Meat dishes cooked with the addition of pumpkin have an unusual, slightly sweet taste. To create them, it is advisable to use only fresh high quality products. Any kind of meat is suitable for these purposes, but experts recommend using lean pork. It turns out to be more tender and juicy than beef or lamb, and not as dry as chicken fillet.

To make the pumpkin and meat dish a completely different taste, potatoes, zucchini, bell peppers, green peas and other vegetables are added to it. And to enhance the aroma, various dried herbs and spices are usually used.

Pork stew

This hearty and tasty dish is great for a family dinner. It is made from simple and readily available ingredients that can be purchased at any modern grocery store. For your family to try this stew, you need:

• A kilo of pork pulp.
• 150 grams of bacon.
• 4 large potatoes.
• 800 grams of pumpkin.
• Large onion.
• 3 cloves of garlic.
• 5 tomatoes.
• Vegetable oil, salt and spices.

This hot pumpkin and meat dish should start with pork processing. They wash it, dry it, cut it into not too small pieces, add some salt, sprinkle it with spices and put it aside for a while.

In a deep saucepan, at the bottom of which there is a little vegetable fat, and transfer to a clean plate. Pieces of marinated meat are sent to the freed oil. Then the pork is combined with bacon. Chopped onions, garlic and tomatoes are placed in a saucepan. Pour vegetables with a glass of water, mix with bacon and meat. All this is stewed under the lid for ten minutes. After that, pieces of potatoes and chopped pumpkin are added to the common bowl. All this is cooked for another half hour, and then salted and removed from the stove.

Pumpkin stewed with pork and green peas

This simple and healthy stew is relatively low in calories. Therefore, it can be offered to those who follow their own figure. To prepare a similar pumpkin dish with meat, you will need:

• 200 grams of frozen green peas.
• A pound of lean pork.
• 300 grams of peeled pumpkin.
• A couple of large onions.
• A glass of water or broth.

Washed, dried and chopped meat is spread in a heated frying pan greased with vegetable fat and fried until the color changes. Then it is salted, sprinkled with ground pepper, poured with half a glass of water or broth and simmered under a lid over low heat for twenty minutes, not forgetting to periodically replenish the evaporating liquid. Once the pork is soft enough, lightly brown and mix with half rings of onion. After a few minutes, pieces of pumpkin and a little salt are placed there. Then, green peas, previously scalded with boiling water, are added to the common dish, and heated together over low heat.

Minced meat casserole

This simple but very interesting main course with pumpkin and meat has an aesthetic appearance. Therefore, it can become a decoration for any holiday. To prepare it, you will need:

• A pound of pumpkin.
• 600 grams of ground pork and beef.
• Bulb.
• 40 grams of butter.
• A couple of cloves of garlic.
• 4 large tomatoes.
• 200 milliliters of chicken broth.
• 100 grams of Russian cheese.
• Vegetable oil, sugar, salt and ground pepper.

It is advisable to start the preparation of this pumpkin dish with meat by creating a sauce. To do this, put chopped tomatoes in an oiled frying pan and stew them for ten minutes. As soon as the liquid released from the tomatoes evaporates, they are salted, sweetened, peeled and removed from the stove. Onion, chopped garlic and minced meat are fried in a separate skillet. Tomatoes, broth and butter are added to the meat mass. The resulting sauce is poured into a heat-resistant mold, on the bottom of which the pumpkin slices are already laid. All this is sent to a preheated oven and baked at 180 degrees for forty-five minutes. Shortly before the end of the process, sprinkle with grated cheese.

Stuffed pumpkin

This interesting treat does not need additional garnishes. It is served directly inside a baked vegetable, covered with a chopped top. To cook this dish in a pumpkin with meat in the oven, you will need:

• 200 grams of pork pulp.
• A whole pumpkin.
• Medium carrot.
• Large onion.
• A couple of large spoons of tomato paste.
• A pinch of coriander.
• Salt, vegetable oil and ground pepper.

In a frying pan greased with heated vegetable fat, fry chopped onions and chopped meat. After a couple of minutes, grated carrots, salt, coriander, pepper and tomato paste are added there. All are mixed well and continue to simmer over low heat. Then the resulting mass is spread inside the pumpkin, freed from the pulp. The stuffed vegetable is covered with a cut top, greased with vegetable fat, wrapped in foil and sent to a warm oven. Cook pumpkin at 180 degrees for at least an hour.

Aromatic soup

We draw your attention to another interesting recipe that allows you to cook a delicious pumpkin dish with meat. This hearty soup is perfect for both adult and baby food. Therefore, he can add variety to the family menu. To cook such a dinner, you need to take:

• Onions and carrots 150 grams each.
• A pound of beef tenderloin.
• 500 grams of pumpkin.
• A pound of potatoes.
• 200 grams of celery stalks.
• Salt, vegetable oil, herbs and ground pepper.

Onions and carrots are fried in vegetable fat. As soon as they are slightly browned, finely chopped beef is added to them and stewed all together for forty minutes, adding boiled water to vegetables and meat as needed. Then put celery, pumpkin pieces and potato cubes into a common pot. All this is poured with two liters of water, salted, pepper and boiled until the ingredients are soft. The soup is poured into bowls and sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Pumpkin stuffed with rice and minced pork

This beautiful and tasty treat will be a great addition to any meal. It will fill the room with unforgettable aromas and create a festive mood. To bake a pumpkin dish with meat, you will need:

• Kilo of pork.
• 100 grams of rice.
• A couple of carrots.
• 2.5 kilograms of pumpkin.
• Canned pineapple.
• A pound of bell pepper.
• Salt, spices, and vegetable oil.

Fried pork, browned vegetables (bell peppers, pineapple and carrots), salt, spices and a little water are mixed in one saucepan. All this is sent to the stove and simmered over low heat until all the ingredients are half cooked. Then vegetables and meat are mixed with pre-soaked rice and put inside the pumpkin, previously freed from the pulp. All this is sent to a warm oven and cooked at 200 degrees for about two hours. Of course, you can make this pumpkin dish without meat. But then it will not be so nourishing and aromatic.

Chicken puree soup

This unusual first course has a pleasant taste, bright color and pronounced smoked aroma. To prepare it, you will need:

• 300 grams of chicken fillet.
• A pound of pumpkin.
• 140 grams of smoked bacon.
• A liter of chicken broth.
• A couple of carrots.
• Large onion.
• Olive oil, salt and parsley.

In a thick-walled saucepan, at the bottom of which there is a little vegetable fat, chopped chicken fillet and chopped onions are fried. After a few minutes, pieces of pumpkin and chopped carrots are added there. All this is poured with broth and cooked until all ingredients are cooked. Then the soup is salted, mashed with a blender, returned to the saucepan, heated and laid out on plates. Add toasted bacon slices and chopped parsley to each serving. If desired, ready-made with chicken is seasoned with fresh sour cream.

Friends, welcome! Today we are waiting for stewed pumpkin with meat - a real delicacy for people who are satisfied with the combination of "tasty-healthy-simple", without any tsetse fly wings torn off during the mating season, and without dried thoughts of purple squids.

All my adult life I have avoided pumpkin and dishes with it, with the exception of pancakes. Remember such a spesyfissian taste of millet-rice porridge with milk and pieces of pumpkin, which your mother tried to stuff you with, succumbing to the fashion for healthy food? My mother and I coincided in this, instilling in both of us an aversion to pumpkin.

How much we have lost! Pumpkin is an absolutely awesome vegetable stewed and baked, which does not involve the addition of sugar and milk. The unique consistency and characteristic pumpkin flavor combined with meat and friendly vegetables is something!

Unfortunately, I made this conclusion only this year, having grown these very pumpkins with my own hands. Now I desperately regret that I planted a little - next season I will catch up and master new recipes with pumpkin.

To create a stewed pumpkin with meat, we need:

• Pumpkin, peeled and seeds - about 1 kg
• 600 g pork
• 2 onions
• 1 large tomato
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• Ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil for frying

Stewed pumpkin with meat, recipe:

Any container with a relatively thick bottom is suitable for stewing - I have a weighty Tefalev frying pan with a lid.

Cut the pork and onion into cubes of any size and fry in oil for several minutes over medium heat until a light golden crust near the meat.

Cut the pumpkin into small slices about 5 mm thick, salt it properly on top, cover it with a lid on top, reduce the heat to a minimum and wait 10-15 minutes until the pumpkin releases juice under the influence of salt.

Cut the tomato into cubes and add to the pumpkin with the meat, stir, simmer for another 10-15 minutes, adding a drop of heat (if the tomato-pumpkin juice boils quickly even under the lid, you can add quite a bit of water).

Chop the garlic into pieces of arbitrary shape and size, add to the pan, pepper, mix again and, if the pumpkin is already completely soft, turn it off. Let it brew with the lid closed for five minutes.

Stewed pumpkin with meat is ready! It's very good to serve it hot with iced sour cream - mmm, incredible delight (IMHO, of course)!

Prepare ingredients.

Wash the beef, dry it with paper towels, cut films from the meat and cut into small cubes.
Heat a little (about 1 tablespoon) butter in a frying pan together with vegetable oil.
Put the meat in a hot pan (so that it lies in a pan in one layer).
And quickly fry first on one side, until golden brown, then turn over, and fry on the other side.

Council. When frying meat, we seal meat juices inside each piece, so it is better not to put a full pan of meat (otherwise it will be stewed in its own juice), but fry in parts in a very hot pan.

Transfer the fried meat to a thick-bottomed stewing dish.

Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
Add the onion to the meat, put a piece of butter (about 30 g), and fry, stirring occasionally, over medium heat for about 5 minutes.

Pour beer over the meat, add bay leaf and about a teaspoon of sugar.

Simmer with a low boil for about 2 hours, until the meat is completely soft (if necessary, as the liquid boils away, you can add a little water).

Advice 1. The original recipe suggests using dark beer. It is better to take those varieties that do not taste bitter (otherwise, the beer will add bitterness to the whole dish). But the best option, in my opinion, is to use light unfiltered (live) beer. It will give the dish a pleasant bready aroma, and for sure will not taste bitter, unlike the dark one. There is absolutely no alcohol left in the finished dish - it all evaporates.

Advice 2. I had a fairly lean beef, so I added some diced and lightly fried bacon to the meat. Better to take the bacon whole bar rather than sliced. since it tastes better. And the chopped bacon is usually too salty - you must definitely taste the dish so as not to oversalt.

Advice 3. The meat can be stewed on the stove, over low heat, or in the oven at 180 ° C.

Defrost the mushrooms, rinse and discard in a colander to drain excess liquid.
Heat a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan (a little butter and vegetable).
Put the mushrooms, add a little salt and fry until the moisture evaporates, about 5 minutes.
Add mushrooms to the meat.

Wash carrots, peel, cut into strips, put in a saucepan and mix (I took baby carrots).

We suggest you prepare a tender beef stew with pumpkin and other vegetables. In the cooking process, we do not use vegetable oil, we omit the frying process, achieve a rich aroma and taste by stewing the dish for a long time. Do not forget, of course, the addition of various spices and spices that enrich the taste of the meat, barberry, thyme, dry paprika, garlic are perfect here. Since pumpkin and other vegetables are present in the finished dish, you can serve the dish yourself, you can add fresh vegetables and herbs, homemade lavash.

We will cook this dish on the stove in a saucepan, but you can also cook it very tasty in the oven. The pots will make delicious meat with tender pieces of pumpkin and other vegetables. Garlic and other spices will add piquancy to the dish.

Taste Info Second courses of meat

Ingredients

• 450-550 grams of beef;
• 300-350 grams of pumpkin;
• 2 onions;
• 2-3 carrots;
• bay leaf;
• barberry;
• granulated garlic;
• dry paprika;
• salt;
• pepper;
• thyme;
• peppercorns.

How to cook beef stew

The first step is to prepare vegetables, take the onion, peel it, cut it in half rings, the thickness should be medium. In the process of stewing for a long time, the onion will become soft and practically melt.

We clean the carrots, cut them into round plates.

Rinse a good piece of meat under running cool water, dry the meat with a kitchen towel, cut into medium pieces. It is important to remove all veins from the meat, it is better to use young beef, it is softer and cooks faster.

We take a saucepan of a suitable size, lay vegetables and meat.

We take the spices, adjust the amount to your taste, put all the spices into the pan.

Season everything with salt and pepper.

Pour in warm water, the water should slightly cover the meat with vegetables. We send the pan to the overhead fire, after boiling, we reduce the heat, the fire should be very minimal. At the very beginning, after boiling, we follow the pan and remove all the foam. Simmer meat with vegetables under the lid for two hours.

We take our pumpkin, peel it from the tough peel, cut it into large cubes. After two hours of stewing the meat, put the pumpkin into the pan, simmer for another 15 minutes. We taste a little gravy and meat, if necessary, add spices.

Serve beef stew with pumpkin to the table. The dish can be varied, when stewing, you can add tomato juice or tomato paste to the pan, you can put a tablespoon of sour cream.

We bring to your attention one of the recipes with pumpkin. In autumn, this berry is in abundance among gardeners. Yes, the fruit of a pumpkin, like a watermelon, is called a berry by botanists. And if the housewives do not have questions with zucchini and squash, then with pumpkin things are more complicated. It's all about the specific smell, you can't call it unpleasant, but it doesn't cause a wild appetite either. This dish is very easy to prepare and most often the hostess has all the ingredients.

Ingredients

Preparation

Take the pumpkin and cut it into convenient slices to peel and remove the seeds. Better to cut it into large pieces.
Salt, pepper and put in a saucepan. Set aside. Such a simple method will almost completely remove such a bright pumpkin flavor.

Peel and chop the onion and put it in a frying pan that was previously greased with oil. Salt a little and fry, stirring occasionally.
While the onion is fried, cut the meat into medium pieces.

And add to the fried onions.

We simmer all together for 20-30 minutes, depending on the quality of the meat. The meat should be almost done at the end of braising. You can add water or red wine. In the middle of stewing, add the tomato paste and rosemary.

Next, we take a baking dish and grease it a little with oil, you don't need to grease it - the meat usually turns out to be quite fatty. And we spread a layer of almost finished meat. Put the pumpkin on top. Please note that the pumpkin gave a lot of juice, which we do not need.

Lubricate the top with mayonnaise or yogurt, or you can not grease it - the pumpkin will not dry out, everything will be fine! And put in the oven for 40 minutes at 200 C.

Decorated with a sprig of parsley, you can serve the dish on the festive table right in the mold. Extraordinarily tender pumpkin slices without its characteristic smell and amazing meat will not leave guests indifferent!