How to bake a pumpkin with honey in the oven, multivark and microwave?

Today, when home cooking is the preparation of the most delicious dishes, many simple recipes go into the background and even forgotten. And often completely in vain. For example, if earlier with the approach of October bake a pumpkin with honey was a common thing, now it is being done less and less. But this dish will not only please its appearance, but also leave a pleasant aftertaste. In addition, it can rightly be considered dietary - only 53 kcal per 100 g of product.

And how many useful properties in the baked pumpkin with honey! It helps to normalize digestion and heart function. It is recommended to eat with hypertension, diabetes and kidney and liver diseases. Honey not only gives the dish extra sweetness, but also shares its healing properties with pumpkin. They often replace sugar in many diseases, and also eat with colds and to relieve cough.

Classic Recipe

But then how best to bake a pumpkin with honey to get the most out of these products? Most often it is done in the oven. Pumpkin fruit should be cut, remove the pulp with seeds and clean with a spoon. Cut into pieces 3 by 3 cm. Now you can prepare honey sauce, for this mix honey and vegetable oil. At 400 grams of fresh pumpkin will need about 2 tablespoons of honey and one spoon of oil. Dip each piece into the sauce and lay it on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Bake a pumpkin in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees until a ruddy brown appears. When serving, the prepared dish can be decorated with sesame seeds or cinnamon.

True, many nutritionists do not recommend this way to bake a pumpkin. They believe that with prolonged heating, honey begins to excrete carcinogens, and all the benefits of products are reduced to zero. From their point of view, it is much better to first bake a pumpkin separately, with honey it is simply served to the table. In this case, it can be put separately, and you can pour a ready-made pumpkin to them. And, of course, you can decorate the dish according to your desire and taste.

Recipe for microwave oven

With the advent of an increasing number of helpers in the kitchen, it became possible to bake a pumpkin with honey in them. The most common recipes are for microwave and multivark. In any case, first you need to prepare the pumpkin: cut, remove the seeds and clean. Then, the desired amount of it is cut into small pieces and folded into suitable dishes for the microwave. Cook for 15-20 minutes at maximum power until the pieces become soft. And only after that, water them with honey to taste. Pumpkin in a microwave with honey is obtained nothing worse than in the oven. And it prepares much faster, though it is possible to cook this way for a maximum of two.

Pumpkin cooking in a multivark

And more recently, a recipe has appeared that baked a pumpkin with honey in a multivariate. Already prepared pieces of autumn berry to put in a pan multivarka, which you need to smear a little with butter. Add 1-2 tablespoons of honey and half a glass of water. Stew pumpkin with honey for 30-40 minutes, then spread out on plates. Instead of the "Quenching" mode, you can use "Baking" or "Cooking", depending on the model of the multivark.

No matter how prepared the baked pumpkin with honey, it will be difficult to recognize it in ready-made form. So delicious, even exotic will be her taste. Not for nothing since ancient times in Russia, dishes from pumpkins were served even on the royal table.