Pumpkin is a very healthy product. Thanks to this semi-finished product, you can please your family with breakfast, lunch and dinner from a variety of dishes. Cooking pumpkin is quite simple, you need to clearly follow the recipe and technology, taking into account the fact that it is, from a biological point of view, still a fruit, not a vegetable.
A very tasty dish is pumpkin porridge. Put and wash a glass of rice in boiling water (250 gr.) And boil for about five minutes. At this time, cut the fruit into cubes and send to the rice. You will need 2 glasses. Then add boiling milk, the amount of which is determined by taste. For lovers of thick porridge, 250 grams will be enough. Bring everything to a boil, put butter, a little sugar and salt, close the lid. Cook for fifteen minutes.
Pumpkin soup with potatoes is prepared on the basis of beef broth. Dice potato tubers, carrots and pumpkin in equal amounts. Place in boiling broth and cook for about half an hour on low heat. Serve with sour cream, cubes of boiled beef and chopped dill.
It is recommended to cook pumpkin soup without potatoes. But if you want to make a more satisfying and high-calorie dish, you can add it. In a traditional recipe, put cubes of pumpkin (400 g.), Zucchini (300 g.) And cauliflower (200 g.) In a boiling liter of salted water. Boil everything over low heat to practically evaporate the liquid. Then beat with a blender until smooth. Serve hot with a slice of butter.
Pumpkin puree soup for children is prepared very quickly, but it turns out to be uniquely tasty. In a liter of a mixture of milk and water (1: 1) add a little sugar, salt, cubes of pumpkin (500 gr.) And carrots (500 gr.). Bring the milk soup to a boil, reduce the heat, close the lid and simmer for forty minutes. You can send the pan to the oven. Then beat everything well with a blender. Serve with honey.
Everyone will like pumpkin cream soup, which is prepared as follows. Half a kilo of pumpkin to peel and cut into slices. Put it in half a liter of salted boiling milk and simmer under the lid for forty minutes. At this time, make croutons of white bread in butter. Place four such croutons in a pot with soup, beat with a blender, pour another half-liter of milk and bring to a boil, thoroughly mixing. Then pour half a glass of cream and add a slice of butter. Serve soup with croutons.
Delicious pumpkin dishes are obtained if baked.
A simple way to cook this. Peel and cut the fruit into slices, like a watermelon. Fill in a greased baking sheet in one layer and sprinkle with sugar. Preheat the oven to a temperature of at least 200 degrees and bake for forty to fifty minutes. You can serve pumpkin hot, or as chilled candied fruit with ice cream.
For guests you can make a great autumn dish - Tsarskaya pumpkin. To prepare it, you will need a pumpkin weighing about two kilograms. Cut off her upper part and gently clean the fruit inside. The filling for the dish can be made different: sweet or meat.
The first option is prepared as follows. Rinse thoroughly a glass of rice, mix with soaked dried fruits (prunes and dried apricots), place inside a pumpkin and pour a liter of boiling water. Add a little salt and more sugar. Bake the dish for about an hour and a half in a preheated oven.
The second version of the filling. Chop and fry several onions, add coarsely grated one carrot and pieces of pork (500 gr.). Put the mixture inside the pumpkin, add the sorted, washed buckwheat groats (1 cup), salt, bay leaf and pour boiling water (about one liter). It is necessary to bake the dish for about an hour and a half.
Enjoy your meal!