Today (October 20th), "Pumpkin and Whipped Sandwich" was released at Ministop. This is a sweet sandwich with fried pumpkin and Hokkaido Ebisu pumpkin filling sandwiched between whipped cream and bread. The calorie per meal is 282 kcal, and the price is 260 yen (tax included).


The sales area is Kanto and Kyushu. I also found it at a Ministop somewhere in Tokyo, so I bought it and tried it!


Of the two sandwiches in one set, one can see the green color of the pumpkin skin from between the breads, and the other can only see the yellow part of the fruit, but when you open the inside, both have the same filling. Seems to contain. Pumpkin cream is mixed with diced pumpkin.

The whipped cream is fully applied to almost the corners of the bread, and the pumpkin filling is packed so that the bread swells around the center.


When you bite into it, the milky sweetness of whipped cream and the smooth and rich sweetness of pumpkin are mixed, and it melts in your mouth. In addition to the rich sweetness, there is also a slight bitterness of the pumpkin skin, and it feels like you are tasting the material itself. It goes well with the moist and chewy bread that catches the filling!

I think it is a dish that can be compared with "pumpkin sweets" such as pumpkin pudding and pumpkin Mont Blanc.


By the way, on October 13th, a week ago, Lawson also released a sandwich using pumpkin. "Pumpkin salad sandwich". The calorie per meal is 273 kcal, and the price is 258 yen (tax included).


This is a sandwich for meals, unlike Ministop's pumpkin sandwich. One set consists of white bread with lettuce and pumpkin, and tea bread with cream cheese, bacon and roasted almonds sandwiched with pumpkin.


In addition to the pumpkin salad with onions, the white bread sandwich is packed with thickly sliced pumpkin and is perfect for eating. Since it contains a lot of lettuce, you can enjoy the crispy texture and the pumpkin's chewy texture at the same time. The sourness of the sauce applied to the bread and the refreshing bitterness of the onions moderately suppress the sweetness.


On the other hand, the tea bread sand is covered with bacon on a pumpkin salad with onions, and plenty of cream cheese. The accent is topped with large roasted nuts that have a crisp presence. When you bite, the sweetness of pumpkin, the richness of cream cheese, the umami of bacon and the aroma of nuts overlap ... For an elegant taste like a sandwich sold at a fashionable deli!


As a result of eating and comparing Ministop's pumpkin sandwich and Lawson's pumpkin sandwich, I enjoyed the different types of sweets and deli. As a pumpkin lover, I didn't say that choosing one or the other was unsophisticated, but I thought the correct answer was to buy both and taste the sweet and salty tastes alternately. Please try the seasonal taste only for now!