Pumpkin puree can be an independent dish, but most often it is added to all kinds of baked goods and pastries. How to cook it so that the puree is tender and juicy, read this review.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Pumpkin puree is a wonderful thing. It is suitable on its own for kids' menus, but most often this wonderful blank is used for many recipes. To make the pumpkin puree tender and juicy, you need to choose a quality vegetable. The pulp of the pumpkin should be ripe, rich, uniform color with a pronounced odor. What is noteworthy is that, despite the bright orange color, the fruit practically does not cause allergies.
There are several ways to make mashed potatoes. The most common, which will be discussed today, is cooking. But also pumpkin is baked in an oven, microwave oven, cooked in a multicooker and a double boiler. In addition, they use a different liquid on which the vegetable is cooked. It depends on its further application. In addition, if you have grown a large pumpkin crop, pumpkin puree can be prepared for future use, carefully arranged in jars, sterilized and used as needed. Nutritionists recommend using pumpkin puree in its own form for overweight people. The low calorie and high nutritional value of the product includes it in a wide variety of diets.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 31 kcal.
- Servings - 200 g
- Cooking time - 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 250 g
- Orange shavings - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 1 tsp (optional)
Step by step cooking pumpkin puree
1. Peel the pumpkin, scrape off the seeds and cut off the fibers. Cut it into cubes. They can be of any size, but smaller pieces will cook faster.
2. Dip the pumpkin into a cooking pot and add just enough water to cover the vegetable.
3. Add sugar to the saucepan. This option is necessary if you will further use the pumpkin for sweet dishes. If you canning it or making a soup, then do not add sugar.
4. Then add orange shavings and stir.
5. Place the pumpkin on the stove to simmer. Boil it, lower the temperature, screw the stove to a minimum and cook the vegetable until soft. This action usually takes no more than 20 minutes.
6. Drain drinking water from the finished pumpkin. If it turns out to be too watery, then tip it over on a sieve and leave it for 10 minutes to drain all excess moisture. Then, using a blender, beat the pumpkin until smooth, along with the orange zest.
7. You should have a smooth, orange-flavored pumpkin mass.
8. Serve the prepared pumpkin puree to the table or then use it to prepare recipes or preserve.
See also the video recipe on how to make pumpkin puree.
