Recipes for delicious and healthy pumpkin preparations for the winter

Pickled pumpkin

Pumpkin blanks - vitamin, nutritious meals. For canning, it is better to choose varieties with small fruits.

"Like a pineapple"

The taste of this dish is original, bright, similar to pineapple. Perfect as a dessert that will be appreciated by all household members.

Required products:

• pumpkin - 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar - ½ cup;
• lemon - 3-4 slices;
• water - 500 ml;
• 0.5 tsp ground ginger and cinnamon;
• citric acid - ½ tsp.

As for cooking:

1. Prepare a sweet, ripe pumpkin. Cut off the peel, take out the pulp with seeds.
2. Cut the vegetable into medium cubes or sticks.
3. Boil sweet syrup from water and sugar. Bring to a boil, add spices, lemon and acid.
4. Remove the marinade from the stove.
5. Put the vegetable cubes in the marinade, leave to marinate for 4–6 hours.
6. Boil the pumpkin in the marinade for 7 minutes.
7. Preserve the finished dish, put it away for storage.

In Estonian

The recipe is very popular in Estonia. The appetizer has a spicy, unusual taste.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 cups;
• apple cider vinegar - 5 tbsp. l .;
• cloves - 8 sticks;
• allspice - 6 peas;
• cinnamon - 1 stick;
• water - half a liter;
• ginger - a pinch;
• nutmeg - a pinch.

Step by step cooking:

1. Cut the pumpkin into cubes or small pieces, having previously peeled off inedible parts.
2. Prepare syrup: dissolve sugar in water, pour in vinegar.
3. Put pieces of vegetable in the marinade, leave overnight.
4. Add spices to a saucepan and cook for about 10 minutes after boiling.
5. Take out the spices, put the vegetable slices in jars.

Pumpkin in orange marinade

An unusual combination of products makes a delicious and aromatic snack. Summer pumpkin varieties are harvested for conservation.

Products:

• pumpkin pulp - 1 kg;
• large orange - 1 pc .;
• water - 1 l;
• vinegar (30%) - 150 ml;
• sugar - 200 g;
• cloves - 4-5 pcs .;
• cinnamon stick - 1 pc.

Preparation:

1. Cut the pulp of the fruit into cubes.
2. Squeeze citrus juice.
3. Pour water into a container, add sugar, spices, orange juice and vinegar.
4. Bring to a boil, add pumpkin.
5. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
6. Arrange in jars, remove the twist for winter storage.

Video "Pickled pumpkin with honey"

In this video, you will learn the recipe for a delicious pickled pumpkin with honey.

Candied pumpkin

Candied pumpkin fruits resemble golden gummies, which will fly quickly and cheerfully from the everyday table.

For cooking you will need:

• 400 g raw pumpkin;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• half a lemon;
• cinnamon stick;
• ½ glass of water;
• 2 tbsp. l. powdered sugar.

Observe the following sequence of actions:

1. Remove the peel from the orange vegetable, select the seeds, cut into 2 by 2 cm cubes.
2. Place pumpkin slices in a saucepan, cover with sugar, add juice and lemon zest.
3. Put the prepared mass in the refrigerator overnight.
4. Put the pan on the stove, add water, boil the contents three times for 5 minutes.
5. Put the cubes of the fruit on a sieve to make the syrup stack.
6. Preheat oven, set temperature 35–40 ° C. Put the pieces on foil, place on a baking sheet, dry for 4 hours.
7. Sprinkle candied fruits with powder and serve.

Salty snacks

In addition to sweet preparations, pumpkin is very tasty in the form of homemade snack salads.

With eggplant

Initial products for procurement:

• 2 kg of pumpkin pulp;
• 3 kg eggplant;
• 5 kg of tomatoes;
• 1 kg of bell pepper;
• 300 g of garlic;
• half a liter of vegetable oil;
• 6 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
• 100 g of salt;
• 120 ml vinegar (6%);
• a whisper of ground bitter red pepper;
• greens to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. Cut the pulp of the plant into slices.
2. Rinse the pepper, remove the seeds, cut into pieces.
3. Rinse eggplants, chop into slices.
4. Scroll the tomatoes and garlic through a meat grinder.
5. Add oil, herbs, sugar, spices to the resulting filling, add salt,
6. Boil tomato sauce, add prepared vegetables to it.
7. Simmer for 1 hour over low heat.
8. Place the mass in a prepared container, close with sterilized lids.
9. A day later, the preparation for the winter is ready.

Pickled pumpkin

Salting a spicy pickled pumpkin is very simple.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 1 pc.;
• salt - 50 g;
• bitter pepper - 1 pc.;
• water - 1.5 liters.

How to cook:

1. Rinse the vegetable, cut, select seeds, remove the skin.
2. Cut the pulp into cubes. Blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes.
3. Transfer the cubes to a bowl with large edges.
4. Prepare a brine from water, red ground pepper, salt.
5. Pour pumpkin slices with brine. Put oppression and leave to ferment for a couple of days at room temperature.
6. Store the workpiece in a cool place.

You can cook many tasty, healthy and original dishes from pumpkin: soups, casseroles, cereals, pancakes, desserts, sauces. The “Korean style” pickled pumpkin is very tasty. Cut the vegetable into thin noodles using a Korean carrot grater. The peculiarity of the dish is that it takes only 4 hours to marinate in the refrigerator.

What pumpkin is combined with:

• vegetables, mushrooms;
• meat, poultry;
• fresh and dried fruits.

It goes well with rice and millet - from this combination you can make delicious milk porridge by adding pieces of roasted nuts, apples, dried apricots.

Pickled vegetables are the best garnish for meat.