To make the baked pumpkin tasty, you need to use additional ingredients. Fresh herbs, spices, sauces or even completely "independent" products - other vegetables, meat, poultry - can act in their role.
It is necessary
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- pumpkin
- salt
- pepper
- fresh herbs
- spices
- sauces
- meat or poultry
- cutting board
- knife
- fireproof dish
- pan
- stewpan
- oven
Instructions
Step 1
Choose pumpkin according to the additional ingredients you are going to cook it with. For baking with herbs, varieties with orange sweet pulp are more suitable. In the vicinity of poultry or meat, the "bottle" French pumpkin is better read. Thick sour cream, cheese or creamy sauces reveal the taste of yellow pumpkin more fully. Don't be tempted to buy this whole vegetable. Typically, a piece weighing about 1 kg. enough to feed two people. In addition, the cut pumpkin has a visible flesh, and you can choose the pieces with the least seeds.
Step 2
Peel the skin and seed nest from the pumpkin. Don't be afraid to cut more than you should. It is worse if the unwanted part ends up in the dish. However, young pumpkins of certain varieties do not need to be cut off. For dishes that involve baking with sauce in a low ceramic bowl, the pumpkin must be cut into large cubes. If you are going to make pumpkin rösti, rub it with thin noodles. For baking with meat or poultry, leave large pieces of irregular shape, but they must be marinated before baking. One of the marinades can be 50 g of olive oil, 10 g of lemon juice, 2 g of fresh rosemary leaves. By the way, rosemary needles look great on a baked pumpkin!
Step 3
Prepare 250 ml. heavy cream, 25 g of butter, 20 g of flour and 30 g of grated cheese - we will make a creamy sauce in which gourmets of Western Europe like to bake pumpkin. To do this, melt the butter in a deep saucepan over medium heat, fry the flour in it until it exudes a light nutty flavor and becomes creamy. Season with salt and pepper. Pour in the cream and cook, stirring constantly, for about 5-7 minutes. Put the pumpkin in a fireproof dish, cover with creamy sauce, sprinkle with cheese and bake in the oven until golden brown.
Step 4
Whisk 2 eggs, 1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp. flour for tempura, salt if necessary. Dry the pumpkin with a paper or cloth towel, dip it in the dough, quickly fry in a mixture of vegetable and butter. Place the pumpkin in a fireproof container, sprinkle with dry ginger, bake in the oven for 7-10 minutes. This is how baked pumpkin is eaten in Southeast Asia.
Step 5
Prepare a marinade with 30 g lemon juice and 70 g honey. Marinate the pumpkin in it for half an hour. Meanwhile, fry the pork (pumpkin and meat are best taken in approximately equal proportions). When finished frying, salt and pepper the pork, if desired, sprinkle with your favorite spices, for example, cumin. Cut the foil into 25 cm squares. In the middle of each, place a spoonful of pumpkin with honey dressing and roasted pork. Bake for 10-15 minutes. This method of baking pumpkin is common in America.
