Baking is the most convenient and healthy way to cook pumpkin, and indeed all products in general. Therefore, I propose to take care of your health and cook a delicious pumpkin dessert in the oven.
Photo of cooked pumpkin Recipe content:
- Good to know
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Pumpkin is by far one of the sweetest gifts of autumn. Despite its large size, it has a low calorie content, which makes it ideal for light dinners and diet meals. In addition, the fruit is also very useful: it contains a lot of potassium, necessary for the heart, various vitamins and minerals. And since pumpkin dishes are always soft, it is often introduced into the menu of people suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
It does not take much labor and time to cook baked pumpkin. In addition, in finished form, it can be both an independent delicious dessert and an excellent preparation for any other dish, like soup, casserole, pie.
A similar recipe: Baked pumpkin with honey
How to choose a delicious pumpkin: good to know
To make a pumpkin, you must first buy it. But with her choice, you can miss great, so a couple of tips on how to choose the right pumpkin.
- Give preference to a fruit that seems heavier for its size when you pick it up.
- Fresh fruit should be firm, you can check this by pressing on it with your finger. A soft vegetable is a stale product.
- A strong green stem speaks of a freshly harvested pumpkin.
- The fruit must be of a uniform color, free of abrasions, scratches and depressions.
- Wrinkles, mold, specks - stale goods.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 46 kcal.
- Servings - 400 g
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 400 g
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Honey - 2-3 tablespoons
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Butter - for greasing the baking sheet
Cooking baked pumpkin in the oven
1. Peel the pumpkin, but if the fruits are young, then they can be left with the peel. Then wash it, dry it and cut into pieces about 1 cm thick. Do not crush them very finely, otherwise they will quickly dry out, burn and become dry.
2. Wash the orange under running water, dry, cut in half and squeeze out the juice. To extract the maximum amount of juice, make several punctures on the citrus pulp with a sharp knife.
3. Now combine orange juice, honey and cinnamon. If honey causes allergic reactions, then replace it with sugar, jam or preserves.
4. Stir the food well to distribute it evenly. If the honey is thick, then you can first melt it a little in a water bath.
5. Put the pumpkin on a baking sheet greased with butter.
6. Pour cooked sweet sauce over each pumpkin slice.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send the pumpkin to bake for 20-30 minutes. Roasting time depends on the size and thickness of the pumpkin. Ready pumpkin can be eaten in this form, or you can grind it and cook porridge, make cheese cakes or bake pancakes.
See also a video recipe on how to cook baked pumpkin in the oven:
