Cooking pumpkin tasty and simple - video recipes at home

Pumpkin is quite possible to cook a complete meal: first, second, dessert and a drink.

Pumpkin soup

Ingredients: 1 liter of water

carrot

parsley root

green beam

3 medium potatoes

400 g of pumpkin pulp

bulb

olive oil

milk

salt

White pepper

Parmesan cheese

How to cook pumpkin soup:

1. To start, prepare a vegetable broth. Lower boiling water whole carrot, parsley root and green beam.
2. To salt is not necessary. Cook for 10-15 minutes, then strain through a colander all. While the broth is cooked diced potatoes and pumpkin.
3. Onion peel and cut into slices. In a skillet, heat the olive oil and fry the onions until golden brown, then add the potatoes and the pumpkin, cook vegetables until they are soft.
4. Pour into a saucepan with the vegetable broth and milk, cover the bowl with a lid and simmer for 30-40 minutes.
5. After that, add salt to taste, season with white pepper and add the Parmesan cheese, which will make this vegetable soup nourishing and more satisfying.

For cooking you can use not only the pulp and pumpkin seeds, it can become and utensils for cooking fragrant and useful porridge.

in the pumpkin porridge

Ingredients:

One medium sized pumpkin

400 g of buckwheat

1 onion

3 garlic cloves

melted butter

sugar and salt

How to cook porridge in the pumpkin:

1. Cut from the top of the pumpkin and remove all the seeds of the midway. Slightly scrape pulp to "dishes" turned wall thickness of about 2 cm.
2. Rub inside sugar and salt and put in a preheated oven for one hour. Buckwheat boil until half.
3. In a pan fry in clarified butter onion, chopped pieces. Garlic pass through a press and add to the onions.
4. When the vegetables are transparent, put in the pan and mix porridge. Remove pumpkin from oven and scrape the pulp from the walls.
5. The resulting puree, add the porridge or post separately to the dish. Massu put in a pot of pumpkin, put a slice of melted butter, cover the cut "lid" and place in oven for 30 minutes.

Pumpkin tempura

Crispy on the outside and very soft and fragrant inside pieces of the test will satisfy many. And preparing this dish is really simple. Ingredients:

1 pumpkin

200ml milk

4 eggs

3 tbsp. tablespoons flour

vegetable oil

salt

How to cook the pumpkin in batter:

1. To prepare the food will be enough vegetable medium size. Clean the pumpkin from the skin, cut into 4 pieces and remove the seeds from the midway.
2. Cut the flesh into large chunks. In a frying pan heat the oil and fry the pumpkin until soft.
3. Make the batter to batter. Lightly beat the eggs, add the milk and flour, mix everything thoroughly until smooth and whisk in a blender.
4. salt dough. Dip slices of pumpkin in the batter at a time and spread on a hot pan with vegetable oil.
5. Fry on both sides until golden brown. This dish can be served even as a garnish for meat or fish, and if you sprinkle powdered sugar, make a great dessert.