A pumpkin is as popular a vegetable as a potato that grows in almost everyone on the backyard.
Pumpkin is widely used in children's and dietary food.
It contains a lot of iron and vitamins of groups E and A.
But it is especially important that pumpkin dishes are in the diet of women, because it helps to restore skin cells and rejuvenation.
Delicious pumpkin dishes - recipes and basic cooking
Many housewives think that pumpkin can be cooked only porridge or bake it in the oven. In fact, many tasty and healthy dishes are prepared from this vegetable, ranging from soups to desserts or blanks for the winter.
In the food is not only the pulp of the vegetable, which is used for soups, pies, desserts, side dishes or pancakes, but also seeds. They are added to breakfast cereals or salads.
Few know that a pumpkin can be eaten not only boiled or baked, but also raw. Raw pumpkin is made with delicious salads with garlic and green onions, and if you add fruit to it, you will end up with a delicious fruit salad.
Prepare a pumpkin for cooking any dishes the same: the vegetable is cut, clean the seeds and peel it. Next, the pumpkin is prepared according to the recipe of the dish. Pumpkin can also be baked whole.
From one pumpkin you can cook dinner or lunch for the whole family. In addition, pumpkin is low-calorie, which means you can not worry about your figure.
Delicious Pumpkin Dishes - Recipe 1. Pumpkin with Prunes in Pots
Ingredients
half a kilo of pumpkin;
white and black chocolate;
prunes - 125 g;
60 g butter;
80 g sugar;
drinking water.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces.
2. Put a piece of butter on the bottom of the pot. Prune wash and cut it in half. Put a layer of pumpkin, then sprinkle with prunes and pumpkin again. Continue to lay out alternating layers until the pot is full. 3. Top everything to sprinkle with sugar and put another piece of butter. Pour in a third cup of water and close the pots with lids. Put them in the oven for forty minutes. Bake at 190C.
4. Put the contents of the pot on a plate and sprinkle with finely grated black and white chocolate. You can decorate with berries.
Delicious Pumpkin Dishes - Recipe 2. Korean Pumpkin
Ingredients
half a kilo of pumpkin;
10 g of Korean carrot seasoning;
50 ml of apple cider vinegar;
6 g of salt;
80 ml of olive oil;
30 g of honey;
bulb;
clove of garlic.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the gourd and clean the seeds. Grate the vegetable on a special grater for Korean salads. If you do not have one, you can use a large grater.
2. Peel the onion and shred it into half rings. Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onion in it until golden brown.
3. Put the onion in a container with pumpkin. Garlic skip through the garlic press and put it to the pumpkin. Add honey, apple cider vinegar and soy sauce. Season the dish with salt and seasoning. Mix well. Marinate the pumpkin for at least four hours.
Delicious pumpkin dishes - recipe 3. Chocolate pumpkin cake
Ingredients
160 g of grated pumpkin;
5 g of baking powder;
2 eggs;
50 g of cocoa powder;
150 g of flour;
80 ml of vegetable oil
Cream
100 ml of 33% cream;
30 g cream cheese;
30 grams of powdered sugar;
30 grams of chocolate.
Method of preparation
1. In a deep bowl, combine the eggs with sugar and beat them with a mixer in a lush foam. Add the grated pumpkin to the egg mixture and mix.
2. In a separate plate, mix cocoa with flour and baking powder. Bulk products add to the bulk. Stir until smooth.
3. Grease the refractory form with oil and place the dough in it. Bake for about 20 minutes at 180C.
4. Whip cream until soft peaks, add powdered sugar, add cream cheese and continue to beat until a firm cream is obtained. Break chocolate and melt in a water bath. Pour it into the cream and whisk again. Decorate with cream chocolate pumpkin cake on top.
Delicious pumpkin dishes - recipe 4. Baked pumpkin Asian cream soup
Ingredients
kg of pumpkin;
lemon juice;
four cloves of garlic;
1 liter of 300 ml of broth;
salt;
ground red and black pepper;
vegetable oil - 80 ml;
a piece of ginger root;
50 g butter;
bulb;
fresh greens;
nuts;
sour cream or cream.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the pumpkin, cut it into large chunks and make cruciform cuts on the pulp, cutting it almost to the skin. Smear with vegetable oil, season with salt and pepper and put unpeeled chives in each chunk. Put the pumpkin on a baking sheet covered with foil and bake for 45 minutes at 200 degrees.
2. In a thick-walled pot pour a little vegetable oil and add a piece of butter. Peel the bulb and finely chop it up. Put it in a saucepan and fry, stirring constantly, until golden. Then peel the garlic chives out of the pumpkin and add them to the pan. Fry everything together for a couple of minutes.
3. Separate the pumpkin pulp from the rind. Add the pulp to the onion-garlic stir-fry. Place finely grated ginger root here and season with hot pepper.
4. Pour the contents of the pan with broth and boil. Pureen soup blender. Turn off the fire, salt and season with black pepper and lemon juice. Serve, watering with sour cream or cream, sprinkled with nuts and chopped greens.
Delicious pumpkin dishes - recipe 5. Stuffed pumpkin, baked in the oven
Ingredients
two small pumpkins;
sunflower oil;
boiled rice - 200 g;
two pinches of ground paprika;
boiled chicken - 100 g;
salt;
fresh champignons - 150 g;
black pepper;
bulb;
drinking water - 150 ml;
a tomato;
50 ml of cream;
40 grams of hard cheese.
Method of preparation
1. Wash and cut pumpkin tops. Remove seeds with a spoon. Boil rice. Peel the onion and mushrooms and finely chop them. 2. Heat the sunflower oil in the pan and fry the onion in it to transparency, then add the mushrooms and fry until the liquid evaporates. Boiled chicken cut into small pieces and put in a griddle. Stir, pepper and salt. Pour the cream and mix again.
3. Put boiled rice in a separate bowl and add to it mushroom frying. Wash the tomato and cut into cubes, add it to the mixture of rice and mushrooms.
4. Grate the pumpkins from the inside with salt and fill them with stuffing. Pour in three spoons of drinking water.
5. Lubricate the pumpkin outside with oil and wrap each in foil. Heat the oven to 200C and put pumpkins in it for an hour. Then unroll the foil, sprinkle the pumpkin with grated cheese and put in the oven for another ten minutes. Serve hot.
Delicious pumpkin dishes - recipe 6. Country-style pumpkin
Ingredients
300 g pumpkin;
sea salt;
half a cup of basmati rice;
small onion;
half a cup of lentils.
Method of preparation
1. Clean the pumpkin and cut it into cubes. Salt and mix. We spread in the cauldron.
2. Wash lentils and boil in salted water until half cooked. Clean the onion, wash and chop small pieces.
3. Put the lentils on top of the pumpkin, put the onion on top and salt it again.
4. Wash rice in several waters and put it in a cauldron. Fill the oil, add some water. Cover with a lid and set on a small fire. Periodically check the water level, if necessary, add a little bit. Cooking for about half an hour. Then mix and lay out on a serving dish.
Delicious Pumpkin Dishes - Recipe 7. Pumpkin Gnocchi
Ingredients
400 g pumpkin;
fresh greens;
300 g of flour;
60 g butter;
2 eggs;
80 ml of cream;
garlic;
spices.
Method of preparation
1. Clean the pumpkin and cut into small cubes. Put it in a saucepan, pour water and boil until soft. We throw the finished pumpkin on a sieve and wait until all the water is drained. 2. We shift the pumpkin in a bowl and puriur it with a blender. Add the eggs to the puree, pour in the cream and season with spices and salt.
3. Gradually add flour, knead the dough.
4. Put a pot of water on the fire, add salt and bring to a boil. We take a little dough with a teaspoon and put it in boiling water. Cook gnocchi on low heat until they come up.
5. We clean the garlic from the husk and finely chop it up. In a pan melt the butter and fry the garlic in it with chopped greens. We take out the gnocchi with a skimmer, spread them on a plate and pour oil on it with herbs and garlic.
Delicious Pumpkin Dishes - Tips and Tricks
- Small fruits have a richer taste, and besides, they are not so watery. Therefore, it is better to take such fruits for preparation.
- It is best to bake pumpkin for soups and side dishes in order to get a brighter aroma and taste.
- Combine pumpkin with other vegetables to make the taste of the dish more interesting.
- Spices, garlic and fragrant herbs will help you unleash the taste of pumpkin.
