Pumpkin pastille is a healthy oriental delicacy, the creation of which we owe to Turkey. It was the Turks who were the first to make various sweets, using fruits, berries or vegetables as the main components.
The history of the birth of goodies
Over time, the pastille began to enjoy popularity not only among local residents, but also among visiting tourists. So, the majority of holidaymakers visiting Turkey wondered how to properly prepare sweets. But until recently, local culinary experts did not reveal the secrets of cooking eastern delicacies, keeping the recipe in strict secrecy. Upset vacationers returned home, never knowing how to cook pastille.
As a result, during the time of the Soviet Union, a recipe for oriental sweets was created, according to which it was prepared from unnatural ingredients and tasted more like marshmallows. When the government of the eastern state found out about this, the recipe was disclosed, but with one condition: so that from now on only natural delicacies prepared according to the Turkish recipe would be sold to people, and the previous recipe would be forgotten forever. So, the whole world was notified of the correct recipe for oriental sweets.
Pumpkin utility
Cooking pastille at home is very easy. This sweet does not require a lot of time, a large number of components or any specific cooking skill. An oriental dessert is prepared quickly and simply, and most importantly - the result is a tasty and healthy treat that will not leave indifferent any member of the family.
Our article contains recipes for oriental pumpkin-based delicacies. Pumpkin pastille is not only very tasty, but also an incredibly useful dessert containing a storehouse of vitamins. So, it contains such vitamins as A, C, E, K, D, T, PP, C, as well as group B.
Basic cooking rules
In order for cooked pumpkin pastille at home to resemble a true dessert cooked in Turkey, you need to follow some tips when cooking:
- Each piece of oriental sweetness must be rolled in icing sugar, pre-mixed with vanilla.
- The consistency of pumpkin puree should be smooth and uniform - so that it does not have lumps.
- When laying out pumpkin mass on a baking sheet, you need to make sure that the layer is thicker along the edge than in the middle.
- Before removing the baking paper from the sweets, it should be slightly moistened with water, so that the process goes easier and faster.
Also, when preparing pastille, as an experiment, you can add, in addition to pumpkin, various fruits and berries.
Pumpkin pastille in the oven
Cooked pumpkin sweets are a universally useful product that can be used as sweets or added to desserts.
To prepare a pumpkin pastille, you will need the following components:
- pumpkin - 2 kg;
- apple - 2 pcs.;
- honey - 300 g;
- sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l
Practical part
First you need to cook the main ingredients: apples and pumpkin. They need to be washed, remove seeds and partitions. Then cut into small slices, so that it is convenient to grind and make mashed potatoes with a blender or meat grinder.
Prepared mashed potatoes, brought to a homogeneous mass, need to be transferred to a saucepan and add cinnamon, ginger, as well as honey. Stir the resulting pumpkin-apple mass and put on a pre-prepared baking sheet, which should be covered with parchment and smeared with a layer of sunflower oil.
Laying the pastille on the prepared baking sheet, you should pay attention to the layer thickness not exceeding 2 centimeters, as otherwise the sweet will take a very long time to cook. In the oven, this happens for 2-3 hours at 50 ° C. This amount of time is necessary so that it is not only baked, but also completely dried to the required state. The oven door should be left ajar.
When the allotted time is over, and the pastille becomes soft and elastic, it must be pulled out and cooled. Then cut into thin strips and twist into small rolls.
How to make pumpkin marshmallow at home: a recipe with an orange
Such a sweetness can be prepared in a matter of hours, applying minimal effort to the process, since the smart machine will do the main work. The only thing that needs to be done is to choose the right program, and after a certain time to get the finished treat.
To make pumpkin pastille in a dryer, you will need the following products:
- orange - 1 pc.;
- pumpkin - 0.5 kg.
Rinse the pumpkin, cut the peel from it and remove the seeds with fibers. After that, the resulting pulp of the main ingredient must be crushed into small pieces. Pour two cups of boiling water into the multicooker bowl, and put previously prepared chopped pumpkin slices into a separate container for steaming. Cook for 10 minutes.
In the meantime, you need to do the preparation of the orange. It should be washed and lowered in a bowl with boiling water for several minutes, in order to thus remove the wax with which citrus fruits are processed. After that, through a fine grater, remove the zest from the orange (without removing the white layer), then cut the fruit in half and squeeze the juice through the juicer.
After 10 minutes, the finished pulp of the pumpkin needs to be transferred to another dish and chopped with a blender or pusher to a homogeneous mass. Cooked orange juice and grated zest should be poured to the pumpkin mass and mix thoroughly. Then on a food film cut by the diameter of the drip tray of the dryer, lay a thin layer of pumpkin mass, no more than 5 mm in height. Then place the pallets in a dryer and dry for 6 hours.
After the allotted time, the finished pumpkin pastille should be removed from the dryer. You need to cut it into thin strips and roll it into a roll. Store in a tightly closed glass container.
Yogurt Marshmallow
Below is a pumpkin pastille recipe made with low fat yogurt. To prepare such an oriental sweet you will need:
- pumpkin - 0.5 kg;
- yogurt - 250 g;
- ginger - 1 pc.
To start cooking goodies, you need to prepare a pumpkin. To do this, the vegetable should be washed, remove the peel and seeds with fibers. Then it needs to be cut into pieces of medium size and put in a prepared container. The contents should be filled with water, slightly covering the chopped vegetable. Then boil the pumpkin for 10 minutes over low heat.
The boiled pumpkin with a blender or pusher should be chopped to a homogeneous mass, then add skimmed yogurt, as well as ground cinnamon, black pepper and ginger. Put the resulting mass on the prepared baking sheet, covered with a baking film and put in the oven for 8 hours at a temperature of 60 ° C. The oven door must be left ajar. After the allotted time, the finished treat should be cut into strips and rolled into a roll.