Pumpkin soup and other delicious dishes

Pumpkin is a very useful product. Thanks to this semi-finished product, you can please your family with breakfast, lunch and dinner from a variety of dishes. Prepare a pumpkin is simple enough, you need to clearly follow the recipe and technology, given the fact that it is from the biological point of view, after all, a fruit, and not a vegetable.

A very tasty dish is a pumpkin porridge. The transferred and washed glass of rice should be put in boiling water (250 grams) and boil for about five minutes. At this time, cut the fruit into cubes and send to the rice. Will need 2 glasses. Further we add boiling milk, the amount of which is determined by taste. For lovers of thick porridge enough will be 250 gr. Bring everything to a boil, put butter, a little sugar and salt, close the lid. Cook for fifteen minutes.

Pumpkin soup with potatoes is prepared on the basis of beef broth. Cut cubes of potato tubers, carrots and pumpkin in equal quantities. Place in boiling broth and cook for about half an hour on a small fire. Serve with sour cream, cubes of boiled beef and finely chopped dill.

Pumpkin soup is recommended to cook without potatoes. But if you want to make a more satisfying and high-calorie dish, you can add it. In the traditional recipe in the boiling liter of salted water put the pumpkin cubes (400 grams), zucchini (300 grams) and cauliflower (200 grams). All boil over medium heat to allow the liquid to evaporate. Then beat the blender until smooth. Serve the dish hot with a slice of butter.

Pumpkin soup puree for children is prepared very quickly, but it turns out uniquely delicious. In a liter of a mixture of milk and water (1: 1) add a little sugar, salt, pumpkin cubes (500 grams) and carrots (500 grams). Bring the milk soup to a boil, lower the heat, close the lid and simmer for forty minutes. You can send the pot to the oven. Then shake everything well with a blender. Serve with honey.

Pumpkin soup cream is very popular for everyone, which is prepared as follows. Empty the pumpkins and cut them into slices. Put it in half a liter of salted boiling milk and simmer under the lid for forty minutes. At this time, make toast from white bread in butter. Put four such croutons into the pan with soup, beat with a blender, pour in another half-liter of milk and bring to a boil, thoroughly mixing. Next, pour half a cup of cream and add a piece of butter. Serve the soup with croutons.

Tasty dishes from a pumpkin are obtained if baked.

A simple way of preparing this. Fruit clean and cut into slices, like a watermelon. Spread on a greased baking sheet in one layer and sprinkle with sugar. Preheat the oven to a temperature of at least 200 degrees and bake for forty to fifty minutes. You can serve pumpkin hot, or as chilled candied fruits with ice cream.

For guests it is possible to make an excellent autumn dish - pumpkin "Tsarskaya". For its preparation, you need a pumpkin weighing about two kilograms. Cut off her upper part and gently clean the fruit inside. The filling for the dish can be made different: sweet or meat.

The first option is prepared as follows. Rinse thoroughly a glass of rice, mix with soaked dried fruits (prunes and dried apricots), put in pumpkins and pour a liter of boiling water. Add a little salt and a little more sugar. Bake the dish for about an hour and a half in a preheated oven.

The second version of the filling. Chop and fry several bulbs, add grated large carrots and pieces of pork (500 gr.). Put the mixture inside the pumpkin, add the rinsed, rinsed buckwheat groats (1 glass), salt, bay leaves and pour boiling water (about one liter). Bake the dish for about an hour and a half.

Bon Appetit!