Solar pumpkin – a fruit universal, from it it is possible to prepare the most various dishes including various preparations for the winter, for example, fine desserts and a pickles.
Pumpkin jam with orange
In cold winter time bright yellow pumpkin jam with wonderful aroma of a citrus will be ideal for a cup of hot tea. To prepare sweet, you will be need the following products:
- 1 kg of pumpkin; - 1 large orange;
- 1 kg of sugar; - 1 cups of water. Wash up pumpkin, peel it and remove from it seeds, cut a fruit small into cubes. Clean orange, take out from it sunflower seeds and miss pulp together with a dried peel via the meat grinder. Connect orange gruel to pumpkin and sugar, leave preparation to infuse within 8 hours. Then add to it water and put on a plate when jam begins to boil, lower fire and you cook a dessert within half an hour. Pour ready pumpkin jam on the dry sterilized banks, roll up covers and remove to be stored to the cool place.
Pumpkin puree with apples
Good preparation from pumpkin for the winter is a puree, it can be used as a stuffing for pies and buns and also to use in baby food. For this dish it is required to you: - 1.5 kg of pumpkin; - 0.5 kg of apples; - 2 tablespoons of sugar; - 0.5 lemons. Peel also seeds pumpkin, then miss it via the meat grinder, likewise process apples. Connect apple and pumpkin puree in the enameled basin, add to it sugar, well stir. Put mix on small fire and, periodically stirring slowly, you cook within two hours. In 15 minutes until ready pour in juice of a half of a lemon in preparation and stir. Package ready puree hot on the sterilized banks and hermetically a zakuporta.
Pumpkin caviar
To fans of solenost to taste there will be a caviar from pumpkin for which preparation the following products will be necessary: - 700 g of pumpkin; - 300 g of tomatoes; - 300 g of onions; - 300 g of carrots; - 5 garlic gloves; - 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil; - fennel greens; - salt to taste; - pepper to taste; - 1 tablespoons of vinegar of 9%. Peeled and seeds grate pumpkin, miss carrots and tomatoes via the meat grinder, small cut onions, miss garlic via the garlic press. Heat vegetable oil in a thick-walled pan and fry on it onions, then add pumpkin, cover and you extinguish 15 minutes. After that add to pumpkin and onions mix other vegetables, greens, garlic, pepper with salt and well stir preparation. You stew caviar from pumpkin of 20 more minutes, then pour in it in vinegar, mix and more hotly spread out on banks.