Pumpkin is healthy and satisfying, rich in vitamins. They make porridges, soups, and other dishes from it. In the fall, when the massive harvest of this gourd begins , treat yourself to delicious pumpkin casseroles. Cooking them is easy. Often, to neutralize the sweetish taste of pumpkin, sour apples are added to it. But you can also use cottage cheese, lingonberries. Even in pumpkin casseroles with apples put a component that allows you to form a dough. It can be semolina, rice, oatmeal, breadcrumbs.
The question arises as to in what form to use pumpkin - in raw, boiled, stewed or baked. There is no universal answer. Each recipe for pumpkin casserole with apples suggests its own version of preliminary preparation. The same goes for other ingredients. Apples, for example, can be rubbed raw or used mashed potatoes or jam. If you still have semolina or rice porridge, literally one hundred grams, please your loved ones with a casserole for breakfast. Grate 400 g of peeled pumpkin. Mix three tablespoons of butter with one hundred grams of sugar and three egg yolks, add grated lemon peel, vanilla, cinnamon, crushed nuts to taste. Combine this mass with pumpkin. Stir in slightly warmed porridge. Beat the whites and carefully add to the casserole. Grease the form with fat, spread the dough. We put in the oven preheated to 180 C for about half an hour. This sweet pumpkin casserole for children is served with apple jam or mousse.
The following recipe suggests using semolina instead of porridge for forming the dough. The pumpkin must first be cut into large cubes and allowed to soften. After that, you need to give her time to drain in a colander. Mix five tablespoons of semolina with 2-3 tablespoons of sugar. Pound with pieces of pumpkin so that there are no lumps of cereal left. Leave to swell for 20 minutes. Pour juice from a half of a lemon into a plate and chop 8-10 pieces of sour apples there. Stew them in a hot pan to make them soft. For this puff pumpkin casserole with apples, we use a pound of cottage cheese of delicate consistency. We mix it with sugar and egg yolk. Beat the protein until foam and gently knead with the curd mass. Lubricate the form with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. In the pumpkin mass, pour vanilla sugar to taste, drive the egg. Now we lay out layer by layer, not forgetting to sprinkle each with ground cinnamon. First comes the pumpkin mass, followed by the apple mass, and above - the curd mass. Send the mold to the oven, preheated to 200 °, for 25 minutes. If the top of the pumpkin casserole with apples starts to burn, cover it with a sheet of pastry paper. When the dish cools down, cut it into portions, pour some kind of syrup, garnish with apple slices.
Try this old Russian recipe. Grate the peeled quarter of the pumpkin in a saucepan. Add a couple of tablespoons of butter, half a glass of milk and simmer under the lid. Meanwhile, rub three to four apples. In the cooled pumpkin pulp, add fruit puree. This pumpkin casserole with apples may include semolina soaked in milk or breadcrumbs. Their amount is regulated relative to the juiciness of the two main ingredients. Separately, grind three yolks with sugar, introduce them into the total mass. Stir, salt and carefully add whipped whites. Put in a greased and sprinkled with breadcrumbs form, bake. Serve with sour cream.