Pumpkin - not only a symbol of Halloween, but also one of the most useful vegetables in the world.In the West, the pumpkin has always been widely used in cooking, and traditional Russian cuisine were a lot of old dishes from her.
How to make children fall in love rich in vitamins and minerals pumpkin?We offer you 3 recipes first, second and dessert, a pumpkin for your child.
pumpkin can be cooked many delicious dishes - including for children.This useful vegetable contains five kinds of vitamins (A, B, C, D, E), as well as magnesium, potassium and calcium.
offer you three recipes simple dishes that will help you enter a pumpkin in your child's diet.And to ensure that the baby more likely to eat pumpkin dishes can be prepared and dad and mom, then the whole family will eat tasty and healthy.
Pumpkin soup
for family portions of this vibrant and tasty soup pick up a pound of pumpkin, 200 grams and 200 grams of potatoes, carrots, 250 grams of cream or milk, salt and herbs to taste (dill and parsley).Dairy products are needed in this soup for a better assimilation contained in the pumpkin nutrients.
Cooking soup:
1. Wash and clean the pumpkin, remove the seeds and pulp.
2. Cut the remaining tyvku into small pieces.
3. Washed and peeled potatoes and carrots cut into small pieces.Alternately
4. Put all the vegetables in boiling water, a little salt and cook for about half an hour, until they soften.
5. Taking cooked vegetables until soft state, cool them slightly in a blender and make of them mashed.
6. Then add back finely ground herbs in a blender and mix again.
7. The resulting mixture pour back into the pan, where vegetables are cooked, add cream or milk, stir well and cook for another 5 minutes.And Serve soup can decorate with greenery.
Pumpkin-curd casserole
Children who do not like soup, this dish can be offered on the second.Cottage cheese - also a very useful product, and it must be in a child's diet.If you want to set an example for your child and eat with him, cook family serving casseroles.
For this dish you will need 600 grams pumpkin, 4 tablespoons of semolina, a glass of milk, 400 g of cheese, 4 eggs, 100 grams of butter, sugar and salt to taste.
Cooking casserole:
1. Boil and cool conventional thick porridge with milk.
2. peeled, the flesh and seeds of the pumpkin cut into small cubes and ran out into the butter.
3. Wipe happening through a metal sieve.
4. Whisk the eggs well - to foam, add the sugar and whisk again.Sugar can give and smaller - everything individually.
5. Beat eggs, semolina and cottage cheese mix well with each other, season with salt to taste.
6. If the pumpkin has cooled, add it to the mixture.Now all you need to mix gently so as not to mash the pumpkin.
7. The resulting mixture pour into a mold and bake 45 minutes at 200 degrees.Casserole should get up and covered with a crust of golden color.And it can serve with cream, jam or sour cream.
Finally, versatile way to enter into the diet of pumpkin baby - to bake a delicious cake of it!Of course, this would require investment of time and effort, but the result is worth it.
Pumpkin Cake
To prepare the cake you will need:
pound of pumpkin, 3 eggs, 100 grams of sugar, a packet of vanillin, a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon, a little ground nutmeg, a liter of low-fat yogurt or milk, 10 tablespoonsflour, 6 tablespoons vegetable oil (unscented), condensed milk or any ready cream.
Ready cake can be decorated, which take a couple of pears, 2 tablespoons sugar, 6 tablespoons water, banana, half a lemon, and 4 tablespoons of coconut.
Prepare the cake:
1. Take a deep bowl, pour back 2 eggs, a little salt and a couple of minutes, add the vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.Now you can start whisking all the mixer.
2. Once the sugar is dissolved, pour into a bowl of milk or yogurt, and - vegetable oil (it will not be burnt shortcakes).Continue beating with a mixer, until a homogeneous mixture
3. The screened in advance slowly add the flour in future tests, mix thoroughly, removing all lumps.
4. peeled, and the pulp of the pumpkin seeds in a food processor chop or grate on a fine grater.
5. Adding the pumpkin batter, mix and check - consistency should be similar to the dough for pancakes.If too thin because of the juicy pumpkins, give a little more flour.
6. Bake the cakes for the cake in the pan, greased with vegetable oil over medium heat, the rate - about one ladle on the cake.
7. Do not forget to flip the cakes in time so that they slightly browned on both sides and not burnt.You can get about 14-15-year-cakes or a little less.
8. When all the cakes will be ready and cooled, place them on top of each other, promazyvaya condensed milk or cream.
9. Of course, to decorate a cake can be different ways.To decorate we need to clear recipe pears, remove seeds, cut into thin slices and sprinkle them with lemon juice (if pears darken).
10. 15 minutes cook pears in syrup of water and sugar until they become translucent.
11. Then, you can start decorating the cake slices of pears, cut into slices and lemon juice being poured into a banana, coconut.And how to decorate - tell your imagination.
12. Pumpkin pie should insist to cool in the refrigerator for an hour or two, and you can serve it to tea, juice or milk.
