Pumpkin is sometimes called the champion among vegetables in the number and variety of nutrients. She received such a high rank because of the high content in her pulp of beta-carotene, vitamins C, E, B1, B2, trace elements iron, calcium, cobalt, potassium, silicon, copper, magnesium, fluorine. Pumpkin has little coarse fiber, which is why it is a valuable dietary product.
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The pulp of its fruits is both dense and soft, making it convenient to bake and cook.
How to cook porridge with pumpkin?
The most famous pumpkin dish is a pumpkin, which is millet porridge with the pulp of this fruit. In this case, cook the usual "millet". Pumpkin slices stewed in milk, butter, chopped chicken egg are added to it. The mixture is carefully mixed and sent in a pan in a preheated oven for 20 minutes. The aroma and taste of such porridge will please even the most demanding gourmets, but anyone can cook pumpkin with millet correctly.
How to cook marmalade or jelly from pumpkin?
There is more than one recipe for delicious pumpkin boiling. It can be jam, caviar, casserole from its pulp. But pumpkin marmalade seems especially interesting.
To cook it, 1 kg of baked pumpkin and a pound of granulated sugar are boiled without water to a state of considerable density. During the process, vanillin, cinnamon or zest is added to the mixture, which gives piquancy to the finished product.
Many people fell in love with pumpkin jelly. For its preparation, the fruit is peeled and peeled, and then ground on a grater. After squeezing the juice, it is mixed with water at the rate of 1 glass of water for 3 glasses of juice, after which everything is brought to a boil. In a hot mixture, 1 tablespoon of diluted starch is introduced and it is boiled for literally several minutes. The final stage is adding lemon juice to the resulting jelly, thoroughly mixing the product and keeping it aside for a while.
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