Autumn - golden time, which is associated with fallen leaves, eternal melancholyness and dampness. From food, we come to mind warming soups, delicious pastries, as well as pumpkin dishes. You can say pumpkin the most autumn product, which is rich in vitamins. Properly cooked pumpkin is not only tasty, but also useful, it raises immunity and protects against autumn cold.
The most common dish is baked pumpkin
It can be served as an independent dish, side dish or dessert. It is easy enough to cook, but there are nuances. To begin with, prepare a pumpkin:
- Wash the pumpkin well under the jet of water, then sweat the towel and let dry.
- Cut pumpkin. Or input, or cut the top (it depends on the cooking method).
- Rate how much pumpkins you want to cook. Sometimes enough and one halves, if the pumpkin is a large size.
- Clean the pumpkin from seeds and fibrous pulp with hands or spoon. You do not need to clean the unused part, simply remove it into the refrigerator. So that she does not dry - clog the food film. So half will be able to be stored for several days. You can also put pieces in the freezer, and then use for the preparation of stew, soups and porridge.
- Next, cut the pumpkin into small pieces, clean it from the inner pulp and from the peel. It is not necessary to shoot the skin, especially if it lies in the kitchen for a long time, it is quite difficult to do, because the pumpkin becomes solid. Therefore, if you are afraid to break, you can neglect this rule and just get the pulp from the finished pumpkin with a spoon.
Baked pumpkin for dessert
This is a fairly light dish. Here you can experiment, add to the recipe anywhere: dried fruits, sugar, vanilla, almonds, cinnamon and nuts.
It will take: pumpkin, honey.
Cooking method:
- First prepare pumpkin. Cut it into small pieces (can with skin).
- Preheat oven to 220 degrees.
- If you have a pumpkin for a long time, you can boil pieces in the water for about 5 minutes so that it turns out to be softer.
- Optionally, add some water to the baking sheet, so the pumpkin will turn out more juicy. The main thing is not to overdo it.
- If you like the message, you can lubricate the pieces a little honey or sprinkle with sugar to baking.
- If you put on the pieces of pumpkin cubes of butter, it will turn out to be tastier.
- Approximate time of pumpkin baked - half an hour. However, the cooking time depends on the variety, size of pieces and age of pumpkin, so you follow the golden crust appear on it.
- Finished pumpkin Pour honey, sprinkle with your favorite nuts. It can be used both in warm and cold, with ice cream or as an independent dish.
Baked pumpkin like a side dish
Preparation of such a side dish, in principle, there is nothing different, only before sending it to the oven can be salted a little.
Stuffed baked pumpkin
Beautiful main dish that will decorate your table for any holiday. Guests and households will be surprised not only for an unusual feed, but also a stunning taste and aroma!
For cooking you will need:
- Small pumpkins.
- Seasonings: salt, pepper, hops-Sunnels.
- Beef mince (optional, you can make a vegetarian dish).
- Cheese (solid varieties).
- Mushrooms (any, your taste).
- Tomatoes.
Cooking:
- Prepare pumpkin. Cut the top, pulley meat with seeds, salting the pumpkin inside, you can also add a little seasoning there.
- Puffs fry with onions and spices, add hops-Sunnels. Separately fry mushrooms.
- Mix mushrooms, mince and cubes chopped tomato. Place the stuffing in the pumpkin, sprinkle with dill and grated cheese.
- Close the tip filling, then send an oven to heated to 180 degrees and bake for about an hour. Next, remove the top - and again in the oven for 20 minutes so that the filling managed to be twisted.
At first glance, complex pumpkin dishes are preparing enough. Some time and effort and you can please yourself and loved ones!
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