Autumn pumpkin is a source of vitamins and essential nutrients for the body. Regularly eating an orange vegetable, you can get rid of many diseases, strengthen the immune system and reduce weight. It is not by chance that pumpkin diet recipes are very popular with those who take care of their body shape and health.
Due to the low calorie consumption, you can eat pumpkin without regard to the size of the portions. Moreover, fibrous pumpkin flesh quickly and permanently saturates, so it is unlikely to eat more than the norm.
Pumpkin can be used for cooking first and second courses, baking and desserts. And all this will be dietary dishes: light, healthy, tasty and beautiful.
Pumpkin Diet Recipes - General Cooking Principles
Pumpkin is usually boiled, stewed, baked or fried before consumption. However, there are recipes for cleansing vitamin salads, which allow the consumption of raw grated pumpkin pulp.
Vegetable should be thoroughly washed, cut into pieces and cleaned. Peel the skin completely, cut off the inside with the seeds. Then the prepared vegetable should be cut into smaller slices and used according to the recipe.
Pumpkin Cream Soup
Very simple and wonderfully tasty diet pumpkin dish - pureed mashed potatoes. Fragrant celery and hearty potatoes are perfectly combined with the orange sweet pulp of pumpkin. Pumpkin-celery mix is ideal for weight loss. Instead of milk you can take cream if you wish
Ingredients:
• a pound of fresh pumpkin;
• fifty grams of celery;
• three hundred grams of potatoes;
• one large onion;
• tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• one and a half glasses of milk;
• spices (optional);
• a teaspoon of grated ginger root (or dried ginger).
Cooking Method:
Onion finely chopped.
Heat the oil and fry the onions to transparency.
Peel the vegetables and chop them up into approximately the same small pieces.
Boil water in a teapot or saucepan.
Send vegetables in a thick-walled pot pour boiling water from the kettle. Cook for about twenty minutes after boiling for the vegetables to soften completely.
Drain the water, put the vegetables in the bowl of the blender and fry.
Return the mashed potatoes to the pan, pour over the milk.
Boil after boiling milk for ten minutes.
Grate ginger.
Season the soup with salt, favorite spices, ginger and serve with sour cream.
Pumpkin stewed with cauliflower
Pumpkin goes well with other vegetables: carrots, tomatoes and cauliflower. This dish should be added to the box of pumpkin diet recipes, especially if you want to diversify the table on your diet. If desired, you can add curry: you get a completely different dish with a bright oriental flavor.
Ingredients:
• small cauliflower head;
• one hundred grams of pumpkin;
• one carrot;
• medium bulb bulb;
• one tomato;
• two hundred grams of green beans;
• salt and spices to taste;
• some cooking oil for frying.
Cooking Method:
Wash cauliflower, disassemble and cook.
Separately cook pumpkin.
Cut onions into small cubes.
Cut the tomato into small slices.
Grate carrots finely.
Fry onion and carrot in hot oil.
Add beans and tomato to the pan, then cabbage and soft pumpkin.
Pour a quarter cup of water, tightly close the lid and simmer until the beans are ready.
Season with salt and spices at the end of quenching.
Pumpkin in orange syrup from the microwave
An excellent pumpkin diet recipe will appeal to all those who follow a low-calorie diet, but do not want to deprive themselves of sweets. Light, tender dessert with a wonderful taste and aroma is prepared thanks to a microwave for 20 minutes.
Ingredients:
• five hundred grams of ripe pumpkin;
• two tablespoons of granulated sugar;
• one large orange;
• package of vanilla sugar;
• 7-8 halves of walnut.
Cooking Method:
Peel the pumpkin.
In a heat-resistant glass form, cut the pumpkin into large chunks.
Cover the slices with sugar.
Cut an orange into two parts and squeeze the juice out of each one on a citrus manual juicer.
Pour the juice with pumpkin slices with sugar, spread evenly with a spoon. Sprinkle the pumpkin with vanilla sugar.
Put the mold in the microwave at full capacity for ten minutes.
Remove the form, mix the contents and pour the released syrup.
Send the pumpkin slices to the microwave again for five minutes, turning on the full power.
Take out the form and cool the pumpkin in syrup.
Cut the walnuts with a knife.
Fully cooled pumpkin slices spread out on a plate and sprinkle with nut crumb.
Mannik from pumpkin on ryazhenka with lemon syrup
Simple and divinely tasty diet pumpkin dish. Preparing is very simple. Instead of ryazhenka, you can take an ordinary kefir, and reduce the amount of sugar.
Ingredients:
• 350 grams of peeled pumpkin pulp;
• half a cup of white sugar in manna;
• zest from one lemon;
• a full glass of ryazhenka (250 ml);
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• one and a half glasses of semolina (375 g);
• some vegetable oil;
• half a glass of water;
• juice of half a lemon;
• a cup of sugar in lemon syrup.
Cooking Method:
Grate a piece of pumpkin on the shallow side of the grater in a large bowl.
Wash the lemon with a brush to remove the wax layer and rub the zest.
Add the zest to the pumpkin sugar mixture and mix everything thoroughly.
Pour a glass of ryazhenka and mix until smooth.
Turn on the oven and heat it to a temperature of 180 degrees.
Add baking powder for dough and semolina rate.
Stir the dough until smooth.
Split the form with vegetable oil.
Put the dough in the form and flatten it with a spatula.
Send the form to a preheated oven.
Bake 45 minutes.
While manna bakes, cook lemon syrup.
Squeeze the juice from half a lemon.
In a skillet pour water, juice, pour a glass of sugar.
Stir and bring to a boil over medium heat.
After boiling, boil the syrup for four minutes over low heat.
Remove syrup from heat and cool.
Ready to pour the hot cake with the already cooled syrup and leave for 15-20 minutes to soak.
Remove the split form, cut the cake and immediately serve with tea.
When serving, you can decorate a piece of manna with chopped nuts.
Dietary Baked Pumpkin Pancakes
You can make excellent homemade cakes from boiled pumpkin, reducing the calorie content of the dishes and making them more useful. Take note of another pumpkin diet recipe. Fritters are golden and very tasty.
Ingredients:
• two hundred grams of peeled pumpkin;
• one egg;
• a quarter cup of kefir;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• four tablespoons of white flour;
• a teaspoon of honey or sugar;
• vanillin (optional);
• vegetable oil;
• pinch semolina.
Cooking Method:
Pumpkin pulp grate on a fine grater or mash with a blender.
Beat an egg in mashed pumpkin, add kefir, soda and vanillin. Mix everything thoroughly.
Gradually add flour, knead the dough into pancakes.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
Cover baking sheet with baking paper, brush with oil and sprinkle with a pinch of semolina.
Spoon the dough to the size of the pancakes and send to the heat.
Bake until done.
Serve with sour cream, jam or honey.
Cheese pumpkin cones for snacking
If you want something tasty on your diet, you can make low-calorie pumpkin buns. To further reduce the calorie content, you can use low-fat cheese. Preparing a dish in a double boiler.
Ingredients:
• one hundred grams of pumpkin pulp;
• one hundred grams of semi-hard cheese;
• egg;
• two tablespoons of flour;
• some salt and spices if desired.
Cooking Method:
Grate a piece of pumpkin on the shallow side of the grater.
Just rub the cheese piece.
Combine cheese and pumpkin, drive an egg, mix.
Add flour, salt, season with spices (optional).
Knead a smooth dough.
Form balls the size of a walnut.
Put in a double boiler and cook for fifteen minutes.
Greek Pumpkin Stew
A light savory dish with the aroma of garlic will delight the table and can be an excellent side dish for meat.
Ingredients:
• three hundred grams of pumpkin;
• two cloves of garlic;
• one sweet pepper;
• two hundred grams of tomatoes in their own juice;
• two tablespoons of olive oil;
• some salt;
• basil and parsley (small bunch).
Cooking Method: Finely chop the garlic and fry in olive oil.
Pumpkin cut into slices.
Pepper to remove from partitions and seeds, cut into thin strips.
Put pumpkin and pepper in garlic, fry for five minutes.
Pour the tomatoes in their own juice and simmer under the lid for fifteen minutes.
Salt to taste.
Sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve a pumpkin diet to the table.
Pumpkin Baked with Olive Oil and Spices
If you bake the pumpkin in fragrant spices and olive oil, you get a universal dish. It can be used as a side dish or a component of vegetable salad, soup, home baking.
Ingredients:
• small pumpkin;
• 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil;
• dry or fresh herbs;
• sea salt;
• pinch of ground black pepper;
• three cloves of garlic.
Cooking Method:
Cut pumpkin into large pieces, peel.
Chop the garlic and greens with a knife.
Turn on the oven at 200 degrees.
Place on a baking sheet a sheet of baking paper.
Spread the pieces of pumpkin.
Sprinkle with butter, season with salt, chopped herbs, pepper and chopped garlic.
Bake for half an hour.
Dietary Pumpkin Recipes - Tips and Tips
- The ideal vegetable, which is best suited for pumpkin diets, is medium in size, round in shape and weighs between three and five kilograms.
- When choosing a pumpkin, pay attention to the peel. It should not be stained and scratched. Dense, smooth skin - exactly what you need.
- Steaming will keep most of the nutrients in the pumpkin. Vegetable is especially good for baby food.
