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Pumpkin is called the queen of autumn because of its bright and joyful color, pleasant taste and extraordinary useful properties. It ripens in September, but can be stored all winter. Pumpkin dishes are very tasty, have healing properties and never get bored. This beautiful vegetable can be used to prepare delicious snacks, soups, hot dishes, pastries, sweets and drinks. Master new original recipes of pumpkin dishes. Let the harvest festival be in your house as often as possible!
Buckwheat with meat in a pumpkin “pot”
Pumpkin is ideal for stuffing, besides it is combined with any fillings — meat, vegetable, cereal or sweet. Stuffed pumpkin is a universal dish for all occasions!
Our ancestors stuffed the pumpkin with buckwheat porridge and cooked it in a Russian oven. We can quite do with an oven. First, cut off the top of the pumpkin, remove the seeds and part of the pulp from it, turning the fruit into a kind of pot. Chop the pumpkin pulp into cubes and boil a glass of buckwheat. Cut into pieces 0.5 kg of pork, 1 onion and 1 carrot, and then fry them in butter until golden brown. Add a little water, reduce the heat, add salt and pepper, add your favorite spices and simmer slightly until tender.
Mix the meat with buckwheat and pumpkin. Fill the pumpkin “pot” with the filling and put it in the oven, preheated to 220 °C, for about an hour. Pierce the walls of the pumpkin with a match, and if they are soft, the dish is ready! Pumpkin is a real vitamin and mineral complex for the whole family, so cook it more often, especially in winter.
Cottage cheese tenderness with pumpkin
Pumpkin casserole, tender and melting in the mouth, is the perfect family breakfast. Pumpkin increases metabolism, improves digestion and reduces the acidity of the stomach, so a pumpkin start of the day can be made a pleasant tradition.
Cut 300 g of pumpkin pulp into small cubes, pour a small amount of water and cook until soft for 10 minutes. At the same time, the pumpkin should not fall apart.
At this time, whisk 3 eggs with a pinch of salt and add 3 tablespoons of sugar or more to them-it all depends on whether you have a sweet tooth or not. For flavor, add vanilla or cinnamon. Mix 400 g of cottage cheese with eggs, having previously processed it with a blender, if it is too granular.
Pour the pumpkin cubes into the casserole, add a little lemon zest and mix everything well. Put the mass in a form greased with oil, and slightly drown the pumpkin pieces so that they do not burn in the oven.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C and put the casserole there for 40 minutes. But the baking time can be different, it all depends on the power of the oven. Check the readiness according to the tradition with a wooden stick or a match.
Serve the casserole with condensed milk or jam. This delicacy will lift your mood for the whole day!
Bread the color of the sun
Have you ever tried pumpkin bread? It has a bright and unique taste, a subtle aroma and solar energy. Orange crumb looks elegant and fun, so children are happy to eat this bread. Pumpkin bread is the basis of a dietary diet, because the calorie content of pumpkin is 22 calories per 100 g of pulp.
To make bread, you will need a glass of raw pumpkin crushed on a grater, from which you need to squeeze the juice. Heat 300 ml of kefir in the microwave, pour 2 tsp of dry yeast into it and leave for 10 minutes. Add 1 tsp of sugar, 30 g of melted butter and pumpkin. Mix this mixture well, add 1.5 tsp of salt and 600 g of flour to it. Knead a soft and elastic dough, and then leave it in a bowl, covered with a damp towel. Let it stand in the heat for 1.5 hours and rise, then remember it again and let it rise again.
Place the dough in two rectangular bread molds, greased with vegetable oil. Brush the dough with milk, sprinkle with pumpkin seeds and bake for half an hour or a little more at a temperature of 200 °C.
Pumpkin bread is both dense and tender, it has a beautiful porous texture in the cut and does not crumble when sliced. It is ideal for sandwiches and sandwiches with any additives.
Vitamins for the winter
Do you want to eat pumpkin all winter? Marinate it, and you will have no problems what kind of snack to serve to the table with meat, vegetables, cereals and pasta.
Peel the pumpkin, cut it into slices and fry it on both sides for 2 minutes in a small amount of vegetable oil. The fire should be strong enough to brown the pumpkin.
While the pumpkin is cooling, prepare the marinade by boiling 750 ml of water with 50 ml of white wine vinegar, 50 g of sugar and a pinch of salt. Cook for 3 minutes and pour 2 tablespoons of olive oil into the marinade.
Sterilize the jar, put a pumpkin, a few bay leaves and a star of star anise in it. Pour in the marinade and roll up with sterile lids. You can taste it in a week! Pickled pumpkin preserves all the useful properties, gives energy, prolongs youth and female beauty…
Pumpkin cookies are useful and will not harm the figure at all, so you can eat them on a diet. It turns out to be very tender, soft and crumbly. To prepare it, raw pumpkin should be crushed on a grater, but many housewives boil it to make the taste more delicate and interesting.
Try to cook pumpkin cookies with spices — pumpkin is amazingly combined with them. Boil 300 g of pumpkin and turn it into a puree with a blender, and then add 0.5 tsp of cinnamon, a pinch of ground ginger, nutmeg and vanilla to it. Mix the mass well and leave it for a while-let it cool down.
Mix 150 g of soft butter with 200 g of sugar, and then whisk well. Add the egg and beat again until smooth. Add 0.5 tsp of baking powder and 400 g of flour. Stir the dough well, grease the baking sheet with oil and spread small mounds of dough with a spoon at a small distance from each other. Slightly press down the dough to make tortillas, and bake for half an hour at a temperature of 180 °C.
Serve beautiful and rosy cookies for tea or coffee, invite guests and enjoy a fruitful autumn!
Pumpkin for dessert
And what a delicious pumpkin marmalade! For this dessert, fragrant nutmeg varieties “butternut” or “golden pear”are suitable. Chop 800 g of pumpkin pulp into cubes and cook it in 200 ml of water until soft, add 300 g of sugar and cook again until the sugar completely dissolves. Pour the juice of half a lemon into a saucepan and mix well.
In order to thicken the pumpkin, it is best not to use gelatin, but agar-agar, which is made from seaweed. The fact is that sweets with agar give a denser consistency and turn out to be lighter, tasty and tender.
Fill 50 g of agar-agar with warm water, and when it swells, add it to the pumpkin. Beat the mass well with a blender and put it in silicone muffin molds. Pre-moisten the molds with water so that the marmalade after solidification easily “pops out”of them.
Put the blanks in the refrigerator for a day. It is impossible to tear yourself away from this dessert, because it is very unusual and pleasant to the taste. Be careful — children can eat marmalade in the evening, however, the same can be expected from adults…
A hearty snack
From time to time, pamper yourself and your loved ones with a vitamin pumpkin smoothie. It will improve your well-being, remove toxins and toxins from the body, normalize blood pressure and strengthen vision. If you drink a smoothie for breakfast, it will charge you with energy for the whole day, satisfy your hunger for a long time and help in weight loss, because you will not want to snack on sweets and cookies at all.
To mix smoothies, you will need a blender. Put in it 300 g of pumpkin pulp of nutmeg varieties and 200 g of persimmon. Beat the fruit to a puree and pour 500 ml of natural yogurt into it. Again, whisk the smoothie in a blender and, if it is too thick, dilute it with water.
Pour the drink into glasses and garnish with a mint leaf.
You can make smoothies instead of the usual snacks. These drinks saturate the body with vitamins, supply fiber and help reduce cravings for sweets, because they are very thick, delicious and take a long time to digest. With such breakfasts and snacks, even winter vitamin deficiency is not terrible!
Recipes of delicious pumpkin dishes with photos can be found on our website. This vegetable strengthens the immune system, gives strength and energy, normalizes sleep. And there is nothing surprising here — after a delicious meal, a person can turn mountains!