What to cook with pumpkin for Halloween 2019? TOP 8 interesting and delicious culinary recipes. Secrets and features of cooking pumpkin. Video recipes.
Pumpkin is the main attribute of the Halloween holiday, which is celebrated on the night of October 31 to November 1. On this day, a variety of decorations are made from pumpkins, cutting out faces, lanterns, vases and other decorations from it. However, the orange beauty is equally pleasant not only to admire, but also to gorge itself. On All Saints' Day, no less attention is paid to the solemn feast, where pumpkin is also a staple and culinary trend. A variety of dishes are prepared from it for Halloween: cookies, muffins, pies, mashed soups, lattes, cocktails, casseroles, etc. The main thing is that the food matches the celebration, is appropriately decorated and themed.
Secrets and features of cooking pumpkin
- Pumpkin is a unique vegetable that can withstand any culinary treatment: baking, pickling, frying, boiling.
- At first glance, it seems that the pumpkin is tasteless. Indeed, her taste is not too bright. But adding to it the aroma of seasonings and the shine of spices, seasoning with minced meat and fragrant vegetable oil, decorating with wine sauce and giving tenderness with butter, and there will be no trace of the simpleton.
- The ginger beauty goes well with many ingredients, both meat and vegetables, and sweet dried fruits and dairy products.
- It is very important that the quality of the selected pumpkin affects the result of the finished dish. The ideal golden beauty should have a round shape, medium size (not overgrown), heavy weight, but not more than 5 kg, dense and spotless peel, dry tail, firm and bright flesh.
- If the fruit is cut into pieces, peeled of pulp and seeds, store it in the refrigerator for no longer than a week, in the freezer for 6 to 12 months. Unopened pumpkin is stored until spring in a dry, ventilated and cool (about 0 °) room.
- Buying pumpkin slices is not recommended. Firstly, due to hygienic considerations, since it could have been cut with an unclean knife. Secondly, it is sometimes impossible to determine a ripe pumpkin by a piece or not. If you did buy a piece, try the seeds. They must be large and ripe.
Stuffed pumpkin
Stuffed pumpkin is a complete dish that does not need any additions. This is a finished treat that is served entirely. It is advisable to use a small pumpkin for the recipe.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 189 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 1 pc.
- Red pepper - a pinch
- Boiled porridge (rice, millet, pearl barley, buckwheat) - 1 tbsp.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Black pepper - a pinch
- Cumin - 0.5 tsp
- Minced meat - 500 g
Cooking stuffed pumpkin:
- Cut off the top of the washed and dried pumpkin, clean out the seeds and some of the pulp. Finely chop the extracted pulp.
- Fry the chopped onion quarters into rings in oil in a pan until transparent.
- Add minced meat and pumpkin pulp to the onion. Season with salt and pepper, add cumin and boiled cereals.
- Put the filling in the pumpkin, place it steadily in a baking dish and send it to the heated oven to 180 degrees. Cook it until the lid is soft, about 40 minutes (depending on the size of the pumpkin).
American Pumpkin Pie
An open, traditional, fragrant and delicious pie with a sweet creamy pumpkin filling is commonly made in America on Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas. Choose a pumpkin that is sweet and not very juicy. Butternut (bottle) pumpkin is ideal for the product.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 1 kg
- Pitted dates - handful
- Ginger powder - 1 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Ground cardamom - 1 tsp
- Ground nutmeg - 0.5 tsp
- Ground cloves - 0.5 tsp
- Corn starch - 1 tablespoon
- Brown sugar - optional (if pumpkin and dates sweetness is not enough)
- Cream or full-fat milk - 50 ml
- Whole wheat flour - 2 tbsp.
- Baking dough - 1 tablespoon
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 30 ml
- Cold water - 1-3 tbsp.
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Cooking American Pumpkin Pie:
- Cut the pumpkin in half, peel the seeds, put the peel side down on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for about 40 minutes until soft.
- Scrape the pulp out of the pumpkin with a spoon and place in a blender.
- Add starch, spices (ginger, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon), cream, washed dates, and sugar.
- Grind food until smooth.
- Combine flour, sugar and baking powder for the dough. Add the vegetable oil and stir to distribute it evenly over the flour mixture.
- Then add water little by little and knead an elastic, non-sticky dough.
- Roll out the dough into a cake, transfer to the mold, forming the sides.
- Place the pumpkin filling on top of the base and line it evenly.
- Bake the pie in the oven at 180 degrees for half an hour.
- Decorate the finished chilled cake with melted dark chocolate in the form of a cobweb, spider and other living creatures in the style of Halloween.
Pumpkin puree soup
The undisputed leader of pumpkin dishes is puree soup, which is spiced with slices of fried foie gras in the restaurant, and the housewives are decorated with golden fried seeds.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin (peeled from seeds and peels) - 1.5 kg
- Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
- Shallots - 4 pcs.
- Celery - 2 stalks
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Coriander - 1 tablespoon
- Ground cumin - 2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
- Ground cloves - 0.25 tsp
- Grated nutmeg - 0.25 tsp
- Vegetable broth - 5 tbsp.
- Natural yogurt - for serving
Making Pumpkin Puree Soup:
- Heat oil in a saucepan, add chopped shallots with celery and fry for 5 minutes.
- Add the grated carrots and chopped potatoes and continue to fry for 5 minutes.
- Season food with spices (coriander, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg) and cook for 2 minutes.
- Stir in the sliced pumpkin and pour in the vegetable broth. Boil and simmer, covered for 20 minutes, until vegetables are soft.
- Grind the soup with a blender until smooth, salt, pepper and boil for 5 minutes.
- Serve hot soup, garnished with cobweb yogurt.
Pumpkin smoothie with pulp
Pumpkin juice will help strengthen the body by saturating it with useful vitamins. It is suitable for dietary and health food.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 600 g
- Water - 400 ml
- Milk - 100 ml
- Oranges - 3 pcs.
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Cardamom - 0.5 tsp
Making a pumpkin pulp smoothie:
- Cut the pumpkin pulp into small pieces, cover with water and boil until tender. Grind the finished pumpkin with a blender until smooth.
- Squeeze the juice out of the orange.
- Combine orange juice with spices, milk and honey.
- Add pumpkin mass, stir and serve the drink to the table.
Pumpkin roll
Delicious and tender pumpkin roll is very easy and quick to prepare. It is delicious with any filling, but baked goods with apricot jam also look beautiful in the Halloween theme.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 500 g
- Flour - 100 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 200 g
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Apricot jam - 1 tbsp.
- Dried apricots - 10 pcs.
- Walnuts - 50 g shelled kernels
Making a pumpkin roll:
- Cut the pumpkin into pieces, boil and puree with a blender until smooth.
- Combine eggs with sugar and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
- Add the sifted flour and the zest of half an orange to the egg mass.
- Add pumpkin puree and mix thoroughly.
- Pour the dough on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and send to bake until tender in a preheated oven to 180 degrees.
- For the filling, wash dried apricots, chop finely and mix with jam.
- Cool the finished biscuit a little, spread with jam, sprinkle with chopped nuts and roll.
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Pumpkin cupcakes
A great idea for Halloween is pumpkin cupcakes. They will decorate your home and create a festive atmosphere. Although such baked goods with wonderful taste, aroma and health benefits can please you all year round.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin puree, ready-made - 250 g
- Sugar - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - 100 g
- Baking powder - 1.5 tsp
- Flour - 300 g
- Cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
- Nutmeg - pinch
- Dried ginger - pinch
- Orange zest - a pinch
- Salt - a pinch
- Raisins - 50 g
- Cream cheese - 300 g
- Powdered sugar - 100 g
- Butter (softened) - 115 g
Making pumpkin cupcakes:
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into cubes, cover with water and boil for 15-20 minutes until soft. Then drain the remaining water, rub it through a fine sieve and cool to room temperature.
- Combine pumpkin puree with orange peel, sifted flour, baking powder, salt and spices.
- Beat eggs with sugar. Pour in vegetable oil, stir and combine with pumpkin puree. The consistency of the dough should be as thick as sour cream.
- Raisins soaked in hot water, squeeze and add to the dough.
- Put the dough in muffin tins and bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
- Cool the finished muffins and brush with butter cream, caping it with a pastry bag. To do this, combine softened butter with cream cheese and sugar, and beat for 5-7 minutes.
Pumpkin cookies
Pumpkin biscuits are simple, fast and tasteful. And it’s healthy food too! Excellent tasty, soft and pleasantly aromatic pastries.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Butter - 12 g
- Pumpkin puree - 70 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Wheat flour - 300 g
- Carnation - 25 buds
Making Pumpkin Cookies:
- Boil the eggs hard-boiled, cool, peel and separate the yolks from the whites. Proteins are not needed for the recipe, and grate the yolks on a fine grater.
- Add soft butter and pumpkin puree to the yolks. Pour in flour and sugar and stir the ingredients until a soft and plastic mass is obtained.
- Pinch off a small piece from the dough and form it into a ball the size of a nut.
- With the blunt side of the knife, give it the shape of a pumpkin, and with the help of a carnation, make a "tail" of the pumpkin.
- Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
Pumpkin buns
Small, cute and original, like the sun pumpkin buns with tender and bright crumb inside and crispy outside.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin puree - 250 g
- Butter - 150 g (for dough), 3 tbsp. (For filling)
- Brown sugar - 100 g (for dough), 3 tbsp. (For filling)
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Dry yeast - 18 g
- Milk - 350 ml
- Cardamom - 1 tsp
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Flour - 800 g
- Walnuts - 2 tablespoons peeled kernels
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Making pumpkin buns:
- In a food processor bowl, combine the sifted flour with the sugar, salt, yeast, cardamom, and vanilla.
- Beat eggs with warm milk, pour over flour, add butter and pumpkin puree.
- Knead the elastic dough, cover it with a towel and place in a warm place for proofing for 1, 5-2 hours, so that it doubles.
- For the filling, mix the butter, sugar and cinnamon.
- Roll out the dough into a layer 1 cm thick, brush with butter, sprinkle with chopped nuts and roll.
- Lay the roll seam side down and cut into 2 to 3 cm buns.
- Put the buns on a greased baking sheet, cover with a towel and place in a warm place for half an hour, so that they increase in size by 1.5-2 times.
- Then bake the products in a preheated oven to 200 degrees for 25-35 minutes.
- Cool the finished buns and cover with melted chocolate using a pastry brush.
Video recipes:
American Pumpkin Pie
Halloween pumpkin dessert
Halloween pumpkin: how to cut and what to do with the pulp?
