As soon as they don’t cook a diet pumpkin: they cook, fry, bake. If you have a decent size piece of pumpkin, a little sugar, and a few minutes for the preliminary preparation of the products - feel free to choose any of the recipes.
Cope, there is no doubt. The time spent on heat treatment can be used to good use - special monitoring of baked products is not required.
Baked pumpkin in the oven with sugar - general principles of preparation
• Pumpkin is baked in the oven in slices, placed on a baking sheet or in any other suitable size dish. Vegetables are used both with and without peels. In any case, it is first thoroughly washed with a brush, using warm water, until all the dirt is washed off and only then cut. Most often baked hard pumpkin pulp, the fibrous part is practically not used, but there are recipes with it.
• It is difficult to imagine products with which gentle pumpkin pulp would not go well. It is in perfect harmony with apples, quinces, citruses, nuts, honey, sour-milk products.
• Pumpkin baked in the oven with sugar - a light dessert that can be served for breakfast with a cup of hot tea or cold yogurt. Its delicate caramel taste is in perfect harmony with milk porridges. Often, pumpkin baked in the oven in slices is used as the basis for the preparation of milk pumpkin porridges, in which cereals are added.
• Vegetables are placed in a well-heated oven. Optimum heating for - cooking 180 degrees. The duration of the pumpkin preparation in the oven may vary depending on the size and is always indicated in the recipe.
Oven baked pumpkin pulp with sugar and raisins in a pumpkin pot
Ingredients:
• a whole round pumpkin, weighing up to one and a half kilograms;
• dark sugar - 100 g .;
• 50 gr. light and 80 gr. dark raisins;
• olive or refined sunflower oil;
• cinnamon, ground in a mortar - 1/2 tsp;
• peeled pumpkin seeds - 70 gr.;
• fresh medium fat sour cream.
Cooking method:
1. Using warm water, with a foam sponge, wash the pumpkin. From the side of the stalk, carefully cut about a quarter of the vegetable. Peel the peel from the separated part and cut the pulp into large cubes or sticks, about two centimeters in size. Add a few tablespoons of vegetable or olive oil, mix.
2. Remove the middle from the remaining pumpkin. Select the seeds, and carefully mop the remaining fibers with dark sugar and mix with chopped pulp.
3. Put the resulting pumpkin mixture in a pan and, stirring, fry for five minutes.
4. Remove from heat, add scalded boiling water, washed raisins, cinnamon and mix.
5. Raise the temperature in the oven to 200 degrees and place in it well-oiled pumpkin on all sides and from the inside.
6. After 10 minutes, remove the baked “pot”, fill it with pieces of pulp mixed with raisins and place it back in the oven for another quarter hour.
7. From above on a hot "pot" put sour cream in a "cap" and serve, sprinkling finely chopped pumpkin seeds on top. Be sure to fry the seeds in advance.
Baked pumpkin in slices in citrus caramel with honey
Ingredients:
• a piece of pumpkin pulp - 350 gr.;
• one and a half tablespoons of sugar;
• one large lemon;
• light honey (liquid);
• ground cinnamon.
Cooking method:
1. Place the pumpkin, cut into large cubes, on a baking sheet or in any suitable shape. Lightly sprinkle the slices with sugar and set for half an hour to bake in the oven at 180 degrees.
2. Pour boiling water over the lemon, let it lie in hot water for three minutes, then remove it, wipe it dry. Scrape the zest from the fruit with a fine grater and squeeze the juice thoroughly.
3. Remove the baked pumpkin pulp from the oven. Sprinkle cinnamon over the slices, squeeze the lemon zest and pour the lemon juice filtered through a sieve. Then put back in the oven and bring to readiness. On average, this will take no more than 20 minutes.
4. Using a water bath, melt the honey and pour it over hot pieces of pulp.
Fragrant pumpkin baked in the oven with apple and quince slices
Ingredients:
• dense pulp of pumpkin - 500 gr.;
• two small sweet apples;
• quince - 2 pcs.;
• rafinated sugar;
• fat cream or sour cream.
Cooking method:
1. Peel apples, pumpkin and quince. Large, cut the main vegetable into cubes, and cut the quince and apples into slices.
2. Transfer pieces of pumpkin into a bowl, add sugar, mix and let stand for about 10 minutes. Slices of fruit, so as not to darken during this time, you can sprinkle with lemon juice.
3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Wipe the bottom and walls of a deep roasting pan with a piece of warm, soft butter, put prepared vegetable products in it and sprinkle them with sugar.
4. Place a baking sheet on a medium level preheated oven for 25 minutes. Then take it out, again sprinkle the pieces laid on it with sugar and put it back for another 20 minutes.
5. Cool well and pour sour cream or cream whipped with sugar. You can flavor the cinnamon or vanilla sauce.
Oven baked pumpkin with sugar and walnuts
Ingredients:
• pulp of garden pumpkin - 500 gr.;
• half a glass of walnuts;
• two small pinch of nutmeg;
• ground cinnamon;
• half a glass of dark or cane sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Free the walnut kernels from the shell and chop them finely with a knife.
2. From a piece of pumpkin, cut the soft inner part with fibrous pulp, remove the peel. Cut the remaining dense pulp into cubes or cubes of arbitrary size and put them in a clean shape. Sprinkle slices with nuts and sprinkle with sugar.
3. Add the powder of nutmeg and cinnamon, mix and, gently smoothing the surface, put on bake for half an hour.
4. At the end of the specified time, be sure to check the readiness by piercing the pieces with a knife. If the point of the knife enters freely, the dish is ready and you can get it.
5. Serve the dish hot, pouring juice secreted during baking.
Oven baked pumpkin with sugar in foil
Ingredients:
• 120 gr. unrefined sugar;
• a large piece of pumpkin pulp - 600 gr.;
• 60 gr. butter or thickened homemade cream.
Cooking method:
1. Cut from a pumpkin a thick peel and a soft part from the inside. Wash, dry thoroughly and cut into large slices.
2. Put each piece on a separate sheet of large-sized food foil, sprinkle with sugar and wrap tightly, leaving a small hole in the center.
3. Melt the cream and pour into each “package” two teaspoons through the left holes.
4. Put the pieces packed with foil on a baking sheet, with the holes facing up and put in the hot oven to bake. The norm of time is 45 minutes, but you can withstand a little longer.
5. Serve hot, not exempting from "packing", to cold yogurt.
Baked pumpkin in slices in milk sauce
Ingredients:
• one kilogram of ripe pumpkin;
• a tablespoon of sugar;
• a glass of milk;
• a tablespoon of flour;
• high-quality butter - 50 gr .;
• olive or vegetable non-aromatic oil - 35 gr.
• white bread crumbs.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the pumpkin into thin, wide slices.
2. In a thick-walled pan, bake vegetable oil, dip the slices of vegetable into it and fry over medium heat for two minutes on the side.
3. Well brush a wide form or a baking sheet with a brush, dipping it in vegetable oil. Lay in it layers of fried slices of pumpkin pulp, pouring each with sugar.
4. Put 40 g in a clean pan. cream (butter) and melt it over medium heat.
5. Pour in all the flour and, continuing to stir, continue cooking.
6. As soon as the flour mass becomes creamy color, gently, with a thin stream, introduce freshly boiled milk into it. Stir thoroughly, boil quickly, then lower the heating level and continue to simmer milk sauce until it thickens.
7. Pour the pumpkin laid on a baking sheet with the finished sauce and sprinkle with finely ground white breadcrumbs on top. Sprinkle with the remaining melted butter and place the roasting pan for half an hour in a hot oven, setting it to a medium level.
Sliced pumpkin in the oven with sugar slices
Ingredients:
• ripe pumpkin - a small fruit;
• cane refined sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the pumpkin thoroughly washed under warm water with a brush and cut in half and select all the seeds along with the fibers from the halves.
2. Together with the peel, cut the vegetable into large pieces of the same size and put them in one layer, on a baking sheet moistened with vegetable oil or in a mold.
3. Sprinkle sugar over the slices and set to bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. If you prefer the aroma of vanilla or cinnamon, pre-mix granulated sugar with one of the spices.
4. The cooled dish can be served with milk porridge. For greater sweetness, sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
Oven baked pumpkin with sugar - cooking tips and tricks
• For cooking in the oven, it is better to use late, autumn varieties of vegetables. Their flesh is brighter and more juicy.
• Do not choose large fruits, they may be overripe. If you bake such flesh in the oven with sugar, it will be tasteless and "cottony."
• When choosing a pumpkin in the market, pay attention to its color. The peel of a good vegetable should be pale orange, and the pulp of a brighter saturated color. Do not be afraid to buy a pumpkin with a whitish coating on the peel, it is a natural wax.
• In no case do not buy a small pumpkin of a bright and such, at first glance attractive, orange color. Such a vegetable is not used in cooking; it is grown for other purposes.
• To prevent pieces from burning, add some drinking water to the container. It is enough that it only slightly covers the bottom of the tank.
• If during cooking the top of the pieces begins to burn, cover the dish with a sheet of food foil and bring to readiness, without opening to the very end of cooking.
If her pumpkin is left, cook it with meat! Pumpkin with meat is very tasty and healthy.
