Pumpkin is a very useful plant, the fruits of which contain many useful substances for the human body. You can have a pumpkin moist (as part of salads, for example), but you can cook in various ways, including baking in the oven. There are many variants of cooking pumpkin in the oven - these dishes are completely different types.
Pumpkin baked in the oven with sugar and cinnamon - dessert recipe
Ingredients:
- pumpkin (best Muscat) - 1 pc. or half;
- granulated sugar;
- cinnamon.
Preparation
Cut the pumpkin in half, remove the seeds and cut into slices about 2 cm in thickness. Sprinkle the slices from the side of the pulp with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon (you can still add grated nutmeg, saffron and cardamom to this mixture). Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. We serve as a dessert with cocoa, tea, compote, carcade, rooiboshe, mate. Children will like it.
Pumpkin stuffed and baked in the oven entirely - a hearty lunch in a rustic style
Ingredients:
- pumpkin round small (to fit in the oven) - 1 piece;
- rice;
- minced meat low-fat (better mixed, for example, pork with chicken) - about 300 g;
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- cream natural milk - about 80 ml;
- butter, natural, better gelled;
- grated nutmeg;
- hot red pepper;
- sweet paprika;
- spices different ground (coriander, saffron, cardamom, etc.);
- green vegetable garden;
- garlic.
Preparation
First we prepare the filling. Thoroughly rinse and boil the rice for 8-10 minutes, broth with salt. Spasseruem or lightly fry in a frying pan on oil finely chopped onions, add minced meat and spices. Prepare before changing the color of forcemeat, turning over the spatula.
Combine the minced meat with rice, a little cold. Add chopped greens, 1-3 eggs, chopped garlic, a little cream (taking into account that rice is soaked and swelled yet). Stirring.
How to stuff a pumpkin for cooking in the oven?
Cut off the top of the pumpkin, using a tablespoon we remove from the pumpkin seeds and fibers surrounding them, we clean. Fill the resulting container with cooked stuffing. Close the pumpkin top, like a pot lid.
Baked Pumpkin in the oven
Put the pumpkin in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes. Lay out the filling on the plates, add a slice of another pumpkin to each serving, which we cut.
In approximately the same way, you can bake a pumpkin of longitudinal shape, cutting it in half.
Preparation
We remove the core, lay the filling in halves and bake (see above). After baking, you can sprinkle with grated cheese (you can include a bit of grated cheese in the filling). Cut accurately across with a step of at least 3 cm. Make out greens. Pumpkin in pots in the oven with meat in spicy wine-and-oil sauce - a delicious dish in the rustic style (calculation for 1 serving).
Ingredients:
- meat without bones and skin (pork or chicken, goose, duck, turkey, rabbit, lamb or veal) - 200 g;
- pumpkin - 150 g;
- millet croup - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- sweet red pepper - 1 pc. (or 0.5 depends on the size);
- wine pink or white non-sulfited (better muscat) - 60 ml;
- a little red pepper burning;
- butter - 20 g;
- spices dry ground (saffron, cloves, coriander, etc.);
- garlic - 1 clove;
- greens are different, including a young ray.
Preparation
Meat cut into small pieces, small bars, convenient for eating a fork, as well as a pumpkin. Pepper is cut into strips. We put in a serving pots first a piece of butter, on top of the meat with spices, the next layer - a pumpkin and sweet pepper, 1-2 tbsp. spoons of millet. We pour wine and as much water. Seal with foil, we make 3-5 punctures with a match. We put the pots in the oven with medium heat or begin to cool down the Russian oven for 40 minutes. In the finished dish, add the greens and garlic (of course, in a crushed form). Season with hot red pepper. Stir, serve with the wine, with which they cooked, and cake. We're eating from a pot.