What to cook from frozen pumpkin?

The fact that the pumpkin has a huge number of useful properties, many have heard. It is no coincidence that in summer it can be found in any garden.However, this harvest is quite large, so the pumpkin is often frozen. Although then many people wonder what dishes to prepare from a frozen vegetable, so that they are tasty and varied.

Pumpkin contains a huge amount of beneficial to human health substances. It:

• vitamins, ranging from A to rare T, which promotes the resorption of fat deposits and build muscle mass;
• minerals;
• fatty and organic acids;
• cellulose;
• carotene;
• squirrels.

Useful substances are preserved when cooking and freezing vegetables. It is no coincidence that it is included in the diet of children. Properly cooked pumpkin and adults will appreciate. In particular, those who follow their figure. The caloric content of this product with all the richness of the mineral and vitamin composition in it is low - only 26 kilocalories per 100 grams of product (this does not apply to pumpkin seeds, in which there are 556 kilocalories per 100 grams).

The benefits of pumpkin is not only in a great mood, which will give lunch, including dishes from this product. It is also a mass of medicinal properties in the pulp and seeds.

• The flesh is perfectly digested by the stomach, helping the body absorb more heavy foods. The work of the digestive tract in the systematic use of pumpkin normalizes.
• Also eating this vegetable, people put blood pressure in order. The walls of blood vessels are becoming stronger. Water-salt balance returns to normal.
• Effective product in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes, constipation and hemorrhoids.
• Pumpkin helps to eliminate toxins from the body. This is due to the antioxidants in it. And thanks to the presence of carotene can improve vision. Also, scientists have discovered in the pumpkin substances that suppress the tubercle bacillus. Iron reserves, under the dense yellow shell, can prevent anemia.
• 90% pumpkin consists of water. This product contains a large amount of potassium, which can dissolve stones in the kidneys and bladder. With the help of this vegetable treat pyelonephritis. Also, this product allows you to get rid of insomnia and bring the body to a tone, strengthening the immune system and the ability to stand up to seasonal infections.

• As an external remedy, pumpkin is used for various skin lesions - from acne to eczema. Vegetable provides an opportunity to update the skin and strengthens bone tissue. As a result, the aging of the body slows down.
• Women who regularly eat pumpkin dishes become owners of luxurious hair, nails and beautiful skin.
• Pumpkin juice men stimulate their sexual abilities, which becomes especially important after forty years.
• Seeds are used to excrete parasites. For such a case, they are eaten raw, washed down with milk.

Despite the wealth of useful qualities, the pumpkin has some contraindications to use. An obstacle to the pleasure of dishes from this vegetable can be:

• gastritis with insufficient acidity of the stomach;
• diabetes, depending on the characteristics of the reaction of the body;
• allergic reactions.

For the pumpkin to be suitable for cooking after thawing, it must be properly frozen. First you need to select and prepare the fruit. It should be vegetables that do not have defects and signs of rotting. They cut off the upper and lower parts. After that, the pumpkin is installed on the kitchen board. The skin is cut from the vegetable. Although sometimes it is more convenient to cut it in half, remove the seeds, remove the soft part. You can cut it into cubes or rub through the grater.

Spread the pieces evenly over a flat surface (you can take any available tools from kitchen utensils) so that the cubes do not touch each other, and send them to freeze. When they become solid, pull out and move to container.So it is more convenient to store them. In this case, you need to select the capacity where the cubes can lie loosely. Pumpkin in the process of freezing expands. If the container is filled tightly with it, the lid may rise or the storage container will burst. The same physical property of the pumpkin must be taken into account when freezing the rubbed semi-finished product in bags. Pumpkin porridge obtained after rubbing should be divided into portions in polyethylene, closed, flattened and put in a freezer in piles.

In addition to raw, frozen and cooked pumpkin. It is boiled in slices or mashed. This product will be convenient to use, including in order to feed a small child, if possible avoiding the purchase of store baby food. If you need to make a freeze of boiled pieces, they are put in a colander and boiling water on a slow fire. Wait three or four minutes, and then move into very cold water. Take out and dry. Freeze according to the previously described scheme.

As for freezing puree, here you need to cut the pumpkin in three-centimeter cubes with peel. Small fruits enough to divide into quarters. Next, you can put the chopped vegetable in a glass dish filled with water for about five centimeters and put in a microwave for 15-20 minutes at high power. After fifteen minutes, the cubes can be checked with a fork. If they are not quite soft, you should continue processing. If necessary, add minutes on the timer.

If you decide to use the oven, you need to put the pumpkin on a baking sheet and bake at 150 degrees for about an hour and a half. If there is no oven, no microwave, pumpkin, sliced, you can simply boil. In a small saucepan, bring water to the boil (three centimeters), put a pumpkin in it and cook for 15 minutes until soft. Turn the prepared product into a puree by using a blender. After cooling to freeze.

To defrost the product at home does not require special techniques. If it was prepared in cubes, you can simply add it to the intended dish during cooking. Boiling water, hot milk or broth will quickly do their work, and a magnificent soup or porridge will fall on the table. For defrosting mashed potatoes or pumpkins from the oven, you can use the possibility of a microwave.

Sometimes it is necessary to allow the product to defrost naturally. Then the container extracted from the freezer with pumpkin billet can be left overnight at room temperature, and in the morning to start cooking.

Pumpkin is convenient because in its simplicity of execution many dishes from it are available even for inexperienced housewives. It is not difficult to cook a soup from such a semi-finished product. It is necessary to take:

• frost pumpkin;
• onion and green;
• carrot;
• potatoes;
• fat (if you wish);
• parsley;
• cream.

All products, except for the pumpkin prepared in advance for freezing, should be chopped. Dip in a saucepan, pour water and simmer for about half an hour. Add spices to taste, salt. Then grind all the cooked mass with a blender, add cream to the pan. After the soup boils, boil for another five minutes. When serving, add croutons or fried bacon to the plates.

An equally common dish, like the frozen pumpkin soup, is pumpkin porridge. To cook it, you need to take:

• frozen pumpkin;
• milk;
• salt;
• sugar or honey;
• cinnamon;
• butter.

Heat the milk in a saucepan, put pumpkin cake in it and add salt and spices to taste. When the pumpkin is boiled soft under the influence of slow fire, the oven can be turned off, butter and honey (sugar) can be added to the porridge. Porridge from pumpkin harvested for the winter can be cooked with different cereals - semolina, rice or wheat cereal. If you add jam, jam or sweet berries to it, you can get an unusual taste every time. Porridge will not become boring, and the body can always receive additional feed with a variety of useful substances from the frozen pumpkin.

Good pumpkin and as a side dish to the main (meat) dish. From the thawed cubes seasoned with herbs, you can make delicious and satisfying food. Thawed thawed slices in butter, add grated garlic and herbs. Put on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at high temperature.

By simple dishes in terms of cooking can be attributed to casserole of cottage cheese and pumpkin. Cooking is easy. She helps out, if, for example, the guests unexpectedly appeared, and there is nothing tasty in the house that can be put on the table.

For the "children's audience" is suitable casserole, which added apples or other fruits. For adults who need to be fed more thoroughly, you can also use potatoes, meat or rice. When choosing an option should be guided by their experience and culinary flair. In the product set, for example, you can include:

• fat cottage cheese - about 200 grams;
• frozen pumpkin (grated) - about 300 grams;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• sugar - 2 spoons;
• semolina - 3 spoons;
• a pinch of soda;
• salt;
• butter - about 50 grams;
• sour cream - about 100 grams;
• vinegar.

Mash cottage cheese and mix with soft butter. Add sour cream and sugar as it should be stirred. Add beaten eggs and pour semolina. Stir everything again so that there are no lumps left. Now add the thawed pumpkin and soda to extinguish with vinegar directly in the basin for kneading. Pour the dough into a greased baking dish and put it in the oven for an hour at about 180 degrees.

You can make candied fruit from a high sugar content pumpkin - a healthy and tasty dessert. To cook it, you need to take:

• pumpkin cubes of the same size - about 800 grams;
• large lemon;
• sugar - one and a half cups.

Thaw pumpkin at normal temperature. Cut lemon into thin plastics. In a saucepan, mix the pieces of pumpkin with sugar and lemon slices, turn on a small fire, wait until it boils and reduce the heat. Boil for about five minutes. Wait until it cools down (this process takes at least 3 hours to complete). Bring to a boil again and cook for another five minutes.

If it seems that the cubes are still not sufficiently saturated with syrup, the procedure can be repeated once more. Drain liquid, put pumpkin pieces and lemon slices on a baking sheet so that they do not stick together, put in the oven and leave there for four hours at a temperature of one hundred degrees, periodically opening the door or turning on the fan. Bring to readiness, focusing on your own taste.

When all the sweet supplies are eaten in the spring and there is no jam or jam at hand, the frozen pumpkin will be very useful. For the preparation of unusual jam will need:

• frozen pumpkin - 1 kilogram;
• lemon and orange;
• sugar - 900 grams;
• water - ½ cup.

Thaw the pumpkin. Grind the orange and lemon without removing the peel in a meat grinder. Mix this mass with pumpkin and sugar. Add water and put on the stove. After boiling, immediately remove from the hotplate and allow to cool for eight hours. Then return to the fire, slowly bring to a boil and cook for forty minutes, stirring occasionally.

What will be left for the near future, can be useful for eating with pancakes from thawed pumpkin, which was pre-grated or minced. As a basis for pancakes, you can take sour cream, kefir or even yogurt. For baking simple fritters, you will need:

• pumpkin - half a kilo;
• flour - 2 glasses;
• soda;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• vegetable oil;
• sugar.

Thaw pumpkin in the microwave for a couple of minutes. The liquid remaining after this procedure should be left. In the pumpkin add soda, salt and sugar to taste. If the pancakes are prepared exactly as a dessert, you can add more sugar. If you plan to do something like “accompaniment” to the meat dish, you can put more salt, and only a little bit of sugar.

Mix everything well, add the eggs and repeat the stirring. Add flour, completing the preparation of the dough. Fry in a well heated pan.

Children and all those who are shown dietary food, will be happy liver with pumpkin. For the test you will need:

• small banana;
• rubbed pumpkin - about 300 grams;
• soft butter - 100 grams;
• flour - one and a half glasses;
• honey - three tablespoons;
• some raisins;
• nuts - about half a cup;
• baking powder - one teaspoon;
• cinnamon.

First you need to pour boiled water raisins. Mix thawed pumpkin mass with chopped into small pieces, and then mashed banana and honey. Fry nuts, grind. Add to total weight. Send oil, raisins and cinnamon there. Introduce baking powder and flour.

Pumpkin is also suitable for making a cupcake that can decorate a friendly tea party. To prepare the dessert you need to take:

• pumpkin - about 300 grams;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• flour - 250 grams;
• sugar - about a glass;
• sunflower oil - half a glass;
• baking powder - 1 tablespoon;
• orange - 1 piece;
• salt.

Peel an orange and grate its zest, combine with sugar and flour, add salt and baking powder. Stir everything. Add pureed pumpkin, eggs, fork and butter. Knead the dough so that it is not too liquid and not very tight. Bake in the oven for an hour (temperature about 190 degrees).

Addition to the dessert will be a thick and tasty pumpkin-based drink. Need to cook:

• thawed boiled pumpkin puree - 200 grams;
• freshly squeezed grapefruit or orange juice;
• cinnamon;
• nutmeg;
• honey - 3 spoons.

Pumpkin mix with juice and honey, add a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg. Bring to homogeneity blender. The drink is ready.

To make frozen pumpkin use convenient and useful, It is necessary to take into account a number of points:

• The process of drying the pieces before they are sent to the freezer helps to avoid the wateriness of the thawed pumpkin.
• With the help of the same drying, you can make a pumpkin sweeter.
• From the point of view of the place occupied in the freezer, it is most advantageous to store this vegetable in the form of mashed potatoes in bags.
• Layer mashed potatoes, the size of which is carefully thought out, it is convenient to completely immerse in boiling milk or water to create some dishes. So you can quickly and tasty cook soup or porridge.
• It should be remembered that the combination of pumpkin with milk and butter allows the body to better absorb beta-carotene, which is in the yellow vegetable.
• The skin on the pumpkin sometimes can not be cleaned, so it is dense. In this case, pieces of vegetable can boil for five minutes in water. After that, the fruit will be easier to clean.
• It should be borne in mind that the taste and smell of pumpkin will be preserved if you cook it in the oven.
• A round-shaped pumpkin is best for making soups. For dessert dishes, you should choose varieties that have an elongated shape like a melon, or pear-shaped fruits.
• Roast the pumpkin only in hot oil so that a lot of juice does not stand out from the vegetable.

To learn how to freeze a pumpkin, see the following video.