Pumpkin and potatoes in our kitchen have long been recognized as “their” products, despite their overseas origin.
Yes, it is difficult to imagine Russian cuisine without potatoes and pumpkin. In the oven, on the grill, on the stove - these vegetables diversify the daily diet, supplying the body with useful vitamins and minerals.
Especially - pumpkin.
Scientists have long proved that products of bright color have not only nutritional value, as a source of enzymes and carotene, but also have a positive effect on a person’s emotional state, increase appetite.
But some housewives, in drawing up a menu for a family dinner or dinner, are often confused by the question of combining pumpkin with other products. This is completely in vain. Let's figure it out and try to drop stereotypes.
Potatoes with pumpkin in the oven - basic technological principles
Pumpkin and potatoes to taste - neutral products, which are easy to pick up any ingredients. Therefore, in cooking dishes with pumpkin or potatoes, you need, rather, to focus on the other ingredients:
meat,
fish,
cereals,
other vegetables,
pasta.
There is one nuance that needs to be taken into account: choose pumpkin for nutmeg varieties, as they are more amenable to mechanical and heat treatment, have a brighter and more pronounced taste and have almost no waste.
If for cooking pumpkin in the oven it is necessary to bake it whole, carefully inspect the fruit - there should not be any signs of damage by diseases or pests on it.
Potatoes for roasting in the oven should be chosen from varieties with low starch content, so that it reaches readiness simultaneously with the pumpkin. If you do not know what kind of potato was in the hands, then it is better to boil it beforehand, or send it to the oven earlier than the pumpkin.
Meat can be baked simultaneously with vegetables, but it should be more finely chopped, and for cooking use this method of heat treatment, as stewing. Cooking options with potatoes and pumpkin in the oven - a lot. Each of them requires careful consideration of the order of work and an idea of what the result should be.
1. Potatoes with pumpkin in the oven - pork baked with vegetables
Products:
0.6 kg pork neck
Pumpkin (pulp) 300 g
Potatoes 600 g
Onion, 200 g
Prunes 150 g
For the sauce:
Sour cream (20%) 400 g
Chopped Greens 100 g
Hot peppers
Garlic
Salt
Sugar
Butter and vegetable oil (for frying) - 50 g each
Cooking:
Add chopped garlic, chopped greens (dill, parsley or other herbs) to sour cream, season with spices. Smash the prepared mass with a blender.
Wash pork pulp, cut into bars (1x2cm). Fry in a pan with onion, chopped straw, with the addition of refined oil, and shift into a baking dish, lined with foil and greased.
Peeled potatoes and washed prunes without stones cut into thin strips. Put on the meat first prunes, and then - potatoes.
Pumpkin pulp also cut into strips, sprinkle with sugar and fry over high heat, adding butter at the end of frying. Put the glazed pumpkin in the form and put everything in the oven for baking at 200 ° C. After 15-20 minutes, pour the cooked sauce and cover the meat with vegetables with foil. Simmer for 10 minutes, then remove the foil and brown on top. Serve the dish hot, watering additionally sour cream sauce.
2. Pumpkin with potatoes, baked in the oven - vegetable garnish
Products:
Pumpkin 400 g
Egg 3 pcs.
Potato (mashed potatoes) 360 g
Garlic
Boiled rice 600 g
Tomato sauce (sweet and sour) 200 ml
Garlic
Parsley
Basil
Mint
Nuts (sesame or ground peanuts) 50 g
Ground pepper, coriander, salt, sugar
Butter and milk (for mashed potatoes)
Cooking:
Cut the pumpkin into cubes and simmer until soft. Season with salt, sugar. Well, if you add some lemon juice. Cook the pumpkin puree. Add one raw egg to it, mix, beat and set aside for half an hour. Next, cook mashed potatoes. Mash boiled potatoes hot, add butter (50 g), a couple of cloves of chopped garlic, salt, pepper, pour hot milk (70 ml). When the mass has cooled, hammer in the egg, mix.
In tomato sauce, such as "Krasnodar", add half of the chopped greens (the rest - to decorate the dish), spices - to taste.
Grease the baking dish with vegetable fat. Preheat oven to 220 ° C.
Potato and pumpkin puree divided into balls of 50-60 g. Beat the last egg to grease them semi-finished products. Form round mashed potatoes from mashed potatoes. For convenience, put all the ready-to-cook potatoes on the baking sheet, brush them with a brush. Grease the top of each potato cake with a beaten egg and put pumpkin puree balls, brush with a beaten egg, sprinkle with nuts.
Bake products in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
Cooked, hot rice, put in cups or in any form without a bottom, to make it easier to form rice in the form of a cylinder. Put the forms on a plate, remove them carefully, leaving the rice. Next put the baked vegetable patties. Decorate the rice with chopped greens, and the cutlets pour sauce.
For such a complex side dish, if you wish, you can serve meat or fish.
3. Meat with pumpkin and potatoes in the oven - duck in a pumpkin, with orange sauce
Products:
Pumpkin, large 2.5-3.0 kg
Duck breast 1.2 kg
Oranges 500g
Quince 0.6 kg
Ginger, fresh 50 g
Sugar, salt, spicy ground pepper
For the sauce:
Honey 150g
Cranberries 250 g
Red wine 100 ml
For garnish:
Potatoes 1.5 kg
Duck fat (for baking)
Onions 300 g
Dill
Garlic
Spice
Basil, thyme, lettuce (for serving)
Cooking:
Wash a large round pumpkin, cut off the top with a stem. Spoon get the seeds and fiber from the inside. Grate the ginger root and orange zest on a fine grater, add salt, sugar and ground pepper to the prepared mass. Grease the pumpkin with this mixture from the inside.
From the oranges squeeze the juice and pour it into the pumpkin. Peeled quince and skin, cut into slices, add them to the orange juice. Musk duck fillets cut into plates of 200 g each, beat off slightly and fry in a hot, cast-iron pan without oil. Put the fried meat in a pumpkin, cover with a cut off part and put in the oven for 40-50 minutes. Bake at medium temperature to make meat languish.
In the meantime, prepare the sauce and a side dish of potatoes.
Medium-sized potatoes wash, peel and chop into slices or large bars. Melt the duck fat in a pan. Chop the onion into strips. Send the prepared vegetables to the oven, putting them in shape and watering with melted fat. When the potatoes are soft, sprinkle them with spices, chopped dill and garlic. Turn off the oven and hold the potatoes in it for another 10-15 minutes so that the vegetables are saturated with the aroma of spices.
Combined cranberries combine with honey, mix and boil a thick syrup. If desired, you can add spiciness (chilli, cayenne pepper), or 2-3 juniper berries. When cooking, remove the foam. When the syrup thickens, pour in the wine and bring the sauce to a boil. Remove from heat.
Put the finished pumpkin meat with fruit in a deep bowl. Cut the pumpkin into slices and place on a dish decorated with lettuce leaves, along with baked potatoes. Serve sauce separately. Decorate the culinary masterpiece with basil and thyme.
4. Potato with pumpkin in the oven - cheese casserole
Product Composition:
Pumpkin, nutmeg (pulp) 350 g
Asparagus, frozen 300 g
Potatoes 500 g
Melted cheese 400 g
Walnuts (kernels, fried)
Canned tomatoes without skin
Celery (grated root) 50 g
Basil
Spice
Garlic sauce 500 ml
Cooking:
Cut the peeled pumpkin into strips and simmer in a small amount of water with spices for 5-7 minutes.
Blanch the asparagus in salted water and fold it through a colander.
Boil peeled potatoes, and then cut into bars.
Cut canned tomatoes into slices, small ones into halves, remove seeds from them.
Cheese grate.
Grease the deep mold with butter. Put the prepared ingredients in layers, pouring garlic sauce over each layer. Sequence: potatoes, asparagus, tomatoes, pumpkin, cheese. Bake for 20 minutes at medium temperature. So that the cheese does not fry much, first cover the dish with foil, and five minutes before being ready, remove the leaf and sprinkle the top layer with chopped greens.
5. Pumpkin with potatoes, baked in the oven - a simple side dish with pumpkin sauce
Products:
Potatoes 1.2 kg (net)
Pumpkin 500 g
Caraway
Dill
Bay leaf
Pepper, Cayenne
Salt
Lemon
Coriander
Curry
Cilantro
Garlic
Oil for sauce - vegetable 50 ml
Cream (15%) 200 ml
Cooking:
Peel and boil small potatoes. Put it in a baking dish. Season with spices, add cumin, garlic, bay leaf and dill. Pour the cream and bake in the oven until the cream evaporates and a brown crust forms.
Blanch the peeled pumpkin until soft, mash it, add cooked spices and herbs. Smash the mass with a blender until a uniform texture. Serve sauce separately to the potatoes. This side dish will go well with meat, but it can be used as a separate dish.
6. Meat with pumpkin and potatoes in the oven - lamb chops with “Idaho” potatoes and baked vegetables
Products:
Lamb (ribs) - for 6 servings of 300 g of bone-in meat
For the marinade:
Red wine, oregano, mint, garlic, salt, pepper mix
New potatoes 1.2 kg
For Idaho Sauce:
Basil, oregano, rosemary, olive oil, vinegar, spices
Pumpkin 400 g
Tomatoes 200 g
Salad pepper 300g
Eggplant 250 g
Sweet onions 350g
Cooking:
10-12 hours before the start of cooking, wash the lamb (it is advisable to choose the meat of a young lamb), cut into portions and cook the marinade with the ingredients indicated in the recipe. Spices and herbs can be added in any quantity to taste, and take enough wine so that it covers the meat completely, or pour the marinade into a sealed bag, put the meat in it, seal and remove the meat in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day, fry the meat in a grill pan, on both sides, without adding fat. Put the meat on a baking sheet, pour the remaining marinade and bring it to readiness in the oven. Sort the potatoes, choosing the roots of the same size, carefully wash with a brush and boil it in the peel until done. Smear a separate form with vegetable oil (to taste), put potatoes into it and sprinkle with “Idaho” sauce made from oil, vinegar and finely chopped greens. Bake until golden brown.
Clean and wash the remaining vegetables. Cut eggplants, onions and tomatoes - plates, 0.5 cm thick, pepper and pumpkin pulp - large cubes. String them alternately on long wooden skewers. Salt, sprinkle with pepper and sugar, put on a baking sheet and bake in the oven on a baking sheet, at a maximum temperature of 10 -12 minutes.
Serve the dish a la carte, or lay out all its parts together.
Potatoes with pumpkin in the oven - tips and tricks
Pumpkin goes well with apples and quince, melon, citrus, pear, dried fruits, wild berries. From spices for sweet dishes with pumpkin and milk porridges - choose cinnamon, for second courses choose spicy herbs and spices to the main ingredients - to meat or fish.
The best satellites of the potato are milk, butter or cream. From spices choose dill, garlic, bay leaf, cumin.
Baked vegetables retain more vitamins. When baking pumpkin, to emphasize its taste, be sure to add a little sugar. To decorate the pumpkin or potatoes with a brighter spicy flavor, add spices and herbs before cooking, especially when cooking them in the oven.
