Pumpkin is an excellent basis for preparing light, dietary and healthy dishes. Today I propose to prepare one of these dishes - aromatic, bright and tasty pumpkin stewed in spicy tomato sauce, according to a traditional Afghan recipe. This simple, quick and easy to prepare dish will delight any connoisseur of delicious food with its seductive spicy taste. Try it!

To prepare stewed pumpkin with vegetables, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

Peel and cut the pumpkin into small pieces. Finely chop the onion, garlic and ginger root.

Heat vegetable oil over medium heat. Add the prepared onions and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes until the onions are soft.

Then add 0.5 teaspoon of salt and 1 tbsp. sugar, and continuing to stir, fry the onion for another 2-3 minutes, until golden brown.

When the onion is browned, add chopped garlic, ginger root and spices: ground cumin, cinnamon and turmeric. Stirring, fry for another 1 minute so that the spices and herbs reveal their aroma and taste.

Add the prepared pumpkin pieces and mix everything well.

Add chopped or tomato paste (to taste).

Add enough water or vegetable broth to barely cover the pumpkin pieces. Bring water to a boil, add adjika.

Reduce the heat until the mixture simmers at a constant simmer, cover the pan and cook for another 20 minutes until the pumpkin pieces are tender. If necessary, add more salt and spices to taste.

Complete the finished dish with wheat tortillas or a side dish of your choice, garnish with fresh herbs, sour cream and serve.

Stewed pumpkin with vegetables is ready. Bon appetit!

Pumpkin is not only cheap, but also healthy: it calms the nervous system, removes toxins, and contains a bunch of vitamins: carotene, pectins, which help remove cholesterol from the body, minerals, rare vitamins T and K, as well as C, B1, B2, B5, B6, E, RR.

Recipe 1. Steamed pumpkin

• Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes.
• Pour 1 cm of water into a deep saucepan and place the pumpkin tightly. Attention, the water should not cover the pumpkin.
• Sprinkle sugar on top of the pumpkin, cover the pan with a lid and steam the pumpkin until soft. (20 - 25 minutes)
• This pumpkin can be eaten both hot and cold.
• By the way, you didn’t have to peel the pumpkin, just wash and cut it, and remove the skin while eating, from the steamed pumpkin (this is even faster).

Recipe 2. Steamed pumpkin puree

• Cut the pumpkin into cubes, steam in a saucepan according to recipe No. 1 until cooked
• Remove the skin from the finished steamed pumpkin (select the pulp)
• Mash the pumpkin thoroughly
• Add butter and a little hot milk
• Salt and pepper the pumpkin puree to taste.

Recipe 3. Pumpkin steamed in the oven with sugar

• Cut the pumpkin into cubes
• Pour some water
• Sprinkle with sugar

Recipe 4. Pumpkin steamed in the oven with honey

• Cut the pumpkin into cubes
• Place on a rimmed baking sheet
• Pour some water
• Drizzle with honey
• Bake in the oven until soft (20 - 25 minutes at 180 degrees)

Recipe 5. Pumpkin with dried fruits

• Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes
• Place layers on the bottom of the saucepan: a layer of pumpkin - a layer of dried fruits, and so on, sprinkling the layers with sugar (just a little sugar, for 500g of pumpkin - 3 tablespoons)
• Pour just a little water into the bottom of the saucepan
• Steam the pumpkin with dried fruits until cooked.
• You can use any dried fruits: prunes, dried apricots, and so on.

Recipe 6. Half a pumpkin baked with sugar.

• You don’t have to cut the pumpkin into cubes at all, but bake it in the oven in halves (just a pumpkin, cut in half), for this
• Peel the pumpkin, place in a fireproof dish greased with vegetable oil, and sprinkle the pumpkin with sugar (the sugar will caramelize, the taste will be excellent!)
• Sprinkle the pumpkin with plenty of water - all the sugar should be very wet, pour water into the bottom of the fireproof bowl in which the pumpkin is placed
• Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
• Since we bake the pumpkin whole, it will take more than half an hour for it to become soft. When it is completely softened, it is ready.
• This pumpkin should be served with butter, hot.

Recipe 7. Baked pumpkin with cottage cheese

• You will need: 400 g pumpkin, 200 g cottage cheese, 100 g milk, 2 eggs, 100 g sour cream, 30 g butter, salt to taste.
• Peel the pumpkin and cut into pieces.
• Steam pumpkin in milk until soft
• Mash the prepared pumpkin, add cottage cheese, eggs, salt and mix everything.
• Place on a greased frying pan, level, brush with egg
• Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees in the oven.

Recipe 8. Baked pumpkin dessert

• You will need: 500 g pumpkin, 500 g sour cream, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1-2 apples, half a glass of raisins, 3-4 egg whites, 1 cup. sugar, a pinch of cinnamon, chopped walnuts - a handful.
• Peel the pumpkin and cut into cubes
• Place in a baking dish and top with sour cream.
• Heat over heat until the liquid has completely evaporated.
• Meanwhile, beat the whites into a foam with sugar, or it is better to first break the sugar into powdered sugar in a coffee grinder
• Peel the apples and cut into thin slices
• Place apple slices on top of the pumpkin, sprinkle them with cinnamon and raisins, cover them with protein-sugar foam, sprinkle with crushed nuts and put in the oven for 20 minutes (until the whites turn pink)

Recipe 9. Steamed pumpkin in syrup

• We will need a glass of walnuts, one kilogram of pumpkin, one and a half glasses of water and a glass of sugar.
• Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes
• Place in a saucepan
• Add sugar and water.
• Simmer covered over low heat for an hour. During this time, the sugar is mixed with the secreted pumpkin juice and turns into a sweet syrup.
• Meanwhile, brown the nuts a little in the oven (just dry them on a baking sheet to make them tastier)
• Cool the pumpkin, place on a plate, along with the sweet syrup and sprinkle the dessert with walnuts

Recipe 10. Baked pumpkin with apples

• You will need: half a kilo of pumpkin, a kilo of apples, a little more than half a glass of semolina, 2 glasses of cream, 100 grams of butter.
• Fry the pumpkin, peeled and cut into cubes, in butter until golden brown.
• Peel and cut apples into slices
• Place pumpkin and apples in layers in a baking dish (clay or cast iron pots work well), sprinkling each layer with sugar.
• Pour in hot cream and place in a hot oven for 15 minutes.
• At the end of cooking, add semolina in a thin stream, stir and leave for another 10 minutes until the semolina is ready.

Orange pumpkin is a source of many beneficial substances. To preserve them as much as possible, it is best not to boil or fry the vegetable, but to steam it, that is, steam it. The beauty is that the pumpkin pieces will not be watery or too greasy. The absence of a crust is also a plus for health. It may not be as tasty, but it is completely safe.

Steamed pumpkin can be eaten as a separate dish (for example, with garlic, salt and herbs), simple purees or delicious desserts can be made from it, or added to dough for homemade baking. Pumpkin has a delicate aroma and goes well with fruits, nuts, vegetables, and cereals.

Steamed pumpkin - general cooking principles

Cooking steamed pumpkin is very simple. You need to separate the desired piece from the vegetable, wash it, and dry it. Cut the pumpkin into strips, cubes or random pieces. The skin can be cut off or left (it comes off very easily from steamed pumpkin).

Any utensil is suitable for preparing the dish. It can be a regular saucepan, oven, double boiler, multicooker. The point is that the vegetable pieces are exposed to hot water steam, and how to do this is up to the housewife herself.

Pumpkin cooks very quickly. Literally in half an hour, no matter what cooking method the hostess chooses, the slices will be ready.

Steamed sugar pumpkin

A simple way to cook sweet steamed pumpkin on a regular gas or electric stove is one of the most reliable and convenient. In addition to the vegetable itself, you only need sugar to taste and a little water.

Ingredients:

A piece of pumpkin weighing 500-600 grams;

One hundred to two hundred grams of granulated sugar (you can vary the amount of sugar to your taste);

150 ml of clean water (the amount of water may be more or less depending on the diameter of the bottom of the pan).

Cooking method:

Cut the prepared pumpkin pieces without skin into small cubes.

Place pumpkin cubes in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.

Pour in water so that it does not completely cover the pumpkin. The pieces should lie closely and be half filled with water.

Cover the pumpkin with sugar, depending on your taste.

Close the lid tightly and turn on medium heat.

As soon as the water boils, turn the heat to low and steam the pumpkin for about twenty minutes.

Sweet pumpkin can be served immediately, hot, or after cooling.

Steamed pumpkin with salt and garlic in the oven

Fans of spicy taste should definitely cook steamed pumpkin in the oven according to this recipe. The dish is especially tasty with sea salt. If you don’t have it, you can get by with regular coarse table salt. Instead of fresh herbs in late fall, use ready-made seasonings (choose ones that contain sea salt - very tasty!).

Ingredients:

Four hundred grams of pumpkin;

Sea salt to taste (a pinch or two);

Three cloves of fresh garlic;

Two tablespoons of chopped dill and parsley;

A tablespoon of olive or mustard oil.

Cooking method:

Cut a piece of pumpkin into strips or slices. The thickness should not be more than a centimeter.

Wash fresh herbs, dry with a paper towel and chop finely.

Peel the garlic and pass through a press. You can chop it very finely with a knife or simply grate it.

In a small bowl, prepare pumpkin dressing by mixing herbs, garlic, and salt. Finally add oil and mix everything again.

Place pumpkin pieces on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.

Brush each slice with dressing.

Cover the baking sheet with foil.

Place a wide, low bowl of water in the bottom of the oven, or pour some water directly into the pan.

Place in the oven preheated to 200°.

Steamed pumpkin in the oven can be checked for doneness after 15 minutes. If the slices are very thin, they will most likely be ready.

If the pumpkin does not seem soft when pierced, you need to steam it until tender (another 5-10 minutes).

Steamed pumpkin in pots with apples

Another tasty and unusual version of an autumn dish is steamed pumpkin in the oven, cooked in clay pots. The result is a complete sweet dish, very aromatic and tender. This pumpkin can delight not only little kids, but also adults with a sweet tooth.

Ingredients:

Half a kilo of pumpkin;

A kilogram of Antonovka or any other apples;

Half a glass of pure semolina;

Sugar to taste;

Two glasses of drinking cream;

Fifty grams of butter.

Cooking method:

Cut the pumpkin into small cubes, be sure to remove the skin.

Wash the apples, core them, cut into thin slices.

Place layers of pumpkin and apple slices in baking pots. Sprinkle each layer with sugar.

Turn on the oven at 230 degrees.

Heat the cream in a saucepan, but do not boil.

Throw a piece of butter into each pot and pour cream over everything.

Place the pots in the oven for 15 minutes.

Remove the peas from the oven, add semolina in a very thin stream, stir.

Return the pots to the oven for another ten minutes.

Steamed pumpkin with dried apricots and prunes

The combination of pumpkin and dried fruits is very tasty. If you have some dried apricots and prunes in the house, you can prepare an easy and healthy pumpkin dish.

Ingredients:

Seven hundred grams of peeled pumpkin skin;

Four tablespoons of granulated sugar;

Two hundred to three hundred grams of a mixture of dried apricots and prunes.

Cooking method:

Wash dried fruits and pour boiling water for half an hour. If dried fruits are already ready to eat, that is, very soft, then there is no need to steam them.

Cut dried apricots and prunes into small pieces.

Prepare the pumpkin by cutting into small cubes.

Place layers of pumpkin and dried apricots with prunes in a thick-walled pan.

Sprinkle each layer with granulated sugar.

Pour half a glass of water into the pan (a little more if the bottom diameter is more than 20 cm).

Cook over low heat as described in the first recipe.

Steamed pumpkin with walnuts

Tender steamed pumpkin goes well with nuts. For example, with walnuts, which have a tart taste.

Ingredients:

A kilogram of pumpkin;

A glass of white sugar;

A glass of nuts (peeled);

One and a half glasses of water.

Cooking method:

Cut the pumpkin into cubes.

Place the pumpkin pieces in a saucepan, add sugar and water.

Turn on low heat and simmer the pumpkin pieces in sugar syrup for at least an hour.

Brown the walnuts in a dry frying pan or oven.

Chop them with a knife.

Place the cooled pumpkin slices on a plate, pour in the syrup and sprinkle with nut crumbs.

Steamed sugar pumpkin in the oven with lemon juice

Steamed sugar pumpkin in the oven is prepared in the same way as in the pan according to the first recipe. To prevent it from being too sweet, you can add a little lemon juice.

Ingredients:

Half a kilo of pumpkin pulp;

Half a glass of sugar;

Half a lemon;

A tablespoon of vegetable oil;

Partial glass of water

Cooking method:

Grease a glass baking dish with oil.

Preheat the oven to 210°.

Place the pumpkin pieces tightly into the pan.

Sprinkle with lemon juice.

Cover the pumpkin with sugar.

Pour in water.

Cook the steamed pumpkin in the oven until completely softened.

Steamed pumpkin in the oven with honey

You can use honey instead of sugar. The result will be an equally tasty dish with a tart honey aroma. The amount of honey can be changed to suit your taste. When served, the finished honey pumpkin is good with nuts.

Ingredients:

A kilogram of not very sweet pumpkin;

Half a glass of liquid honey;

A tablespoon of butter for the pan;

Glass of water;

Two tablespoons of flaked almonds (optional).

Cooking method:

Heat the oven to 190-200°.

Place pumpkin pieces in a greased form.

Pour liquid flower honey over them (if the honey is thick, it needs to be heated in a water bath).

Pour in water and place the mold in the oven.

Steamed pumpkin in the oven will be ready in 25 minutes.

Place the pieces on plates and sprinkle with flaked almonds.

Steamed pumpkin in a slow cooker with cinnamon

If the multicooker has a special tray for preparing steamed dishes, then cooking pumpkin in it is as easy as shelling pears. The maximum possible amount of vitamins will be preserved with this method of preparation.

Ingredients:

Four hundred grams of peeled pumpkin;

Two glasses of water;

Three tablespoons of sugar (depend on your taste);

Two tablespoons of butter;

A pinch of cinnamon (optional).

Cooking method:

Pour water into the multicooker bowl.

Fill the tray with pumpkin pieces, sprinkle them with cinnamon and sugar.

Place the basket over the bowl and snap the lid on.

Cook for 20 minutes in steam mode.

Steamed pumpkin in a steamer

An excellent version of a savory pumpkin dish can be prepared using a double boiler. All you need is pumpkin and salt. When serving, you can use sour cream and garlic.

Ingredients:

Half a kilo of pumpkin;

Sea salt to taste;

Sour cream;

Two cloves of garlic (optional)

Cooking method:

Prepare the pumpkin and place it in the middle rack of a steamer.

Sprinkle vegetable slices with salt.

Cook for 20 minutes.

Grate the garlic.

Place the prepared pumpkin on plates.

Mix sour cream with garlic.

Pour the sauce over the pumpkin or serve it separately.

Steamed garlic pumpkin cooked in the oven is especially tasty when cooled. It can be used as a base for vegetable sandwiches if mashed with a fork or spoon.

Pumpkin cut into long strips does not need to be peeled. It is much faster to remove it from a prepared pumpkin than to cut it from a raw one.

If steamed pumpkin goes into the dough, it must be cooled first. Then puree the pieces, turning them into a delicate orange mass. The dough will acquire a wonderful sunny color and will not stick to your hands. Baking with pumpkin puree has a pleasant aroma.

Pumpkin is an infrequent guest on our tables, despite the fact that the beneficial properties of this vegetable have been proven. It can be included in children's and diet food; in addition, it will be useful for the older generation. In order to pamper your loved ones with a delicious sweet dessert, you can use almost any variety of vegetable. Be sure to try this simple recipe.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 6-8 tbsp. (or to taste)

Cut into fairly large pieces at least 6-7 cm long.

Pumpkin dishes are tasty, healthy and do not require much time to prepare. Below are recipes for fried pumpkin, stewed pumpkin and baked pumpkin dishes.
Pumpkin dishes can be used as independent dishes, as well as side dishes for meat dishes or chicken dishes, such as fried pumpkin, pumpkin with potatoes or pumpkin with beans.
Preparing the pumpkin. Many people complain that pumpkin is difficult to peel. The skin of the pumpkin can be easily removed with a paring knife from the Tupperware collection.

Roasted pumpkin.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 200 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 1 tablespoon flour;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into slices, salt, pepper and bread in flour.
Fry in a heated frying pan with butter or ghee until golden brown (you can use vegetable oil when frying). Then put in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Finely chop the dill and parsley and sprinkle them over the finished dish. Serve with sour cream.

Roasted pumpkin. Pumpkin with potatoes.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 100 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 1-2 potatoes;
• ½ tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• 1 tablespoon flour;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 2-3 sprigs of parsley and dill;
• salt to taste.

Peel the potatoes, boil in salted water (you can add bay leaves, peppercorns, oregano and other spices to the water). Cut the finished potatoes into slices

Roasted pumpkin. Pumpkin with tomatoes.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 100 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 1-2 tomatoes;
• 2 tablespoons butter;
• 1 tablespoon flour;
• 2-3 sprigs of parsley, celery and dill;
• salt to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into pieces, add salt, bread in flour and fry in butter until golden brown.
Peel the tomatoes, remove the stems, cut each into 4 parts (cut large tomatoes into 6-8 parts) and fry in oil. Place the pumpkin on a plate, put tomatoes on top and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Pumpkin fried in sour cream, Pumpkin with beans.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 150 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 50 grams of beans;
• 1 tablespoon butter;
• 1 tablespoon flour;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 2-3 sprigs of parsley and dill;
• salt to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into pieces, add salt, bread in flour and fry in butter until golden brown, then pour in sour cream.
Mix separately boiled beans with pumpkin in sour cream and simmer all together, or put in the oven for 20 minutes. Then put everything on a plate and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Fried pumpkin breaded with sour cream.

• · 1 kg peeled pumpkin;
• · breadcrumbs - 4 tablespoons;
• · vegetable oil – 0.5 cups;
• · sour cream – 400 grams;
• · salt to taste.

Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Cut into thin slices, add salt, roll in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides in vegetable oil until golden brown. Before serving, pumpkin can be doused with sour cream.

Pumpkin stewed in oil.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 300 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 1 tablespoon butter or ghee;
• 1/4 cup milk;
• Cinnamon on the tip of a knife;
• salt to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into cubes, place in a saucepan and simmer in a small amount of water. Then add butter and milk to the pan. Season with crushed cinnamon, add salt and simmer over medium heat until tender.

Pumpkin baked with cottage cheese.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 100 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 100 grams of cottage cheese;
• 1 heaped tablespoon of semolina;
• 2 eggs;
• ¼ glass of milk;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• 1 tablespoon butter or ghee;
• salt, sugar to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into cubes, place in a saucepan and simmer with milk until tender. Then add semolina, pre-squeezed cottage cheese, egg, sugar, salt to the pan and mix everything well. Grease the sheet with oil, place the prepared mixture on it, brush the top with beaten egg and bake in the oven. When serving, pour sour cream over the pumpkin and cottage cheese.

Pumpkin baked in rice porridge.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 100 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 100 grams of rice;
• half a glass of milk;
• ¼ cup milk sauce;
• 3-4 tablespoons of grated cheese;
• 1 tablespoon butter;
• salt.

Cut the pumpkin into cubes and fry. Wash the rice well and cook thick rice porridge in milk. Salt the porridge, season with butter and place in a greased frying pan. Place fried pumpkin pieces on top of the porridge. Pour sour cream sauce over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the oven. The recipe for sour cream sauce is given in the “SAUCES” section.

Pumpkin with milk sauce.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 150 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• half a glass of milk sauce;
• 1 tablespoon butter;
• salt to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into small slices, place in a greased pan, add salt, pour in a little water (the water should not cover the pumpkin) and simmer in the oven until tender. Grease a frying pan with oil, pour half of the milk sauce into it, place the stewed pumpkin in the frying pan, pour the remaining sauce on top and bake in the oven.

Recipe for pumpkin milk sauce for 3 servings.

composition: one and a half glasses of milk; 2 tablespoons flour; 2 tablespoons butter; salt to taste.
The milk sauce recipe is quite simple. Bring the milk to a boil, fry the flour in butter. Then dilute it with milk so that there are no lumps. Boil with continuous stirring for 6-8 minutes over medium heat, add salt.

Pumpkin with milk and cream sauce.

• 500 grams of pumpkin;
• half a liter of milk;
• 2 tablespoons of flour (heaped);
• 3/4 cup 15% cream;
• 1 tablespoon butter;
• salt to taste.

Peel the pumpkin, cut into small slices, put in a saucepan and pour in salted boiling milk. Place the pumpkin and milk on low heat and cook for 15-20 minutes. Slowly add flour to the cream and mix well (there should be no lumps).
Pour the milk into another saucepan, and wrap the saucepan with the pumpkin very well or place it in hot water. Bring the milk to a boil and slowly, with continuous stirring, pour in the cream and flour. Bring the sauce to a boil and when it thickens, add butter. Add salt to taste.
Pour the resulting sauce over the hot pumpkin and boil. When serving, pumpkin with sauce can be sprinkled with finely chopped herbs.

Pumpkin baked with egg.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 150 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• ¼ glass of milk;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 tablespoon flour;
• 1 tablespoon butter;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cut the pumpkin into small pieces, pepper, roll in flour and fry in butter until cooked. Pour the eggs into the milk and beat with a whisk. Pour the resulting mixture onto the pumpkin and bake in the oven. When serving, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Pumpkin with lentils, cooked in the oven.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 250 grams of lentils;
• 300 ml water;
• 50 grams of butter;
• 2 onions;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• parsley, dill, cilantro;
• salt to taste.

Cooking pumpkin.

Cut the prepared pumpkin into small pieces and place in a saucepan. Wash the lentils and soak in cold water overnight. Place the lentils in a pan with the pumpkin, pour in water, add oil, and cover the pan with a lid. Cook pumpkin and lentils in the oven at 180 - 200 degrees. Half an hour before readiness, add fried onions and finely chopped garlic, add salt and continue cooking until tender. Place the finished Tuva with lentils on a dish and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Pumpkin pancakes.

Ingredients of pumpkin pancakes:

• 1 kg of pumpkin, grated on a coarse grater;
• 250 grams of wheat flour;
• 150 ml milk;
• 2 eggs;
• 50 grams of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• 75 grams of margarine;
• 150 grams of sour cream;
• salt to taste.

Making pancakes.

Add sifted flour, milk, eggs, salt, sugar, soda to the grated pumpkin. Mix everything well and leave for 10 - 15 minutes. If the dough is too liquid, you can add flour. Place the pumpkin with a spoon in a heated frying pan, greased with fat or sunflower oil, fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown. Serve pancakes with sour cream.

Rice porridge with pumpkin.

Composition of porridge:

• 250 grams of rice;
• 300 grams of peeled, chopped pumpkin;
• 400 ml milk;
• 40 ml water;
• 50 grams of butter;
• 30 grams of sugar;
• salt to taste.

Cooking porridge.

Rinse the rice thoroughly, add 300 ml of boiling milk with 300 ml of water and cook at low boil until the porridge is ready. Place the chopped pumpkin in hot milk, add sugar, salt and cook at low boil. Combine rice porridge with boiled pumpkin, mix everything well, add oil, cover with a lid and put on low heat to finish heating. When serving, pour melted butter over the rice porridge with pumpkin.

Dumplings with pumpkin baked in the oven in pots.

Ingredients of the dough for dumplings with pumpkin:

• 2 cups wheat flour;
• 1 egg;
• 0.5 glasses of water;
• salt to taste.

Ingredients of filling for dumplings with pumpkin:

• 500 grams of pumpkin;
• 2 tablespoons sugar;
• 2 tablespoons melted butter;
• salt to taste.

Ingredients of the sauce for dumplings with pumpkin:

• 1 egg;
• 4 – 5 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 2 tablespoons sugar.

Cooking dumplings.

Brew half of the sifted flour with boiling water (1/3 of the total amount of water), stir. Then pour in the remaining water at room temperature, add salt, beat in the egg, add the rest of the flour, stir until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 25 - 30 minutes. Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut into large pieces. Then put it in a saucepan, add butter, salt, sugar and simmer over low heat until soft, stirring. Cool the finished pumpkin and pass through a meat grinder or grind with a blender. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll it out into a layer 1.5 - 2 mm thick. Cut circles out of it with a glass, put pumpkin filling on them and pinch the edges. Place the dumplings in boiling salted water and cook until tender, then remove with a slotted spoon and place in pots and pour over the gravy. To prepare the gravy, beat the egg with sugar and mix with sour cream. Place the pots of dumplings in a preheated oven. Bake dumplings at 180 degrees.

Scrambled eggs with pumpkin.

Ingredients of one serving:

• 100 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 2 eggs;
• 30 grams of butter;
• 2-3 sprigs of dill and parsley;
• salt to taste.

Many people complain that pumpkin is difficult to peel. The skin of the pumpkin can be easily removed with a paring knife from the Tupperware collection. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces, put in a saucepan, add salt, add half the butter, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat until tender. Then grind the pumpkin in a blender until smooth. Scrambled egg recipe: - put the pumpkin in a frying pan with oil, pour in the eggs and bake the scrambled eggs in the oven. When serving, sprinkle the scrambled eggs with finely chopped herbs.

Millet porridge with pumpkin.

• 300 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 1 cup millet;
• salt, sugar to taste.

Sort the millet, rinse 2 times in cold water, then pour boiling water over it, after 5 minutes drain the hot water (the bitterness from the millet will go away). Pour a little water (about half a glass) into a saucepan with millet, then pour in the milk, add salt, add a tablespoon of sugar and put on fire. Cook over medium heat with continuous stirring. When the milk boils, reduce the heat and continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Then add the grated pumpkin and bring the porridge to a boil again, stirring continuously (otherwise it will burn). Then add oil, mix the porridge well, close the lid, remove from heat, place the pan on a stand and wrap it well (a doll with a warm skirt is suitable for this purpose). In 40 minutes the porridge will be ready. With this method of cooking, most of the nutrients are retained in the pumpkin.

Rice porridge with pumpkin.

• 300 grams of peeled pumpkin;
• 1 cup rice;
• a package of milk with a fat content of 3.2 (900 ml);
• a tablespoon of butter;
• salt, sugar to taste.

Preparing the pumpkin. Many people complain that pumpkin is difficult to peel. The skin of the pumpkin can be easily removed with a paring knife from the Tupperware collection. So, the pumpkin was peeled and grated on a coarse grater.
Sort the rice, rinse 3-4 times in cold water. Pour a little water (about half a glass) into a saucepan with rice, then pour in the milk, add salt, add a tablespoon of sugar and put on fire. Cook over medium heat with continuous stirring. When the milk boils, reduce the heat and continue cooking for another 5 minutes. Then add the grated pumpkin and bring the porridge to a boil again, stirring continuously (otherwise it will burn). Then add oil, mix the porridge well, close the lid, remove from heat, place the pan on a stand and wrap it well (a doll with a warm skirt is suitable for this purpose). In 40 minutes the porridge will be ready. With this method of cooking, most of the nutrients are retained in the pumpkin.

Pumpkin baked in pots with cream.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pumpkin;
• 2 cups cream;
• 50 grams of butter;
• 1 tablespoon sugar;
• 8 grams of vanilla sugar.

Cooking pumpkin.

Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds along with the fibrous tissue. Cut the pulp into small pieces, sprinkle with sugar and vanilla and leave for 10 - 15 minutes. Grease the pots with butter, place the pumpkin in them and shake the pots so that the pumpkin fits more tightly into them. Pour cream over the contents so that it does not cover the pumpkin. You can add sugar to the cream to taste. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the pots in the oven and bake the pumpkin over low heat for 1 hour.