Pumpkin in the microwave - a quick dish. Microwave reduces the cooking time of this wonderful, healthy vegetable by several times. There are many recipes, including desserts and main dishes. We show the best selection, tested by culinary specialists from different parts of our country and around the world.

Microwave Baked Pumpkin

It is not without reason that a pumpkin is called a solar vegetable. It seems as if nature itself and the sun have nourished him with a whole pantry of valuable and useful properties to humans. It contains carotene (because of it an orange-colored vegetable), rare vitamins of groups B, C, E, pectin, magnesium, zinc, iron, organic acids. And it contains only 29 kcal per 100 g and is shown to people on a diet. Baked in the microwave, it itself will turn into a tasty dessert. Especially if you do not add sugar to it. But we will tell you a classic cooking option where sugar is present.

 

Advice! Anyone who cannot refuse to sweeten a dish can make it more dietary and healthy if they replace white sugar with brown, cane sugar.

Necessary components:

  • pumpkin - 1000;
  • sugar - 30-50 g.

Cooking Method:

  1. We clean the pumpkin from seeds, skins, cut into slices 5 cm wide.
  2. We place the pieces in a heat-resistant glassware.
  3. Sprinkle with sugar.
  4. Cover with a lid or cling film (airtight!).
  5. We put in the microwave for 15 minutes at maximum power.
  6. We take out a towel from the stove so as not to burn our hands.
  7. Cool slightly.
  8. We eat a dessert spoon with tea or milk.

Ready dessert will be tastier if you decorate it with mint leaves. Food lovers can try the unsweetened option by sprinkling pumpkin instead of sugar with Provencal herbs.

Whip up pudding

Puddings - a national dish in England, Scotland, Ireland, where they are prepared from everything: turnips, potatoes, pumpkins and other vegetables. The recipe for a pumpkin in the form of a pudding is simple, you should not be afraid of exoticism. This is just a kind of casserole with a special texture and tenderness. Often, nuts, raisins, dried fruits, pieces of chocolate and other pleasant additions are added here.

What we will need:

  • 400 g pumpkin;
  • 70 g of sugar or honey;
  • 300 g of milk;
  • 2 eggs;
  • half a glass of milk;
  • 60 g breadcrumbs or flour;
  • a pinch of cinnamon.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel the pumpkin, cut into small cubes.
  2. Bake the pumpkin in the microwave for 10-15 minutes until soft under a lid or film.
  3. Beat the whites to dense peaks.
  4. Mix the yolks with milk, sugar, cinnamon, breadcrumbs.
  5. Punch the pumpkin with a blender until mashed with lumps.
  6. Mix the mashed potatoes with a mixture of yolks, sugar, crackers.
  7. Add the proteins carefully. Carefully interfere in one direction so that the proteins do not settle.
  8. Now put the mixture into molds: glass glasses, bowls, cups, small cans. We fill the glass by 2/3 - the pudding during the baking process in the microwave rises slightly.
  9. We put in the microwave at maximum power for 40 seconds. Carefully take out the pudding, let it cool.

A delicious, hearty, but light dessert is ready. Decorate the finished pudding with mint leaves, sprinkle with coconut chips or chocolate chips.

Cooking with honey

Incredibly sweet, but at the same time not sugary, it turns out a pumpkin baked with honey. For cooking, you can use any fruit, not even too sweet. The necessary sweetness will give the dish honey.

Necessary components:

  • pumpkin - 1000 g;
  • flower or buckwheat honey - 3 tbsp.

Cooking Method:

  1. We clean the pumpkin from seeds, peels, cut into pieces of 5 cm.
  2. We place in heat-resistant glass dishes.
  3. Add honey.
  4. Mix the honey with the pumpkin with your hands so that the sweet sauce evenly soaks each piece.
  5. Cover with a lid or cling film (airtight!).
  6. We put in the microwave for 10 minutes at maximum power.
  7. We take out, slightly cool, decorate with mint.

We eat with tea, milk, cocoa - all drinks with dessert combine perfectly. Dessert will be even tastier if it lasts for several hours. Pieces thoroughly “marinate” with honey, become magically tender.

Microwave Pumpkin Casserole

If you cook a pumpkin in slices along with cottage cheese, an interesting option will come out useful for the stomach and casserole figure. It is suitable for afternoon tea, lunch or a snack. Cooking in a microwave dish in just a few minutes, which is doubly pleasant.

We prepare the necessary ingredients in advance:

  • 500 g of cottage cheese;
  • 500 g pumpkin;
  • 60 g of sugar;
  • a bag of vanillin;
  • 2 eggs;
  • butter for form lubrication - 20 g.

How to cook:

  1. Peel the pumpkin, cut into small pieces, and then bake in our own juice until soft. Grind the finished pieces in mashed potatoes with a blender.
  2. Mix the cottage cheese with eggs, sugar, vanilla until a paste-like mass, add pumpkin puree to the curd mass and mix until smooth.
  3. Put the cottage cheese and pumpkin in a mold greased with butter and put in the microwave for 10-12 minutes. In the end, we recommend baking from 2 to 5 minutes on the grill mode - this will turn out a delicious crust.

We give the finished casserole to cool slightly, cut with a knife and serve to the table with sour cream, garnished with raisins and dried fruits. Have a nice tea party.

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How to cook with potatoes

How to cook pumpkin in the microwave, if you absolutely do not like sweets? There is an option for a quick thorough dish of pumpkins with potatoes.This is unusual, but very tasty and suitable for vegetarians and meat eaters. In this case, it is easy to add a piece of chicken and get a great second course with a side dish in the manner of home-style roast. We offer baking pumpkin with potatoes without meat - you get a tasty, light dish in a hurry.

To prepare a vegetarian dish we need to cook:

  • 600 g of potatoes;
  • 500 g pumpkin;
  • 1 onion;
  • vegetable oil;
  • 100 ml of water;
  • salt to taste;
  • any spicy herbs.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel potatoes and pumpkin, cut into slices and mix with salt, spices, onions, vegetable oil.
  2. We shift the workpiece into a glass pan with a lid for microwave, add a little water.
  3. It remains to bake all 10-15 minutes at maximum power.

Pumpkin with potatoes is perfect as a side dish for chicken and fish. Vegetables are delicious as an independent main course. Garlic clove and a pinch of curry spices will help to make it more juicy.

Healthy porridge for breakfast

Baked pumpkin with cereals is an ideal breakfast for young children. Use any cereal - rice, millet, bulgur and even pearl barley (but it is not for everybody). We advise small children to cook semolina porridge with pumpkin to introduce as a first feeding.

What we need:

  • 50 g semolina;
  • 300 g pumpkin;
  • 1 tsp Sahara;
  • butter - 1 tbsp;
  • 500 ml of milk.

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Cooking Instructions:

  1. Boil semolina with added sugar in milk. It should turn out medium density without lumps.
  2. We cut the pumpkin into slices, and then bake in the microwave for 15 minutes in our own juice. We turn the finished pumpkin with a mixer into mashed potatoes.
  3. Add pumpkin puree to semolina, while keeping track of the proportions. You should not put too much “sunny vegetable” - otherwise the porridge will turn out to be sugary.
  4. Season the prepared porridge with oil, and then put it on a plate.

We feed the baby with a dessert spoon. We assure you that he will like the dish, so the next time you cook him a treat with rice or any other cereal allowed by the age of the pediatrician.

Our advice! Nutritionists have proven that the beneficial carotene found in vegetables is better absorbed with fats. Eating a baked pumpkin is best with butter, sour cream or cream.

Microwave Pumpkin Chips

Pumpkin chips are a worthy answer to prepared and harmful potato snacks. They are easy to keep in a bag to snack at work, they are also suitable for children from 3 years old as a replacement for industrial sweets. Plus, such chips preserve all the benefits of pumpkin - in a dried form in a snack, healthy vitamins and trace elements remain.

For cooking you will need:

  • a large piece of pumpkin - 600 g;
  • paprika and nutmeg - a pinch;
  • some salt;
  • vegetable oil - 50 g.

Cooking Instructions:

  1. The first task is to cut the pumpkin pulp, peeled and peeled, as thin as possible. Then it is manually dried from excess juice with an ordinary paper towel, sprinkled with spices, salt, add half the vegetable oil.
  2. We put it on a large and flat glass plate, so that the chips do not stick to each other (otherwise they will begin to stew, which we do not need). Turn on the microwave at full power for 10 minutes. During this time, the process of drying the pumpkin, turning into crispy chips, should begin. If the drying, in your opinion, failed, the time is easy to increase. An ideal mode for cooking is a grill.
  3. After the set time we take out the snack, let it cool. Our chips are ready! Crunch them on health, eat as much as you like - they will not bring harm to the stomach. Https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = TrwMTrydOOg

Summing up, we add: the above recipes are a small fraction of the opportunities that the "solar vegetable" provides for creative work for experienced and novice cooks. She is good with meat and cheese, candied fruits and berries, any fruits and vegetables. Cook the pumpkin more often, the benefit is that its harvest is always happy, but it is inexpensive.

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