There are a lot of recipes from pumpkin. From this vegetable you can cook both main dishes and delicious desserts. Pumpkin is a very healthy product that is used in diet and baby food.
Pumpkin recipes can be very simple or require some culinary skills. Basically, almost all dishes are cooked quickly. They do not require exquisite ingredients and a lot of money.
This vegetable is perfectly stored in the freezer all winter. Therefore, having worried about this in the fall, you can prepare delicious recipes throughout the year. Also, pumpkin is well stored in the cellar until late spring. So, we offer you interesting pumpkin recipes. The photo can also be found below.
Pumpkin and Lentil Soup
This is a very healthy and nutritious dish. Preparing an original soup for the first is not difficult if the hostess in the house has 250 g of pumpkin and 100 g of lentils. The remaining ingredients are always in the house:
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 1 tomato
- spice.
All vegetables are pre-cleaned and washed well. Onions and carrots are cut into small cubes, and pumpkin is larger. In a stewpan, they passer vegetables in vegetable oil until half-cooked, stirring constantly.
The tomato must be peeled and grated. In winter, you can use 1 tbsp. a spoonful of quality tomato paste, slightly diluted with water.
Add 1 clove of chopped garlic here. Lentils are spread in a saucepan with sauteed vegetables. 1.2 liters of water are poured here and soup is cooked until lentils are ready. 10 minutes before turning off the heat, the processed tomato is added to the pan.
The soup should be infused under a closed lid for 15 minutes. Before serving, chopped greens are added to each serving.
Roasted pumpkin with garlic
It turns out that from this, at first glance, sweet vegetable, you can cook a spicy dish.
It is necessary to cook 0.5 kg of pumpkin without pulp and cut into slices at least 5 cm wide. These pieces are smeared with salt and other seasonings to taste. Then it is necessary to roll each of them well in flour.
In a pan, using vegetable oil, pumpkin is fried on both sides to a good golden crust. Then put on a paper towel and let it absorb excess fat.
These slices are transferred to the form and sent to bake for another 20 minutes. At this time, 2 cloves of garlic are crushed in the press and a bunch of herbs is chopped with a knife. These two ingredients are mixed.
Ready hot pumpkin is laid out on a dish and sprinkled with garlic and herbs. When serving, you can put sour cream on a table in a separate gravy boat.
Classic Pumpkin Puree Soup
This type of first course has recently been very common in our country. Previously, it could only be tasted in restaurants. But skilled housewives realized that the recipe with pumpkin is very simple and easy to make at home.
For him, you do not need to use unusual ingredients, and all the products we have are available. 1 kg of pumpkin without pulp is peeled and cut into medium slices. 2 onions are peeled and cut into small cubes. They are sautéed until transparent in a pan using vegetable oil.
After 10 minutes, chopped garlic cloves (4 pcs.) Are also added here. Vegetables are spread a little more and pumpkin is added to the pan. This mixture is fried for 10 minutes.
Then all the vegetables are transferred to the pan and poured 600 ml of water or meat broth. The soup is salted and seasoned to taste. Cooked vegetables until cooked.
Then, using a submersible blender, you need to beat the soup to a uniform consistency. 200 ml of nonfat cream is poured into it and mixes well again.
Original and healthy mashed potatoes
Traditional side dishes are already tired of the order in both the daily and holiday menu. Any housewife wants to cook an original dish like a restaurant, but with minimal cash costs.
A recipe for pumpkin puree will help surprise your loved ones and guests. The side dish is very tender and bright. It will require: 300 g of peeled pumpkin and 500 g of potatoes.
If desired, 1 onion can be used. The potato is peeled and put to boil with the addition of salt and bay leaf. The onion is divided in half and put there.
The pumpkin can also be boiled or baked in foil in the oven until cooked. Then all the ingredients are interrupted by a blender. Bay leaf is ejected. In the puree, 50 g of butter and 100 ml of milk are added. For more tenderness, you can pour another 2 tablespoons of sour cream or low-fat cream.
The whole mass mixes well. To this side dish any meat and fish dishes are perfect. Enjoy your meal!
In this type of mashed potato you can add absolutely any boiled vegetables. They will give mashed potatoes vivid shades, and the taste will become more saturated. Such dishes are perfect for the introduction of the first feeding for babies up to a year. Only in them then it is undesirable to use spices and cream. Instead, you can add a little more nonfat milk.
Oven pumpkin recipe
This sweet dessert will appeal to both adults and children. And it will be even better in health than baked apples. The pumpkin recipe in the oven is very simple and does not take much time.
For him, you need to peel 1.5 kg of pumpkin. It is washed well and pulp is removed. The skin does not need to be removed. Vegetable is cut into large pieces. The oven is turned on 180 ° C for heating.
Slices are laid out on a baking sheet and sent to bake for 25-30 minutes. At this time, 100 g of butter should be cut into small cubes and melt in a water bath or microwave.
The baking sheet is removed from the oven. Vegetables are poured with butter and sprinkled with sugar well. Then put back in the oven for another hour. If the pumpkin begins to burn ahead of time, then it must be covered with foil.
This dessert tastes good both hot and cold. It is perfectly stored and supplies vitamins to the body all year round.
With liver and chicken
This recipe for a delicious pumpkin dish is a great option for a festive table. The unusual combination of liver and pumpkin will surprise any gourmet. To prepare it, you need to peel the blue onions and cut into medium squares.
In a pan with the addition of 2 tbsp. l butter, they passerized for several minutes. 200 g of chicken liver must be cut into medium slices and sent to the onion. The whole mass is passivated until a beautiful crust appears.
At this time, in a frying pan, medium slices of pumpkin (200 g) are slightly fried. It must first be cleaned and washed. The oven starts to heat up.
All ingredients are mixed in a baking dish and the necessary spices are added here - salt and ground black pepper are required, and others are optional. A mix of Italian herbs is welcome.
2 cloves of garlic are squeezed here and 3 tbsp. spoons of sour cream. 60 g of hard cheese is rubbed on a fine grater. A dish is sprinkled on top of them and set to bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
A delicious recipe is obtained with pumpkin and chicken. For its preparation, it is necessary to cut into cubes 500 g of it and send it to the baking dish, to the bottom. The onion is chopped in half rings and laid out on top.
All this mass is sprinkled with purchased seasoning for chicken. Only salt and ground black pepper may be used. Chicken thighs are laid out on top to completely cover the vegetables. It takes about 0.5 kg of meat.
For the sauce, you need to kill 1 cream cheese, 2 eggs and 120 ml of yogurt with a blender without flavoring and sugar. This mixture is completely poured into the dish. In order for the sauce to penetrate well over the entire surface, the form must be shaken a little.
The dish is placed in the oven at 180 ° C. After 40 minutes, you can get it. Top it is advisable to sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs. The casserole is divided into even squares and served on the table.
Pumpkin Cheesecake
This very tasty and healthy dessert is sure to become a favorite in every family. This pumpkin recipe requires enough time and some cooking skills. But the result will amaze, and all efforts will not be in vain.
To prepare, you must prepare:
- 350 g of crumbs of any butter biscuits;
- sugar - 120 g;
- 25 ml of whiskey;
- 150 g butter;
- 250 g pumpkin;
- 25 ml nonfat cream;
- eggs (2 pcs);
- 1/2 tsp vanilla sugar;
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg.
These products will be needed for making dough. For the filling, it is still necessary to prepare 100 g of cottage cheese and 200 g of cream cheese. To saturate the taste, 100 g of walnuts are purchased.
The baking dish should be at least 20 cm in diameter. She is oiled. Walnuts are ground in a mortar or chopped with a blender.
Cookies (crumbs) are mixed with butter and sugar. The mass is well mixed. Nuts are added here. The dough is laid out on a baking sheet and with wet hands it is leveled over the entire surface, small sides are formed.
The form is placed in the refrigerator for at least an hour. The pumpkin is peeled and chopped into medium-sized slices without pulp. They are baked on parchment paper on a baking sheet in the oven until cooked.
Then the vegetable is smashed in mashed potatoes and sugar (half), eggs and whiskey are put in it. Vanilla sugar is also sent here. The whole mass mixes well. Now you can start preparing the filling.
For it you need to mix cottage cheese, cheese and cinnamon. Nutmeg and a pinch of salt are added to this. With a mixer you can get a magnificent filling. Pumpkin puree is gradually introduced into it .
The form with the dough is removed from the refrigerator and the filling is laid out on it. The cake is placed in the oven for baking for 50 minutes at a temperature of 170 ° C. Then the fire is turned off, and the cheesecake remains there until completely cooled with the door ajar.
The cold cake is sent to the refrigerator for another 4 hours. When serving, you can decorate each piece with fresh fruit.
Pumpkin porridge recipe
This is a very healthy meal for breakfast for the whole family. To prepare it, you need simple ingredients and a minimum of time. A quick pumpkin recipe for 3 small servings.
First you need to peel and chop the vegetable without pulp. Slices of pumpkin are placed in a pan and cereal is sent there. All this mass is poured into a glass of water and boiled until the liquid evaporates completely.
Then 200 ml of milk is added, and the porridge is further cooked until tender. The mass needs to be slightly salted. The finished pumpkin is softened with a fork. Before serving, 40 g of butter is added to the porridge.
There is a good pumpkin recipe in a slow cooker with the addition of corn grits. Such porridge will turn out to be very tender and tasty. For its preparation, it is necessary to peel and cut 200 g of pumpkin into a medium-sized cube with the removal of pulp and extra veins.
Slices are placed in a multicooker bowl and poured with 300 ml of water. The container is put back and in the "Extinguishing" mode a pumpkin is prepared. At this time, 100 g of cereal must be washed several times. After completion of the stewing process in a slow cooker, corn porridge, salt (0.5 tsp) and sugar (1 tbsp) are added to the bowl.
In the "Porridge" mode, the dish is cooked for another half an hour. Then, butter (50 g) is added to the bowl.
A quick and delicious recipe of pumpkin cooked with rice. For lean porridge, you need to grate 250 g of peeled pumpkin on a coarse grater. Add 50 g of rice to this and mix. Put in a pan and pour water so that it slightly covers the entire mass.
Porridge is cooked with constant stirring until rice is cooked. This adds 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar and a little butter.
Fancy Manty
Almost everyone associates this dish with meat. But it is not so. You can quickly and easily cook manti with vegetables. They will need 900 g of peeled pumpkin. It is cut into small slices.
400 g of onions are crushed. Vegetables are mixed. Now you can proceed to the dough kneading. For him, half a liter of water is boiled with 1 tablespoon of salt. The solution does not cool much. 350 ml are collected from it and poured into a hole with flour (1 kg).
In no case should you add eggs. Because in the end the manty will turn out tough, especially when it cools down. Then hands begin to knead the dough. It should be dense enough. The dough itself will absorb the necessary amount of flour.
Then it is covered with a clean bowl for 20 minutes. After this time, the dough is dipped in hands and again covered for the same period. After the dough has rested, it will become soft and airy.
Now a thick sausage is formed from it and placed in a transparent bag. The ends are well tied so that air does not enter there. In this form, the dough is left on the table at room temperature for another 15 minutes.
Now you need to form 1.5 cm pieces from it. Each is rolled into a circle and 2 tbsp are laid out in the center. toppings. A 1 cm piece of butter is also added here.
Now you can form manti. First, two opposite sides are fastened in the center. Then the others are pulled up to them and are latched by a small tail from above.
This pumpkin recipe (see photo of the finished dish above) generally takes about 1.5 hours to cook. In boiling water or steamed for 45 minutes, the manti is boiled. Enjoy your meal!
Pies
This simple pumpkin recipe will delight all the family members with its delicate taste. This dessert does not require much time and ingredients. Any housewife can cope with the recipe.
First you need to peel 500 g of pumpkin and grate it on a fine grater. You can grind the vegetable using a combine. 2 tablespoons of oatmeal interrupted in a coffee grinder.
150 g of sugar, 3 tablespoons of dried milk and processed oatmeal are added to the pumpkin. Now the whole mass mixes well with the addition of one egg. Then the zest of one lemon is introduced.
The finished dough is poured into a silicone mold and put in the oven for baking at a temperature of 200 ° C until fully cooked. Lemon pumpkin pie is ready.
Often, housewives cautiously read dessert recipes where vegetables are present. But then, having tried to bake just one of them, they make it again. This includes a pumpkin-chocolate cake recipe.
To cook it, you need to grate 400 g of pumpkin without peel and pulp on a medium nozzle. Beat 120 g of softened butter with a pinch of salt and 1 pack of vanilla.
In turn, 3 eggs are introduced there and mixed well with a mixer. Flour (100 g) is mixed with almonds (50 g grated) and baking powder (1 pack). This mass is introduced into the oily and well beaten with a mixer at low speed.
Then the cooked pumpkin is added and manually gently mixed. The oven warms up to 170 ° C. The dough is laid out on parchment paper. The cake is baked for 25 minutes.
Now you can start preparing the glaze. For it, you need to pour 100 ml of cream (fatty) into a saucepan and break a bar of dark chocolate there. The mixture is kept on low heat (do not boil). When the chocolate has completely melted, it is necessary to cool it.
The finished cake from above is completely filled with this glaze. It should cool down within 3 hours. Then it is cut into even squares. Each is sprinkled with cocoa or powdered sugar.