Pumpkin baked in pieces in the oven is a tasty and healthy snack or side dish. This juicy orange vegetable contains minerals and amino acids such as iron, magnesium, copper, phosphorus, calcium, selenium, potassium, and folic acid. Therefore, pumpkin improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, activates metabolism and strengthens the immune system.

Today I will tell you how to bake pumpkin in pieces in the oven according to my favorite recipe. Vegetables turn out juicy, slightly spicy and aromatic thanks to garlic. Baked pumpkin pieces can be served as a side dish to the main dish or added to salads and pasta.

Ingredients:

• 500 g pumpkin
• 2 cloves garlic
• salt to taste
• 0.5 tsp. black pepper
• 50 g butter
• 3 tbsp. l. olive oil

How to cook pumpkin in the oven:

Wash the pumpkin, remove the peel and seeds. The seeds can be washed, dried and then fried in a dry frying pan. Cut the pulp into pieces measuring approximately 2 by 2 centimeters, maybe a little larger.

Pour them into a baking dish. I have a ceramic one, you can also use a metal or heat-resistant glass form.

Drizzle the vegetables with olive oil. Evenly distribute pieces of butter, cut into small cubes, on top. Thanks to it, baked pumpkin will acquire a delicate creamy taste.

Salt and season the pumpkin pieces with black pepper for spiciness.

The preparatory stage is over. Now all that remains is to bake the pumpkin deliciously in the oven in pieces. First, preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the pan with vegetables on a medium level and bake the vegetables until soft for 20-30 minutes. There is no need to cover the vegetables with a lid or foil. Cooking time depends on the type of pumpkin and the size of the pieces. The larger they are, the longer it will take to cook.

10-15 minutes after we put the pan in the oven, take out the vegetables and carefully mix them with a spatula. This way they will bake evenly and brown on top. Put them back in the oven to finish cooking. Pumpkin baked in pieces in the oven will significantly reduce in size and release juice, so do not cut it too finely so as not to end up with pumpkin puree.

While the pumpkin is in the oven, peel and wash the garlic cloves. Let's pass the garlic through a press and sprinkle it on the finished pumpkin.

Decorate the dish with fresh herbs and serve. This pumpkin baked in the oven in pieces with garlic is delicious both warm and chilled.

There are many different recipes that use pumpkin as a staple. The simplest option is pumpkin with sugar, honey or cottage cheese. There are also more intricate options. This applies to such a dish as stuffed pumpkin.

Pumpkin is a very fragrant and beautiful vegetable that ripens in the fall. But it is available to everyone throughout the year. It is used to prepare ordinary daily porridges and soups. Many people bake it in the oven and, with the right choice of spices and other additions, turn it into a real culinary masterpiece.

Selection and preparation of pumpkin

When choosing a pumpkin, you need to follow some recommendations:

1. It is worth choosing a vegetable whose size will not be too large, since it will have a richer taste;
2. Its color should be sufficiently saturated, the shape should be correct, and any damage or flaws should be completely absent;
3. You cannot purchase small decorative pumpkins, because this vegetable is not grown for food purposes.

Preparing vegetables for subsequent use in cooking:

1. Rinse thoroughly under water until all dirt present is washed away;
2. Remove the tail and cut the vegetable in half;
3. Using a spoon, remove all the seeds and fibers that are inside along with the seeds and have a bright orange color;
4. Cut the vegetable into quarters for easy use.

Recipe for pumpkin baked in pieces with sugar

This recipe is the simplest, but nevertheless very tasty. This dish can be served with tea.

Prepare the pumpkin and cut into pieces. Their size can depend only on personal wishes. Place them in an even layer in the mold and fill with boiled water so that it reaches a height of up to 5 mm from the bottom.

Sprinkle the pumpkin pieces evenly with sugar or granulated sugar. Thanks to sugar, the pumpkin will acquire an unusual caramel taste.

Spread butter, cut into small pieces, onto each piece or evenly over the top layer. The oil will give the vegetable a unique aroma and a peculiar softness.

Bake in the oven at 200°C until the vegetable becomes soft. This time depends on the size of the pieces, as well as the type of pumpkin itself.

At the bottom of the pan, a sugar syrup should form under the pumpkin pieces, which can be poured over the dish before serving.

Sweet pumpkin baked in the oven with honey slices

This dish is dietary because it has very few calories. With all this, it may appeal not only to adults, but also to a much smaller generation.

Name and quantity of products that will be required during the preparation process:

• Pumpkin pulp in the amount of 300 grams;
• Water in the amount of two tablespoons;
• Honey in the amount of one teaspoon;
• Refined sunflower oil - at least one tablespoon;
• Sugar or granulated sugar - no more than one tablespoon.

Carefully and thinly peel the peel from the pumpkin, and then cut it into small slices.

The peeled vegetable is evenly laid out on a baking sheet and poured with the prepared syrup. The dish should be placed in a hot oven for about 40 minutes.

After this, the baking sheet is taken out from there, and the slices are additionally sprinkled with sugar or granulated sugar. After this, the baking sheet with the dish must be put back in the oven for 14-15 minutes.

Baked pumpkin slices in the oven with apple

Apples are often added to dishes made from pumpkin, as this combination has a decent taste.

Here is a list of products for one of these dishes:

• Pumpkin, in the amount of 300 or 400 grams;
• 2 or 3 large sweet and sour apples;
• A small amount of walnuts;
• Sugar - no more than two tablespoons.

Carry out all the preparatory work with the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces.

Apples also need to be thoroughly washed and peeled as thinly as possible. These fruits are cut in the same way as pumpkin.

Pour the apples and pumpkin pieces into a baking sheet or baking dish and mix. Sprinkle sugar on top and bake in the oven for at least 30 minutes. The degree of readiness of this dish is determined by the softness of the pumpkin.

After the pumpkin and apples are completely ready, you need to remove them from the oven and let them cool.

Peeled and prepared nuts need to be thoroughly chopped. For these purposes, you can use a blender. A coffee grinder will also work. Then baked apples and pumpkin are sprinkled with this nut crumb.

How to bake pumpkin slices in the oven with cottage cheese

But with this recipe you can surprise your guests and please your household. And this is not surprising, because despite the lack of intricacy in it, it turns out very beautiful and tasty.

List of required ingredients:

• Fresh pumpkin in the amount of 300 grams;
• Cottage cheese, which has the highest fat content, in an amount of approximately 150 grams;
• Two large spoons of candied fruits;
• A little liquid honey.

The vegetable is prepared and cut into small slices. Then they need to be placed in a deep baking tray and covered with foil for baking. The oven should be preheated to high temperature. The baking time should be approximately 15 minutes.

After this, open the oven and remove the foil, and leave for another 5 minutes.

Once cooked, the slices should cool well. After this, cottage cheese, candied fruits and liquid honey are added to them. After thorough mixing, the dish is completely ready.

- this is an unusually delicate taste of exotic banana.

No-bake desserts that you can whip up. You should always keep a selection of these in your notes - they can come in handy if your friends unexpectedly drop by for a cup of coffee.

How to deliciously bake pumpkin slices in the oven with bacon

To prepare this dish you will need the following ingredients:

• 1 kg peeled pumpkin;
• One clove of garlic;
• Two tablespoons of oil, preferably olive;
• Spaghetti, in the amount of 140 grams;
• ½ cup chicken broth;
• Three chicken eggs;
• A glass of breadcrumbs;
• Two teaspoons of chopped thyme leaves;
• Butter in the amount of 30 grams;
• 200 grams of bacon;
• Parmesan cheese, 100 grams;
• Medium sized bulb.

Peel and finely chop the onion, and then fry in a frying pan. During the frying process, add finely chopped garlic and pumpkin, also cut into small pieces. Fry it all until a golden crust forms on the pumpkin.

After this, add the broth there and boil until the pumpkin becomes completely soft. Beat the eggs and add spaghetti, as well as fried pumpkin and onions with broth. To stir thoroughly.

Place the mixture on a pre-greased baking sheet and sprinkle breadcrumbs into it. Add seasonings according to taste.

Top with chopped bacon, grated cheese and thyme. Baking time is approximately 25 minutes at a temperature of one hundred degrees.

Stuffed pumpkin in the oven with meat and cheese

This dish can be called very impressive. The whole process of its preparation is quite interesting and unobtrusive.

List of required ingredients:

• A small pumpkin of regular round shape;
• ½ kg minced meat;
• One medium sized onion;
• Hard cheese in the amount of 200 grams;
• One clove of garlic;
• One teaspoon of salt;
• A small pinch of black pepper;
• Seasonings such as dried thyme, thyme or herbs de Provence in the amount of two teaspoons;
• Refined vegetable oil in the amount of four tablespoons.

Prepare the pumpkin and cut off unnecessary parts. The end result should look like a small cauldron. All seeds and unnecessary fibers need to be removed from the middle of the vegetable.

Next, a mixture is prepared, which will be used to rub the pumpkin in the inside. To do this, you need to grate a clove of garlic on the finest grater, add ground black pepper, selected seasonings and one tablespoon of sunflower oil (vegetable).

The pumpkin grated with the resulting mixture should be placed on a prepared and greased baking sheet and placed in a preheated oven for 28-30 minutes.

During this time, you can calmly start preparing the delicious filling. To do this, prepare and finely chop the onion. It needs to be fried in a frying pan with sunflower oil (vegetable). After the onion is slightly browned, minced meat is added to it. During frying, you need to add salt according to your taste.

During the frying process, you need to constantly break up large lumps of meat. Fry until the meat changes color.

The pumpkin pulp should be chopped into small cubes and added to the minced meat. The resulting mixture needs to be slightly fried in a frying pan. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Set some of it aside. Everything else is also added to the minced meat.

The resulting filling is carefully placed inside the prepared pumpkin, which is then placed in the oven for half an hour. The temperature favorable for baking this dish should be 180 °C. A few minutes before cooking, sprinkle grated cheese on top of the dish.

• It is better to cut stuffed pumpkin when it has cooled down, since this way the filling will set and will not disintegrate;
• The cooked vegetable is a dish that does not contain many calories, so it is a good option for those who want to lose weight;
• It is the baked vegetable that does not contain harmful substances.

A vegetable like pumpkin can be used to create a huge variety of delicious dishes. At the same time, they can refer to both desserts and main hearty dishes.

It is very important to note that this vegetable contains a lot of useful substances, which is why all doctors recommend it for both adults and children.

Cook for your own benefit!

Baked pumpkin is one of the healthiest dishes. It's low calorie. Well suited for dietary nutrition. At the same time, the vegetable can be used to prepare various delicacies. Pumpkin turns out especially successful if it is baked in the oven.

Oven-baked pumpkin can serve as an excellent dessert, a complete breakfast, dinner or a main course for lunch. It all depends on what additional components will be used. If there are potatoes, meat and other vegetables, then it will be a good hearty dish. If you add honey and fruit, you will get a great dessert, and cottage cheese will turn the vegetable into an excellent breakfast option.

And don't worry about a thick crust when you stuff the whole pumpkin. In the oven, the pulp bakes well and becomes surprisingly tender. It is freely removed from the walls of its “pots” using a spoon.

Pumpkin baked in the oven - recipe for cooking in pieces in pots

Do you need to cook something tasty and quick, for example, for dinner? Then this pumpkin recipe will come in handy. The dish turns out juicy and flavorful, and with a minimum of calories.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin pulp - 400 g
• Chicken egg - 3 pcs.
• Butter - 3 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste
• Black pepper - to taste

Preparation:

The vegetable must be peeled, seeds removed and fibers removed.

Muscat pumpkin varieties are best suited for preparing this dish.

Cut the prepared pulp into cubes with a side no larger than 1 cm. If you make them larger, the vegetable will not have time to cook.

Transfer the cubes to a plate. Salt and pepper. If desired, you can add any other spices. Everything is at your discretion.

Distribute the prepared pulp into portioned pots. Be sure to add a spoonful of butter to each one. This will add a creamy flavor to the pumpkin and make it much tastier.

Break the eggs into a separate bowl. Whisk using a whisk as if you were planning to make an omelet. Pour the eggs over the pumpkin until the egg mixture covers them.

Place the pot in an oven preheated to +180 and cook for 25 minutes. During this time, the pieces will be completely cooked and browned. But the original shape will be retained.

When preparing this dish, you can use frozen pumpkin pieces. Only in this case you need to salt and pepper the eggs.

Whole baked pumpkin stuffed with rice and dried fruits

You can bake the whole pumpkin using it as a casserole. Let's do so. For the filling, take rice and dried fruits.

Ingredients:

• 1 small pumpkin;
• 3 tbsp. l. rice;
• 5 pieces. prunes;
• a handful of raisins;
• 3 tbsp. l. pumpkin pulp;
• 1 tsp. honey;
• 1 tbsp. l. butter;
• salt.

Note! Ingredients for stuffing one small fruit are indicated.

Preparation:

The pumpkin needs to be washed and the top carefully cut off. It will serve as a lid for the pot. Remove all the seeds from the center and cut off some of the pulp.

Grind the pulp and simmer, adding a little water, for 15 - 20 minutes.

Rinse and soak raisins and prunes in hot water. After about 15 minutes, drain the water. Finely chop the prunes.

Boil the rice until fully cooked. Drain in a colander and rinse under cold running water.

Combine rice and dried fruits, pumpkin pulp and honey. Mix everything well. This will be the filling.

Fill the pumpkin pot with it. Place butter on top and close with a lid. This pumpkin is prepared at a temperature of +180 for 45 - 50 minutes.

The dish is ready. It can be served at the table.

Sweet pumpkin pieces, baked with honey (sugar)

Pumpkin baked with honey or sugar is one of the simplest and most popular vegetable desserts. During the cooking process, you can simply cut the vegetable into cubes, pour honey (sprinkle with sugar) and put it in the oven.

But the pieces will turn out much tastier if they are slightly acidified. For example, pour lemon or orange juice on top. It will add an unusual flavor note to the dessert, slightly refreshing it.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 400 g
• Honey - 2 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil- 1 tbsp.
• Sesame seed - 2 tbsp.
• Orange - 1 pc. zest (and juice optional)

Preparation:

To prepare the dessert you need to use nutmeg pumpkin varieties. They initially have an original taste and good aroma, which we will only enhance.

Peel the fruit and cut into thin slices. You can shape the pulp into pieces.

In a separate container, combine odorless vegetable oil and honey. Any will do except buckwheat. It initially has a characteristic taste that will overwhelm the pumpkin aroma.

The filling can be improved by adding orange zest (the orange part) and juice. The zest must first be grated on a fine grater. The unusual orange taste will really appeal to children who don’t particularly like pumpkin.

Place the pumpkin in the prepared dressing and mix gently until it covers the entire surface of the pulp.

Place them in a fireproof dish in one layer and place in the oven at +180 for 40 minutes.

Transfer the finished pumpkin to a plate. Pour the resulting juice over the top and sprinkle with lightly toasted sesame seeds.

As an option for preparing dessert, you can use this video recipe

Bon appetit! I discovered pumpkin with honey only last year. I never thought that I could love this vegetable dessert)))

Pumpkin with meat and potatoes in the sleeve

This dish option is good for dinner or a second lunch course. It turns out to be quite filling due to the content of meat and potatoes, but at the same time light due to pumpkin and zucchini.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 500 gr.;
• zucchini - 2 pcs.;
• potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• pork ham - 400 gr.;
• seasoning for pork- taste;
• Provencal herbs- taste;
• fresh greens - to taste.

Preparation:

First of all, you need to deal with the meat. Cut the pork into thin slices, salt, pepper and sprinkle your favorite seasonings on top. Stir and refrigerate for about half an hour.

Let the meat sit and marinate. In the meantime, we'll take care of the pumpkin. It needs to be peeled and seeded. Cut into large cubes. If you chop a vegetable, then during the cooking process it will turn into an unappetizing porridge. Sprinkle with Provençal herbs.

Cut the zucchini into cubes. If they are milky, there is no need to peel them. Cut the potatoes into thin slices.

Now you can assemble the sleeve. Layers in this order:

1. potatoes - salt;
2. meat with zucchini;
3. pumpkin.

We secure the ends of the sleeves. Place it on a baking sheet and put it in the oven at +180 for 60 minutes.

15 minutes before the end of time, you need to cut the top of the film and uncover the vegetables. Then the pumpkin will bake and a beautiful crust will form on it.

Making pumpkin in the oven with honey and apples

To prepare this dessert, it is advisable to use dessert varieties of pumpkin, such as honey pumpkin. It contains the most sugars and the pulp is quite sweet. On the contrary, choose apples that are more acidic.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 400 g;
• apples – 500 g;
• cinnamon – 1 teaspoon. spoon;
• walnuts – 40 g;
• liquid honey – 2 tables. spoons.

Preparation:

Peel and core both apples and pumpkin. Cut into equal pieces, but no need to chop. The optimal size is 2x2 cm. Only the apples should be thicker and the pumpkin thinner.

Cover the baking dish with foil. Place the pumpkin on it in one layer and place it in the oven for 20 minutes at +180. Don't forget to add 2 tablespoons of water to it.

Remove the mold when time is up. The vegetable should soften. Now sprinkle some cinnamon powder on top of it.

Place the apples on top and return the baking sheet to the oven for another 25 minutes.

Then let the mixture cool slightly and you can start serving. Place the pumpkin and apples in bowls or any other serving bowl. Drizzle each serving with honey, add some walnuts and serve.

Video: Baked pumpkin with mushrooms and cheese

Pumpkin baked with cottage cheese and raisins

If you bake pumpkin with cottage cheese and raisins, you will get an excellent hearty breakfast option.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 200 g;
• cottage cheese - 100 g;
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• cinnamon - 1 pinch;
• vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon

Preparation:

Remove the skin from the pumpkin and grate the pulp on a medium grater. Grease a heat-resistant dish with oil and place half of the prepared product into it.

Rinse the raisins thoroughly in hot water. Place it on the cottage cheese and add the egg. Mix the ingredients. Place some of the curd mixture on the pumpkin.

Alternate layers of grated pumpkin pulp and cottage cheese until the entire pan is filled.

The top layer should be vegetable.

Bake the pumpkin in the oven at +180 for half an hour.

These are the delicious dishes you can prepare from regular pumpkin. The simplicity of the recipes is also captivating - even novice cooks will succeed. And no matter what cooking method you choose, the dish will turn out tasty and nutritious.

That's all for today! Good luck in the kitchen and look forward to new recipes.

Hello!

Pumpkin is one of the healthiest vegetables, from which you can prepare many wonderful dishes. It contains simply a huge amount of useful substances. That’s why it’s recommended to give it to children. Pumpkin is an almost waste-free product, so both the pulp and the seeds can be used. Various porridges and desserts are prepared from the pulp. Oil is, in turn, extracted from the seeds. In ancient times, even the hard peel was used to make dishes from it. People simply scraped out all the pulp and got a convenient bowl. At the same time, it was necessary to dry it.

Pumpkin is good for making juice as it has antioxidant properties. Therefore, this wonderful vegetable improves immunity. I myself love to cook something tasty, I often make porridge. But today we’ll talk a little about other recipes. I suggest you get acquainted with them.

Pumpkin baked in the oven with honey and sugar

I would like to point out that the vegetable not only improves immunity, but also gives a boost of energy. And in combination with honey, this is an energy explosion for the body, so you will feel cheerful and full of energy all day long.

To prepare we will need:

• Of course, the pumpkin itself - 300 grams
• Honey (I take flower honey) - 1 teaspoon
• Sugar and sunflower oil 1 tablespoon each
• Purified water - 3 tablespoons

Let's start cooking

1 The first step is preparing the vegetable. You need to peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds. And rinse the product with running water.

Pumpkin is not only a storehouse of nutrients, but is good for those who want to lose weight. Therefore, cook it baked more often.

2 Now we need to chop the vegetable. Cut into pieces in the form of cubes. Sizes upon request. And transfer it to a separate bowl for a while.

If you have a sweet tooth, you can increase the amount of one of the ingredients. Just add a little more honey or sugar.

4 Next you need to preheat the oven to 180 degrees. While our oven is heating up, we take a baking sheet and lay some food paper on it. On the paper, distribute the chopped vegetables evenly over the entire surface, but so that they do not adhere too closely to each other. Using a tablespoon, pour the honey syrup over the pumpkin pieces. Then we put it in the oven. And bake for 20-30 minutes.

Second phase:

After the pumpkin has become soft, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Sprinkle the pieces with sugar and bake again for 10 minutes.

If you wish, you can sprinkle with sesame seeds or cinnamon, this will only improve the taste.

5 Remove the finished baked pumpkin from the oven. Let cool for about 5 minutes. Serve with tea. Pumpkin dessert is ready.

This is how a very simple, but at the same time delicious dessert is prepared.

This delicacy can be served not only with tea, but also with any porridge. You can chop the finished pumpkin and add it to the porridge. It turns out very tasty.

Delicious pumpkin with garlic

Another interesting recipe. It shows that the vegetable can be prepared in different ways.

Products:

• Pumpkin – 600 grams
• Garlic – 5 heads
• Vegetable oil - 70 milliliters
• Ground white pepper - half a teaspoon
• Basil - 1 teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Preparation:

1 To begin, you need to prepare the pumpkin as usual. Remove peels and seeds. Cut into small pieces.

2 Now you need to prepare the sauce. To do this, add salt, pepper and garlic, passed through a press, into sunflower oil. Mix. You just need to let it brew.

3 The third step is to place the pieces in a baking dish. Carefully place over the entire surface.

4 Pour our sauce evenly over all the pumpkin pieces. We don't miss a single piece.

5 Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. We send our form with the soaked pumpkin to the oven. Baking time 35 minutes. A delicious pumpkin dish is ready. Bon appetit!

You can add some other spices to the sauce, such as rosemary and ground black pepper.

Recipe for pumpkin baked with apples

The next thing we will look at is how to cook a wonderful vegetable with apples. It turns out to be a very tasty dessert.

We will need:

• Pumpkin – 500 grams
• Apple - 4-5 pieces.
• Purified water - 125 ml
• Half a lemon
• Sugar to taste.

Preparing dessert:

1 Prepare the ingredients. The first step is to peel the pumpkin. Everything according to the old scheme, remove the peel and seeds and cut into small pieces.

2 Apples come next. So we peel them and cut out the core. And cut them into small cubes.

3 Pour lemon juice over the sliced ​​apples. This way they will maintain their appearance. If you want, you can also pour the juice over the pumpkin pieces.

4 Take any baking dish, in this case it is glass. Lay out the pumpkin pieces first.

5 Then lay out the apple pieces soaked in lemon juice.

6 Prepare the syrup. Pour water into a separate pan and add sugar. Put on fire and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then pour it over the pumpkin and apple pieces. Next we put the molds in the oven, before which you need to preheat to 180 degrees. Bake for half an hour.

7 After the time has passed, the pumpkin is ready. Take it out and let it cool. Now you can serve it to the table.

If desired, you can add raisins. It will only improve the taste of the dessert.

I think that the article has convinced you that you can prepare a different number of dishes with your own flavors. If you liked the recipes, please rate or like them. Please leave your comments. Your opinion is very valuable to me. Happiness and health to you!

It is not without reason that this amazing fruit received the honorary title of Queen of Garden Vegetables from the French: it is extremely useful, beautiful and easy to prepare for everyday and spectacular holiday dishes. Soups and side dishes, desserts and preserves, salads and muffins, casseroles - all this can be easily prepared using culinary photos and recipes for pumpkin in the oven.

How to cook pumpkin baked in the oven

The orange vegetable can be confidently called the most valuable and bright gift of autumn, because in terms of the content of nutrients and vitamins, few fruits can compete with it. There are several cooking methods: pumpkin is baked, boiled, fried or eaten raw. Before you prepare pumpkin baked in slices in the oven, you need to choose it correctly. The round, brightly colored fruits weighing from 3 to 5 kilograms are considered very sweet and healthy.

Cooks call baking the most successful way to heat pumpkin, because in this form the vegetable can easily be used to prepare soups, salads, pies and desserts. How to cook pumpkin in the oven? First, the fruit is freed from the crust, then the membranes and seeds are removed, the pulp is cut into large slices and baked at high temperature until soft. You can add sugar, honey or nuts to the pumpkin pulp.

Recipes for oven-baked pumpkin

How to bake pumpkin in the oven? Some housewives cook it whole, boil porridge or stuff it with apples, candied fruits and raisins. Others are baked on foil with garlic and aromatic oil, or stuffed with meat, mushrooms and even fish. Tasty and properly baked pumpkin is a method that is used to prepare such delicious dishes as marshmallows, ice cream and casseroles.

Entirely

Before baking the whole pumpkin in the oven, you should place the roast in it, that is, use it as a pot. Baked vegetables prepared in this way, supplemented with chicken and mushrooms, not only retain their beneficial substances, but are also saturated with pumpkin aroma and taste. Any type of meat is suitable as a filling, as well as fish, cheese and cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 1 pc.;
• chicken pulp – 400 g;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• mushrooms (champignons, shiitake) – 250 g;
• potatoes – 350 g;
• greens (parsley) – 1 tbsp. l. (chopped).

Cooking method:

1. Cut off the “lid” from the pumpkin - part of the fruit and the tail. Remove seeds and membranes.
2. Peel the carrots and onions and chop them as desired: into cubes or strips.
3. Peel the potatoes and cut them into the same slices as carrots and onions.
4. Cut the chicken flesh along the grain into long strips.
5. Cut the mushrooms into slices.
6. Place the pumpkin pot on a baking sheet and fill with chicken, potatoes, champignons, onions and carrots.
7. Season the roast with spices and salt. Add a glass of hot water.
8. Cover with a “lid” and place in the oven. Cooking pumpkin in the oven will take 40-45 minutes.
9. At the end of cooking, sprinkle the contents with herbs.

Pieces

Only sweet, bright orange, large fruits are suitable for this recipe. Before you bake the pumpkin in the oven in pieces, you need to properly prepare it: peel and cut it. Pumpkin baked in pieces and seasoned with butter turns out simply incomparable. Such a tasty treat will compete with restaurant dishes and expensive overseas delicacies.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 3 kg;
• water – 120 ml;
• granulated sugar – 1 tsp;
• butter (fat content of at least 72%) – 30-40 g;
• salt – 1 tsp.

Cooking method

1. Using a sharp knife, cut the vegetable into four pieces. Remove the pulp, membranes and seeds.
2. Cut the pumpkin pulp into large equal pieces.
3. Place the pieces in an ovenproof baking dish and add hot water.
4. Sprinkle everything with sugar.
5. Place a teaspoon of soft butter on each slice.
6. Bake for 25-40 minutes at high temperature.
7. Before serving, drizzle with the sweet pumpkin syrup formed in the pan.

With apples

This dish can be supplemented with candied fruits, dried fruits, dried berries and honey. Baked pumpkin with apples is a delicious dessert that has optimal calorie content for dietary and baby food. Vegetables should be baked in a refractory dish or in portions. When serving, the dish is sprinkled with finely chopped nuts or mint.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin pulp – 700 g;
• white raisins – 50 g;
• sweet apples – 2 pcs.;
• lemon – 1 pc.;
• hot water – 50 ml;
• ground cinnamon – 5 g;
• granulated sugar – 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking method

1. First, pour boiling water over the raisins and let the berries soften. Drain and dry.
2. Peel the pumpkin and remove seeds and entrails with a spoon. Cut the orange pulp as desired.
3. Prepare the apples for baking - peel them and cut them into 8 pieces.
4. Pour a couple of tablespoons of boiling water into a baking dish and place the pumpkin sticks and apples on the bottom.
5. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and pour it over the fruit.
6. Sprinkle everything with sugar and cinnamon.
7. Bake, stirring occasionally, in a very hot oven for 25-30 minutes.

With sugar

Pumpkin baked with sugar is rightfully considered a fragrant, tasty dessert. Connoisseurs of this vegetable claim that this dish resembles the taste of honey marmalade. This seems to be true - sugar melts at high temperature, combines with aromatic baked pumpkin juice, creating a unique tasty, aromatic tandem. Just the photo of the dish makes my mouth water. Pumpkin, deliciously baked in the oven, is worthy of decorating any table.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin pulp – 500 g;
• vegetable (or olive) oil – 30 ml;
• soft butter – 30 g;
• granulated sugar – 200 g.

Cooking method

1. Divide the pumpkin into several parts and peel using a very sharp knife. Extract the pulp, remove the seeds and membranes.
2. Cut the vegetable into large cubes or random pieces.
3. Grease a baking pan or baking tray with butter.
4. Place pumpkin cubes and pour over vegetable oil.
5. Sprinkle granulated sugar on top.
6. It will take an average of 40 minutes to bake the dish. The oven should be turned on to maximum.

With honey

An excellent, nutritious dish that is suitable for children and adults, and is also very easy to prepare. The main task is to choose a suitable pumpkin: winter varieties are suitable for this, photos of which can be found on the Internet, because they have a very thick skin and a bright orange flesh. You should not buy too large specimens - you should give preference to fruits weighing 3-5 kilograms. Pumpkin in the oven with honey is easy to prepare. This dish is especially tasty with aromatic tea.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin pulp – 600-700 g;
• liquid honey – 50 ml;
• olive oil (or vegetable) – 40 ml;
• granulated sugar – 70 g;
• hot water – 50 ml.

Cooking method

1. To easily remove the skin from the pumpkin, you will need a sharp knife and a little patience. Cut the fruit into four parts, remove the seeds and carefully remove the pulp from the walls.
2. Wash the pulp and cut into cubes with a piece thickness of no more than 2 centimeters.
3. In a small container, mix water, olive oil and liquid honey. Stir well with a whisk until a homogeneous emulsion is obtained.
4. Line a baking sheet with parchment (baking paper) and lay out the pumpkin slices.
5. Pour the prepared honey syrup over the vegetable.
6. Bake everything in the oven for 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
7. At the end of cooking, sprinkle the pieces with sugar and bake for another 10 minutes.

With meat

Pumpkin baked in the oven with meat will be a hearty dinner; for it, chicken, beef or pork, and also rice. The vegetable will serve as both a baking container and an ingredient in the dish. This baked treat can be safely served at the holiday table. The recipe for meat with pumpkin in the oven will certainly appeal to all lovers of healthy, original dishes.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 2.5-3 kg;
• rice – 200 g;
• pork – 650 g;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• medium carrots – 1 pc.;
• butter – 40 g;
• spices, herbs – 1.tsp. l.;
• vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking method

1. Prepare the pumpkin - carefully cut off the top and tail, remove the pulp.
2. Clean the walls well and grease the entire radius with butter and rub with salt.
3. Rinse the meat, dry it and cut it into pieces along the grain.
4. Cut the onion into cubes and sauté in vegetable oil until golden brown.
5. Grate the carrots on a large-mesh grater or chop them randomly and simmer along with the onion.
6. In a separate frying pan with heated oil, fry the meat until half cooked.
7. Rinse the rice and boil until half cooked, place in a deep container and combine with the rest of the ingredients.
8. Season everything to taste with spices and salt.
9. Place the pumpkin pot on a baking sheet and fill it with minced meat.
10. Bake the pumpkin dish in the oven for one and a half to two hours.

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