Monday 23 December 2013

COOKING FROM THE PUMPKIN

COOKING FROM THE PUMPKINCooks in the pumpkin souls are not prepared! That just does not prepare the pumpkin! Soups, cereals, beef, salads, cakes, jelly, juice ... Can not fish or cut bait, and we cook something of a pumpkin right now.

Milk pumpkin soup

You will need: 1 liter of milk, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of semolina, 250 g pumpkin, salt, sugar, butter to taste.

Of milk and semolina porridge boil, boil for 10 minutes. Grate the pumpkin and add to the porridge, stir, add salt, sugar, oil. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Serve hot and can be chilled.

Porridge with pumpkin

You will need: 400 g pumpkin, 0.5 cups of rice, 0.5 cups of millet, 2 cups milk, sugar and salt to taste.

Pumpkin peel, cut into small pieces, put in a pan, add a little water, simmer until soft, add sugar, salt, washed rice and millet, add milk and cook until tender. Then put in a heated oven and then powered-off.

Puree

You will need: 250 g pumpkin, 4 potatoes, 2 white biscuit, 1 liter of milk, salt, sugar and butter to taste.

Pumpkin and middle-sized potatoes cut into pieces, add a little water and cook until almost cooked. Add the broken biscuits, salt, sugar, boil, and then wipe the whole lot through a sieve, add the butter and milk and cook until tender.

Roasted pumpkin

You will need: 500 g pumpkin, 2 tbsp. spoons of breadcrumbs, sunflower oil for frying, salt to taste.

Pumpkin peel, salt, roll in bread crumbs and fry in sunflower oil on both sides until golden brown. Serve immediately with sour cream.

Pumpkin salad

You will need: 150 g pumpkin, 4-6 apples, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1-2 teaspoons of honey, lemon peel, quarter cup of chopped walnuts, a bag of coconut.

Pumpkin and apples cored grate, mix. Add lemon juice, lemon zest, honey, mix well again and sprinkle with walnuts and coconut.

Stuffed Pumpkin

You will need: 1 small pumpkin, 2/3 cup rice, 1 onion onion, 2 tomatoes, 2 cloves of garlic, 5 g dill, 1 cup each broth, 20 g butter, 20 g cheese, salt and pepper to taste.

Wash and soak the rice. Finely chop the onion and fry in oil. Cut the pumpkin in half, peel and seeds. Remove the pulp (not completely) and crushed. Finely chop the tomatoes, dill and garlic. Mix them with rice and pumpkin pulp, salt and pepper and stuff the pumpkin halves with this mixture, pour them into the broth. Bake in the oven on high heat. For 5 minutes until it is ready to put on top of each half of the butter and sprinkle the grated cheese.

Pumpkin with potatoes

You will need: 400 g pumpkin, 6-8 young potatoes, a little flour, 10 g dill, salt and pepper to taste.

Pumpkin peeled, cut into slices, roll in flour and fry in oil until golden brown. Boil potatoes in their skins, peel, salt and pepper and bake in the oven to put together the pumpkin. The finished dish sprinkle with dill. Serve with butter.

Pumpkin Fritters

You will need: 500 g pumpkin, 2 cups milk, 1 egg, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of sugar, flour on the eyes, salt to taste.

Pumpkin peel, grate, pour the hot milk and cook over medium heat until soft. Remove from heat, cool. Beat the egg with the sugar and add the pumpkin, salt and, stirring occasionally, a thin stream to fill up the flour until the dough does not acquire the consistency of sour cream. Beat it in a mixer. Fry the pancakes as usual, on the hot oil. Serve with milk, sour cream and jam.

Pickled Pumpkin

You will need to 1 half-liter jar: 340-350 g pumpkin, 1 tbsp. Spoon 9% vinegar, 4 cloves, 2 peas in black, 2 peas allspice, 1 bay leaf, a little cinnamon.
For the brine: 1 liter of water 2 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 1 tbsp. spoon of salt.


Take the pumpkin well received his sight, with golden-orange flesh, cleaned and cut into cubes no thicker than 1 cm, blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes, dipped in cold water, then in a colander to drain the water. Shift the pumpkin in a jar, add all the spices, pour hot marinade and poorly sterilized half-liter cans of boiling water for 5-7 minutes, liter - 10-12 minutes, rolled and cooled.