Pumpkin – very healthy and delicious vegetable. The pulp of mature pumpkin is delicate and sweet, it contains up to 8% sugar. The color of the pulp varies from yellow to a dense-orange shade. Dishes made from pumpkin, especially from pumpkin baked in the oven, are considered dietary. They are suitable for nutrition of children and adults, especially those who suffer from anemia and atherosclerosis, as well as diseases of the liver and kidneys. It is useful to use pumpkin and pregnant women.
Every mistress should know how to cook a pumpkin in the oven. The simplest thing is without removing the peel, cut the pumpkin into slices, remove seeds and fibers from the core, lay in a deep baking sheet, add a small amount of water, and bake. Such a dish can be served both cold and hot. Cold baked pumpkin is served with milk, and hot – watering it with melted butter.
If you have a special pot, you can cook a pumpkin in the oven and in it. Cut the pumpkin, remove fibers and core, remove the peel. Lubricate the walls of the pot with oil, put pieces of pumpkin, pour milk or cream and place in the oven. In order to cook a pumpkin in the oven in a pot, it will take about an hour.
Your children are varnishes constantly requiring sweets? You can cook a pumpkin in the oven so that it will like centers. Cut the pulp in the form of small cubes, sprinkle well with sugar and bake.
Thinking about how to cook a pumpkin in the oven, you can come up with a lot of interesting foods. Give the scope of your culinary imagination to cook tasty and various pumpkin dishes. For example, you can cook a pumpkin in the oven in the form of a variety of casseroles. There is an original recipe for pumpkin casseroles with cottage cheese: clean and cut the pumpkin cubes, fry in butter. Boil a viscous semolina porridge. Add fried pumpkin and cottage cheese, three eggs, salt, sugar to the porridge. Mix the mass, put in a form or on a baking sheet, lubricate the top with an egg and bake.
You can cook a pumpkin in the oven, baking it with cheese, in sour cream or egg. First, pieces of peeled pumpkin should be rolled in flour, salt, fry in butter. Then put on a deep pan, and, depending on the type of casserole, pour sour cream or egg, beaten milk, sprinkle with grated cheese. The pumpkin can also be laid in layers, lubricating each layer with filling. On top, the mass can be anointed with an egg or sprinkled with breadcrumbs and served with chopped greens.
Pumpkin and dishes from it will help to diversify the menu and enrich your diet with delicious and healthy everyday and festive dishes.