Pumpkin is underestimated in modern cuisine and is often remembered only on Halloween. But this healthy vegetable is not only baked, but various desserts are prepared on its basis. Pumpkin baked goods have excellent taste, you can make pancakes, cookies, muffins, pies. Pumpkin is especially indispensable on fasting days and for a vegetarian menu.
Pumpkin pancakes: homemade baked goods
You will need:
- pumpkin - 420 g;
- wheat flour - 155 g;
- kefir - 240 ml;
- egg - 2 pcs.
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
Step by step cooking process
Peel the pumpkin and cut the flesh into small pieces. Use a food processor to puree the pumpkin pulp. Pour the kefir into a deep container and salt, beat in the eggs, mix and add the sifted flour. Beat the dough.
Combine the resulting dough with pumpkin puree, mix well. Pour vegetable oil into the pan and heat. Spoon the pancake mixture with a spoon and place in the pan.
Fry on both sides until golden brown. Put the finished pancakes on paper napkins to absorb excess fat. Serve pastries with sour cream and any jam, it will be very tasty.
Pumpkin Pancakes: American Pastries
You will need:
- pumpkin puree - 220 g;
- flour - 220 g;
- milk - 210 ml;
- butter - 35 g;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- baking powder - 10 g;
- sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- salt.
Cooking process step by step
In a deep bowl, beat eggs and sugar until frothy. Mix the mixture with pumpkin puree and pour in the butter melted in a water bath. Whisk everything again.
Pour the mass with milk and add flour, mix and add baking powder, whisk everything. Preheat a skillet without oil. Spoon the dough on top of it and fry the pancakes on both sides until tender.
Delicious pumpkin biscuits: quick baking at home
You will need:
- pumpkin - 250 g;
- flour - 360 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 210 g;
- butter - 150 g;
- ground cloves - 1/3 tsp;
- ground dry ginger - 1/2 tsp;
- slaked soda - 1/3 tsp;
- nutmeg - 1/2 tsp;
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- vanillin - 1 tsp
Cooking in stages
Peel and chop the pumpkin, put it in a saucepan, add a little water and boil the pumpkin under the lid for a quarter of an hour. Mix sugar with melted butter, add eggs and beat everything well using a mixer.
Drain the liquid from the pumpkin and turn the mass into a homogeneous puree, mix it with the egg-oil mixture. Add vanillin there and mix, add slaked soda and pour your preferred spices into the dough. For example, you can take nutmeg, ground cloves, and cinnamon.
Sift flour through a sieve and add to the dough. Stir gently, knead the tough dough and spoon onto a greased baking sheet. To make the dough easier to spread, dip a spoon in water before each serving.
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Put the pumpkin cookies in the oven to bake for half an hour.
Pumpkin pie in the oven: easy baked goods
You will need:
- 400 grams of ripe pumpkin;
- 300 grams of flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 70 ml of vegetable oil;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 1 tsp each cinnamon, vanilla, baking powder;
- 1/2 lemon.
Beat the eggs into a deep bowl and beat with a mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar to it. Beat until all the crystals are completely dissolved, and the mass has significantly increased in volume.
Add vanilla, baking powder, cinnamon and sifted flour to the egg mixture. Knead the resulting biscuit dough thoroughly. Having received the required thickness, add vegetable oil into it, mix the dough until smooth using a silicone or wooden spatula.
Grate the peeled pumpkin on a medium grater, sprinkle with fresh lemon juice and add the mixture to the dough. Stir the dough until smooth. Pour the pumpkin dough into a prepared, oiled baking dish.
Bake the pie in a preheated oven for about 1 hour at 180 ° C. After cooling, sprinkle the finished pumpkin dessert with powdered sugar.
Diet Pumpkin Casserole: A Healthy Eating Baking Recipe
You will need:
- pumpkin pulp - 220 g;
- cottage cheese - 460 g low-fat;
- yogurt - 110 ml fat-free;
- wheat bran - 60 g;
- oat bran - 60 g;
- egg - 2 pcs.
- vanillin and cinnamon to taste.
Step-by-step baking
Cut the pumpkin pulp into pieces, place on a sheet of parchment spread on a baking sheet, and bake in the oven until the vegetable is soft. Remove the pumpkin, cool slightly and puree with a blender.
In another container, mix cottage cheese and eggs, add yogurt to them, sprinkle with cinnamon and vanilla to taste. Whisk all ingredients into a homogeneous mass. Pour bran of both types into the curd mass, mix and leave to stand for half an hour and swell.
Place about half of the curd mass in an ovenproof dish. Spread the pumpkin puree neatly over it, and cover with the remaining curd mass on top. Bake the dish for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 ° C.
Simple pumpkin pancakes in the oven
You will need:
- pumpkin - 260 g;
- white cabbage - 250 g;
- semolina - 35 g;
- onions - 30 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- bread crumbs - 20 g;
- salt, pepper, herbs;
- olive oil - 15 ml.
Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cut the pumpkin and cabbage and put in water, cook until soft, drain the liquid. Use a food processor to combine boiled vegetables, herbs and peeled onions into a smooth puree.
Beat the egg into the resulting mass, add semolina, salt, basil, pepper and olive oil. Mix everything thoroughly. Prepare a baking sheet, grease it with oil. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
Moisten your hands with water and roll balls from the pumpkin mass. Place the balls on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Serve pumpkin pancakes with sour cream and any interesting sauce.
Pumpkin Cupcake: Lean Baking Recipe
You will need:
- pumpkin - 350 g;
- sugar - 190 g;
- flour - 150 g;
- prunes - 110 g;
- sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- slaked soda - 1 tsp;
- zest from 1 lemon;
- shelled walnuts - 8 pcs.
Grate the peeled pumpkin, sprinkle with sugar and stir. Add soda, zest, finely chopped prunes to the mass. Pour in vegetable oil there and mix everything well.
Chop the walnuts and mix with the mass, add flour and knead to a homogeneous dough. Pour it into a greased baking dish and place in a preheated oven. Cook the lean pie for 40 minutes at 180 ° C.
Potted Pumpkin Diet Pastry
You will need:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 220 g;
- pumpkin pulp - 170 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- raisins - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cinnamon.
Cooking process step by step
Cut the pumpkin pulp into small pieces. Stir the cottage cheese and egg well in a deep container, beat the mass and add the pumpkin pieces to it. Pour regular raisins there, add cinnamon and stir the resulting mass.
Spread the mass into prepared pots and place in a preheated oven to bake. Diet pumpkin in a pot should be simmered sooner, so the temperature should be no higher than 110 ° C. Until fully cooked, the dish will take 1 hour to simmer. Serve hot baked goods directly in portioned pots.
