How to cook a pumpkin in a slow cooker?

Among all autumn vegetables, pumpkin stands out not only for its large size, but also for its beauty. Many argue that such a product as a pumpkin is more useful than many others. Its use is very diverse and will benefit not only the elderly, but also children, as well as people who prefer a healthy lifestyle.

Pumpkin can be cooked a large number of dishes in a slow cooker and in a pressure cooker. The taste of this product is peculiar, but many people like it. It is very useful for those who want to have a slim figure, because there are only a few calories in it, but you can easily eat it.

If you use a slow cooker, you can cook a variety of foods from this vegetable. It cooks purely vegetable and meat dishes with the addition of this product, and soups, and even pilaf.

If we talk about the beneficial elements, it contains a large amount of organic acids and vitamins that are needed for pregnant and lactating women. And also it is useful to people suffering from heart failure or atherosclerosis. It contains the following substances:

• magnesium and potassium;
• fiber, which is simply necessary for children;
• carotene - in pumpkin it is much more than in carrots, therefore, many doctors recommend using it to improve vision;
• phosphorus;
• iron, which is simply necessary for avitaminosis;
• essential oil;
• Vitamins E, PP, B, A, and C.

Drinking pumpkin helps normalize the nervous system, helps sleep well.

One gram of product accounts for four and a half grams of protein, two grams of fiber, half a gram of fat, and ninety-one percent water. Its caloric content is very small, so, for one hundred grams of the product accounts for twenty-three calories. Therefore, pumpkin is considered a dietary product.

A pumpkin cooked in a slow cooker is truly a miracle. Especially if you take small pumpkins, which are much sweeter and more tender than an ordinary pumpkin.

Pumpkin in a slow cooker can be prepared as a separate dish and used as an ingredient in the process of cooking soup or stew. One of the easiest and tasty cooking methods is baking or stewing it with honey. Well combined with pumpkin nuts or dried fruits, which will be an excellent dessert. And also you can cook pumpkin porridge. To do this, for any cereal you need to add a glass of mashed potatoes from this vegetable, and as a result you will get a dietary dish for breakfast. Perfectly combines pumpkin with egg, cottage cheese and even meat.

But in order to know how to cook these or other dishes, you need to familiarize yourself with the most common recipes in more detail.

Having a device such as a slow cooker in the kitchen, it will be very easy to handle a light vegetable dish. In addition, there will be no need to stand and make sure that the pumpkin does not burn. To prepare this dish will take twenty minutes of free time and an hour to cook. The result will be five servings.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.3 kg of cottage cheese;
• 4 tablespoons of semolina;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 0.5 kg of pumpkin;
• 2 eggs;
• 0.05 kg of raisins;

Step-by-step recipe includes a series of sequential steps.

• Pumpkin must be peeled and cut into large pieces. Next you need to turn on the mode "Quenching" and cook it until soft.
• When the pumpkin has cooled, you need to mash it and add half of all the ingredients except raisins and cottage cheese, then mix everything thoroughly.
• Cottage cheese must be grind with egg and add all remaining products.

• A bowl of multicooker should be well oiled and pour there mixed mass.
• It is necessary to bake it for fifty minutes in the “Frying” mode.

The finished dish can be served both a la carte and on a large plate.This casserole will be a wonderful dessert for all home and even guests.

This dish is suitable for those mothers who can not force their child to eat this vegetable. This recipe will help to cope with this problem without much difficulty. After all, the pumpkin will turn out not only useful, but also tasty, and sweet. For its preparation will take only fifty minutes. Food at the same time will be enough for three people.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.15 kg of raisins;
• 0.5 kg of pumpkin;
• 2 apples;
• 0.2 kg of cottage cheese;
• 0.1 liters of sour cream;
• honey to taste

Consider a step-by-step recipe for baked pumpkin with apples.

• First you need to clean the pumpkin from the peel and seeds. Then cut it into slices.
• Raisins should be poured with hot boiled water and allowed to stand for swelling.
• Peel apples, remove the middle and cut into small slices.
• In the bowl of the multicooker, put chopped products, as well as ready raisins and pour 150 ml of water into the bowl.
• Then turn on the "Quenching" mode and cook everything for thirty minutes.
• Ten minutes before the end of time, you must add sour cream and cottage cheese.
• When finished, turn on the “Preheat” mode and wait ten minutes.

The finished dish can be poured with honey and serve. Even your child will like his rich taste, and he will no longer be capricious.

Vegetable prepared in such a way will serve as an excellent garnish not only for meat, but also for fish dishes. And it can also be a separate dish. Fifty minutes will be enough to make it.

Ingredients Required:

• 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• salt and spices to taste;
• 0.2 kg of pumpkin;
• 0.3 kg of potatoes;
• 0.2 kg of mushrooms;
• one onion.

Step-by-step recipe:

• peel the onion and cut it in any way;
• peeled potatoes cut into fries;

• pumpkin should be cut into thin slices;
• mushrooms cut into plates;
• vegetable oil should be poured into the bowl and warm for a few minutes in the mode of "quenching";
• then put there all cooked foods, salt and pepper;
• cook in soup mode for thirty minutes.

The finished dish can be laid out on plates and serve.

This dish is suitable for those people who want to strengthen their body a little and restore its cells. It will take thirty-five minutes to prepare, and you will get ten servings.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.3 kg pumpkin;
• 0.5 liters of water;
• 1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon;
• 0.27 kg of sugar;
• one orange.

The following is a step-by-step recipe.

1. Pumpkin should be peeled and peeled. Then it needs to be cut into small pieces and grind to the size of coarse crumbs.
2. Remove the skin from the orange, remove all the white fibers, remove the stones and cut them very finely.
3. Finished products should be poured into the multicooker bowl, add water and cover with sugar.
4. Next, you need to turn on the mode of "quenching" and cook for twenty-five minutes, stirring.
5. After you need to add cinnamon, then cook for another five minutes.

This dish will be a great addition to tea. To cook it, it will take two hours.

Ingredients Required:

• 2 teaspoons baking powder;
• 0.3 kg flour;
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon;
• one orange;
• one teaspoon of cloves;
• 0.05 liters of brandy;
• 0.05 kg of powdered sugar;
• 0.12 kg of raisins;
• 0.1 kg of sugar;
• 0.05 kg of butter;
• 0.6 kg pumpkin.

Consider a way to make a cake.

1. Pumpkin must be peeled and seeds and cut into cubes. Then put them in a bowl and sprinkle with sugar, and pour over brandy.
2. Orange peel and grate. Then add it to the bowl, throw cinnamon and cloves there too.
3. Then you should add honey there. Bowl should be put in a water bath and melt the honey. Then add the raisins.
4. Flour must be sifted and mixed with baking powder, then add it to the pumpkin mass and mix well.
5. The bowl should be greased with butter and put ready dough there. Turn on "Baking" mode and prepare the dish for one hour and twenty five minutes.
6. Ready the cake to cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon.

Serve on the table can be a la carte, as well as entirely. Such a cake will appeal to all, without exception, besides, it will be useful and dietary.

It would seem that there is no place for such a vegetable in the pilaf, but by preparing it according to this recipe, you can change your mind. This dish will appeal not only to little sweet teeth, but also adult gourmets. To cook it, it will be enough for one hour and thirty five minutes.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.04 kg of butter;
• cinnamon and cardamom to taste;
• 0.2 kg of pumpkin;
• 0.2 kg of prunes and dried apricots;
• 0.2 kg of rice;
• 3 tablespoons of honey;
• 0.35 liters of water.

Step-by-step recipe:

1. need to peel and chop the pumpkin;
2. then melt the butter in a slow cooker and put this vegetable in there;
3. you need to fry everything gradually, adding a little sugar;
4. dried fruit should be washed and put out for five minutes along with the pumpkin;
5. Before that, the rice should be washed and poured into the slow cooker on top of all products;
6. everything is filled with water and cooked in Quenching mode for fifteen minutes;
7. then add all the spices and cook for another half hour;
8. a few minutes before turning off you need to add honey.

Ready-made pilaf can be laid out in small plates and served on the table.

This is one of the most popular breakfast options. Especially if you do it in a slow cooker. For its preparation will be enough for one hour.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.02 kg of butter;
• 0.1 liters of fresh milk;
• 0.1 l of water;
• 025 kg of pumpkin;
• 0.075 kg of millet.

This is the easiest recipe, if you follow the step by step instructions.

1. Peeled pumpkin should be cut into small pieces and put in a slow cooker. Turn on Baking mode and cook for twenty minutes.
2. Then you need to add there milk, diluted with water, millet and butter.
3. Turn on the mode "Milk porridge" and cook for another forty minutes.

Fragrant breakfast is ready, you can serve it on the table.

This is the perfect dish for kids. After all, each mom tries to give her child the most delicious and healthy. Puree is the product that can be given to babies in the first place. From him the child will not hurt the stomach. And you can also use frozen pumpkin. To make mashed potatoes, it will be enough for fifty minutes.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.2 l of water;
• two tablespoons of sugar;
• 0.35 kg of pumpkin.

Step-by-step recipe for pumpkin puree:

1. peeled pumpkin must be cut into pieces;
2. then you should put them in a slow cooker and cook for forty minutes in the "Quenching" mode;
3. then you need to cool a little and grind it in a blender along with the syrup.

Not every man can be forced to eat this vegetable. Many women go to different tricks, worrying about the health of their halves. Such a recipe with meat is for them.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.5 kg of pumpkin;
• 0.5 kg of lean pork;
• 0.3 kg of potatoes;
• 3 tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• natural seasonings for pork.

Step by step recipe dishes:

1. prepared pumpkin should be cut into pieces;
2. pork must be thoroughly washed and dried with paper towels;
3. potatoes should be peeled and also cut into small pieces;
4. the bowl of the multicooker must be oiled, and in the "Frying" mode, slightly fry the meat along with the seasonings;
5. when it is covered with a golden crust, you can add potatoes and pour all the water on the eye;
6. turning on the mode "Quenching", you need to prepare the dish for one hour;
7. then add the pumpkin and simmer another half hour in the same mode.

The finished dish can be served on the table and please your beloved with a truly “masculine” dish.

Here is a recipe for another dish that can please your favorite meat eaters.The result will be a wonderful roast, but not with whole pieces of meat, but with minced meat. To cook it, it will be enough for one hour.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.1 kg of cheese;
• 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• one onion;
• two tablespoons of sugar;
• pepper and salt to taste;
• 0.3 kg pumpkin;
• three tomatoes;
• 0.3 kg of any stuffing;
• two heads of garlic;
• 0.03 kg butter;

The following is a step-by-step recipe for pumpkin with minced meat.

• Tomatoes should be washed and cut into small pieces.

• Do the same with the peeled pumpkin. Then she must lay the bottom of a pre-lubricated multicooker.
• Peel the garlic and cut it quite finely.
• Fry minced meat in a skillet until cooked, add tomatoes and salt. Put out a little together.
• Fry the onions and garlic separately, adding sugar to it. Then pour this mass into the pan with minced meat and stew until the moisture evaporates.
• Then this mass needs to be quickly poured into the slow cooker on top of the pumpkin and baked for forty minutes in the "Baking" mode.
• Five minutes before readiness, you should sprinkle all with grated cheese.

Finished roast can be served on the table. With its taste qualities it will conquer not only your home, but also guests.

It is easy to cook a pumpkin in a slow cooker, and even a person who is far from his cooking career will cope with it.

Choosing this vegetable, you need to pay attention to its color. Pumpkin should be a rich orange shade. And also worth looking at the top. If its tail was cut off, it means that it is not yet ready for use.

As you can understand, pumpkin is such a product that can be used to prepare a variety of dishes. It is especially useful if cooked in a slow cooker. This does not take time away from the hostesses, since in the process of cooking it is not necessary to follow her especially. You only need to prepare all the ingredients, and then after the required amount of time, serve the food on the table.

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