At the disposal of modern housewives a huge number of various recipes from pumpkin. Among them are first courses, and hot, and pastries, and even drinks. To prepare your favorite options, both fresh and frozen vegetables are suitable.

The first dish of pumpkin: recipes

Most often it is the first pumpkin dishes that are cooked. Delicate mashed soups rich orange will appeal to both children and adults.

Pumpkin Puree Soup

Ingredients: kilo of pumpkin, large onion, 1 liter of vegetable broth, granulated garlic, 30-40 g of butter, 170 ml of butter cream, a pinch of zira and dried parsley, coarse salt.

  1. Pumpkin gets rid of the skin and core, cut into cubes. Together with small pieces of peeled onions, she goes into a pan with well-heated butter. Pre-frying vegetables will make the taste of the finished treat more saturated.
  2. Food from the pan moves to the hot broth. After boiling, it is boiled for 20-25 minutes until the vegetables are ready.
  3. Seasonings, granulated garlic and coarse salt are added to taste.
  4. Future soup is processed with a suitable blender nozzle.

Cream is poured into the mass, after which the pumpkin soup puree warms up.

Spicy taste with ginger

Ingredients: 830 g of pumpkin pulp, a tiny slice of chili pepper, onion, rock salt, fresh garlic wedges to taste, slightly ground cinnamon, 670 ml of purified water, 3–3.5 cm of ginger root.

  1. Large pieces of onion and garlic are fried in very hot lean oil.
  2. Then slices of pumpkin and some water move to them. The mass is left on fire until the components are soft.
  3. Cinnamon, finely chopped pepper and grated ginger are added to the future soup. The treat is cooked for another 2-3 minutes, after which it is removed from the fire and left to insist for a short time.

The mass is mashed and salted.

Shrimp Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients: 340 g pumpkin, 220 g shrimp, large sweet bell pepper, 1 pc. carrots, onion, a pinch of sweet ground paprika, salt.

  1. Pumpkin is cleaned of all unnecessary, cut into small pieces and cooked until soft. Water drains from it.
  2. The remaining vegetables are cut into small pieces and fried in hot oil. Then they salt, sprinkle with paprika and are transferred to the pumpkin. The mass is mashed, and then, with the help of boiling water, the density of the soup is regulated.
  3. Shrimps are thawed, boiled in boiling water for 2.5-3 minutes, after which they are cleaned of all unnecessary.

Seafood is finely chopped and poured into the finished soup.

Hearty Bean Lunch

Ingredients: a full glass of boiled white beans, 230 g of fresh pumpkin pulp, small onion, 2 carrots, half petiole celery, fresh garlic, 1 l of chicken stock, 2 tomatoes, a pinch of dried thyme, salt.

  1. In a pan with a thick bottom for a couple of minutes, the straws of the carrots are fried along with chopped onions and garlic.
  2. Next, pumpkin pulp cubes and small pieces of celery are sprinkled with vegetables. Frying continues for another 6-7 minutes.
  3. The broth is poured into a container with frying. After boiling, the soup is cooked until the vegetables soften.
  4. Pre-cooked beans, salt, thyme and cubes of fresh tomatoes are added.

After boiling again, the dish is cooked for another 6-7 minutes.

Cream Pumpkin Soup with Cream

Ingredients: 620 g of fresh pumpkin pulp, onion, carrots, salt, 140 ml of cream, fresh garlic, a pinch of chopped nutmeg, salt.

  1. For any pumpkin soup, you should choose a ripe fragrant vegetable with bright pulp. It is cut into cubes and, along with the other chopped vegetables and garlic, goes to fry.
  2. Vegetables are poured with a small amount of salted boiling water, boiled until fully cooked, and then mashed.
  3. Heated cream and nutmeg are introduced into an almost finished dish.

It remains to reheat the soup and serve it to the table.

Cooking option in a slow cooker

Ingredients: 420 g pumpkin pulp, large onion, carrot, 1.5 tbsp. not too fat cream, salt with any spices.

  1. In a bowl of “smart” pan large pieces of pumpkin are boiled in boiling water for 20-25 minutes. The Steamer or Soup mode is suitable for this. The exact cooking time depends on the type of vegetable.
  2. The finished pumpkin is transferred to a plate, and the remaining chopped vegetables are fried in a clean bowl with heated oil.
  3. When the onions and carrots become soft and juicy, the pumpkin returns to them.
  4. The components of the soup are mashed, salted, flavored with spices and cream.

It remains to bring the treat to a boil and immediately lay it on plates.

Pumpkin second course recipes

Even as a main course you can serve pumpkin to the table. The range of options is very large - from porridge to manti.

Whole baked pumpkin

Ingredients: large pumpkin, onion, 3-4 potatoes, 230 g of fresh champignons, half a glass of sour cream, 70 g of semi-hard cheese, salt, aromatic herbs.

  1. Small pieces of onions and mushrooms are fried in well-heated oil until cooked.
  2. Peeled potatoes are boiled until soft. Water remaining in the pan does not spill.
  3. At a pumpkin the "cap" is cut off. The pulp is scooped up with a spoon.
  4. In the resulting "pot" layers are laid slices of boiled potatoes and frying mushrooms with onions.
  5. On top pours 1 tbsp. salted potato broth and all sour cream with spices is distributed immediately.
  6. The pumpkin is covered with the removed part and sent to the oven for 90 minutes at medium temperature.
  7. About 10 minutes before being ready, the “lid” is again removed, and the contents of the “pot” are generously sprinkled with grated cheese.

Baked pumpkin in the oven, served whole to the table.

Recipe with apples

Ingredients: pumpkin, 420 g, 3-4 large apples (preferably sweet and sour), granulated sugar to taste, half a glass of purified water.

  1. The pumpkin is washed, cleaned, gets rid of seeds and cut into medium pieces.
  2. Apples without peels and cores are cut into slices of the same size.
  3. Ingredients from the first and second steps are poured into the prepared heat-resistant form in turn.
  4. Sweet syrup is made from water and sugar, which is filled with the contents of the form.

It takes about half an hour to prepare goodies in the oven.

Baked with meat

Composition of products: 420 g of any meat, 630 g of pumpkin pulp, a pinch of ground coriander and sweet paprika, salt, 160 ml of purified water.

  1. First, the pumpkin is peeled, washed, cut in medium slices and fried until lightly browned in hot oil. Next, the vegetable is poured into a bowl.
  2. On the remaining fat, pieces of the selected meat are fried until golden brown. Then it is transferred to a bowl of pumpkin. The ingredients are mixed, salted and sprinkled with spices.
  3. The mixture is sent to a refractory container and filled with water.

From above, the form is covered with foil and sent to the oven, heated to an average temperature, for about an hour. Another 15-17 minutes, the dish is cooked without coating.

Tasty pumpkin porridge

Ingredients: 1.3 l of milk fat, 820 g of pumpkin pulp, 1 large spoon of liquid honey, 70 g of butter, a pinch of cinnamon.

Pumpkin porridge
  1. Before starting to cook pumpkin porridge, the vegetable is peeled and cut into miniature slices. They are poured with hot milk and boiled until completely softened. This one will take about 40-45 minutes.
  2. The liquid is poured into a separate bowl, and the pumpkin is rubbed through a fine sieve.
  3. The dish is seasoned with oil, honey, cinnamon.

A treat is served in portions along with a glass of milk used in the cooking process.

Manti with pumpkin

Composition of products: 480 g of high-grade flour, 720 g of pumpkin pulp, a pinch of ground coriander and zira, 240 ml of filtered water, salt and sugar to taste, 2-3 onions, vegetable oil.

  1. For the test, cold water, a little salt and pre-sifted flour are combined.
  2. The mixture is well kneaded and left to lie under a towel for 20-25 minutes.
  3. Pumpkin is cleaned and cut into cubes, and onions - thin straws. The ingredients are salted, sprinkled with sugar and fried in a skillet until tender.
  4. The dough is rolled and cut into small squares. The center of each of them is laid out filling. The edges are plucked. The bottom of each workpiece is dipped in vegetable oil, after which they are laid out on the tier of the mantle.

Manty with pumpkin is cooked in a special device or even in an ordinary pan for 20-25 minutes with constantly boiling salted water.

Pumpkin casserole with semolina

The composition of the products: 420 g pumpkin, 110 g semolina, 3-4 large spoons of powdered sugar, a large egg.

  1. Vegetable pulp is cut into cubes, filled with water and sent to cook until cooked.
  2. The pumpkin cools, a raw egg pours into it and the powder is added. The mass is whipped with a blender.
  3. Next is the decoy.
  4. After the next mixing, the dough is infused for 5-7 minutes, and then poured into an oily form.

A treat is baked for 35–45 minutes in a well-heated oven.

Roasted Pumpkin Garnished

Ingredients: any amount of peeled pumpkin, a mixture of peppers, salt.

  1. The vegetable is cut into medium slices.
  2. Slices of pumpkin are transferred into a pan with well-heated any fat.
  3. The dish is cooked over medium heat without a lid.

At the very end, the vegetable salts and peppers.

Hearty Chicken Dish

Ingredients: a pound of chicken, 130 g of parmesan and any semi-hard cheese, a pinch of dried basil and marjoram, fresh garlic, salt.

  1. The meat is washed, dried, cut into small pieces, salted and sprinkled with spices. Prepared chicken is laid out on the bottom of heat-resistant dishes.
  2. Topped are salted and mixed with crushed garlic cubes of pumpkin.
  3. It remains to pour small cubes of cheese of two kinds on the products.

The container is covered with foil and sent for 50-60 minutes in the oven at 200-210 degrees.

Pumpkin stewed with vegetables

Composition of components: 1 pound of pumpkin, 1 pc. carrots, sweet Bulgarian pepper, 2 tomatoes, 2-3 potato tubers, 240 g zucchini, onion, fresh garlic to taste, aromatic herbs, a pinch of sugar, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.

  1. First, chopped onion and carrot are fried in preheated fat with salt and a pinch of sugar.
  2. Then, in a container, all other vegetables, diced, are successively laid. The first is potato, the last is pumpkin. The total cooking time will be approximately 35-45 minutes.
  3. The finished dish is salted and sprinkled with lemon juice. Garlic and aromatic herbs passed through the press are added to it.

A treat is served with fresh wheat cakes.

Pumpkin Baking

Even dessert can be made using pumpkins! It will turn out not only tasty, but also useful.

Pumpkin Fritters

Ingredients: 420 g pumpkin pulp, 2 tbsp. l regular sugar and a pinch of vanilla, ½ small. l baking powder, 5 tbsp. l high-grade flour, 2 large eggs, a pinch of salt.

  1. The vegetable rubs coarsely. It is not necessary to squeeze it from the juice.
  2. First, raw eggs are added to the pumpkin chips, and then all the other components stated in the recipe. Flour with baking powder is poured last.
  3. The ingredients are well kneaded.
  4. Pumpkin pancakes with a spoon are laid out in a frying pan with heated oil.

The treat is fried on both sides until golden brown.

Pumpkin Cookies

Ingredients: 160 g of vegetable pulp, half a glass of granulated sugar, 2 tsp. with a hill of baking powder, half a glass of refined oil, a pinch of salt, 1.5-2 cups of high-grade flour, a pinch of ground ginger and nutmeg.

  1. The vegetable is cut into pieces and cooked until soft.
  2. Flour is sifted with spices, salt and baking powder.
  3. The finished vegetable is kneading with a fork with sugar and butter. Floury mass pours out to him.
  4. Sticky dough is kneaded, from which cookies are formed with hands greased with vegetable oil.

Dessert is baked in the oven for 20-25 minutes at medium temperature.

Appetizing pumpkin pie

Composition of products: 1.5 tbsp. sugar, 3 large eggs, 330 g of pumpkin pulp. 1.5 tbsp. high-grade flour, 8 tbsp. l refined oil, a pinch of salt, 1 tsp. soda.

  1. The eggs are beaten to a thick foam. Sand is poured to them, which should completely dissolve in the process of whipping.
  2. Sifted flour is introduced into the mass in parts and other declared ingredients are added, except for pumpkin. Soda must first be repaid.
  3. The finest grated pumpkin is sent last to the dough.
  4. The form is oiled and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. The resulting mass pours into it.

A pumpkin pie is prepared to dry batter in a well-heated oven.

Oven-baked sweet pumpkin

Ingredients: a pound of ripe pumpkin, half a glass of lemon juice, 35-45 g of brown sugar, a pinch of ground cinnamon.

  1. Peeled vegetables are cut into large sticks. Their thickness should be about 1 cm.
  2. Pumpkin is laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment, sprinkled with citrus juice and sprinkled with a mixture of the remaining dry ingredients.

Sweet pumpkin is baked in the oven for 25-27 minutes with high heat.

Homemade Pumpkin Cupcake

Ingredients: 220 g of pumpkin pulp, 230 g of high-grade flour, 190 g of cane sugar, 4 large eggs, 170 ml of corn oil, 2 small.baking powder, a pinch of ground cinnamon and the same amount of salt.

  1. Raw eggs beat with cane sugar.
  2. In the resulting mixture, one after the other, the remaining components are laid. Pumpkin rubs finely.
  3. The dough is poured into a prepared split mold.

The dish is baked a little less than an hour in the oven.

Oven baked pumpkin with cottage cheese

Ingredients: 270 g pumpkin, 90 g fat cottage cheese, 40 g semolina, 130 ml milk, 2 eggs, a slice of butter, 70 g sugar, 60 g sour cream.

  1. Thick porridge is cooked from milk and semolina.
  2. In a separate bowl in boiling water, slices of pumpkin are cooked until soft and after cooling turn into mashed potatoes.
  3. The ingredients of the first two steps are combined.
  4. Other components from the recipe are added to them (oil - in soft form).
  5. The entire contents of the pan are whipped with a blender and transferred to a baking dish.

The casserole is cooked in the oven for about half an hour - until golden.

Pumpkin Drinks

Various pumpkin drinks complement the lunch with dishes from this vegetable. In addition, they are an excellent source of vitamins all year round.

Homemade Pumpkin Juice

Ingredients: 1 pumpkin (weighing no more than 5 kg).

  1. The vegetable is cleaned of all unnecessary, and its flesh is cut into cubes.
  2. Pumpkin is passed through a juicer at maximum speed.

If you wish, you can add honey to your drink to taste, but it’s just great to go with shortcrust pastry.

Stewed pumpkin with apples

Ingredients: 4 apples, 420 g pumpkin, 120 g granulated sugar, ¼ tsp. "Lemons", 1 l. pure water.

  1. Peeled apples and vegetables are diced and poured into a cooking container.
  2. To these components sugar and citric acid pour out.
  3. The contents of the pan are filled with water.

The drink is brewed for about half an hour until the pumpkin slices are transparent. You can drink it strained, but for sure there will be lovers to eat these pieces in bite.

Healthy pumpkin and rhubarb jelly

Composition of products: 5 tbsp. water, 90 g sugar, 2 tbsp. l starch, 280 g each of rhubarb and pumpkin, lemon peel to taste.

  1. The pulp of a pumpkin rubs larger. Rhubarb is cut into small pieces obliquely.
  2. Sugar syrup with lemon zest is boiled.
  3. Rhubarb and pumpkin are added to the boiling liquid.
  4. Separately, in a small amount of water, starch is bred and poured neatly into a saucepan.

The drink is boiled until thickened.

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