper makes clean up so much easier!
- Skip the Sugar… Try a savory dish instead! This garlic coated recipe for cooked pumpkin is fantastic as a weeknight side dish, and fancy enough for holiday gatherings!
Shopping List for Baked Pumpkin Recipe:
- Small pumpkin
- Garlic salt
- Olive oil spray
- Fresh thyme
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this recipe for baked pumpkin you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this baked pumpkin fries recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make pumpkin fries low calorie…
How to Make Pumpkin Fries
Recipes with baked pumpkin as side dish are great both hot, or cold.
I love to use leftover roasted pumpkin in salads (cold) or in pasta dishes (hot).
How to Make Recipes with Roasted Pumpkin:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cut the pumpkin in half, and use a spoon to scoop out the seeds and fibrous strands inside the pumpkin.
- Cut the pumpkin into 1 inch slices, and trim off the outer rind.
- Place pumpkin slices on the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with garlic salt, spray with olive oil and top with minced thyme.
- Roast the pumpkin slices for 15-20 minutes until fork tender.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best roasted pumpkin recipe…
Garlic Thyme Roasted Pumpkin Slices
These roasted pumpkin slices are just 34 calories for over a cup… the huge serving is great with chicken, pork chops, or atop salads, soups, even in sandwich wraps.
We really love this garlic pumpkin recipe as a snack though… it’s great hot out of the oven, or cold out of the fridge the next day.
Garlic Thyme Roasted Pumpkin Slices
Ingredients
- 1 small pumpkin
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- Olive oil spray
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves minced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cut the pumpkin in half, and use a spoon to scoop out the seeds and fibrous strands inside the pumpkin.
- Cut the pumpkin into 1 inch slices, and trim off the outer rind.
- Place pumpkin slices on the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with garlic salt, spray with olive oil and top with minced thyme.
- Roast the pumpkin slices for 15-20 minutes until fork tender.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Baked Pumpkin Slices
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