Both will do. When steaming chestnuts and pumpkins, you can choose not to peel them. If peeled, pumpkins will be easier to cook and taste soft and waxy. If peeled, pumpkin skin contains a lot of dietary fiber, protein and other nutrients, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and supplement human nutrition. Specific peeling can be done according to your own preferences.

Chestnut pumpkin is a new variety of early-maturing pumpkin with small melon type. The fruit is oblate, the peel has longitudinal stripes, and the meat is thick and orange.

Pumpkin originated in the American continent, including two origin centers, one is Mexico and Central and South America, and its species include American pumpkin, Chinese pumpkin, Mexican pumpkin and black seed pumpkin. The other is South America, the birthplace of Indian pumpkin. The diversity of pumpkin producing areas, long-term natural evolution and artificial selection have formed the diversity of pumpkin population, geographical distribution and development and utilization.