The pumpkin season begins, and we begin to prepare all kinds of dishes from this vegetable. Today I'm telling you how to cook delicious and sweet candied pumpkin fruits.
Content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
What are candied fruits? These are candied berries, fruits and even vegetables that are used as a dessert, and to decorate pies and cakes. Candied fruits are also an excellent substitute for sweets, because they not only have an incomparable taste, but also quite useful.
Basically, we are used to buying candied fruits in stores, while it does not even occur to us that they can be prepared on our own from natural products. But in order to fully understand the excellent taste of candied pumpkin fruits, you should cook them yourself. Moreover, candied pumpkin in appearance is absolutely indistinguishable from those sold on the market.
For their preparation, the raw materials should be chosen ripe with a bright orange color and a pleasant smell, such pumpkin fruits are the sweetest and tastiest. If the choice of pumpkin is made correctly, the end result of the product will affect its taste. But if there is no such pumpkin, do not worry - you just need to increase the amount of sugar, or cover the finished dessert with powdered sugar. By the way, such candied fruits can be prepared for future use and stored under a lid in a glass jar all winter.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 133 kcal.
- Servings - 200 g
- Cooking time - 20 minutes, plus 2-3 days for drying
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 600 g
- Apple - 1 pc.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Carnation - 1 bud
- Cinnamon stick - 1 pc.
- Sugar to taste
Cooking candied pumpkin
1. Peel the pumpkin of seeds, fibers and peel. Then cut into medium-sized square pieces and place in a deep saucepan.
2. Wash the apple, cut the skin from it and put it in a saucepan to the pumpkin. Wash the lemon, also cut off a little peel from it, which you can send to future candied fruits. Add a cinnamon stick and a clove bud.
3. Cover everything with sugar and put the pan in the refrigerator overnight. During this time, the sugar will completely dissolve in the juice, which the pumpkin will release and you will get a sugar syrup.
4. Pour water into a saucepan so that it slightly covers the food, and put it on the stove to boil. Let it boil for 5 minutes and cool completely. Then put the saucepan on the stove again, bring to a boil, boil for 5 minutes and refrigerate. Repeat this procedure 3-4 times.
5. After that, drain the syrup in which the pumpkin was cooked. It can be used to interlayer cakes, pies, rolls, or added to pancake batter.
6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the pumpkin slices on it. Then candied fruits can be cooked quickly by putting them in the oven for 60 minutes at 130 ° C, or simply left to dry naturally in the kitchen, which will take you 2-3 days. Sprinkle the finished candied fruit on all sides with icing sugar and store in a glass jar at room temperature.
See also a video recipe on how to make candied pumpkin:
