Pumpkin is a grateful product: it "looks" equally great both in a savory dish and in a dessert version. I propose to talk about the latter in more detail. We bake pumpkin with dried fruits in the oven.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Pumpkin is a champion in the content of vitamins A, B, E, iron, as well as the rarest vitamin T. The latter makes heavy food easier to digest and prevents the development of obesity. In addition, this vegetable is sweet, so it is well suited for making desserts. For example, baked pumpkin with dried fruits will delight both children and adults. A tasty and healthy pumpkin dessert in the oven is a storehouse of useful properties, and the presence of cinnamon will help the tender half of the population get rid of extra pounds. This dessert is a delicious salvation from spring beriberi and depression, as well as a great way to lose weight.
Such a dessert can be turned into a real hearty dish that can become the main one. If you put semi-boiled rice and pieces of butter under the pumpkin, then the rice will be saturated with luxurious pulp and pumpkin juice, a delicate creamy taste is formed and a delicate aroma of spices is formed. This is already enough to run to the kitchen. Thus, you will get a delicious baked rice sweet pilaf. I assure you that no one will refuse such a meal, even those for whom the orange pumpkin causes an ambiguous reaction or generally cannot stand it. Baked pumpkin with all kinds of additives is the best way to cook it.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 52 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 400 g
- Honey - 2-3 tablespoons or to taste
- Prunes - 100 g
- Dried apricots - 100 g
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
How to cook pumpkin with dried fruits in the oven:
1. Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds and clean out the fibers. Wash the vegetable under running water and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut the orange beauty into slices and place them in a baking dish. It is most convenient to use a glass or ceramic dish to serve the dessert to the table in it. It will look beautiful. The size of the pumpkin slices does not matter, it only affects the cooking time.
2. Wash prunes and dried apricots, dry, cut into pieces and put on the pumpkin. If there are seeds in dried berries, then remove them first, and if they are dry, then first soak in boiling water for 10 minutes. Then they will steam, become soft and tasty.
3. Sprinkle the products with cinnamon powder, pour over with honey and send to bake in an oven heated to 180 degrees for half an hour.
Note: If you wish, you can add more raisins, dried figs or dried dates to the dessert. Nuts, peanuts or peeled sunflower seeds will harmonize well. Also, all kinds of spices and spices will not be superfluous. Well, if bee products are not recommended for you for medical reasons, or you simply don’t like honey, then replace it with sugar or love it with jam. Melt too thick honey in a steam bath.
See also the video recipe on how to cook baked pumpkin with dried fruits in the oven.
