If you are tired of expensive diets based on exclusive products grown in the "most ecological" areas of the globe, brought specially to the "Diet" stores, to ease life slimming at such a crucial moment, the following information is just for you. Today we will talk about one of the most accessible means of losing weight in the autumn-winter period. Our task: to find the most effective recipes with a pumpkin for weight loss.
Benefit
Pumpkin is incredibly useful for the skin, genitourinary system, serves as the prevention of atherosclerosis (reduces the level of harmful cholesterol). Pumpkin is a slightly diuretic that also promotes the cleavage of kidney stones. With simple recipes from pumpkin you will not be afraid of heart diseases, you will replenish the stock of vitamins A, E, C, nicotinic acid, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc. In India, for example, it has long been believed that the pumpkin prevents aging.
Recipes
Let's start with the first dishes, namely, with a dietary recipe cream of pumpkin soup.
Cream-soup with pumpkin
Ingredients:
- pulp pulp - 1 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- onion - 1 piece;
- ghee - 2 tablespoons;
- cream 10% - ½ cup;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
Pumpkin cut into large cubes, onions - finely. Put the melted butter in a saucepan, fry the onion until it is transparent. We put a pumpkin, fry for a few minutes, add salt, pepper. We reduce the fire, fill it with water and cover it with a lid. Cook for 20 minutes.
Drain part of the broth, we rub the soup with a blender. If necessary, you can add a decoction. Cream warmed and poured into the soup. Warm up, but do not bring it to the boil. Add crushed garlic and serve with croutons.
We move further along the culinary bowels and continue cooking with a dietary recipe of pumpkin puree.
Pumpkin puree
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin pulp - 300 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- brown sugar - 2 tbsp.
Preparation
Pumpkin cut into small cubes, put in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar and pour water. Cook first on medium heat 10min, then, on a slow one for another 10 minutes. We put it into a blender and we rub it. Pumpkin puree can be stored in the refrigerator is, as a stand alone dish or add to baking.
So, in your arsenal for weight loss there are already two recipes with an incredibly useful pumpkin. Use them for the benefit of losing weight and soon your fantasy is played out, it will start to create useful combinations with pumpkin and other vegetables, fruits and other slow carbohydrates.