Pumpkin puree - unusually tasty and useful product. It is irreplaceable for baby food. That puree did the kid good, it is necessary not only to prepare it correctly, but also to keep.
Preparation of pumpkin puree
Pumpkin - a product, vitamin-rich, minerals and other valuable components. Pediatricians recommend to enter pumpkin puree into the menu of the kid as a dish for the first feeding up.
Pumpkin is stored very long. Under certain conditions it can lie in storage up to 10 months. Some hostesses prefer to cut pumpkin on pieces and in such look to store it in the freezer. But it is possible to store it not only in the frozen look, but also in the form of puree.
For preparation of pumpkin puree it is necessary to peel pumpkin, to cut it on pieces or to grate, further to lower pieces in a small amount of the boiling water and to allow them to be boiled thoroughly until ready. As a rule, preparation time makes 10-20 minutes depending on a grade of pumpkin and the size of pieces. After a provarivaniye weight needs to be wiped through a sieve or to crush the blender.
How to keep pumpkin puree
Preparation of pumpkin puree - process which demands certain time expenditure. Most often mothers prefer to train him for the future that the product was enough for several feedings at once. That puree was not spoiled, it is necessary to follow a number of rules. At preparation of a dish it is important to observe ideal purity. It is necessary to wash thoroughly pumpkin, all used tanks and tools and also hands. High degree of a microbic obsemenennost of a product leads to its fast damage. If the hostess made puree for the future, it is better for it to postpone at once that quantity of a product which she plans to feed to the kid next day or during the near future. Puree needs to be spread out on clean food containers and to place in the fridge. The earlier it will be sent for refrigerating storage, the longer it will keep the properties. Now on sale there are special containers which allow to increase a period of storage of products. They are made of special materials. Anyway, the period of storage of pumpkin puree in the fridge should not exceed 3-5 days. If the hostess wishes to store puree throughout longer time, she can make house preparations. For this purpose after wiping it through a sieve it is necessary to spread out hot weight on sterile banks of small volume and to sterilize a product, and then to close sterile and covers. For sterilization half a one-liter jar will be required 8-10 minutes. Hermetically corked sterilized product can be stored throughout a long time.