It can be difficult to cook tasty but lean dishes. The inability to use some products, which are most often responsible precisely for taste, makes us look for new ways to diversify cooking.
So, to improve lean dishes, you can use pumpkin. With its help, you can cook soups, cereals, casseroles, buns, meatballs, rolls, pies and much more.
Pearl Barley Soup
What is required:
- Barley - two glasses.
- Pumpkin - 500 grams.
- Celery - three stalks.
- Onion - two pieces.
- Parsnip root - two pieces.
- Vegetable broth - ten glasses.
- Ground rosemary - three tablespoons.
- Oil - half a cup.
- Salt is a dessert spoon.
- Parsley is a bunch.
- Pepper - half a teaspoon.
- Carrots - two pieces.
- Turnip - three hundred grams.
Recipe
It is known that pumpkin can be used to prepare lean dishes in a large assortment. One of these options is a delicious and hearty soup of this vegetable with pearl barley. Groats for soup according to the recipe for a lean pumpkin dish (photo below) need to be washed and soaked for seven to eight hours in cold water. Chopped and washed onions in small pieces. Heat the pan with the oil poured into it over a fire and put the onion slices in it. Fry it for a delicious lean pumpkin dish only until transparent.
Wash the celery and finely chop across the stem. Peeled carrots and turnips into cubes. Grind the parsnip root in the same way. Following the recipe for a lenten dish of pumpkin, put celery with carrots in a saucepan with sautéed onions. Fry for ten minutes. Then add cubes of parsnip root and turnip. Stir the ingredients for the pumpkin lean dish and fry for another ten minutes.
Remove the peel from the pumpkin and cut into large pieces. When the pumpkin is fried, pour the vegetable broth into the pan and sprinkle with salt, rosemary and pepper. Stir and let it boil. Then add the remaining ingredient for a pumpkin lean dish. Already with pearl barley stir well. Try on salt and cook on low heat for thirty-five minutes. Serve by spilling on plates and adding parsley.
Lean cutlets made from pumpkin
Grocery list:
- Semolina - 200 grams.
- Pumpkin - 400 grams.
- Flour - four tablespoons.
- Oil - one fourth cup.
- Sugar - two tablespoons.
- Cinnamon - a dessert spoon.
- Salt is a teaspoon.
- Water - two glasses.
Cooking
Pumpkin cutlet recipes are tasty and healthy. The vegetable must first be peeled, and then grated through a grater. Grated pumpkin placed in a bowl and pour in her semolina and cinnamon. Pour boiling water and leave for twenty minutes under the lid. Then, for further preparation of the pumpkin lean dish, four tablespoons of oil should be poured into the bowl, and sugar and salt should be added to the recipe. Stir and set aside the resulting mass for fifteen minutes.
Pour flour into a bowl and mix. The base for the lean pumpkin dish is ready and you can start the process of frying the cutlets. Pour a little oil into the pan taken. Put on fire and heat well. Using a spoon, spread the mass into a pan in small portions in the form of cutlets. When one side of the pumpkin cutlets is browned, you need to turn them over and fry them on the other side. Such lean pumpkin cutlets will please everyone.
Lean pumpkin pie
The list of ingredients:
Dough:
- Refined oil - six tablespoons.
- Flour - one kilogram.
- Salt is a teaspoon.
- Water - two glasses.
- Fast yeast - dessert spoon.
Filling:
- Onion - two heads.
- Pumpkin - one kilogram.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
- Oil - fifty milliliters.
Pie recipe
Many housewives are not stopped by the laborious process of making pies at home. This recipe for pumpkin lean meat in the oven is for them. The cake, although not sweet, is very tasty and fragrant.
Sow flour in the dishes, in which the dough will be kneaded. Add salt, high-speed yeast and mix slowly. Then pour in heated water and oil. Knead the soft dough slowly and place it in a warm place for an hour and a half.
Dough rise time is used to prepare pumpkin filling. Cut the pumpkin into pieces, cut the peel from them and remove the core along with the seeds. Then wipe through a grater and squeeze out moisture. The peeled onion heads are cut into cubes. First put the onions in a frying pan with oil and fry for about ten minutes. Then add pumpkin, salt and, if desired, you can pour pepper and other spices or seasonings. Mix everything and fry until the squash is soft.
The filling must be cooled to a slightly warm state. Divide the rising dough into two parts. One should be slightly smaller than the other. Grease the mold and sprinkle lightly with semolina. Roll a cake from the larger part, the edges of which should cover the walls of the mold. Fill the workpiece with filling and level. Cover the filling with a second smaller rolled flat cake. The edges of both cakes are well pinched and placed in the oven.
The temperature for baking this lean pumpkin pie is quite high - two hundred thirty-two hundred and forty degrees. The baking time of the dish varies from twenty five to thirty five minutes. Immediately after cooking, leave the cake in the oven off for ten minutes, so that it “reaches” the finished state. Then remove it and allow time to cool. Only then can the pie be cut and served for an evening tea party.
Rice porridge in a slow cooker with pumpkin puree
What products are needed:
- Pumpkin puree - 500 grams.
- Rice is one glass.
- Water - three glasses.
- Sugar - five tablespoons.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
Step by step cooking porridge
How to cook a lean dish of pumpkin in a slow cooker? Easy if you use this simple recipe. It is advisable to take long-grain rice, sort it out and rinse it several times, and then pour it into the bowl. Now you need to make pumpkin puree. Remove the peel from the vegetable and cut into slices. Arrange on a baking sheet and bake for about thirty minutes at a temperature of one hundred and seventy degrees until soft. Then mash the pieces with a blender. Put the finished mashed potatoes on top of the rice.
Sprinkle rice and pumpkin with sugar and salt, and also, if you want, you can add a small piece of butter. Pour in the right amount of water and stir. Close the slow cooker and in the "Milk Porridge" mode set the time - thirty-five minutes. When the signal sounds, the lid must be opened and in the "Heating" mode cook porridge for another fifteen minutes. Rice porridge with pumpkin is infused and it can be laid out on bowls, watering on top with a small amount of honey. Cooked in a slow cooker lean pumpkin dish turned out to be tasty and healthy.
Steam bun from Nikuman pumpkin
Ingredients for Buns:
Dough:
- Pumpkin puree - 200 grams.
- Flour - 200 grams.
- Salt is a third of a teaspoon.
Filling:
- Chives - five stalks.
- Chicken breast - 400 grams (in the classic recipe).
- Onion - two heads.
- Soy sauce - thirty milliliters.
- Ground pepper - a quarter teaspoon.
- Flour - half a glass.
How to Make Japanese Buns
First you need to prepare the dough for a lenten dish of Nikuman pumpkin. The vegetable should be peeled and peeled. Cut the pumpkin into pieces, place in a special container with a lid and bake in the microwave. With an aggregate power of six hundred watts, ten minutes will be enough. Puree the pulp even in hot form, and you can also grind it through a sieve. Add salt in mashed potatoes, stir and let cool. Pour flour into the cooled mass and knead the dough.
Next you need to prepare the filling for Japanese lean buns. Chicken breast (fasting can be replaced with fish, mushrooms or shrimp) and onions scroll through a meat grinder. Add ground pepper, soy sauce, salt and finely chopped stalks of green onions. Stir all the components of the filling until smooth. Cut the dough prepared earlier into twelve identical parts and give them the shape of a ball. Sprinkle the cutting board with flour and, lowering the ball from the dough into flour, roll out a circle from it, with a diameter of about ten centimeters.
Place a dessert spoon of the filling in the center of the circle and pinch the edges with folds. In a similar way to form all the buns and arrange them in a double boiler, pre-oiled. Steam for fifty minutes. Lenten Japanese buns are served immediately after cooking - hot.
Baked Lean Pumpkin
Required Products:
- Tomato paste - a tablespoon.
- Pumpkin - 800 grams.
- Pepper - a quarter of a teaspoon.
- Dried basil - dessert spoon.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Olive oil - two tablespoons.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
- Water - four tablespoons.
Cooking Baked Pumpkin
For baking, it is better to choose nutmeg pumpkin or another sweet variety. To prepare a tasty and fast lenten dish of pumpkin, you need to take the recipe proven by many chefs. And to start, peel the pumpkin and cut into large pieces in the form of cubes. Pour oil into a pan with a removable handle and heat over a fire. Put pumpkin cubes in a pan and fry, turning, seven to ten minutes. Sprinkle the fried pumpkin cubes with ground pepper, dried basil and salt.
Then add the tomato paste and peeled garlic cloves, passed through the garlic. Mix the pumpkin with spices and pour water into the pan. Remove the handle and cover the pan with a sheet of foil, pinching in a circle around the edge. Place in the oven and at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees, bake for thirty-five minutes. A pumpkin cooked according to this recipe is ideal for the main fish dish with slices of fresh and fragrant bread.
Lenten rolls with pumpkin
Ingredients for Roulade:
- Water - two glasses.
- Pumpkin - one and a half kilograms.
- Sunflower oil - one glass.
- Flour - one kilogram.
- Salt is a dessert spoon.
- Pepper - two pinches.
- Sugar - ten tablespoons.
Step by step recipe
Pumpkin is a healthy and tasty vegetable, from which you can cook many different dishes. It is also used in the manufacture of desserts and pastries. One such pumpkin meatless dish is rolls.
First you need to knead the dough. Why directly sieve in a bowl high-quality flour and salt, mix. Add ten tablespoons of butter to the flour and, gradually pouring the warmed water, knead a rather steep dough. Cover the bowl with him with a clean towel and let him rest for thirty minutes.
This time is enough to prepare the filling for lean rolls with pumpkin. First you need to cut the vegetable into pieces and peel. Then rub it through a grater, preferably with large holes. Then it is necessary to pour oil in a non-stick pan and heat it. Place the mashed pumpkin in the pan and simmer for ten minutes over low heat. Transfer the filling into a separate bowl and let it cool.
In the meantime, turn on the oven and grease the baking trays with oil. Cut the rest of the dough into pieces, the size of an average apple. Sprinkle the surface with flour and finely roll one part. Lubricate the rolled dough with butter and spread the cooled pumpkin filling on it. Sprinkle sugar on top and, if desired, ground pepper. Roll the dough with the filling into the roll and connect the ends.
Put the roll on the prepared pan. From the remaining lean test and filling, form the remaining rolls on the same principle. Put them in baking sheets. All cooked rolls must be greased with oil. While preparing the rolls, the oven warmed up to one hundred and ninety degrees. Place the baking sheets with rolls in it for 45-55 minutes. Lean pastries with pumpkin are served both in a warm form and completely cooled. Rolls are very tasty, both hot and cold, with a cup of your favorite drink. Enjoy your meal!