Useful sweets - pumpkin candied fruits

Sweet dishes are loved not only by children, but also by many adults, however, the question arises as to what benefits they bring to the body. To date, on sale you can find quite a large number of sweets that do not benefit the person, because they contain many different flavors, dyes and other additives. But still, there are also goodies that do not contain additives, this includes various candied fruits or vegetables, called candied fruits. Very popular with this are candied pumpkin candies.

The modern market offers a wide selection of candied fruits, but are they real, made from natural fruits or berries? After all, very often they have bright unnatural colors, so we can assume that they add dyes. It should be noted that the use of candied fruits will only come when they are made from natural products. Therefore, it will be best to learn how to cook candied candied fruits At home. In this case, it is necessary to select fresh dense fruits, the pieces of which are cooked in sugar syrup, and then dried. In this case, good pumpkin candied fruits should not be stuck together and wet. It should be borne in mind that it is much more difficult to dry vegetables than fruits and berries, therefore candied fruits can be poured with chocolate or glaze.

So, candied squash from the pumpkin recipe have the following:

For this purpose, you need three kilograms of pumpkin, eight hundred grams of sugar, an incomplete teaspoon of citric acid, lemon peel, cinnamon and powdered sugar.

First, the pumpkin is washed, peeled of the skin and removed all the seeds, then it is cut into small cubes, which are put in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar and put in a cold place for the night to form juice.

Then all the ingredients are turned into a saucepan, heated to a boil, cooled, the juice at the same time merges. The juice is mixed with a pound of sugar, citric acid is added and the whole is heated. Hot syrup poured to a cooled pumpkin and put on a slow fire until the boiling, after which the pumpkin is removed, and the syrup is boiled twice.

After all this, the pumpkin is again put in syrup and cooked until it becomes transparent. Then the candied fruits are removed and dried on a grate. The finished product can be sprinkled with cinnamon, lemon zest or sugar powder.

To make the pumpkin candies very delicious, they are recommended to cook in several ways, five cooks each with a break at four o'clock. If the syrup is left after making the dessert, it can be used as a jam, adding to tea, or as a sauce for sweet dishes, it is also possible to cook jelly, compote or syrup from it. It is not recommended to regularly eat candied candied fruits, because they contain sugar. But do not forget that they also contain fiber, vitamins and useful elements. It should be noted that the pumpkin contains a rare vitamin T, which promotes the absorption of heavy food, preventing obesity. In addition, the pumpkin improves the activity of the heart, digestive organs, helps to cleanse the body of toxins.

Very delicious, and especially useful, seem to be candied squash from children, because the pumpkin contains a lot of iron, which is so necessary for the children's body, as it eliminates the risk of anemia, and carotene, which contributes to the improvement of vision.
Thus, sweets from vegetables differ not only in excellent taste, but also in their useful properties. Prepared at home, candied fruits will be much more useful than the factory ones, since in the first case the addition of various dyes and flavors and other, no less harmful components, is excluded. In addition, such a product is not terrible to treat your little child.