The pumpkin baked in an oven can be served as a main course, and as snack. For example, if to bake the whole pumpkin, having filled it with forcemeat or pieces of meat, then it will turn out quite nourishing viands, suitable for a full-fledged lunch. The small pieces of pumpkin sugared or watered with honey will be suitable more for having a snack.
Pumpkin after roasting keeps many vitamins therefore this heat treatment is the most preferable to a product. And if competently to make vegetable, observing the thermal and time mode, viands will be not only useful, but also tasty.
How many on time to bake pumpkin in an oven pieces, entirely
Time of roasting of pumpkin depends only on the size of the prepared dish and temperature at which the product is preparing. For example, when heating an oven to 200 degrees it is necessary to bake the pumpkin cut on small pieces / slices no more than 20 minutes, and at 180 degrees - half an hour (by the way, previously the product can be sugared or watered with syrup, honey, then the most tasty dessert will turn out).
For roasting of the whole pumpkin it is required much more time - of an hour to two. Vegetables with a diameter of 10-15 centimeters need hour languor in an oven, 15-20 cm - one and a half hour, and larger prepare in 2 hours. It should be noted that the above-written figures correspond to cooking of hollow vegetables (after removal of a core and greasing of an internal part of pumpkin the kindled desi) if before roasting pumpkin begins, for example, the crushed meat or grain, then time of cooking should be increased for 15-20 minutes.
Important: the pumpkin pieces sustained in special marinade on the basis of lemon juice or vinegar are preparing slightly quicker. Therefore if before roasting the product was exposed to pickling, it it is necessary to consider and not to leave it in an oven too long, otherwise it will turn out dryishly.