Carrot and pumpkin casserole can become a real visiting card of a festive and everyday table. At the same time, the delicacy is light, satisfying, healthy and low-calorie at the same time. Each housewife will be able to cook such a dish, having the simplest set of products.
Key Features
Carrot-pumpkin casserole has a lot of features and advantages compared to other dishes:
- Thanks to the combination of carrots and pumpkins, a dish with a high content of vitamins and minerals is formed.
- The casserole is light, so those who have diseases of the gastrointestinal tract can use it.
- Low calorie content will allow people who watch their figure and follow a diet to enjoy a meal.
- A simple set of products that will allow you to prepare a budget treat for the whole family.
- Thanks to its own sweetness of basic products, casserole can be an alternative to desserts for children.
Additionally, you can list many more positive factors of the presented dish.
A set of products for cooking
Carrot and pumpkin casserole should preserve vitamins and turn out to be very tasty, so a minimum of products is used for cooking:
- 3 carrots.
- 300 grams of pumpkin.
- 2 eggs.
- 1 cup of milk.
So that all the components get the right taste, namely the vegetables give the juice, you need to use a little salt. If you want to get a spicy casserole, which will become a kind of dessert, then you also need to use cinnamon.
Cooking principle
The recipe for pumpkin and carrot casseroles involves the use of the most simple cooking technologies:
- Peel, wash and boil the carrots until cooked.
- Boil the pumpkin too, after peeling and chopping the vegetable in small pieces.
- Allow the workpieces to cool completely.
- Using a blender, mashed boiled vegetables until smooth.
- Add eggs, milk, a pinch of salt to the container with the preparation and a little sugar (1 tablespoon).
- Lubricate the baking dish with butter. Pour the liquid substance and put in bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
It is advisable to serve the finished dish with an interesting sauce to make its base more juicy.
Healthy casserole for children
Pumpkin and carrot casserole for a child should not only be useful, but also quick. Naturally, the processing of the main ingredients will take a lot of time, but from prepared products to get an original treat for a child will be obtained in a short time.
A carrot and pumpkin casserole can be a delicious dessert or a light bite for a child. Basic products for the dish:
- 300 g of boiled carrots.
- 200 g of boiled pumpkin. If dessert is formed, then the product can be caramelized.
- A tablespoon of sugar for dessert.
- Fine-grained cottage cheese.
- Quail egg.
- A tablespoon of semolina or oatmeal
- Raisins, dried apricots, prunes - if dessert, or chicken, turkey fillets - if appetizer.
Often, semolina is replaced with boiled rice. If oatmeal is used, then it should first be chopped with a blender, then boiled.
Cooking baby casserole
To make the dish tasty and enjoy the child, you need to carefully grind all the ingredients. First, a base is prepared from basic products:
- Grind boiled carrots with a blender. Do the same with the pumpkin. Mix the two resulting masses thoroughly.
- Cottage cheese needs a little salt for a snack or sugar for dessert. Using a blender, grind the fermented milk product to the desired consistency.
- Raisins, dried apricots and prunes should be washed and poured with warm water for about ½ hour. Boil the poultry fillet and finely chop it, cutting the meat into small pieces or tearing it into fibers.
- Mix cottage cheese with semolina, pour the mass into a carrot-pumpkin mixture. Add the egg here.
- Pour dried fruit or meat into the workpiece. Knead the dough thoroughly so that all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Prepare a baking dish by greasing the bottom and walls with butter. Place the workpiece in a container.
- Preheat the oven by turning it on 180 degrees. Carrot-pumpkin casserole in the oven at this temperature is baked for about 30-40 minutes.
Instead of a large shape, you can use portioned baskets for muffins. This option will be ideal for serving, as it will look more interesting for the crumbs. Additional decoration will make the dish more appetizing.
Delicious and nutritious semolina casserole
You can make carrot and pumpkin casserole calories, add new flavors to the dish, if you use semolina. It is necessary to prepare such products:
- 2-3 carrots.
- A large piece of pumpkin.
- 30 g of butter.
- 1/5 cup semolina.
- 1-2 eggs.
- A pinch of salt.
Pumpkin and carrot casserole with semolina is prepared as follows:
- Peel the carrots, wash well and grate. For grinding, it is worth using a small or medium grater.
- Peel the pumpkin and cut into small cubes. The approximate size of each element is 1 × 1 cm.
- Pour 1/3 cup of water into the stewpan, put butter in the already-heated liquid. When the butter has melted, pour the vegetables into the container. Stew vegetables until they are soft.
- When the carrots and pumpkin are stewed enough, you need to add semolina. Gradually pour the groats into the stewpan. In this case, constantly interfere with the mass.
- When the semolina is practically cooked, you need to cool the mass and add an egg and a pinch of salt to it.
- Place the composition in a baking dish, leave in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
You need to eat ready-made casserole chilled with sour cream and herbs.