Pumpkin is a popular gourd. They make soups, salads, main dishes, desserts and even preparations for the winter. Armenians prefer to eat baked pumpkin, but in Russia it is most often used to make porridge. This product can be consumed by those people who are obese, because pumpkin, despite its high nutritional value, has low calorie content.
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Pumpkin salad
You will need: 400 grams of pumpkin, 2 pickles, 1-2 tomatoes, 1 small onion, about 60 ml of vegetable oil, ¼ and the same amount of table 3% vinegar, ½ tsp. salt, 1 tsp sugar, pepper to taste, greens.
First of all, prepare salad dressing. To do this, mix vegetable oil with vinegar, add salt, sugar, ground black pepper, stir everything until smooth.
Cut the peeled gourd culture into small cubes, then boil in slightly salted water, drain the broth, cool the pumpkin. Dice cucumbers and tomatoes. Chop the onion finely. Mix everything, add salad dressing. Put in a salad bowl and decorate with greens.
Avar Pumpkin
You will need: 2 pumpkins, tomatoes, garlic, parsley, salt, black pepper, vegetable oil to taste.
Peel the pumpkin from seeds and peel. Make minced meat from one pumpkin. To do this, cut the pulp of pumpkin into pieces, cut the tomatoes into small slices, chop the garlic with parsley, salt, pepper, mix everything and fry in vegetable oil.
Fill the second pumpkin with prepared minced meat. Put chopped tomatoes on the bottom of a deep dish, put stuffed pumpkin on them, pour in cold water so that it does not completely cover the pumpkin, salt, cover the dish with a lid and stew the dish until cooked.
Pumpkin roast
You will need: 1 medium-sized pumpkin, several tomatoes, 1-2 bell peppers, a head of garlic, 2-3 tbsp. vegetable oil, salt, black pepper, herbs, parsley to taste.
Prepare the pumpkin, peeling it from the peel and seeds. Cut into slices, put in a deep frying pan with oil and fry. Add finely chopped tomatoes, bell pepper, garlic, parsley, salt, ground black pepper. Mix everything, cover the pan with a lid and simmer until cooked.
Pumpkin casserole
You will need: a quarter of a small pumpkin, 2 cups of boiled rice, half a cup of raisins, honey, oil to taste.
Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes, pour boiled rice, raisins, honey. Mix everything, put in a pot of oil or in a pan, bake in the oven.