How to cook pumpkin with meat, if this wonderful juicy and healthy vegetable grows on a personal plot? Perhaps many of you are accustomed to perceive it only as a component of sweet dishes. Or, in extreme cases, vegetable salads. However, pumpkin stew with meat can be as nutritious and tasty as a potato dish. It can also be baked, boiled, fried. Almost any recipe will be universal : everyone will like pumpkin with meat. In addition, you can adapt these dishes for diet and baby food.
Getting started: the first recipe
Pumpkin with meat, chopped for salads, mashed in risotto, desserts and pastries - in any form, it is very tasty. Many options will allow you to add variety to the daily menu and cater to fastidious households. Much depends on the pumpkin variety: softer summer varieties are suitable for desserts, and the dense pulp of winter pumpkins is good for prolonged stewing. In any case, choose a compact vegetable up to three to four kilograms in weight. Such instances are the most juicy.
Pumpkin must be cleaned with a sharp knife, remove the seeds. Depending on the recipe, the peel should be removed and the vegetable cut into pieces. For some dishes, the pumpkin must be left intact. For example, to stuff her chicken fillet. This is an excellent holiday recipe. Pumpkin with chicken meat will turn out to be just perfect, if you take fruits no more than a kilogram each. They need two. And you will also need two chicken fillets, ground pepper, sour cream and salt. Cut off the top of each pumpkin in the form of a cap with which you will cover the stuffed vegetable when baking. When cutting seeds from pumpkin, try to keep the walls thick enough. From the lids you need to cut the pulp and rub it on a grater. Finely chop the chicken fillet, pepper and, mixed with sour cream and grated pumpkin pulp, put it into the cavity of the peeled vegetable. Top with lids, place in a deep baking sheet with a little warm water. Bake for about an hour. This recipe (pumpkin with meat) can be changed according to your taste and preferences. You can replace sour cream with low-fat yogurt, add mushrooms or other vegetables (for example, sweet pepper or zucchini).
Pumpkin Meat Soup
Rinse the meat (it is better to take about 300 g of low-fat veal in a medium pan), bring to a boil. This so-called first broth needs to be drained. Rinse the meat again, boil it with new water. Cook for two hours, descaling with a slotted spoon. Fry onion, potatoes and pumpkin cubes in butter. Then, pouring a little broth, simmer until tender and, having cooled vegetables, mashed in a blender. Dilute to the desired density with the remaining broth, add chopped meat and greens, season with nutmeg. You can cook this soup in chicken or beef broth. Another good option is with baked pumpkin. For its preparation, the pumpkin pulp, having stood for an hour in a preheated oven, is mixed with sautéed vegetables, ground to a puree state and diluted with broth. Serve with cheese and herbs.