Pumpkins are stored for a long time, so you may always end up with ideas of what delicious to make of them. Today's selection of recipes focuses on what can be made from pumpkin, except. All recipes are accompanied by photographs and detailed descriptions, so cooking will only be a joy.

These deliciously flavored slices can be used as a side dish with any meat. For 6 servings you need:

• 1 kg pumpkin, cut into long slices 2 cm thick;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 50 g of hard cheese (for example, Parmesan);
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• a sprig of fresh rosemary;
• salt, pepper to your taste.

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place the pumpkin slices on a baking sheet covered with parchment or foil, sprinkle them with olive oil.

2. In a bowl, combine grated cheese, lemon zest, crackers, rosemary leaves, salt and pepper. Sprinkle the slices with this cheese mixture and immediately put them in the oven to bake for 30-35 minutes until tender.

3. Pumpkin slices in the oven are ready

Pumpkin puree soup

If the question is what to cook from pumpkin, most often the idea of \u200b\u200ba puree soup comes up first. Fast and tasty is just about this soup.

Pumpkin and beetroot salad

For the salad you need:

• 500 g pumpkin;
• 100-150 g of spinach leaves or salad mix;
• 200-250 g feta cheese;
• a handful of nuts: walnuts, pine or sunflower seeds;
• a handful of pitted olives (optional);
• 4-6 small beets, boiled can be used;
• lemon juice, olive oil

Preparation:

1.Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Peel the pumpkin and cut into 3-4 cm cubes.Place on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, add spices. Bake for 20 minutes. After 10 minutes, as you put the baking sheet in the oven, turn the pieces over.

2. Cut the beets and cheese into cubes.

3. Put lettuce leaves in a bowl, add baked pumpkin, beets, olives and feta cheese. Mix gently, pour with olive oil and sprinkle with nuts or seeds.

Salad ready!

It is also delicious to add croutons or crackers to this salad.

The easiest way to cook vegetables is a stew, fast and tasty, and the soft consistency replaces both the soup and the side dish. To make the stew you will need:

• small pumpkin, about 1 kg;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 2 large tomatoes;
• 3-4 potatoes;
• 1 can of canned beans or chickpeas
• 1-1.5 cups vegetable broth or water
• salt, pepper and your favorite spices.

1. Heat a deep frying pan or saucepan over medium heat and fry the chopped onion in it until transparent.

2. All vegetables are cleaned and cut into cubes of the same size. Put in a frying pan with the onion, add water and simmer for 30-35 minutes. Then add canned beans, salt, pepper and simmer for about 15 minutes.

3. Vegetable stew with pumpkin is ready!

Pumpkin pancakes with apples

For 4 servings (10-12 pieces):

• 1 egg;
• 1 cup flour, can be whole grain;
• 1 glass of milk;
• 400 gr pumpkin;
• 1-2 tbsp Sahara;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of baking powder;
• 1 apple, peeled, peeled and cored;
• nutmeg and cinnamon of your choice.

Preparation:

1. First you need to make mashed potatoes, for this, peel the pumpkin, cut into cubes and boil until tender. Using a blender, beat in mashed potatoes and let cool.

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What are the most popular foods to combine in different pumpkin dishes?

Many foods go well with pumpkin. First of all, these are, of course, various vegetables and fruits, secondly - cereals, milk, ingredients for making dough, seafood.

In general, this is not only a very tasty and healthy product, but also very versatile. You can cook any food in almost any way.

I make baked goods from pumpkin, pancakes, soups, cereals, and add it to vegetable stew.

You will rarely meet a person who has not heard anything about tender and fragrant pumpkin pancakes... They can be easily prepared for dinner after work. It's elementary. The dough is made from grated pumpkin, milk, eggs, flour, salt to taste. All ingredients are mixed in a blender, and then the pancakes are baked in a pan as usual.

Recently, I cannot imagine life without pumpkin soup... My husband and child, who do not like soups very much, also eat it with pleasure. The most important thing is that you can cook the soup completely without meat. It will turn out to be light and rich in vitamins and fiber. There are several favorite recipes. For example, I like autumn soup made from pumpkin pulp, onions, milk, herbs, white bread croutons, spices, butter.

There is another great option soup for every day... It is made from pumpkin, potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, leeks, salt, pepper, spices, vegetable oil, fish broth.

For speed - I cook soup in a slow cooker. It turns out to be very light and dietary - ideal for those who monitor their weight and health.

My child never liked porridge until I dug up the pumpkin recipe. Everything is prepared simply: from pumpkin, milk, millet, sugar, raisins, water, butter. The porridge is tasty, sweet and nutritious - an exemplary children's dish.

You can cook quickly and tasty pumpkin dishes in the oven... And instead of sweets, my child and I love pumpkin dessert. It is healthy and sweet as well. Prepared with pumpkin, honey, dates, apples, raisins, walnuts, ghee.

You can make a wide variety of pies with pumpkin. The dough will consist of ordinary flour, eggs, sugar, sour cream, baking powder. Pumpkin pulp is rubbed or chopped in a blender.

Original pumpkin dishes - simple and tasty recipes with photos

Quite rarely, I cook exquisite french veloute soup... This recipe is not for every day, but rather for a romantic dinner as it is complicated. The soup itself is made from pumpkin, zucchini, onions, garlic, dried apricots, green peas, cream, water, flour, butter and olive oil, salt.

The highlight of the dish is orange oil. It gives the soup a rich color and unexpected flavor overtones. The oil is made from orange peel, which, together with olive oil, is heated in a refractory oven in an oven. The butter is prepared for 2 hours at a temperature of 30 degrees. When it is ready, strain it. The oil can be kept in the refrigerator for a whole month.

Pumpkin is an absolutely universal product. It is extremely healthy and tasty at the same time. Pumpkin-based dishes can be used to prepare a wide variety of dishes from soup and vegetable stew to desserts.

The pumpkin vegetable, surprising in its composition, color and exquisite taste, is not always and not to everyone's liking: perhaps it is just a matter of improper preparation. It is pumpkin that is recommended (and no coincidence!) As one of the first vegetable lures for babies from 6 months. Pumpkin porridge is considered a traditional dish of Russian national cuisine, and its recipes are passed down from generation to generation. How to cook pumpkin deliciouslyso that its unique taste and useful properties are preserved?

Cook pumpkin correctly

When cooking this vegetable and dishes from it it is recommended to observe the following rules:

1. The pumpkin should be peeled, cut in two and the seeds removed.
2. The vegetable is cut into pieces, usually 2x2 cm cubes.
3. Boil pumpkin in salted water.
4. The cooking time is 20-40 minutes, depending on the cooking method: the vegetable is cooked in a double boiler for 20 minutes, in the "Stew" microwave mode it is cooked longer - 40 minutes. You can also boil the pumpkin in a small saucepan with a closed lid over low heat: the degree of readiness is determined with a fork - the pumpkin should be soft.

For pumpkin porridge, coarsely grated pumpkin is boiled in milk with butter

It should be noted that pumpkins of different varieties and different degrees of maturity cook in different ways: sometimes 5-7 minutes is enough for the cubes to become soft, and the kitchen is filled with an incredible aroma. Of course, grated pumpkin cooks even faster.

What can be cooked from pumpkin

Boiled pumpkin used as an ingredient in many dishes:

• pumpkin puree - these are boiled pumpkin pieces, rubbed through a sieve (for very small crumbs, accustomed to liquid food) or chopped on a blender. You can add a pear or an apple to the pumpkin puree, this will only make the taste of the dish richer and more pleasant;
• cream soup with the addition of, in addition to pumpkin, various vegetables - potatoes, carrots, broccoli, zucchini, etc., crackers and fresh herbs;

Pumpkin puree soup

• boiled pumpkin can be prepared tasty and healthy salads: for example, with brine cheese (feta cheese, suluguni, Adyghe, chechil, feta), olives and green lettuce or salad with pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, seasoned with lemon juice and vegetable oil;
• useful for children and adults menu pumpkin (pumpkin porridge):

How to cook a garmon

Sometimes the exotic name "garmelon" is associated with watermelon. In fact, the garmon is ukrainian (historically in Little Russia) the name of the pumpkin. Despite the fact that they began to grow it 3-4 thousand years ago on the continent that later became America, the Slavs got acquainted with the pumpkin (garbuz, tavern) relatively recently - just some 400 years ago thanks to the Persian merchants.

Garbuz, tavern - all these are national and folk names for pumpkin

Garbuz, aka pumpkin, used in the preparation of a variety of dishes:

• pumpkin (garbuz) porridge or cereals with the addition of pumpkin (for example, millet porridge with pumpkin);
• soups and additives to soups, pickled pumpkin;
• salads from fresh, boiled, pickled vegetables;
• pumpkin bread and pies;
• desserts: cakes, marmalade, etc .;
• the drinks: juices and jelly.

Besides boiling, sweet and tasty garmelon fried, stewed, baked and of course, eaten fresh... When cooked properly, even heat treatment does not deprive pumpkin of its beneficial and nutritious qualities. Useful and pumpkin seedscontaining antihistamines and are raw materials for the production of expensive oils.

Delicious and healthy pumpkin can be used for preparing both the simplest dishes and serious culinary delights. Culinary experts love and appreciate it for its unique flavor and versatility. You can use it for preservation for the winter, desserts, salads, main courses, soups and more.

Preservation for the winter

In winter, this product will help saturate the body with useful elements and vitamins.

Pumpkin and vegetable caviar

Ingredients:

• A kilogram of pumpkin, tomatoes, apples, asparagus beans and bell peppers;
• A pound of onions;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• 50 grams of salt;
• 50 grams of vinegar.

Peel all vegetables, pass them one by one through a meat grinder, chop the onion. Take a basin, pour oil into it. The onions must be sautéed for ten minutes. Add tomatoes, pumpkin, sugar and salt and bring to a boil. After that, the rest of the vegetables are added. You need to cook all this for an hour over medium heat. Add spices to taste, cook for another ten minutes. Then place in jars and roll up.

Pumpkin salad

Ingredients:

• One medium pumpkin;
• 2 onions;
• 600 grams of vinegar;
• 300 grams of water;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 30 grams of salt;
• 5 black peas and 3 allspice peas;
• A teaspoon of mustard seeds;
• 200 grams of canned pineapple slices;
• Two bay leaves;
• Two pieces of carnations.

Peel and cut the pumpkin, sprinkle it with salt and let it sit overnight. To prepare the marinade, stir the rest of the ingredients except the pineapple and heat to dissolve the sugar and salt, at the end add the pineapple and heat for another 5 minutes, let cool. In the afternoon, the pumpkin should be put in jars and covered with cold marinade. Sterilize jars for an hour in boiling water, then you can roll up.

Pumpkin in apple juice

Ingredients:

• One medium pumpkin;
• A liter of apple juice;
• 200 grams of sugar.

Peel the pumpkin and cut it into cubes. Bring the juice to a boil, add pumpkin, sugar. You can add cardamom and ginger to taste. Then put everything on fire and cook for 20 minutes. Then arrange in sterilized jars and roll up. You can take other juice, but it should not be too sour.

Pumpkin puree

You can make delicious puree with apples or plums. In the first case, the sequence is as follows:

• Peel apples and pumpkin from seeds and skin;
• Grind with a meat grinder;
• Add sugar at the rate of four tablespoons per kilogram of pumpkin and a pound of apples;
• Simmer for two hours;
• At the end of cooking, add a teaspoon of citric acid;
• Place hot mashed potatoes in jars and roll up.

The plum recipe may vary slightly. Pumpkin and plum are taken in identical proportions, peeled, cut and boiled in a small amount of water until soft. Then they are ground with a sieve or crushed with a blender. Bring the puree to a boil and pour into jars.

Pumpkin jam

Ingredients:

• A kilogram of pumpkin;
• A kilogram of sugar;
• 500 grams of orange;
• 400 milliliters of water;
• Vanillin at will and to taste.

Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes, blanch it for five minutes. Cubes should be no more than a centimeter in size. Pour boiling sugar syrup over them and leave overnight. Mince the oranges and add to the pumpkin. In the morning, cook for 20-30 minutes, remove from heat for two hours. After that, cook until cooked. The jam is ready when the pumpkin pieces are transparent. Finish with vanillin and arrange everything in jars.

Oven dishes

Using the oven is one of the most delicious ways to cook pumpkin.

Rustic pumpkin in the oven

Ingredients:

• One and a half kilograms of beef tenderloin;
• Two onions;
• A bunch of greenery;
• Two tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste.

Wash the pumpkin, cut off the top, remove the seeds along with a small amount of pulp. Fry the beef, cut into small pieces, and the onion, cut into half rings, in oil until golden brown. Season all this with a little pepper and salt, add chopped greens. Place the ingredients in the pumpkin, close the lid. Add potatoes if desired. Bake in the oven for an hour at 180-200 degrees.

Pumpkin with bacon and mushrooms

Ingredients:

• Four small pumpkins;
• 400 grams of oyster mushrooms or champignons;
• 250 grams of lard;
• Bulb;
• A bunch of greens mixture;
• 125 grams of butter;
• A tablespoon of the syrup you like
• 50 grams of sugar;
• Salt, cloves, cinnamon to taste.

Cut the caps off the pumpkins and remove the seeds. Chop the mushrooms and fry them using half of the available butter. Melt the other half, add nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, salt and sugar, cool. Mix the resulting mass with syrup and coat the inner walls of the pumpkins with it. Put mushrooms and pieces of bacon in them on top of them. Put the pumpkins on a baking sheet, place quarters of onions with herbs around them, pour three centimeters of water into the baking sheet. Bake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.

Baked pumpkin with tomatoes and feta cheese

Ingredients:

• One small pumpkin;
• 100 grams of feta cheese;
• Three tomatoes;
• Potatoes (5-6 large tubers);
• Sunflower oil;
• Pork fat;
• Salt.

Cut the pumpkin into four parts, remove the seeds from it and boil a little in soda and salt. Peel and cut into slices. Put these slices and potato slices on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, sprinkle with grated feta cheese, put tomato slices on top. Pour all over with fat and bake until cooked at 180 degrees.

Sliced \u200b\u200bpumpkin with creamy sauce

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin pulp in the amount of 800 grams;
• 200 grams of ham;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• 400 milliliters of milk;
• 100 grams of whipped cream;
• A bunch of green onions;
• Two tablespoons of butter and flour;
• Ground nutmeg, pepper and salt to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into slices, remove the seeds. Chop green onions. It is easy to fry the flour in oil, add milk and cream and let it boil. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, add green onions. Wrap the pumpkin slices in bacon and place them on a baking dish, which must first be greased with butter. Pour the slices into the creamy sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for 40 minutes.

Pumpkin baked chicken

Ingredients:

• One medium pumpkin;
• Chick;
• Half a glass of rice;
• Leek;
• 100 grams of butter;
• 200 grams of dried apricots and raisins;
• Vegetable oil and salt.

Cut off the top of the pumpkin, remove the seeds and pulp, so that a layer of no more than one and a half centimeters remains on the sides. Rinse the rice and cook in salted water for five minutes, then drain the water and rinse the rice again. Cut the white leek into rings and fry in sunflower oil. Cut dried apricots into thin strips. Add onions, raisins and dried apricots to the rice and mix well. Wash the chicken, dry it with paper towels, divide it into portions. Then in a frying pan you need to melt half of the butter and fry the bird so that a golden crust appears. Put the chicken, a mixture of rice, onions, raisins and dried apricots in the pumpkin, cover everything with the oil that remains after frying. Cover the pumpkin with the cut lid, secure with toothpicks. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, melt the remaining oil, anoint the pumpkin from the outside with it and bake for 1.5-2 hours until tender.

Soups

Pumpkin soups are delicious and easy to make. The following recipes are noteworthy:

Simple pumpkin soup recipe

Ingredients:

• 800 grams of pumpkin pulp;
• Two carrots;
• Two potatoes;
• Bulb;
• Two and a half tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• A couple of cubes of chicken broth;
• Litere of water;
• A glass of cream;
• A quarter tablespoon of ground nutmeg;
• A pinch of ground black pepper;
• Salt.

Heat the oven to 220 degrees. Peel and seed the pumpkin and cut it into cubes. Coarsely chop the carrots, potatoes and onions. Put pumpkins, onions, carrots in a baking sheet or baking dish. Pour all this with vegetable oil and stir. Bake in the preheated oven for forty minutes to soften the vegetables. In a deep saucepan, simmer the water over medium heat, place the cubes. Cook the potatoes in boiling water for twenty minutes. Chop the vegetables after baking, add them to the soup. Simmer, add spices and cream. Heat, but do not boil.

Milk pumpkin soup

Ingredients:

• A kilogram of pumpkin;
• 100 grams of butter;
• One large onion;
• Liter of milk;
• 150 milliliters of cream;
• Salt, paprika, black pepper, sugar to taste;
• Dill.

Peel the pumpkin, cut into small pieces. Remove the peel from them, remove fibers and seeds. Place in a saucepan, cover with water, salt and cook for 15-20 minutes. Drain the water, chop the pumpkin in a blender or grind through a large sieve. Melt the butter in a saucepan, sauté the chopped onions for five minutes until they become soft and transparent. Add pumpkin puree, heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add hot milk and spices gradually. Heat the soup, add more seasonings and cream. When the soup is in the bowls, you can garnish it with dill.

Mushroom soup with pumpkin

Ingredients:

• 700 grams of pumpkin;
• 250 grams of chanterelles or other mushrooms;
• 1-2 potatoes;
• A tablespoon of butter;
• Two cloves of garlic;
• 100 milliliters of cream;
• Greens for decoration;
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Melt the butter in a skillet, fry the chopped garlic. Add mushrooms, previously peeled and chopped, and grill them for about fifteen minutes without a lid. Add the sautéed mushrooms, peeled and diced pumpkin pulp and potatoes to the pot. Add 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. Add pepper and salt, cook for half an hour, until vegetables are cooked. After the finished soup, pass through a blender so that it gets a puree consistency. Return the soup to the saucepan, add the cream and heat it for a couple of minutes.

Vegetable puree soup

Ingredients:

• 1.2 kilograms of pumpkin pulp;
• Bulb;
• Four potatoes;
• Two carrots;
• A piece of butter;
• Two bouillon cubes;
• 150 milliliters of sour cream;
• Three glasses of water;
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Cut the pumpkin, carrots and potatoes into large cubes. Fry the onion with butter until soft. Add vegetables, stew everything for five minutes, cover with water, add cubes, cook for forty minutes on low heat, covering with a lid. Puree with a hand blender and add salt and pepper. Remove from heat and add sour cream. Then heat the soup a little, but do not bring to a boil so that the sour cream does not curl.

Pumpkin soup with apple and chili

Ingredients:

• Large onion;
• Small gourd pumpkin;
• Sweet and sour apple;
• 600 milliliters of chicken broth;
• 85 grams of pepperoni sausage;
• Half a teaspoon of dry chili;
• A clove of garlic;
• 1/2 teaspoon dry thyme or a sprig fresh.

Remove the seeds from the pumpkin and chop it, chop onion, apple, chili, sausage and garlic. Place the sausage in a large skillet and fry for 3-4 minutes to drain the fat and brown the pieces. Then take it out and pat dry on a paper towel. Save the sausage to garnish. Put the onion in a frying pan, fry a little in fat for five minutes, stirring. Mix pumpkin, garlic, apples, chili and thyme, cover, cook for 45 minutes on the lowest heat until the pumpkin becomes soft. Remove the thyme branch and place the contents of the pan into a food processor or blender. Add about half of the broth, chop the vegetables in mashed potatoes. Add everything to a saucepan, pour the rest of the broth there. Heat a little, add salt. Serve the soup hot with croutons and pepperoni.

Second courses

Pumpkin adds spice to the second course. As a result, they turn out to be satisfying, but not heavy.

Goulash with turkey and pumpkin

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of pumpkin pulp;
• Two turkey thighs;
• Two large onions and two potatoes;
• Four cloves of garlic;
• Two glasses of chicken broth;
• One bay leaf;
• Branch of fresh thyme;
• A tablespoon of ground spicy and sweet paprika;
• Three tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• Salt to taste.

Wash the turkey, cut the meat off the bone and chop it into small pieces. Peel onions, garlic, potatoes and pumpkin. Cut the pumpkin with potatoes into 3 cm cubes, chop the onion and garlic. Wash and dry the thyme, remove the leaves from it. Put the turkey in a plastic bag, add two teaspoons of salt and paprika, tie the bag and shake thoroughly. Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the spiced turkey and cook for five minutes. Put pieces of potatoes and pumpkin, as well as onions in the bag containing the spices. Shake the bag, then add its contents to the turkey in a saucepan. Cook for five minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour in broth, add garlic, thyme and bay leaf, bring everything to a boil, reduce heat and cook, covered for an hour.

Manty with pumpkin and lamb

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of lamb meat;
• 250 grams of pumpkin;
• 150 grams of fat tail fat;
• Two large white onions;
• Butter;
• Salt, ground black pepper;
• Sour cream, herbs and butter for serving.

For the dough, you need salt, 200 grams of bottled water and a pound of flour.

Knead the dough out of warm water, sifted flour and salt, wrap it in plastic wrap and leave warm for 20 minutes. Chop the pumpkin, fat, meat and onion, add salt and pepper to taste, add two tablespoons of cold water and mix thoroughly. Roll out the dough into a layer on the surface where flour is sprinkled, cut out circles with a diameter of 8-9 cm from it. Put the filling into circles. Connect the edges of the dough over the minced meat, pinch to mold the shape. Immediately cover the finished manti with a slightly damp towel. Oil the steamer grate, put the manti. Steam at a high boil for 40-45 minutes.

Casserole with pumpkin, apples and sausages

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of pumpkin;
• Two eggs;
• 50 grams of smoked bacon and Russian cheese;
• 8 sausages that can be smoked a little;
• Two apples;
• A tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds, wash the pulp, cut it into large cubes, place in salted boiling water, cook until tender for seven minutes. Place in a colander and let cool, chop in a puree. Grate the cheese. Add cheese and eggs to pumpkin puree, beat until smooth. Place in bowls. Add salt and pepper if needed. Cut the protein into small pieces, cut the sausages in half. Wash apples, cut into quarters and core. Cut the quarters in half.

Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry the bacon for three minutes. Add the sausages and cook until crusty, about five minutes. Place the bacon and sausages in a baking dish, add the apple and stir. Pour in the pumpkin puree and bake for 20 minutes in the oven, heat to 200 degrees.

Pumpkin steaks

Ingredients:

• 6 pieces of pumpkin, 1.5 centimeters thick;
• 100 grams of flour;
• Three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• A tablespoon of ground paprika;
• Half a teaspoon of ground black pepper and chili;
• A pinch of ground coriander and white pepper;
• Salt to taste;
• 200 grams of processed cheese;
• 100 milliliters of cream;
• A bunch of green onions;
• A clove of garlic;
• Salt to taste.

In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt and all the spices. Add pumpkin there and mix well again, leave for 10 minutes. Make the sauce. To do this, melt the cheese, pour in the cream, stir and cook for five minutes. Add chopped onion and garlic and season with salt. Remove from heat, keep warm. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet. Fry the pumpkin steaks for two minutes on all sides. Serve with the sauce.

Pilaf with pumpkin and apple

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of pumpkin;
• Three apples;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• 100 grams of melted butter;
• 300 grams of rice;
• Salt.

Wash and dry the raisins, remove the core from the apples, remove the peel from the pumpkin. Cut the pumpkin and apple into cubes. Mix apples and raisins, rinse the rice in several waters. Heat half of the oil in a saucepan. Place the pumpkin and half of the rice on the bottom. Then there is a layer of raisins and an apple, place the remaining rice on top, pour in the other half of the oil. Add 600 ml of salted hot water. Close the pan tightly with a lid, put it in a preheated oven for 50 minutes. Instead of an apple, you can take quince.

Sweet dishes

Pumpkin can be a staple of diet sweet foods.

Cottage cheese and pumpkin casserole

Ingredients:

• A pound of pumpkin;
• 250 grams of cottage cheese;
• A glass of milk;
• Four eggs;
• Four tablespoons of semolina;
• 80 grams of butter;
• About 100 grams of sugar;
• A pinch of salt;
• Half a glass of sour cream;
• 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Peel the pumpkin, cut into small pieces. Preheat a frying pan, pour 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, put the pumpkin there, fry over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring. Bring the milk to a boil, salt and add sugar, gradually, stirring, add semolina. Boil the semolina to make a thick mass. Beat eggs in a bowl. Add a couple tablespoons of sugar to them and beat again. Add the curd and whisk everything with it. Add semolina and mix. Add the grilled pumpkin and stir well again.

Turn on the oven. Lubricate the form with a spoonful of vegetable oil, put the prepared mass there and spread a piece of butter on top. Place the form in a preheated oven, bake until tender for 20 minutes. The permissible temperature is 180-190 degrees. Eating casseroles tastes better than hot. Can be served with jam or sour cream.

Pumpkin pancakes

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour;
• A teaspoon of salt;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• Two glasses of pumpkin puree;
• Two eggs;
• Half a glass of nuts;
• Three tablespoons of maple syrup or honey
• Two teaspoons of vanilla;
• 2.5 glasses of milk, half a glass of cream;
• A tablespoon of spice mix: cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and ground ginger.

In one of the containers, combine flour, salt, sugar and baking powder. Mix everything and leave for now. Heat the pumpkin in the microwave until it becomes soft. Remove the skin, cut into pieces, place in a bowl and mash. Add vanillin and eggs to it. Mix everything well. Add milk and spices, mix. Add pumpkin puree to the dry mixture, mix everything with a spoon. Top up with milk if necessary. Heat the frying pan and grease with oil, pour the dough onto it with a spoon. Fry several pancakes at the same time until golden brown. Pour cream into a bowl, add honey or syrup. Beat everything with a mixer or blender to get a creamy mask. Chop the nuts. Place the pancakes on a plate, add butter cream on top, pour over with honey, sprinkle with nuts and serve.

Pumpkin cheesecake

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of pumpkin puree;
• 120 grams of shortbread cookies;
• 350 grams of cottage cheese;
• Two eggs;
• A quarter teaspoon of dry ginger;
• Two tablespoons of starch;
• 120 grams of sugar;
• A glass of nuts;
• A teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
• 10 grams of vanilla sugar.

Combine cookies, nuts, and soft butter in a food processor. Grind to small crumbs. Transfer the mass to a baking dish so that it is completely filled. Leave in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Now grind the pumpkin puree, cottage cheese, eggs and sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Add vanilla sugar, ginger, cinnamon and starch and mix everything together. Place the filling directly on top of the cookies in a mold. Bake for 50 minutes at 190 degrees. Leave to set, carefully remove the baked goods from the mold.

Pumpkin cake

Ingredients:

• A cup of pumpkin puree;
• Four eggs;
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 250 grams of cream cheese;
• 400 grams of flour;
• A teaspoon of salt;
• Half a teaspoon of sugar;
• Half a teaspoon of vanillin and the same amount of powdered sugar;
• Four tablespoons of 10% cream.

Brush the cake pan with margarine or butter. Whisk the maple syrup, pumpkin puree, and eggs in a mixer. Stir in salt, flour and baking powder in small portions. Pour half the dough into the mold. Whisk cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in a mixer. Spread this mixture evenly on top of the first layer of dough. Smooth with a teaspoon. Pour the second part of the pumpkin dough, flatten too. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake for about 40-50 minutes. Judge the finished cake, make the icing, whipping cream with powdered sugar. Pour the icing over the cake. Let it stand for 20-30 minutes before use.

Steamed honey pumpkin

Ingredients:

• One medium pumpkin
• A tablespoon of fresh ginger;
• A tablespoon of olive oil;
• A quarter glass of honey;
• Half a teaspoon of salt.

Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan. Put the pumpkin in a saucepan, cook it without a lid for 2.5 minutes. Turn the pumpkin over and cook the same amount. Drain the water, let the pumpkin cool. Peel it, remove the seeds, cut into cubes. In a bowl, combine pumpkin, chopped ginger, butter, salt and honey. Cook in a double boiler for 15 minutes. Place the pumpkin on a large dish and serve immediately.

Unripe Pumpkin Recipes

Green pumpkin is also often used in cooking. It can successfully complement numerous salads and many other dishes.

Pumpkin, orange and cinnamon jam

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of unripe pumpkin;
• One orange;
• 250 grams of sugar;
• Half a cinnamon stick.

Peel the pumpkin from skin and seeds, cut into small cubes. Put the pieces in a saucepan, cover with sugar, leave for two hours. Chop the orange with zest very finely, add it to the pumpkin along with a cinnamon stick. Put the saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil, stir constantly, until a large amount of liquid evaporates and the pumpkin pieces are boiled. You can pour the jam into jars or use it right away.

Pumpkin pancakes

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of peeled pumpkin pulp;
• 150 grams of flour;
• Egg;
• 50 milliliters of sunflower oil;
• Two tablespoons of sugar;
• One and a half teaspoons of baking powder;
• A pinch of salt.

Cut the pulp into pieces of 2-3 cm in size, place in a saucepan, pour boiling water so that the vegetable is almost completely covered, cook for 15-20 minutes until soft, place in a colander. Put the cooled pieces in a blender or mash with a crush to make a puree. Add flour and baking powder, beaten egg, sugar and salt to the puree, knead the dough until it is smooth, like thick sour cream. Heat oil in a frying pan, spoon out the dough, forming pancakes. Fry them over medium heat so that they are golden brown on both sides.

Pumpkin and banana salad

For him you will need:

• 250 grams of pumpkin;
• Big apple;
• Banana;
• Red onions;
• 3 tablespoons of unsweetened and low-fat yogurt
• 2 tablespoons of ground almonds
• 2 tablespoons of lemon and orange juice;
• A tablespoon of 9% vinegar;
• Fresh parsley;
• A tablespoon of vegetable oil.

Grate the pumpkin, apple and banana and cut them into thin slices, chop the onion and chop the herbs. Stir everything and season with a sauce that will include yogurt, almonds, citrus juice and vegetable oil.

Salad with honey, apples, pumpkin and nuts

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of pumpkin;
• One medium apple;
• 30 grams of peeled and chopped walnuts;
• A tablespoon of lemon juice.

Cut the pumpkin into one centimeter cubes, mix with honey, leave for half an hour. Add apples, also diced, season with ground nuts and lemon juice.

Pumpkin and celery salad

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of pumpkin;
• 100 grams of celery;
• 50 grams of tomato paste or puree;
• 200 grams of mayonnaise;
• Sugar, salt, lemon juice.

Boil the pumpkin so that it becomes soft in water, to which you need to add sugar and lemon juice. Place the pumpkin on a sieve, let cool and mash. Cut the celery into chunks. Season with salt and season with mayonnaise and tomato paste. The latter can be replaced with ketchup.

This bright, juicy "sunny" vegetable combines many advantages. It is surprisingly tasty, healthy and cheap fruit. Therefore, you should definitely include it in your menu. Next, 20 recipes for the best pumpkin dishes are published at once.

Many delicious pumpkin dishes are cooked in the oven. To do this, you just need to choose a suitable convenient form.

Pumpkin casserole

Ingredients: 2 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar, the same amount of semolina, 230 g of cottage cheese and pumpkin each, an average egg, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of low-fat sour cream, a large pinch of baking powder.

1. The egg is beaten with sand and combined with semolina.
2. Grated vegetable and mashed cottage cheese are added to the mass.
3. Baking powder and sour cream are sent next.
4. The well-mixed ingredients are laid out in a greased dish.

The dish is prepared in the oven for 15-17 minutes.

Pumpkin pie

Ingredients: 620 g pumpkin, sweet and sour apple, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, a pinch of cinnamon, 320 g of granulated sugar, 560 g of wheat flour, a pack of fatty butter, 6 chicken eggs.

1. The butter is ground with sand and raw eggs.
2. The vegetable and fruit are grated on a medium grater, added to the mixture from the first step.
3. Other components declared in the recipe are added to the dough one by one. Flour with baking powder is pre-sieved.
4. The mass is poured into a mold covered with parchment.

It is baked for 60-70 minutes in the oven.

Oat and pumpkin cookies

Ingredients: 70 g of oatmeal flakes, 220 g of fresh pumpkin pulp, 80 g of white sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 190 g of fine flour, 135 ml of any vegetable oil, a pinch of salt.

1. Pieces of pumpkin are boiled until soft and then mashed.
2. Oatmeal is fried in a dry pan for 8-9 minutes.
3. The components from the first two steps are mixed. The rest of the ingredients from the recipe are added to them.
4. The flour sifted with baking powder is poured at the end.
5. Cookies are formed in any convenient way. The easiest way is to place it on a baking sheet covered with parchment from a pastry bag.

The delicacy is baked for 15-17 minutes at 180 degrees.

Sweet baked pumpkin

Ingredients: a pound of a very ripe sweet vegetable, a whole lemon, 30-40 g of brown sugar, 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon.

1. The pumpkin pulp is cut into cubes (thickness - about 0.7 cm).
2. Pieces are poured with lemon juice, sprinkled with a mixture of dry ingredients from the recipe.

At 180-190 degrees, the food is baked for a little less than half an hour.

Pumpkin Pancakes

Ingredients: 230 g vegetable pulp, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of granulated sugar, a glass of fatty kefir, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. high-grade flour, a pinch of salt, ½ teaspoon of baking soda, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.

1. The pumpkin pulp is cooked until soft and pureed.
2. Warm kefir and eggs are added to the vegetable.
3. After mixing the ingredients, all other products from the recipe are added to them.
4. Oil is poured into the dough last.

Pancakes are baked in an oiled skillet like regular pancakes.

Homemade candied pumpkin

Ingredients: a kilo of pumpkin pulp, whole lemon, 240-270 g of granulated sugar, powdered sugar to taste.

1. The pumpkin is cut into cubes, the lemon is cut into thin slices.
2. Prepared food is laid out in layers in a large saucepan and sprinkled with sand.
3. First, the vegetable is left for a couple of hours to let the juice out.
4. Further, the mass is sent to the fire. After boiling, it is cooked for 7-8 minutes.
5. The syrup is drained, and the pumpkin pieces are dried in the oven at 80 degrees for 4-5 hours.

Ready candied fruits are sprinkled with powder.

Pumpkin recipes for every day

Delicious pumpkin dishes can become everyday guests of the table.

From this vegetable, you will be able to cook a hearty soup or prepare an original salad for an appetizer.

Soup-puree

Ingredients: a pound of vegetable pulp without seeds, half a liter of chicken stock, a pinch of curry powder, table salt, a piece of quality butter, onion.

1. Onion cubes are fried in butter until golden brown.
2. Next, small pieces of pumpkin and curry are sent to them. The mass is fried for a couple of minutes and transferred to a saucepan.
3. Broth is poured into the container and salt is poured. You can add a little more water to taste.
4. The soup is brewed for 17-20 minutes.

The finished dish is pureed with a blender.

Pumpkin stewed with vegetables

Ingredients: a pound of pumpkin pulp, onion, bell peppers, carrots, 2 tomatoes, a small zucchini, table salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice, garlic to taste, a pinch of sugar, any seasonings.

1. First, chopped onions and carrots are fried in a skillet. Vegetables are immediately salted and sweetened.
2. After 6-7 minutes, cubes of pumpkin and zucchini are sent to the pan.
3. Next, pepper cubes and tomato slices are added to the container.
4. Together, the vegetables are stewed under the lid until the liquid evaporates and all components are softened.

Lemon juice, chopped garlic and seasonings are added to the ready-made dish.

Pumpkin muffins

Ingredients: 370 g fresh pumpkin, 230 g fine flour, chicken egg, 80 ml refined butter, a full glass of granulated sugar, a pinch of ground cinnamon and salt, 6 g baking powder, 60 ml full milk.

1. Pieces of pumpkin are boiled until soft and mashed. To the resulting mass, butter, milk, and an egg are added. Together, the components are processed again by the blender.
2. It remains to pour all dry components into the mixture.
3. After mixing, the dough is poured into molds.

Cupcakes are baked for 17-20 minutes at a very high temperature in the oven.

Warm pumpkin salad with bacon and arugula

Ingredients: a kilo of pumpkin pulp, 5 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce and the same amount of vegetable oil, a bunch of arugula, a handful of pitted olives, 2 tbsp. spoons of liquid honey and 4 tbsp. tablespoons of white wine vinegar, 3 red onions, 130 g of bacon.

1. The pumpkin is cut into cubes and marinated with chopped onion (1 pc.), Soy sauce, honey and half of the oil. In this form, the components are baked for half an hour in a very hot oven.
2. The bacon strips are fried until crispy.
3. The remaining onion is cut into thin half rings. Arugula is torn by hand.
4. All prepared ingredients are laid out in a salad bowl. Halves of olives are also sent there.

The appetizer is dressed with a sauce made from the remaining oil, vinegar and salt.

Pumpkin dishes in a slow cooker

Even in the "smart pot" you can make amazing treats from the vegetable in question. The best recipes for pumpkin dishes in a slow cooker are presented below.

Stewed pumpkin with dried fruits

Ingredients: a pound of pumpkin pulp, 60 g of butter, honey to taste, a mixture of raisins, dried apricots and prunes.

1. First of all, dried fruits are well washed with water and poured with boiling water for 6-7 minutes.
2. Pieces of peeled pumpkin are placed in the bowl of the "smart pot" (greased with melted butter).
3. Prepared dried fruits are also sent there. Ingredients are poured with honey to taste. Sugar can be used instead of beekeeping product.

A healthy treat is being prepared for 50-60 minutes in the stewing program.

Barley porridge with pumpkin in a slow cooker

Ingredients: 160 g of pearl barley, 420 g of vegetable pulp, 380 ml of filtered water, rock salt to taste.

1. The washed cereal is left in cold water overnight.
2. In the morning, the pearl barley is transferred to the bowl of the "smart pan". Pumpkin cubes are also sent there.
3. The products are salted to taste and filled with water.

Porridge is prepared in a suitable program for 35-45 minutes.

Stewed prawns in pumpkin

Ingredients: a pound of pumpkin, 320 g of small shrimp, chili pepper, onion, 1 cm of ginger root, garlic to taste, 1.5 multi-cooker glasses of filtered water, table salt, a pinch of cumin and turmeric, a little vegetable oil.

1. First, chopped garlic, grated ginger and seasonings are fried in oil in a suitable mode. After a couple of minutes, pumpkin cubes, peeled shrimps and small pieces of pepper are laid out in the fragrant mass.
2. Products are filled with water, salted.

In the baking mode, the dish is cooked for 40-45 minutes.

Amazing Pumpkin Cupcake

Ingredients: 2 full tbsp. grated vegetable, 1.5 tbsp. high-grade flour, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar, 3 chicken eggs, 2 tbsp. spoons of quality cocoa, 7 tbsp. tablespoons of refined oil, 11 g of baking powder, a pinch of vanillin and table salt.

1. Beat eggs with sand with a mixer until fluffy.
2. The remaining dry components are mixed separately.
3. The butter is poured into the whipped mixture and the ingredients from the second step are added.
4. Grated pumpkin is added to the base for the dough. All components mix well.
5. The mass is poured into the bowl of the device.

The cake is prepared for about an hour in the "Baking" mode.

Cooking for children

A lot of pumpkin dishes are prepared for children. Toddlers love this juicy, sweet vegetable. In addition, pumpkin saturates the child's body with vitamins.

Pumpkin soup in pots

Ingredients: a pound of vegetable pulp, 2 liters of filtered water, a pound of chicken, onion, carrot, salt, 3 potatoes.

1. Broth is cooked from chicken.
2. The potatoes are cut into cubes and laid out in pots.
3. Cubes of pumpkin, slices of carrots and onions are also sent there.
4. Pieces of meat already cooked and removed from the bones are laid out on top.

It remains to pour over the thick with broth, salt and send to the oven until all vegetables are soft.

Stewed pumpkin with apple and banana

Ingredients: a pound of vegetable pulp, a ripe banana, 2 sweet apples, granulated sugar to taste, a pinch of vanilla sugar, half a glass of purified water.

1. In a deep metal saucepan with a thick bottom and walls, all the prepared ingredients are alternately added.
2. First, pumpkin cubes without peel and seeds are sent to the container, then apple pieces and banana circles.
3. Both types of sugar are added last. You can completely abandon the use of sand, since all the ingredients are already sweet.
1. The vegetable is thoroughly washed, peeled and peeled.
2. The pumpkin is cut into large cubes and placed on the steamer rack.
3. The vegetable is cooked for 17-20 minutes until softened.

It remains to kill the pumpkin with a blender, and also dilute it with a small amount of water / milk / mixture.

Pumpkin diet dishes

Today, a huge number of delicious dietary pumpkin dishes are known. They will help you lose weight without suffering from hunger and lack of variety in the diet.

Slimming pumpkin juice

To prepare such a juice, it will be enough to take a fresh juicy and sweet vegetable and process it with a juicer. The resulting drink is taken 1 glass per day for 3 weeks. To taste, it can be diluted with filtered boiled water.



1. The pumpkin is chopped using the finest grater. You need to do the same with peeled apples.
2. The ingredients are poured into a glass of water and stewed in saucepans for 12-15 minutes until soft. Sugar can be added to the mixture to taste at this stage.
3. It remains to pour flour into the dough and use the remaining products.