The subtleties of cooking fried pumpkin

Pumpkin is the kind of vegetable that almost everyone likes. The dishes prepared from it are useful at different diseases. Pumpkin is recommended to eat to those people who suffer from hepatitis, cystitis, have a metabolic disorder, with cardiovascular diseases and many others. In addition, pumpkin improves the intestinal microflora and helps to resume all functions of the liver.

Often it is used in the diet. After all, it contains pectin, which expels chloride salts from the human body. Also very tasty and popular pumpkin in roast. It can not only dilute the monotony in the diet, but also become a "rival" for products such as potatoes or buckwheat.

The composition of this product includes many nutrients, besides, it has a very small caloric content, only twenty-five kilocalories per hundred grams of product. This also includes the following items:

• 90gr - water;
• 0,9gr - proteins;
• 5.9 g - carbohydrates;
• 1,2g - fiber;
• 0.3 g - pectins;
• 0.1 g - organic acids;
• 0.5 g - ash.

Also, pumpkin has a large amount of vitamins:

• 1,4mg - vitamin A, or, in other words, beta-carotene;
• 0.05 mg - vitamin B1;
• 0.06 mg - vitamin B2, or, in other words, riboflavin;
• 0.5 mg - vitamin B3 or niacin;
• 0.6 mg - folic acid;
• 14mg - vitamin C.

In such a vegetable is also a large number of different macronutrients:

• 4 mg - sodium;
• 200mg - potassium;
• 14 mg - magnesium;
• 24 mg - phosphorus;
• 26mg - calcium.

It consists of the following trace elements:

• 0,240 mg - zinc;
• 0.4 mg - iron;
• 0.84 mg - fluorine;
• 0.1 mg - iodine;
• 0.180 mg - copper;
• 0.1 mg cobalt;
• 0.38 mg - manganese.

The easiest way to cook this product is roasting in a pan. The fried dish is very tasty and quickly cooked, therefore both housewives and gourmets love it. Here is one of the easiest recipes that anyone who first cooks a roasted pumpkin can use.

Ingredients Required:

• less than half a pumpkin;
• a few pinches of salt;
• vegetable oil.

Step-by-step recipe for classic fried pumpkin.

1. For such a recipe is most suitable pumpkin pear-shaped. It differs in that inside the vegetable there are very few seeds, and the pulp is soft.
2. Pumpkin should be well washed, rid of peel and cut in half.
3. Then you need to cut it into very thin strips up to three millimeters thick.
4. On the pan you need to pour sunflower oil with a layer of two millimeters and warm up well.
5. Then you need to put on it pieces of pumpkin and salt.
6. You need to fry it on low heat for five minutes, then turn it over and also fry on the other side.
7. Ready fried slices should be moved to paper towels and dried.

In addition to such a simple recipe, there are many ways to make it. After all, the pumpkin can always be combined with a variety of components, for example, with garlic or onions, even with nuts. In addition, you can cook it with salt and sugar. In order to find some of your favorite cooking options, you should familiarize yourself with them and choose the recipes that your relatives will most like.

This is an interesting recipe that definitely deserves the attention of novice chefs. Nuts will complement the taste of pumpkin and make the dish more useful.

Ingredients Required:

• half a kilo of pumpkin;
• 0,030 kg - butter, so that it was 72 percent;
• ground cinnamon on the tip of a knife;
• sugar;
• pine nuts - one handful.

Step-by-step recipe for dishes with pine nuts.

1. Pumpkin must be washed and cleaned. Then you need to cut it into pieces, the length of which should be at least six centimeters, and the thickness - six millimeters.
2. Throw butter into the heated pan and melt it.
3. On moderate heat, fry the slices. It is not recommended to cover the pan with a lid.
4. When the slices acquire a ruddy crust, you must sprinkle them with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. After that, you need to cover them with a lid and about five minutes on the slowest fire.
5. Finished pumpkin must be sprinkled with a handful of pine nuts just before serving.

Pumpkin, cooked with fragrant garlic, and useful, and incredibly tasty. Do not like this dish can only those who do not like obsessive garlic flavor.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.500 kg - pumpkin;
• parsley;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• black pepper;
• 3 tablespoons - vegetable oil;
• some flour;
• one glass of fat sour cream.

Step-by-step recipe

1. First you need to rid the pumpkin from the peel and remove the seeds. It should be cut into very thin slices.
2. Cut the pieces into a plate and sprinkle them with pepper and fine salt. Then they need to mix well.
3. Heat the butter in a skillet and fry the pumpkin pieces that had been rolled in flour before. It is necessary to cook ruddy slices at the lowest possible heat so that they do not burn.
4. Finished pieces need to be folded in a thick-walled pot and dogotovit in the oven. Finished pieces should be soft, but not falling apart.
5. In a separate pot you need to crush garlic and fresh parsley. Then add sour cream to this mixture.

Cooked pumpkin can be put on a large platter and pour ready garlic sauce on top and serve.

To prepare such a dish, a lot of effort and time will not be needed.

Ingredients Required:

• one fresh egg;
• 0.5 cup - flour;
• 0,300kg - pumpkin;
• one teaspoon of hop-suneli;
• mayonnaise - to taste;
• 0,020l - oils.

Step-by-step recipe dishes.

1. Pumpkin must be washed and cleaned of seeds and peel. Then you need to cut it into pieces one centimeter thick.
2. Pour flour in a large bowl and add seasoning and salt to it, and then mix well.
3. Slices of pumpkin should be rolled very well in this mixture and spread on a plate.
4. Separately, in a small plate it is necessary to beat an egg with mayonnaise.
5. In the pan you need to heat the sunflower oil and put in it pieces of pumpkin, having dipped them in the egg mixture.
6. It is necessary to fry both sides until golden brown.
7. The finished pumpkin can be laid out on paper towels, and then put in a cooked pot.

If you season the pumpkin with a delicious sauce, you get a great independent dish.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.600 kg - pumpkins;
• flour;
• slightly unrefined sunflower oil;
• salt - to taste;
• a mixture of favorite types of pepper.

For tomato sauce:

• four ripe and fleshy tomatoes;
• 1/3 tsp - dried basil;
• salt - pinch;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• a little sugar;
• dill and parsley - for serving.

Step-by-step recipe for grilled pumpkin with tomato sauce.

1. Pumpkin should be washed with warm water and cleaned of seeds and peel. Then you need to cut it into small pieces, up to one centimeter thick.
2. In a not very deep bowl, mix flour and a mixture of herbs and spices. In all this, roll the slices and leave them for ten minutes to soak in flavors and flavors.
3. In a skillet it is necessary to heat the sunflower oil and fry the pumpkin evenly over a small fire.
4. Next you need to cut the tomatoes into cubes, before removing the skin from them. So the sauce will surely come out smooth and tasty.
5. Then this mass must be shifted to a well-heated pan and put out on low heat, covering the pan with a lid.
6. A couple of minutes before the pumpkin is fully cooked, you must add chopped garlic and all the spices, as well as salt and sugar, to the sauce.

Pumpkin is combined with many products, especially tasty is the combination of this vegetable with potatoes.

Ingredients Required:

• 1 kg - potatoes;
• 0,350 kg - pumpkins;
• one onion;
• cooking oil;
• a mixture of salt and pepper.

Step by step recipe.

1. Potatoes and pumpkins need to be peeled. Then they must be cut into small strips. However, the pumpkin should be thicker. This is done so that it does not soften during cooking and does not become a gruel.
2. The onion needs to be cleaned and cut into half rings.
3. In the pan you need to pour a half tablespoons of sunflower oil and wait until it warms up. Put the potatoes in hot oil and bring to the state when it is half ready.
4. After that, you need to add a pumpkin to it, and, without covering it, prepare the dish further. A minute after that pour onions, salt and pepper.

The finished dish is served on a single plate or in portions.

Such a dish will be a wonderful dessert that will definitely surprise guests and loved ones.

Ingredients Required:

• 0,350 kg - pumpkins;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• two tablespoons - coconut shavings;
• 0.100 kg - hard cheese;
• 0.050l - vegetable oil;
• two large and sour apples.

Step by step recipe.

1. For this dish it is better to take a pumpkin in the shape of a pear, it will be more juicy and tasty.
2. Then it needs to be washed and peeled.
3. Pumpkin must be cut into rings and rub the slices with salt.
4. In a well heated pan you need to fry the pumpkin pieces, first rolling them in flour.
5. Ready vegetable spread on paper towels to rid the slices of excess fat.
6. The next step will be cutting the apples into the same rings.
7. Meanwhile, the cheese should be cut into thin slices.
8. Then you need to take a baking sheet and grease it with vegetable oil. They put pumpkin rings on it and sprinkle them well with coconut chips. Top you need to lay out the apples and cover them with cheese slices. Then all the products are wrapped in foil.
9. All should be baked in a preheated to one hundred and sixty degrees oven for about twenty minutes.
10. Ten minutes after baking, you need to unfold the foil at the top in order for the cheese to brown.

Ingredients Required:

• 0.500kg - tomatoes;
• one large onion;
• 3pcs - cloves of garlic;
• one bunch of mint;
• 1 tbsp. l olive oil;

• 1 kg of fresh pumpkin;
• 1 tablespoon - freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• 0.125 L - water;
• a mixture of pepper and salt;
• sugar.

Step by step recipe.

1. Tomatoes must be washed, peeled and cut into small pieces.
2. Mint should also be washed and dried with a towel. Then you need to tear off all the leaves from the stems.
3. Garlic and onions are cut into small strips, and pumpkin - into small squares.
4. In a skillet with high sides it is necessary to pour in oil and heat well.
5. Then throw the garlic in there and fry it for a couple of minutes.
6. After that, add onion and fry it until golden.
7. After that, the pumpkin is laid out and cooked until it becomes soft.
8. To all these vegetables are added tomatoes. All components are mixed and filled with water.
9. Then lemon juice is poured in there, pepper, salt with sugar is added, and sprinkled with chopped mint leaves.
10. Everything is cooked for ten minutes under the lid.

Serve this fried vegetable is best with sour cream or any sauce made on its basis. It will be not only tasty, but also useful. You can also use any other sauces, for example, made from tomatoes.

Additional side dishes, as a rule, do not use.But in some cases, you can make the diet more nutritious by adding buckwheat, potatoes or any other popular foods to the pumpkin.

To quickly and tasty cook roasted pumpkin, it does not take much time, only desire is needed. The main thing is to choose a good vegetable without defects and damage.

If a person does not like the smell of fresh pumpkin, then you can spread it with any herbs or seasonings before cooking. They will not only destroy the smell, but also make the dish much tastier.

Pumpkin seeds after butchering vegetables should not be thrown away, because then they can be eaten dried or roasted.

If the pumpkin is badly cooked while cooking, then you can feed it in the oven. By the way, during frying you should never use more oil than specified in the recipe. And after the pumpkin is prepared, it is desirable to dry it with paper towels so that the dish is not too fat.

Pumpkin - is one of the most useful products, which should be in the diet of every person. If it is properly cooked, then the dishes from this fragrant vegetable will appeal to both small children and capricious gourmets.

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