Pumpkin stew: quick and tasty recipes

Pumpkin is so tasty and healthy that dishes with it are always very popular. Her love and those who follow the figure and diets.The stewed pumpkin turns out incredibly tasty. You just need to know the recipes for its proper preparation. About them you will learn from this article.

Pumpkin is a unique product from which you can easily cook any dish: salad, mashed potatoes, roasts, even dessert. To preserve the maximum benefit of the vegetable, it is often consumed raw. However, the stewed pumpkin retains its beneficial properties, having a positive effect on the body.

The calorie content of raw vegetables is only twenty-eight kilocalories per hundred grams. But the calorie content of the finished dish depends on what ingredients and how it was cooked. For example, the calorie stewed pumpkin without the addition of other vegetables and spices is fifty-two kilocalories, and in fried form - almost eighty kilocalories. For this reason, many prefer to stew the vegetable. Moreover, even after such a heat treatment in the dish remains the maximum benefit.

The pumpkin contains all sorts of vitamins, various trace elements, dietary fiber and other beneficial substances that have a positive effect on human health. Consider in more detail what exactly is the benefit of this product.

Those who regularly include sunny pumpkin dishes in their diet, leave only positive feedback about its miraculous benefits. In stewed form, this vegetable has a positive effect on the intestinal function. It improves digestion and saves from constipation. But this is not the only positive quality pumpkin.

Since the rich composition of this vegetable is potassium, the use of pumpkin has a positive effect on the heart, strengthens blood vessels, normalizes blood pressure and is an excellent prevention of various diseases. In addition, the vegetable has a positive effect on the work of the kidneys, not allowing the deposition of stones. It improves the work of the bladder, helping to fight cystitis.

As part of this vegetable there are vitamins of group B, which means that the pumpkin has a positive effect on the work of the nervous system, helps to fight depression, irritability and insomnia. Also, pumpkin stew has a positive effect on liver function.

It is not recommended to use this vegetable for people suffering from diabetes. Do not include it in your diet if there are problems with digestion (with diarrhea). It is worth considering that in case of excessive consumption of a vegetable, even in a healthy body, there may be some problems with the intestines. It is also not recommended to use a pumpkin, if there is an allergy or idiosyncrasy of this product.

To maximize the benefits of vegetables, you should choose the correct recipe for its preparation. The most benign, fast, tasty and healthy option is quenching. You can also cook the vegetable in the oven, boil it in the broth or on the water, just fry in a pan.

For a start it is worth mentioning that the pumpkin goes well with almost all types of meat. It can be cooked with beef, chicken, turkey, or even pork. It also goes well with vegetables such as potatoes, zucchini, onions and carrots. It is possible to cook a pumpkin dish with mushrooms. And if you want sweet, you can cook a vegetable with sugar, raisins, dried apricots, or add a little honey.

In order for cooking to take quite a bit of time, you should choose summer varieties. They have a thinner skin, and the flesh is more juicy and tender.

To prepare a tasty, nourishing vegetable dish, you can pay attention to the following recipe. For its preparation will need:

• Half a kilo of peeled pumpkin;
• one onion;
• one red carrot;
• three tomatoes;
• five to six large mushrooms.

Mushrooms can choose any to your taste. For example, it can be white mushrooms or champignons. Heat a little vegetable oil in a deep saucepan. Paste finely chopped onions and carrots on it. Then add sliced ​​mushrooms into cubes or plates and cook until all the liquid has evaporated. Then add the pumpkin cut into cubes. All stew under a lid on low heat. You can add a little broth or just water.

Twenty minutes later add pureed tomatoes, spices and bring everything to readiness.

To the meat dish turned out easy and useful, it is better to cook it in the oven. This can be done in clay pots, thanks to which the taste of the dish is special. Have to take:

• five hundred grams of beef or any other meat;
• three potatoes;
• one onion;
• two ripe tomatoes;
• two hundred grams of peeled pumpkin.

The meat is cut in small pieces and put on the bottom of the pots. Top lay onions, chopped rings. After him put sliced ​​cubes of potatoes and pumpkins. A little salt, pepper and cover all slices of tomatoes. Preparing a dish under the lids closed for one and a half hours at 180 degrees.

Anyone who has a miracle of technology in his house - a slow cooker, will be able to quickly and easily prepare the next dish for dinner. For this you need to take:

• five hundred grams of chicken breast or turkey;
• as many peeled pumpkins;
• one onion;
• one carrot.

Meat and pumpkin cut into approximately the same cubes. Onions are cut into small pieces, and carrot rubbed on a fine grater. Onions and carrots are slightly stewed in a bowl with a small amount of butter, meat and spices are added, put on the “stewing” mode for exactly an hour. Then add the pumpkin and stew for another half hour.

And here is another recipe for a tasty vegetable dish. You will need:

• five hundred grams of peeled pumpkin;
• one carrot;
• three or four cloves of garlic;
• one onion;
• one hundred milligrams of sour cream or cream;
• one hundred fifty milligrams of soy sauce;
• spice.

Pumpkin cut into cubes or cubes, put in a saucepan and pour soy sauce. Then add the spices. Be sure to use nutmeg and turmeric (half a teaspoon, not more). Finely chopped garlic is added here and left (not on fire) for fifteen minutes. While the pumpkin is pickled, onions and grated carrots cut in half rings are lightly fried in a pan. Fry until ready, then spread the vegetables in a separate bowl.

In the same pan stew pumpkin. When you lay out the pumpkin, leave half the marinade in a bowl, it is not useful. Stew pumpkin for exactly fifteen minutes, then add ready onions and carrots, as well as sour cream. Everything is mixed and stewed for exactly five minutes. The dish is ready.

To prepare the following recipe you will need:

• four hundred grams of peeled pumpkin;
• one large tomato;
• one onion;
• spices to taste.

Onions should be cut into small cubes and fry in butter until transparent. Then add grated tomato and favorite spices, such as Provencal herbs. All ingredients are stewed for five minutes, then add the pumpkin, cut into cubes. Stew under the lid closed for exactly fifteen minutes.

It is quite possible to cook a pumpkin on your own, without adding meat or vegetables. The result will be a dish that can serve as a side dish. For this you will need:

• three hundred grams of peeled pumpkin;
• tablespoon butter;
• one hundred milligrams of milk;
• some cinnamon.

The orange fruit is cut in small cubes and stewed in a small amount of water for about ten minutes. As soon as all the liquid has evaporated, add butter, milk and cinnamon. Stew until tender another ten minutes. Here is another interesting braised pumpkin recipe. This dish is especially pleasant to use on a hot day. For its preparation will need a kilogram of peeled pumpkin.You also need to add a liter of tomato juice, dill, two tablespoons of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. For the preparation of this recipe will suit a later variety with dense and tough pulp.

Tomato juice is poured into a pan with a thick bottom, add vinegar and spices to taste. As soon as the juice boils, put a diced pumpkin in it. On low heat, with the lid open, extinguish the pumpkin until ready. At the end add chopped dill or any other herbs. It is desirable that a small amount of juice remains in the finished dish, this will give it a special taste. The dish should be cooled by holding it in the refrigerator for several hours. Then it can be served at the table.

Fans of various sweet dishes will definitely appreciate the following cooking method. It will need the following ingredients:

• five hundred grams of peeled pumpkin;
• three apples;
• a handful of light raisins and dried apricots;
• some cinnamon;
• two or three tablespoons of liquid honey.

For the preparation of this dish is better to take a nutmeg pumpkin variety, as it is more delicate and sweet. Diced pumpkin stew fifteen minutes in a little water. Apples are cut into cubes, dried apricots are cut into pieces arbitrarily. Apples, raisins, dried apricots and cinnamon are added to the pan, stewed all together for fifteen minutes. Then add honey or sugar, remove the dishes from the fire.

In conclusion, it is worth giving some interesting and useful tips for all those who love pumpkin and appreciate its value.

• In order to enjoy the delicious pumpkin dish in the cold season, it is worth freezing the summer vegetable variety. It is better to immediately clean the fruit and cut it into pieces of the desired size.
• If the pumpkin is stewed with meat, it should be added literally fifteen minutes before the end of cooking. Otherwise, it will become too soft, and the taste of the finished dish will not be so pleasant and saturated. The same applies to vegetable dishes - pumpkin is better to add in the last turn.
• Best for extinguishing suitable fruit of medium weight (three to four kilograms).
• Do not throw away the seeds. In dried and peeled form, they can be added to salads, roasts or soups.
• Since the pumpkin practically does not emit any liquid during cooking, be sure to keep vegetable or meat broth at the ready.

Learn how to cook Indian pumpkin stew in the next video.