Pumpkin contains a set of the useful substances necessary for an organism therefore has to enter a diet of the person watching over health and adhering to the principles of healthy nutrition surely. That pumpkin was tasty and kept a maximum of useful substances, it is the best of all to bake it in an oven. There are several ways of roasting.
It is required to you
- The pumpkin baked with vegetables and apples
- - 500 g of pumpkin pulp;
- - 2 peeled white turnips;
- - 1 peeled small swede;
- - 2 average apples with firm pulp;
- - 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
- - ½ cups of a dried cranberry;
- - 1 tablespoon of whisky;
- - 1 tablespoon of a desi;
- - ½ cups of pumpkin sunflower seeds;
- - Cayenne pepper pinch;
- - salt, fresh ground black pepper.
- Pumpkin "French fries"
- - 500 g of pumpkin pulp;
- - 2 teaspoons of corn starch;
- - 2 teaspoons of olive oil;
- - 1 teaspoon of paprika;
- - 1 teaspoon of a garlic powder;
- - 3 tablespoons of a grated cheese parmesan;
- - ½ cups of svezhenarezanny greens of parsley;
- - ½ teaspoons of sea salt of middle grinding.
Instruction
1. How to choose pumpkin for запеканияХотя any pumpkin it is possible to bake, not all of them will be equally tasty. Huge pumpkins look attractively, but their taste and texture leave much to be desired. They have too thick peel, also it isn't enough pulp viscous and watery, besides in them there are a lot of fibers and seeds. Pumpkins weight from kilogram up to three bigger are suitable for roasting. They are more sweet, more fragrant, their pulp dense, juicy and silky, there is a lot of it, besides it is easier to cut them. It is the best of all to choose muscat grades of pumpkins. It is normal if the peel of vegetable looks a little dim, the main thing that on it there were no dents and spots, including small. Upon purchase give preference to those copies which it is slightly heavier than "fellows" — in them more pulp. Pay attention to that "tail" of pumpkin was whole, not broken off. If the stalk of pumpkin is broken roughly off, vegetable can begin to rot promptly.
2. How to prepare pumpkin for a zapekaniyavymoyta pumpkin under a stream of warm flowing water, removing dirt and garbage. Wipe with paper towels and lay out on a finishing surface. A sharp knife with the wide panel known as a chief knife, decrown together with a stalk. Divide pumpkin into two halves. Extract fibers and seeds. It is the most convenient to make it a metal spoon with a keen edge. Seeds of pumpkin can be washed out and prepared from them tasty snack therefore you shouldn't throw out them.
3. You can bake pumpkin halves. It will take about 60-90 minutes. Roasting of the pumpkin cut on slices takes up to 40 minutes. Most quicker to bake the pumpkin cut on cubes or sticks. Vegetable will become soft already in about 20 minutes.
4. The pumpkin baked to a dolkamirazdelayta the prepared pumpkin on segments 4-5 centimeters thick. Lay out everyone klinyshka a peel down on the baking tray laid by a foil or baking parchment. Between slices there have to be 2-3 centimeters that they didn't stick together and the heat could do the work. By means of a culinary brush oil pulp vegetable. Will approach sunflower, olive, rape, oil of grape seeds and pumpkin. If you want to prepare from pumpkin pulp of puree which can be stored, and then to use for preparation of soups, pies, cakes, then it is better to season with nothing vegetable, but if you plan to serve pumpkin at once, as a garnish or a dessert, to give that time to it additional shades of taste.
5. Such herbs as oregano, a thyme, a sage, rosemary and their mix are perfectly combined with pumpkin. Use dried herbs, but not fresh. Also pumpkin can be seasoned with caraway seeds seeds, paprika, a curry, a cracked ginger, nutmeg, it is worth to remember about salt. "Sweet" pumpkin is seasoned with cinnamon, ground cloves, a refiner syrup, honey, maple syrup and a citrus dried peel.
6. Put a baking tray with pumpkin in the oven which is in advance warmed up to 200 wasps. Bake 35-40 minutes, checking readiness by means of a tip of a knife or a fork. Take out ready pumpkin from an oven and let's it cool down slightly. The peel from the baked pumpkin is removed very easily.
7. The pumpkin baked kusochkamichtoba to bake pumpkin pieces, it is necessary not only to cut it, but also to cut off a peel from slices. The further procedure can differ from roasting of larger pieces only preparation time. But if desired you can complicate a task and prepare more intricate dish from vegetable. The pumpkin cut by pieces can be mixed with other vegetables, such as potatoes, swede, turnip, onions. Pumpkin pulp is well combined with apples, raisin, a dried cranberry. And even with that, and another at the same time.
8. The pumpkin baked with vegetables and yablokamiyablok cut to segments, pumpkin, swede and turnip identical cubes. Lay out on a baking tray with high high overshoes, sprinkle olive oil, season with salt and pepper and well mix. Bake in the oven which is in advance warmed up to 220 wasps about 15 minutes, having several times turned mix.
9. Wet a dried cranberry in ¼ glasses of boiled water, add a few whisky. Kindle a desi in a frying pan and fry on average fire pumpkin seeds before light crackling. Season with salt and a Cayenne pepper, stir up and remove from fire. Lay out the baked pieces in a deep bowl, add a cranberry and mix. Give, having powdered with the fried sunflower seeds.
10. Pumpkin "French fries" For preparation of false French fries from pumpkin, it is necessary to cut the prepared vegetable pulp straws and to wet in a bowl with cold water for a period of 30 minutes till 10-12 o'clock.
11. Drain water, and dry pieces of pumpkin paper towels. Cover a baking tray baking parchment, warm an oven to 220 wasps. Put pumpkin straws in a zip package, add corn starch and several times stir up a package so that pieces of vegetable were entirely covered with starch. Shift in a deep bowl and sprinkle olive oil, season with paprika and a garlic powder. Hands well mix that oil and spicery were well distributed on pumpkin straws.
12. Lay out pumpkin pieces on a baking tray in one layer. Bake in in advance prepared oven within 10-15 minutes until the straws become golden-brown and golden. While pumpkin is baked, mix the cut parsley, sea salt and grated parmesan. Get a baking tray from an oven and strew with the prepared mix. Serve together with sauce of aioli.