A few tips on how to bake a pumpkin in the oven

If after the tomboy children in the kitchen there are seeds and pulp of an unfortunate hollowed vegetable - especially there is an occasion to find them a worthy culinary application. We offer you a few recommendations on how to bake a pumpkin in the oven, or, which is much easier in an age of high kitchen technology - in the microwave oven.

It is easier to steam turnip can only be a steamed pumpkin. In this form it preserves much more nutrients and vitamins, it is suitable for satisfying gastronomic penalties of peptic ulcers, diabetics, and also is suitable for feeding babies for up to a year. In addition, boiled pumpkin with baking will get gently and quickly reach the desired condition. So, how to bake a pumpkin in the oven.

Even the Indians of North America valued the baked pumpkin, preparing it in the ashes wholly with various herbs. To repeat the culinary legends of the leaders of the Redskins, you need to take small fruit (otherwise you will not get baked). In order for the pumpkin to let the juice, pierce it with the tip of a fork or sew in several places and send it to the oven at a maximum temperature (190-200 degrees) for about half an hour. A ready-made pumpkin can be safely cut, sending the flesh into a saucepan for soup or porridge, and in a hollow peel you can cook and deliciously serve salad, dessert or pumpkin soup. Do not get rid of seeds - only half an hour in the oven, sprinkled with salt, they will become an ideal snack at the end of the evening. In order for the seeds to turn out juicy and quickly baked, they must be soaked in cool water for an hour.

How to bake a pumpkin in an oven with peppercorn? This dish is offered to us by ingenious Greeks. Cut the fruit into cubes, peeling. Heat the frying pan with a cocktail of olive oil, sea salt and a pinch of red pepper and add the pumpkin. After a couple of minutes, pour tomato paste, for taste you can put a clove of garlic and necessarily - basil, otherwise the Greeks do not recognize the authorship. When the pumpkin becomes soft, such that it will be possible to stretch it with a spatula, we remove and serve the original lobio as a sauce for meat or a separate dish.

Very fresh on the autumn table is a salad with a baked pumpkin. Before baking the pumpkin in the oven, pre-clean and shred the pulp, sprinkle with olive oil and sprinkle with spices, including black pepper. We bake on a baking sheet at a temperature of 180 degrees for about half an hour. To the cooled pumpkin we add a traditional duet - feta cheese and a little oregano (3 tablespoons). You can also dilute the green of arugula or basil, seasonings and salt.

Well, for lazy people and fans of a bright orange fruit, we'll tell you how to bake a pumpkin in a microwave oven. Cut the lump of pumpkin into a special container for microwave, add a little water, so as not to lose the juice, and send the minutes for 8 "fry" in the microwave. Sugar and butter is added afterwards, you can also cinnamon cinnamon - a very original and warm combination. Recommendations on how to make a pumpkin in a microwave, weight, but all recipes are designed for either preliminary steam processing, or for dishes from small slices.

Perfectly combined pumpkin paste with spaghetti, served and in the form of porridge with the admixtures of other groats. This dish carries a small caloric content and richness of nature in the form of carotenes, fiber, vitamin E.