People who monitor their health must include pumpkin dishes in their diet. This vegetable can be prepared in various ways, but most of the nutrients are retained after baking. You can bake the pumpkin whole or cut it into slices and cook with sugar, spices.
It is necessary
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- For Sweet Baked Pumpkin:
- - 500 g pumpkin;
- - 150 g of sugar;
- - icing sugar.
- For baked pumpkin:
- - 1 small pumpkin;
- - 2 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- - 2 tbsp. honey;
- - 75 g of raisins;
- - 1 tbsp. cumin;
- - 1 lemon;
- - salt to taste.
- For Spicy Baked Pumpkin:
- - 800 g pumpkin;
- - 0.5 tsp ground cumin;
- - 0.5 tsp ground red pepper;
- - 0.5 tsp ground black pepper;
- - 1 tsp cumin;
- - 3 tbsp. olive oil;
- - salt to taste.
Instructions
Step 1
Sweet Baked Pumpkin
Peel a piece of pumpkin. Cut the pulp into small pieces. Boil 0.5 liters of water in a saucepan, add sugar and stir the syrup. If you use sweet pumpkin for baking, the amount of sugar can be reduced.
Step 2
Place pumpkin in sugar syrup and simmer for about 5 minutes. Then put the pumpkin in a colander so that all the water is glass, transfer to a baking dish.
Step 3
Place the pumpkin in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Bake for about 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving. You can serve baked pumpkin both hot and cold.
Step 4
Baked pumpkin
Wash the pumpkin and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut off the stem. Make several punctures in the pumpkin on all sides with a long knitting needle. Preheat the oven to 190 ° C. Place the prepared pumpkin on a baking sheet, cut side up and leave in the preheated oven. The baking time of the pumpkin depends on the size of the fruit. Assume that for every 500 g of pumpkin, 1 hour of roasting is required. Whole baked, it retains more flavor and juice.
Step 5
Cool the pumpkin for 10 minutes. Then cut in half lengthwise. Remove seeds and fibers. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon. Mix honey with lemon juice. Soak the raisins in warm water. Cut the pumpkin pulp into large cubes.
Step 6
Heat vegetable oil in a skillet. Roast the pumpkin quickly for 2 minutes. Sprinkle it with caraway seeds and simmer for a couple of minutes.
Step 7
Drain the water and squeeze out the raisins. Add raisins, honey and lemon juice to the pumpkin. Season with salt. Then cover and simmer over low heat for about 5 minutes.
Step 8
Spicy baked pumpkin
Cut the pumpkin into slices. Their thickness should not exceed 1-1.5 cm. Mix spices - ground cumin, red and black peppers, caraway seeds and salt. Preheat oven to 220C.
Step 9
Place the pumpkin on a high-bordered baking sheet or in a wide skillet. Sprinkle the spice mixture over the slices. Drizzle with vegetable oil, preferably olive oil. Leave to bake in the oven for half an hour.
