When all the usual side dishes had time to get bored, it is worth cooking the pumpkin, fried in a pan. This is an original complement to meat dishes. And you can serve a vegetable prepared in this way, and as an independent lean / vegetarian or just a light and nutritious dish.

Fried pumpkin in a pan with garlic

This treat is considered to be an excellent substitute for fried potatoes, beloved by everyone.

It turns out less caloric and allowed for use even on some diets.

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin - a pound;
  • flour - 3 dessert spoons;
  • assorted fresh herbs - 70 g;
  • garlic - 3 to 4 cloves;
  • salt and oil.

Cooking:

  1. To prepare a delicious roasted pumpkin with garlic, first of all you need to cut the peeled vegetable into large slices.
  2. Add each bite. Roll them in sifted flour.
  3. Fry the bright slices in hot oil until golden brown. They should become soft.
  4. Grind herbs and garlic.

Mix the ingredients from step four with fried vegetable slices. Serve to the table.

How to deliciously fry with onions

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin - a pound;
  • onion - 3 pcs.;
  • oil, sour cream, salt and spices.

Cooking:

  1. To fry a pumpkin with onions, first you need to chop it into small pieces.
  2. Slices of peeled pumpkin should be larger.
  3. First, cook onion in hot oil until browning. Put it in a separate dish.
  4. In the fat remaining in the pan, soften the pumpkin. Salt and add the selected spices.

Return the onion to the pan. Fry the ingredients together for 3 to 4 minutes, so that the products “exchange” flavors.

With sugar and apple

This recipe allows you to cook an unusual delicious dessert. He will especially like the smallest gourmets.

Ingredients:

  • peeled pumpkin - half a kilo;
  • butter fat - 60 - 70 g;
  • cinnamon - 1 - 2 pinches;
  • apples (sour) - 3 pcs.;
  • sugar - 5 dessert spoons;
  • water - ½ tbsp .;
  • raisins - 1 small handful;
  • chopped walnuts to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Chop the pumpkin in miniature cubes. The smaller they turn out, the tastier the dessert will be and the faster it will be prepared.
  2. Also chop apples without peel and cores.
  3. Combine the prepared fruits in a cast-iron skillet with melted butter.
  4. Top with sugar (half) and cinnamon.
  5. Close everything with a tight lid and simmer on low heat a little less than half an hour. Stir frequently.
  6. Add pre-washed seedless raisins and the rest of the sugar. Do not cover the container with a lid.
  7. Cook the dish until a light caramel crust appears on the fruit and vegetable slices.

The resulting delicate dessert with sugar and dried fruits can be tasted both hot and cold.

Breaded pumpkin

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin - 330 - 350 g;
  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • bread crumbs - ½ tbsp .;
  • flour - 30 g;
  • salt, oil.

Cooking:

  1. Chop the peeled vegetable in large, but thin slices.
  2. Beat eggs in a separate container with a pinch of fine salt. No need to achieve a state of thick lush foam. It is enough that the components of the eggs mix well.
  3. First, roll pumpkin slices in flour, sprinkled on a flat plate.
  4. Then dip in the egg mass.
  5. Last but not least - roll in breadcrumbs.
  6. Fry the vegetable slices on preheated vegetable or creamy fat on both sides until cooked.

Before serving, put the pumpkin on paper towels so that there is no excess fat in the treat.

With sweet sour cream sauce

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin (only pulp) - 300 - 330 g;
  • sugar - 1 dessert spoon;
  • sour cream - 1/3 st .;
  • vanillin - to taste;
  • cooking oil.

Cooking:

  1. Chop up the pulp of pumpkin into slices.
  2. Dip the pieces in a pan with any heated oil.
  3. Fry until a crisp appears on top of the slices and softens them inside. Great for making pumpkin according to such a deep fryer recipe. True, oil in this case will be spent uneconomically.
  4. To prepare sweet sauce, mix fat sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. You can beat the ingredients with a blender / mixer.

Serve the hot pumpkin slices to the table along with a gentle sauce as a dessert.

With pine nuts

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin - a pound;
  • butter (not less than 72%) - 30 - 40 g;
  • cinnamon (crushed) - on the tip of a spoon;
  • sugar - 5 dessert spoons;
  • peeled pine nuts - 1 - 2 handfuls.

Cooking:

  1. Wash and peel the vegetable. Cut it into pieces. Each should be at least 6 cm long and about ½ cm thick.
  2. Melt the butter in a cast-iron skillet.
  3. Sauté pumpkin slices over moderate heat. Do not close the pan.
  4. When the pumpkin becomes rosy, sprinkle it with sugar and cinnamon. Close the lid and simmer the mass on the slowest fire for 6 - 7 minutes.

Sprinkle the finished treat with peeled nuts.

With spicy tomato sauce

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin - 1 kilo;
  • flour - 80 g;
  • ground paprika and coriander seeds - a large pinch;
  • ripe tomatoes - 4 - 5 pcs.;
  • garlic - 1 - 2 cloves;
  • cilantro greens - to taste;
  • salt, oil.

Cooking:

  1. To prepare a pumpkin with an unusual piquant sauce, first you need to cut it into medium slices. The thickness of each should not exceed 1 cm. A hard peel must be cut off from the slices.
  2. Mix milk and flour separately. Roll the pumpkin in this mixture. Leave on for 12 minutes.
  3. Shake off excess dry mass from pieces, fry until golden brown in a large amount of oil.
  4. Pieces of tomatoes without skin should be sent to a separate frying pan with oil. Add chopped garlic, all spices and chopped herbs. To salt. Coriander seeds are pre-crushed.
  5. Bring the mass to a boil, and then simmer for a quarter of an hour over low heat.

Rub the sauce through a fine sieve and pour over the finished pumpkin.

To make the fried pumpkin really tasty, regardless of the selected recipe, it is very important to choose the most ripe juicy and sweet vegetable. Such fruits are most easily found on sale in August-September. You can also use frozen pumpkin for the preparation of the discussed treats, but in this case their taste will slightly lose.

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