Since the pumpkin is very well stored, it is possible to cook delicious and quick dishes from it almost all winter. The most common dish on our tables is porridge, but pumpkin is good in salads, and casseroles, and in pies, and in soups. We have selected the most delicious and healthy recipes for you - cook for health.

  How to make pumpkin - pumpkin and apple salad

• Take in equal amounts the pulp of pumpkin and apples (100 g each).
• Peel them and grate them on a special grater for Korean salads.
• Stir apples and pumpkin.
• Pour salad dressing (1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of liquid honey, ground cinnamon on the tip of a knife).
• Sprinkle the salad with any nuts.
• A great addition to the dish will be a handful of pitted raisins.

You can cook this salad in 10 minutes.

  How to cook pumpkin - baked pumpkin

Baked pumpkin can be served with both sweet and spicy sauces.

• For the dish, take a round pumpkin and cut it into large slices. Remember to remove the seeds.
• Put the slices on a baking sheet and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Cook the pumpkin until it is crusted on top and soft inside.

Baked pumpkin is suitable as a side dish for grilled meat - then, when cooking, add a little salt to the vegetable and sprinkle it with dry herbs.

As a dessert, serve pumpkin from the oven with cream, honey, custard.

Baked pumpkin is prepared for 15-20 minutes.

  How to Make Pumpkin - Sweet Pumpkin Casserole

If you have boiled rice left over from dinner, cook a quick pumpkin casserole for dinner or breakfast.

• Cut the pulp of the pumpkin into cubes and boil them until soft - about 10 minutes.
• Kill the boiled pumpkin with a blender or crush with a fork.
• Combine pumpkin puree and rice - take them in equal amounts.
• Add a raw egg to the mass (1 pc. Per 200 g of product) - mix.
• Add sugar to taste and mix again.
• Grease a baking dish with butter and put porridge with pumpkin in it.
• Bake the dish for 25-30 minutes in a well-heated oven.
• Serve the casserole with sour cream or jam.

You will need no more than 30 minutes to prepare this dish.

  How to cook pumpkin - pumpkin pie and apples

For a delicious sweet cake, you need ready-made puff pastry. Usually housewives buy it in a store for future use and store it in a freezer.

• Place two frozen layers of dough on a cutting board for easy defrosting.
• While the dough becomes plastic, cut into small cubes or large strips 2 apples and 100 grams of pumpkin pulp.
• Put one layer of dough in the baking dish and form the sides. Grease the mold with any oil.
• Lay apples and pumpkin on the dough. Sprinkle them with sugar (0.5 cups) and add 50-70 grams of frozen butter grated on a coarse grater. Spread the butter evenly over the filling.
• From the second layer of dough, cut long strips and lay them on apples and pumpkin in the form of a lattice.
• Beat 1 egg and 1 tablespoon of milk. Lubricate the strips of dough and the sides with this liquid mass.
• Bake the cake until golden brown.

To bake a cake, set the temperature in the oven - 185 degrees, and the time timer - 35 minutes.

Pumpkin has a fairly neutral taste, so it can be added to meat stew, to vegetable caviar, to dough for buns or fritters. If you are waiting for guests, then prepare stuffed pumpkin. It will take a little more time than for the dishes described above, but this treat is worth it.

Find the best original and classic recipes of pumpkin dishes for quick on a wonderful online resource for gourmet lovers of the site. Try great first courses from this amazing fruit, light and healthy side dishes, salads, casseroles, desserts and sauces. The pumpkin pulp is so tasty, healthy and versatile that any meal is cooked quickly and without additional worries.

For successful cooking, it is important to learn how to choose a pumpkin. For cooking, the size of the vegetable is very important. The flesh of too large fruits is friable, fibrous, with a not very pleasant taste. Small pumpkins, as a rule, are not ripe and the same is not suitable for cooking. The ideal choice is a medium-sized, plump, without damage to the fruit. Only delicate pulp is used in food. The inner seeds along with the fibrous surrounding tissue are carefully removed. A thick, hard peel is peeled off with the same greenish lower layer.

The five most commonly used ingredients in pumpkin fast food recipes are:

Interesting recipe:
1. Peel the pumpkin, chop, and beat with a blender to a puree state.
2. Salt, add spices to taste. Add sifted quality flour. Knead medium-cool texture, elastic dough (like dumplings)
3. Roll out the dough into a “sausage”. Cut it into small circles. Press the circle of dough to the teeth of the fork and press the small pillow of the thumb (not too strong, but not too weak) to leave a striped pattern on it, while slightly rolling it. The dough should slip and pop out with a patterned curl.
4. Dip the prepared gnocchi in boiled salted water.
5. As soon as they emerge after boiling, fold in a colander. Drain and dry them slightly.
6. Prepare the duplex: fry the finely chopped onion with mushrooms until the moisture evaporates.
7. Put the gnocchi to the duplex. Fry for a few minutes.
8. When serving, sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs.

The five fastest pumpkin recipes:

Helpful hints:
. For the preparation of the first and second dishes, it is more correct to pick round pumpkin varieties. For sweet desserts and casseroles - pear-shaped, pineapple, melon varieties.
. Methods of steaming or in the oven save most of its nutrients in a pumpkin. Vegetables are especially needed in children's and dietary diets.

Pumpkin is called the queen of vegetables, and for good reason, all pumpkin dishes are very useful and have a golden color. We have selected some of the simplest and most delicious recipes for cooking pumpkin dishes.

1 recipe - Pumpkin baked with vegetables

Structure:
potatoes - 500g
sweet pepper - 4 pcs. (preferably multi-colored)
pumpkin - 500g
carrots - 2pcs.
onions - 2 pcs.
garlic - 2 heads
vegetable oil - 50g
salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:
Sliced \u200b\u200bpumpkin and peeled potatoes. Pepper clear of seeds and cut lengthwise into 4-6 parts. Carrots should be peeled and cut into large enough straws, and onions - in half rings. Garlic does not need to be peeled - just need to wash the heads and cut each transverse. Put all the vegetables in a bowl, add oil, salt, pepper, add herbs to taste and mix by hand. Place on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake for 35-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. All vegetables should become soft.

Recipe 2 - Pumpkin Soup

Structure:
vegetable broth - 700 ml
onions - 1 head
pumpkin - 800 g
cream - 4 tablespoons

garlic - 2 cloves

Cooking:
Pumpkin should be cut into slices, removing seeds. Peel the onion and cut into half rings, and the peeled garlic cloves are enough to crush. Fry onion in oil in a deep saucepan for 5 minutes, then add the garlic and fry for another 3 minutes. Put slices of pumpkin in a saucepan, salt and add a little coriander, pour the broth. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat, covering with a lid, for about 20 minutes. And now you can serve the soup to the table as it is, or you can pre-grind all its ingredients with a blender.

Recipe 3 - Pumpkin and Pork Stew

Structure:
pork - 1 kg of pulp
potatoes (large) - 3-4 pcs.
pumpkin - 700-800 g
bacon - 150 g
onions - 1 pc.
garlic - 3 cloves
tomatoes (fresh, frozen or canned in their own juice) - 4-5 pcs.
vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:
Cut the meat into small sticks, salt, pepper, add seasonings to taste (nutmeg and ginger are especially good), mix and leave for a short time - marinate. Cut pumpkin, potatoes (peeled) and bacon into cubes, onions - in half rings, chop garlic - or pass through a press.

Heat oil in a deep saucepan, fry bacon for 3 minutes. Remove the prepared bacon, put half the meat in the same oil, fry for 8 minutes. Then also fry the second portion of meat. Add everything to the bacon in a bowl.

Fry onion with garlic in a saucepan for 5 minutes. Add chopped tomatoes (if they are canned in their own juice - pour juice too), pour 1 cup of hot water into the stewpan. Put bacon and fried meat there. When it boils, turn down the heat, let it stew under the lid for 10 minutes. After that, dip the potatoes and pumpkin in a saucepan and cook for another half hour, salt to taste at the very end.

Recipe 4 - Pasta with Pumpkin

Structure:
any paste (preferably in the form of bows) - 180 g
small pumpkin - 1 pc.
cream - 0.5 cups
honey - 1 table.spoon
grated cheese - 50 g
salt, pepper - to taste
dry sage and nutmeg - to taste

Cooking:
Wash and remove the pumpkin seeds, cut the peel. Cut into small cubes. Pour with honey, sprinkle with dried sage, stir. Put the pumpkin slices in a parchment-covered form or on a baking sheet, put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. After 15 minutes, remove, mix and put in the oven for another 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, boil the pasta. Make the sauce: put the cream in a saucepan, warm it a little, put the grated cheese, salt, pepper, add spices and chopped garlic to taste. Mix everything, warm up for several minutes and turn off the heat.

Mix pasta, sauce and pumpkin on portioned plates.

Recipe 5 - Pumpkin Pie

Structure:
pumpkin - 500 g
orange - 1 pc.
almonds and hazelnuts - 100 g each
butter - 20-30g
flour - 150 g
eggs - 150 g
sugar (even better - honey) - 100 g
powdered sugar - 3 tablespoons
vinegar slaked soda or baking powder
salt - a pinch

Cooking:
Peel the pumpkin from the seeds, remove the peel. Grate the pulp gently on a medium or coarse grater. Chop the nuts, rid the peel of the orange and pass through the juicer. Grind the egg yolks with sugar (honey) and butter. Mix with pumpkin, juice, nuts. Add whipped whites with powdered sugar. Now introduce the flour into which the baking powder has been added. Pour the dough into a greased dish, bake for about 45 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

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Amazing in its composition, color and exquisite taste, pumpkin vegetable is not always and not everyone likes: perhaps it is just a matter of improper preparation. It is pumpkin that is recommended (and not by chance!) As one of the first vegetable foods  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 tastyso that its unique taste and beneficial properties are preserved?

Cook the pumpkin correctly

When cooking this vegetable and dishes from it the following rules are recommended.:

1. The pumpkin should be peeled, cut in half and remove the seeds.
2. Vegetable is cut into pieces, usually 2x2 cm cubes.
3. Boil the pumpkin in salted water.
4. Cooking time is 20-40 minutes, depending on the method of preparation: in a double boiler, the vegetable is cooked for 20 minutes, in the microwave mode “Stew” it takes longer to cook - 40 minutes. You can boil the pumpkin in a small saucepan with the lid closed on low heat: the degree of readiness is determined by 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 varying degrees of maturity cooked in different ways: sometimes 5-7 minutes are enough to make the cubes soft, and the kitchen is filled with an incredible aroma. Of course, grated pumpkin is cooked even faster.

What can be cooked from pumpkin

Boiled pumpkin  as an ingredient used in many dishes:

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

Pumpkin Puree Soup

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

How to cook a watermelon

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

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

Watermelon, she's a pumpkinused in the preparation of a variety of dishes:

• pumpkin (watermelon) cereals  or cereals with pumpkin (for example, millet porridge with pumpkin);
• soups  and soup additives pickled pumpkin;
• salads  from fresh, boiled, pickled vegetable;
• pumpkin bread and pies;
• dessert: cakes, marmalade, etc .;
• beverages: juices and jelly.

Besides boiling, sweet and tasty watermelon fried, stewed, baked  and of course, eat fresh. With proper preparation, even heat treatment does not deprive the pumpkin of its beneficial and nutritional qualities. Useful and pumpkin seedscontaining antihistamines and raw materials for the production of expensive oils.

If you set a goal, this fruit alone will help to set a chic table. For the first you can serve mashed soup with pumpkin bread, for the second - khanum, fragrant pickled pumpkin and, of course, pumpkin salad. And for sweets - marmalade and spiced pumpkin cookies.

Ingredients

• 400 g of fresh pumpkin;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 potatoes;
• sunflower oil;
• 100 ml of 10 percent cream;
• 150 g of small crackers;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• salt, black pepper, hard cheese - to taste.

Cooking

Thinly cut onions. Preheat the pan, pour in a little sunflower oil and fry the onions for several minutes on fire. Then peel and cut into small cubes pumpkin, carrots and potatoes.

Transfer fresh vegetables along with the fried onions into a pan, pour a small amount of water and cook until cooked. Add the finely chopped garlic to the resulting mixture, pepper and salt. After that, beat the future mashed soup with a blender and add cream.

The finished dish is served with crackers and grated cheese. Mashed soup can be garnished with greens and sesame seeds.

Ingredients

• 80 g pumpkin;
• 70 ml of water;
• 3 g dry yeast;
• 300 g of wheat flour;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• 1 tablespoon of sugar;
• 10 g butter.

Cooking

Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and turn into a mashed blender. Add water and whisk again. In a separate container, mix flour, yeast, salt and sugar, add the pumpkin mixture and pre-softened butter.

Knead the dough to a dense uniform consistency and put it in a greased container. Cover the dough with a dry towel or cling film and leave in a warm place for 2 hours. During this time, warm the oven to 220 ° C and prepare a baking dish lined with baking paper.

After the dough rises, form from it, put it in the prepared form and leave it in a warm place for another 40-50 minutes. Now that the dough is completely ready, it can be placed in the oven. Bake pumpkin bread for 50 minutes. Cool the finished product on a wire rack.

Ingredients

For the test:

• 1 glass of water;
• 3 cups flour;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• 1 egg

For filling:

• 500 g pumpkin;
• 2 onions;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• black pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

• 150 g sour cream;
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped greens;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking

Khanum is a delicious and quick oriental dish, an excellent alternative to manti. To make it, knead the dough with flour, water, eggs and salt. Knead the dough for at least 15 minutes, it should become elastic. Then cover with a towel the resulting mass and leave for 40 minutes.

For the filling, cut the pumpkin into small cubes, and the onion into thin half rings. In a pre-heated pan, lightly fry the onions, then add the pumpkin to it. The time for roasting and mixing the ingredients should not exceed 5-10 minutes. Sprinkle the finished stuffing with pepper, salt and sugar.

Roll the dough thinly, grease generously with vegetable oil. Spread the filling on the surface, slightly departing from the edges. Roll up a thin roll and tuck the edges of the dough on the sides. Gently roll the roll onto a greased tray.

Khanum is cooked in mantyshnitsa or a double boiler for 45-50 minutes. Cut the finished dish into pieces and serve with garlic sour cream and herbs.

Ingredients

• 700 g pumpkin;
• 300 g of sugar;
• 500 ml of water;
• 100 ml of 9 percent vinegar;
• 8 cloves;
• 4 peas of allspice;
• 4 peas of black pepper;
• 1-2 slices of ginger root;
• 2 pinches of nutmeg;
• 1 stick of cinnamon.

Cooking

Pickled pumpkin has a pleasant sweet and sour taste and aroma of fragrant spices. This dish is served as a side dish or savory snack.

Dissolve sugar in room temperature water, add vinegar and pour the resulting marinade into chopped pumpkin in small pieces (about 2 × 2 cm). Cover the container with a lid or cling film and place in the refrigerator for 12 hours.

Then add spices to the pumpkin and bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the flame and cook the pumpkin for another 7-15 minutes, until the pieces are easily pierced with a fork.

Let the cooked vegetable stand under the lid for half an hour, then remove the spices and place the slices in a sterile sealed container. Pickled pumpkin is ready and asks for your table!

Ingredients

• 200 g pumpkin;
• 100 g of brine cheese (feta cheese, suluguni, Adyghe, Chechil, feta);
• 20 g of olives;
• olive oil, Mediterranean herbs, salt, pepper - to taste;
• lettuce - optional.

Cooking

This salad is cooked in haste. It will perfectly decorate any table and will win the hearts of your guests with its unusual taste. So. Cut the pumpkin and cheese into pieces with a side of 1-2 cm, mix the ingredients with olive oil, seasonings and olives cut into halves. The finished dish can be decorated with lettuce.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of pumpkin;
• 500 g of sugar;
• ½ lemon.

Cooking

Choose a pan with a wide and thick bottom. Dice, boil in a small amount of water for 10 minutes and turn into a puree with a blender. Add sugar to the finished mixture and cook for half an hour over low heat, stirring constantly. Then add ½ lemon and continue to boil the mixture for an hour. Ready marmalade will easily lag behind the walls and bottom of the pan.

Put pumpkin marmalade on parchment (the thickness of the layer should not exceed 2 cm) and leave to dry for 3-5 days. Then cut it into slices, dry on both sides in a slightly heated oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Homemade pumpkin marmalade should be stored in a cool, dry place.

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 100 g pumpkin puree;
• 70 g of butter;
• 110 g cane sugar;
• 180 g of wheat flour;
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder;
• ¼ teaspoon of soda;
• 1 g of vanillin;
• a pinch of ground cloves;
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.

Cooking

Mash the softened butter with sugar and vanilla. Then add the egg, pumpkin puree (boil the peeled pieces until ready and grind in a blender) and mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

In the first part of the resulting product, pour sifted flour with baking powder and soda, cinnamon, ground cloves and again mix everything well. On a baking sheet covered with baking paper, put a finished dough with a tablespoon so that the future cookies are at an average distance from each other. Bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.

Bon Appetit!