Pumpkin for the winter: homemade recipes for preserving salted pumpkin snacks, pickled blanks, candied fruit in a jar

Pickled pumpkin

Pumpkin blanks are vitamin, nutritious dishes. For canning, it is better to choose varieties with small fruits.

“Like a Pineapple”

The taste of this dish is original, bright, similar to pineapple. Perfect as a dessert, which will be appreciated by all household members.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar – ½ cup;
• lemon – 3-4 slices;
• water – 500 ml;
• 0,5 tsp ground ginger and cinnamon;
• citric acid – ½ tsp.

Regarding cooking:

1. Prepare a sweet ripe pumpkin. Cut off the peel, remove the pulp with seeds.
2. Cut the vegetable into medium cubes or bars.
3. Make sweet syrup from water and sugar. Bring to a boil, add spices, lemon and acid.
4. Remove the marinade from the stove.
5. Put the vegetable cubes in the marinade, leave to marinate for 4-6 hours.
6. Boil the pumpkin in the marinade for 7 minutes.
7. Preserve the finished dish, put it away for storage.

Estonian

The recipe is very popular in Estonia. The appetizer has a spicy, unusual taste.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 1 kg;
• sugar – 1,5 glass;
• apple cider vinegar – 5 tbsp. l .;
• cloves – 8 sticks;
• allspice – 6 peas;
• cinnamon – 1 stick;
• water – half a liter;
• ginger – a pinch;
• nutmeg – a pinch.

Step-by-step cooking:

1. Cut the pumpkin into cubes or small pieces, after cleaning from inedible parts.
2. Prepare syrup: dissolve sugar in water, pour in vinegar.
3. Fold the pieces of vegetable into the marinade, leave overnight.
4. Add spices to the pot and cook for about 10 minutes after boiling.
5. Take out the spices, arrange the vegetable slices in jars.

Pumpkin in orange marinade

From an unusual combination of products, a tasty and fragrant snack is obtained. For conservation, summer pumpkin varieties are harvested.

Products:

• pumpkin pulp – kg 1;
• large orange – 1 pc.;
• water – 1 l;
• vinegar (30%) – 150 ml;
• sugar – 200 g;
• cloves – 4-5 pcs.;
• cinnamon stick – 1 pc.

Preparation:

1. Cut the pulp of the fruit into cubes.
2. Squeeze juice from citrus.
3. Pour water into a container, add sugar, spices, orange juice and vinegar.
4. Bring to a boil, add pumpkin.
5. Cook for 10 minutes while stirring.
6. Arrange in jars, remove the twist for winter storage.

Video “Marinated pumpkin with honey”

From this video you will learn the recipe for a delicious pickled pumpkin with honey.

Candied pumpkin

Candied pumpkins are reminiscent of golden marmalades that will scatter quickly and cheerfully from the everyday table.

To prepare you will need:

• 400 g raw pumpkin;
• 1 a glass of sugar;
• half a lemon;
• cinnamon stick;
• ½ cup water;
• 2 Art. l powdered sugar.

Observe the following sequence of actions:

1. Remove the peel from the orange vegetable, select the seeds, cut into 2 by 2 cm cubes.
2. Place pumpkin slices in a saucepan, cover with sugar, add lemon juice and zest.
3. Put the prepared mass in the refrigerator overnight.
4. Put the pan on the stove, add water, boil the contents three times for 5 minutes.
5. Put the fruit cubes on a sieve to drain the syrup.
6. Preheat the oven, set the temperature to 35–40 °C. Put the pieces on foil, place on a baking sheet, dry for 4 hours.
7. Sprinkle candied fruits with powder and serve.

Salty snacks

In addition to sweet preparations, pumpkin is very tasty in the form of homemade snack salads.

with eggplant

Initial products for harvesting:

• 2 kg of pumpkin pulp;
• 3 kg eggplant;
• 5 kg of tomatoes;
• 1 kg of bell pepper;
• 300 g of garlic;
• half a liter of vegetable oil;
• 6 Art. l sugar;
• 100 g salt;
• 120 ml of vinegar (6%);
• a whisper of ground hot red pepper;
• greens to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. Cut the flesh of the plant into slices.
2. Rinse the pepper, remove the seeds, cut into pieces.
3. Rinse the eggplant, chop into slices.
4. Scroll tomatoes and garlic through a meat grinder.
5. Add oil, herbs, sugar, spices, salt,
6. Boil the tomato sauce, pour the prepared vegetables into it.
7. Simmer for 1 hour on low heat.
8. Place the mass in the prepared container, close with sterilized lids.
9. A day later, the preparation for the winter is ready.

pickled pumpkin

Salting spicy pickled pumpkin is very simple.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 1 pc.;
• salt – 50 g;
• bitter pepper – 1 pcs.;
• water – 1,5 l.

How to cook:

1. Rinse the vegetable, cut it, select the seeds, remove the skin.
2. Cut the pulp into cubes. Blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes.
3. Transfer the cubes to a bowl with large rims.
4. Prepare a brine from water, ground red pepper, salt.
5. Pour the brine over the pumpkin pieces. Put oppression and leave for a couple of days to sour at room temperature.
6. Store the workpiece in a cool place.

You can cook many tasty, healthy and original dishes from pumpkin: soups, casseroles, cereals, pancakes, desserts, sauces. Very tasty is the pumpkin pickled “in Korean”. The vegetable should be cut into thin noodles using a Korean carrot grater. The peculiarity of the dish is that it takes only 4 hours to marinate in the refrigerator.

What goes with pumpkin:

• vegetables, mushrooms;
• meat, poultry;
• fresh and dried fruits.

It goes well with rice and millet – from this combination you can cook delicious milk porridge by adding pieces of roasted nuts, apples, dried apricots.

A pickled vegetable is the best side dish for meat.