Thai pumpkin curry (gaeng fak thong)

Try Chariya Khatitiyot's Thai pumpkin curry (gaeng fak thong), then discover pumpkin soup, miyan taushe (Nigerian pumpkin stew), or prawn and pumpkin curry.

This always takes me back to the days when we had pumpkin plants growing in the backyard. The leaves were so big, I remember thinking they were larger than my head. The pumpkins were green on the outside but bright orange on the inside. Now, living away from home, I tweak the recipe to use butternut squash, which is easier to find but still tastes just as good. My mum told me this was my grandma’s favourite dish. I was too young to remember her since she passed away when I was little but every time I cook it I imagine sharing it with her, hoping she would have loved it as much as I do.

Recipe extracted from Lanna by Chariya Khattiyot (£22, Ryland Peters & Small). Photograph: Clare Winfield. Recipes are sent by the publisher and not retested by us.

Thai pumpkin curry (gaeng fak thong) recipe