Pumpkin is not only very healthy, but also quite appetizing, from it you can cook a lot of spicy dishes for every taste. Usually, by the end of summer, this wonderful vegetable appears in almost every family (or maybe not in a single copy), as a rule, it is brought from the dacha or given by neighbors or relatives. For those who do not know what to do with pumpkin, we have collected 10 of the most delicious recipes.
10. Cheese salad with pumpkin, chicken breast and garlic
Cheese salad with pumpkin, chicken breast and garlic - a spicy and very tasty dish. The following products are needed for its preparation:
- pumpkin - 300 g;
- chicken breast - 1 pc.;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- mayonnaise - 100 g.
Boil the pumpkin until soft and cut into thin slices. The boiled chicken breast is freed from the bone and crushed with a knife. Cheese is grated, and garlic is passed through a press. All mix and season with mayonnaise. You can salt the salad to taste.
9. Pumpkin stew with vegetables
Pumpkin stew with vegetables - one of the most delicious and original dishes. For its preparation, the following ingredients are taken:
- 1 kg of peeled pumpkin pulp;
- 2 large sweet carrots;
- 2 onion heads;
- 6 medium sized tomatoes;
- 2 Bulgarian sweet peppers;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 8 large fresh champignons;
- 0.5 l of vegetable broth;
- salt, spices,
- cooking oil.
Cut the onions into cubes, grate the carrots, wash and peel the tomatoes, peel the seeds, chop into slices. Cut the pumpkin into cubes. Heat a little vegetable oil over a fire, dip onions, carrots and fry until half-cooked. Add the slices of pepper and cubes of pumpkin, add a little salt and simmer for about 35 minutes. Add garlic crushed through a press, slices of tomatoes and warm until boiling. Salt, pepper, add spices and bring to readiness over low heat. The slower the heating, the tastier the dish. The total cooking time takes approximately 1.5 hours.
8. Pumpkin with meat and potatoes in the oven
Oven pumpkin with meat and potatoes will appeal to those who are tired of the banal combination of products. For cooking you need the following ingredients:
- 0.5 kg of meat (pork, chicken or beef);
- 0.5 kg of potatoes;
- 400 g pumpkin;
- 100 ml sour cream.
For this option, it is better not to use chicken, as it is too dry. Getting to the processing of vegetables: peel them and cut into cubes. In a hot skillet, lightly fry pork or beef cut into slices, and then transfer it to the form in which the dish will be baked. Separately, a little brown the vegetables and send them to the meat. Add sour cream and spices to them. Mix well, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. in the oven.
7. Pasta with pumpkin
Pumpkin pasta - a very tasty dish. To prepare it, you will need the following ingredients:
- boiled pasta - 200 g;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- pumpkin - 150 g;
- apple - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l .;
- milk - 1 cup;
- salt to taste.
Boil the pasta. Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds and grate on a medium grater. Dice the apple. If desired, you can grate. Add pasta and spice mix (optional). Beat eggs with milk, add sugar and vanilla as desired. Grease the form with vegetable oil, put a mixture of vegetables and pasta and pour the milk-egg mixture. Cover the pasta with pumpkin foil and bake at 190 degrees for 20 minutes, and then without foil - 8 minutes. Serve hot casserole with sour cream, jam or honey.
6. Braised pumpkin with sweet pepper
Sweet Pepper Stew - the most delicious vegetable dish. For 4 servings we need:
- 600 g pumpkin;
- 1 onion (medium size);
- 1 carrot (medium size);
- 4 sweet peppers of any color;
- 2 large cloves of garlic;
- a small bunch of dill and parsley;
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil;
- 0.5 tsp citric acid;
- 1 tsp salt.
In a pan, heat the vegetable oil and put the chopped onion first. We fry on high heat for about three minutes, stirring occasionally. After three minutes, pour the grated carrots into the pan and, stirring, continue to fry on high heat for another three minutes. Next, put the sliced bell pepper in the pan and fry for another three to four minutes, stirring continuously. After 4 minutes, add pumpkin cubes to the vegetables, mix and reduce the heat to medium. While the pumpkin and vegetables are fried, we dilute citric acid in a glass of water, after which the solution is poured into the pan. Salt the vegetables in a skillet, stir, cover and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. After 20 minutes, add the greens, mix and turn off. Add the garlic through the press to the stewed pumpkin when served.
5. Pumpkin jam
Pumpkin Jam - a very delicious dessert. To prepare it you will need:
- 1 medium sized pumpkin;
- granulated sugar;
- lemon acid.
The pumpkin should be washed well and cleaned of seeds. Then we cut it into small cubes. Put the whole mass in a pan and add a little water. Close the pan with a lid and leave on low heat. The mass should be quenched until soft. The finished mixture should be rubbed through a colander or grind in a food processor, then add granulated sugar and leave to boil over low heat. You need to cook the mixture until it thickens, the consistency of the jam should be a little thicker than the jam. To keep the jam from being too sweet, add citric acid or lemon juice. Jam is good, both for seaming for the winter, and for storage in refrigerators.
4. Pumpkin porridge in milk
Pumpkin porridge in milk - One of the most delicious dishes from this amazing and very healthy plant product. Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 kg;
- milk - 0.5 l .;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- butter - 30 g;
- millet - 3-4 tbsp. l
Peel the vegetable and randomly cut it into small pieces, fill it with water and boil until tender (about 10 minutes). We drain the water, chop the pumpkin. You can turn it all into mashed potatoes, or you can leave whole pieces. Pour the pumpkin with milk, set on fire. When the milk boils, put the millet (I do not like thick porridge and put only 3 tablespoons), butter, sugar. On medium heat, the porridge is cooked for seven or ten minutes. After this, the porridge is allowed to stand for about another quarter of an hour, after which it can be eaten.
3. Pumpkin in lemon caramel
Pumpkin in Lemon Caramel - one of the most delicious desserts from a sweet type of vegetable. Ingredients:
- pumpkin 1 kg;
- 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 lemon.
Peel the vegetable from the skin, seeds, cut into cubes about 2 cm. Put in the form, add sugar. Peel the lemon from the skin, cut into small cubes and add to the pumpkin, mix. We send it to the oven under the lid for 30 min 175 C, mix, try for sweetness, if necessary, add sugar and send for another 10 minutes without a lid. It is recommended to use cold.
2. Pumpkin pancakes
Pumpkin pancakes - a very mouth-watering treat that will appeal to many. Ingredients:
- 500 g pumpkin (peeled);
- 150 g of flour;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1.5 hours baking powder;
- 1 pinch of salt.
Preparation: chop the pulp of pumpkin in 2-3 cm slices, put in a pan, pour boiling water so that it almost covers the vegetable, boil for 15-20 min until soft, then put on a colander. Put the cooled pieces of pumpkin into a blender bowl or knead in a mashed potato. In the cooked pumpkin puree add mixed with baking powder and sifted flour, sugar, salt, beat the egg and knead a homogeneous dough that resembles a thick sour cream in consistency. You can start baking.
1. Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie - A very tasty dish in the form of sweet pastries.
For the test:
- 1 cup flour;
- ¼ cup of milk;
- 0.5 cups of vegetable oil;
- some salt.
For filling:
- pumpkin weighing about 1 kg;
- 0.5 cups of condensed milk;
- 2 eggs, a bag of vanillin;
- spices to choose from - ginger, nutmeg or ground cloves (a pinch of each);
- salt to taste.
Preparation: Wash, cut and free pumpkin seeds. Lubricate on all sides with vegetable oil and bake in the oven until soft. When the pumpkin has cooled, the pulp is separated from it and crushed in a blender or rubbed through a sieve, and then mixed into a homogeneous mass along with condensed milk, eggs and spices. The components intended for the test are mixed with a mixer until a homogeneous plastic mass is obtained. It is laid out in a round shape, oiled, lifting the edges of the dough along the sides of the form. The resulting base is filled with pumpkin filling and put in the oven. Bake for half an hour at 180-200 degrees.