Puddings have not yet become a very popular dish in our country. Most people only know about them from the detective stories of Agatha Christie. Moreover, everyone believes that preparing this dish is very difficult, takes a lot of time and requires virtuoso culinary skills. We will not consider purely English recipes. It may well be that with regard to them all fears are true. However, for example, pumpkin pudding is not much different from casserole, which any housewife prepares without hesitation and almost automatically. So go away all prejudices and go on - to conquer new gastronomic peaks!
Pumpkin Pudding
Take a pound of this vegetable, cut into proportional slices, pour half a glass of water in a saucepan and simmer until softened. Water will almost completely evaporate. The mass is transferred to a blender and processed into mashed potatoes. Butter (about 70 g), previously pulled out of the refrigerator, is ground with half a glass of sugar. With continuous beating, three eggs are added in turn, followed by half a glass of milk. A whole glass of flour is mixed with two tablespoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt and little by little added to the dough. For flavor, you can add a little vanilla or cinnamon. Ready dough is poured into a greased baking dish and placed at the temperature of +180 ° . An hour later, a ready-made pumpkin pudding is taken out. The recipe suggests pouring it with sour cream, whipped with granulated sugar. The delicacy is ready!
Pumpkin and Apple Pudding
For him, both components take 300 grams. First, pumpkin cubes are boiled in an incomplete glass of milk, where two tablespoons of butter are melted. When the vegetable is boiled to half, cubes of peeled apples are added to it; when the fruits are cooked, semolina spills out - one and a half tablespoons. Five minutes later, the future pumpkin pudding is removed from the fire; after cooling, the yolks of 2 eggs pour into the dough, whipped white with two tablespoons of granulated sugar. The mass is carefully kneaded, then whipped separately yolks and cinnamon are added to it. The oven sheet is greased with oil, sprinkled with breadcrumbs (you can use flour), pumpkin and apple pudding is evenly distributed on the surface, smeared with sour cream and put into the oven. Willingness is determined by a beautiful blush; if you don’t trust purely visual methods, you can poke pumpkin and apple pudding with a match or a toothpick. The dough did not stick - it’s ready. You can get, cut into portions and pour sour cream.
Pumpkin millet pudding
First of all, porridge is cooked for him, since it takes longer to cook than a vegetable. In addition, millet increases during cooking in volume, and in the finished dish it and pumpkin should be equally divided. The cereal is poured into milk and cooked until it thickens. Next, pumpkin cubes are laid in it, the pan is closed with a lid and hidden in the oven for forty minutes. After the specified time, the egg yolks beaten with sugar are added to the mass at the rate of 2 eggs plus three tablespoons of sand per half a kilo of the mass. All components are mixed, the dough is laid out in oiled tins, and pumpkin pudding is put in a double boiler for half an hour. It turns out a magnificent and tasty treat.
Curd Pumpkin Pudding
Unlike most recipes, for this the vegetable (half a kilogram) is not boiled, and fried for five minutes - either in fat or in sunflower oil. The prepared slices are taken out, and the butter is whipped with the yolks of four eggs, cinnamon, lemon zest and half a glass of sugar. Half a kilogram of cottage cheese is poured into it (take dry, grainy), two spoons of crackers (for better uniformity, it is better to grind them in a coffee grinder) and beaten squirrels of two eggs. Pumpkin pudding with cottage cheese is laid in a greased and sprinkled with crackers form layers: pumpkin - cottage cheese - pumpkin ... It is put in the oven for 20 minutes; then the surface is covered with the two remaining proteins, whipped with sugar into the foam - and again into the oven for a few minutes so that the foam seizes. The recipe allows you to eat such pumpkin pudding both hot and cold.
Pumpkin Pudding with Rice
The vegetable cut into slices is put in a stewpan and poured with milk. A couple of spoons are enough for 800 g of pumpkin. A piece of butter, sugar (two spoons with a slide) and washed rice - half a glass are added there. The pan closes and goes to the oven. The finished mass is kneaded, three beaten eggs, two tablespoons of butter and the zest of half an orange pour in. Everything mixes well; You can even use a mixer or blender. At the same stage, the dish is salted; however, salt, in principle, is an optional component, many chefs implement this recipe without it. The steamed raisins are poured, the pumpkin pudding is put into the mold, sprinkled with cheese, sprinkled with olive or ghee and put in the oven until a crust appears. Note that this casserole can serve as a dessert as well as a main course. It can be made sweet simply by adding sugar, or it can be served as a side dish for meat - both the orange peel and raisins are in harmony with it.
Slow Pumpkin Pudding
To prepare it, you need to carry out some preliminary work. For ease of calculation, the amount of ingredients is given in measuring cups attached to the multicooker. Pumpkin is cut and cooked; its amount as a result is one glass. White bread crumbles into cubes; it takes three glasses. Dried apricots (a third of a glass) are soaked for half an hour, then the water is decanted, and the apricots are chopped. In a bowl, pumpkin, two glasses of milk, two tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon (at your discretion) and three eggs are combined. Bread with dried apricots is placed in the bowl of the apparatus and poured with the resulting milk-pumpkin mixture. Make sure that the bread does not protrude from the liquid. If necessary, it can even be pressed down a little. After a quarter of an hour, when the bread is soaked and soaked, the lid closes, the baking mode is set for half an hour and with the valve open (without pressure). When the timer rings, the unit switches to heating mode; on it pumpkin pudding in a slow cooker will stay for about ten minutes - for greater splendor. It remains to get, cover with whipped cream and call the family to feast on.