Pumpkin can be rightfully called a universal vegetable. It fits perfectly with almost all products. Most often it is stuffed or cooked in the oven . But it can be served with fish, and with meat, and in combination with any other vegetables. It is also beautiful in porridges and simply as an individual product. It contains a huge amount of vitamins necessary for the body, and pumpkin seeds are a real storehouse of microelements. Pumpkin can be used in any form - fry, soar, bake, dry and, of course, cook. Before cooking, any mistress asks herself the question: how to cook a pumpkin, how long to cook a pumpkin until ready. Just the vital issue of housewives is how to cook a pumpkin for a child for complementary feeding. We will answer these questions with a few simple recipes.
Boiled pumpkin
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 kg;
- water - 2 l;
- salt - pinch.
Preparation
This version of the pumpkin is more like a semi-finished product. Here we just tell you how to properly cook a pumpkin, and then from this product you can cook something at your discretion. So, the pumpkin needs to be cleaned from the peel and clean the core. Seeds do not throw away - they are very useful! Flesh cut slices and put in boiling salted water. Cook the pumpkin for thirty minutes. Next, pumpkin should be removed and cooled. Everything, the boiled pumpkin is ready for the further use.
Pumpkin for the first complementary food the baby is prepared in the same way as described above, only boil it better for five to ten minutes longer and do not add salt. Cook the boiled vegetable properly with a fork or chop the blender into a puree-like mass. Before feeding, be sure to check the food temperature and do not forget that if you give a pumpkin for the first time - start with one teaspoon and watch the baby's reaction to a new product.
And now tell you how to cook a pumpkin in a multivark.
Honey pumpkin in multivark
Ingredients:
- honey - 3 tablespoons;
- butter - 25 g;
- pumpkin (flesh) - 500 g.
Preparation
According to this recipe, the pumpkin gets boiled in its own juice and more trekking on the baked. Pumpkin flesh is cut into small cubes and sent to the bowl of multivarka, greased with butter. We put it on the "baking" mode for 20 minutes. Then add more butter and three tablespoons of liquid honey, mix and add another 20 minutes to the same mode. As soon as the time comes out, we get the boiled-baked pumpkin in honey and enjoy its tender taste.