Stewed pumpkin. Indian-style pumpkin stew: a dish for those who are drawn to the spicy Stewed pumpkin in a pan

Description

Stewed pumpkin is a versatile dish that can be both salty and sweet. In this recipe, we'll make a very hearty pumpkin stew in a creamy sauce. The recipe for this dish is quite simple, and you can quickly prepare it at home. Step by step recipe dishes with a photo will clearly and in detail tell you how you can simply cook a hearty and tender stewed pumpkin in your own kitchen.

We will create a delicate and very suitable sauce for pumpkin prepared in this way from a small amount of sour cream, crushed through a press of garlic, chopped herbs and spices. By mixing all these ingredients, we get a not too thick sauce, which we will pour over pieces of a vegetable fried in a pan. During stewing, the pumpkin will completely absorb the taste and aroma of the sauce.

Such a side dish is suitable for meat and other vegetables. In addition, it can be supplemented with cereals prepared separately.

By experimenting with adding fragrant dried herbs and spices, you can easily enhance and enhance the flavor of the stewed pumpkin.

Let's get started creating an easy and very healthy pumpkin side dish for lunch or dinner!

Ingredients

• 
  (600 g)
• 
  (150-200 g)
• 
  (3-4 cloves)
• 
  (20 g)
• 
  (1 bundle)
• 
  (taste)
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  (taste)
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  (taste)

Cooking steps

The main ingredient in this dish is pumpkin. Today we will stew it in order to cook delicious side dish or even a stand-alone dish.



We wash the pumpkin, peel it and cut it into equal medium-sized cubes, as shown in the photo. Then we heat the pan with a little butter and fry our pumpkin slices on it from all sides until golden brown for 2 minutes.



Let's prepare the sauce in which the pumpkin will be stewed in the future. In a deep bowl, mix sour cream with very finely chopped peeled garlic cloves: they can be pressed through a press. To this we add very finely chopped washed and dried herbs, black ground pepper and salt to taste. Knead this sauce thoroughly until smooth.



Pour the resulting sauce into the pumpkin in a frying pan, mix the ingredients, let the filling be evenly distributed between the ingredients. Simmer the pumpkin slices for 15 minutes until tender under a tightly closed lid.



After that, cool the pumpkin slightly, pour a little chopped walnuts on top and serve as a wonderful and very tender side dish. The stewed pumpkin is ready.



Enjoy your meal!

Pumpkin is an excellent base for preparing light, dietary and healthy meals. Today I propose to cook one of these dishes - a fragrant, bright and tasty pumpkin stewed in a spicy tomato sauce, according to the traditional recipe of Afghan cuisine. This simple, quick and easy-to-prepare dish will delight any connoisseur of delicious food with its seductive spicy taste. Try it!

To prepare the stew of pumpkin with vegetables, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

Peel and cut the pumpkin into small pieces. Chop finely onion, garlic and ginger root.

Heat over medium heat vegetable oil... Add the prepared onions and, stirring occasionally, sauté for 2-3 minutes, until the onions are tender.

Then add 0.5 teaspoon salt and 1 tbsp. sugar, and continuing to stir, fry the onion for another 2-3 minutes, until golden brown.

When the onions are browned, add the chopped garlic, ginger root and spices: ground cumin, cinnamon and turmeric. While stirring, fry for another 1 minute for the spices and herbs to develop their aroma and flavor.

Add prepared pumpkin pieces and mix well.

Add chopped or tomato paste (taste).

Pour in enough water or vegetable broth so that the liquid barely covers the pieces of pumpkin. Bring water to a boil, add or adjika.

Reduce heat so that the mixture is constantly simmering, cover the skillet with a lid and cook for another 20 minutes, until the pumpkin pieces are tender. Add more salt and spices to taste if necessary.

Add the finished dish with wheat cakes or a side dish to your liking, garnish with fresh herbs, sour cream and serve.

Stewed pumpkin with vegetables is ready. Enjoy your meal!

What to cook with pumpkin - recipes

1 hour 30 minutes

75 kcal

5/5 (1)

You can make a lot of different delicacies from pumpkin. These are first courses, cereals, pies and other pastries, jam, candied fruits and so on. Our family is very fond of this vegetable. I have many recipes for her, such as stewed pumpkin with vegetables or a delicious, sweet dessert with apples. I'm sure you will like them too.

Stewed pumpkin with potatoes and meat

Casserole, knife, cutting board.

List of ingredients

Step by step cooking

1. Pour some oil directly into a saucepan or roasting pan.
2. Shred the peeled onions in half rings.
   
   
3. Put in hot oil and fry until transparent.
4. Cut the pulp of any meat into small pieces: cubes or cubes.
   
   
5. Add it to the onion and fry it lightly so that the meat starts juicing.
   
   
6. Cut the potatoes into small cubes and place them on top of the meat.
   
   
7. Peel and dice the pumpkin, then send it after the potatoes.
   
   
8. We clean the pepper. We also cut it into small pieces and send it immediately after the pumpkin.
   
   
   

   Optionally add carrots and tomatoes. But when cooking with tomatoes, you do not need to add liquid.

9. Add salt and spices to taste. If desired, you can pour in 5-6 tablespoons of soy sauce.
10. Pour the broth. You don't need much, as the pumpkin will give its juice.
11. Simmer over low heat for about 25-35 minutes. In this case, you do not need to mix.
    
    
12. Finely chop the herbs and add to the vegetables. You can also add a couple of minced garlic cloves.
    
    
13. Stir and turn off after 5-10 minutes.
14. We let it brew for a few minutes and can be served.
    
    

Video recipe

Watch the video how easy it is to cook beef or pork stew with pumpkin and vegetables.

Stewed chicken with pumpkin

Time for preparing: 65 minutes.
Servings:4.
Kitchen appliances and tools: bowl, baking dish, knife, cutting board.

List of ingredients

• 1 kg of chicken fillet;
• 400-500 ml of cream;
• 1 kg pumpkin;
• spice;

• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• salt;
• lemon;
• 80-100 ml of liquid.

Cooking in the oven step by step

1. Cut the chicken fillet into pieces and put in a bowl.
   
   
2. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon, season with spices and salt.
   
   
3. Finely chop the garlic or pass it through a special press.
   
   
4. Stir the chicken with the garlic and set aside to marinate.
   
   
5. We clean the pumpkin and also cut into pieces. Put the pumpkin in a mold and pour over the juice from the second half of the lemon.
   
   
6. Stir and put in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 200 ° C.
7. We take out the form from the oven and put the chicken on the pumpkin.
   
   
8. Pour in cream and liquid. This can be meat or vegetable broth, water, or even wine. You can sprinkle with grated cheese. Mix and send back to the oven.
   
   
9. We enjoy the smells coming in for about 30-35 minutes.
10. We take out. Add fresh herbs and serve.
    
    

Cooking on the stove

Video recipe

The pumpkin stew is very easy and quick to cook. A video with a detailed description of the recipe will help you to verify this.

And even add to minced meat in manti. However, this time, we are offering something very special. Those who are not afraid of red fire, those who will not flinch before the burning element, will definitely like Indian stewed pumpkin.

If pepper is contraindicated for you, just put less red pepper, garlic and ginger than indicated in the recipe - the dish will not be hot.

Whether your stewed pumpkin is spicy or not, decide for yourself, in any case it will turn out delicious.

Pumpkin also goes well with meat, so if you wish, you can add it - it will harmoniously fit into this recipe.

Stewed pumpkin. Ingredients:

• coriander - 1 tsp
• turmeric - 1 tsp
• paprika - 1 tsp
• cumin - 1 tsp
• red pepper - 0.5 tsp (or to taste)
• salt - 1 tsp
• garlic - 3 cloves (or to taste)
• ginger - 12 g (or to taste)
• tomato paste - 6 tablespoons
• parsley - 1 small bunch
• onions - 100 g
• pumpkin - 600 g
• coconut oil - 1 tsp
• coconut milk 150 ml

How to cook:

Put coriander, turmeric, paprika, cumin, red pepper and salt in a coffee grinder and grind into powder.

It is better, of course, to crush the spices in a mortar, but we are modern people, we love everything to be fast. In a coffee grinder or grinder - whack-whack and you're done.

Now transfer the ground spices to a deep bowl, add garlic and ginger, tomato paste, parsley and a little water.

If your blender is not powerful, then it is better to cut the ginger and garlic into small pieces.

Mix all the ingredients with an immersion blender until smooth.

Now chop the onion finely.

And a pumpkin in cubes 2 * 2 * 1 cm.

Fry onions in coconut oil until golden brown, add hot sauce and simmer for a couple of minutes. Then add the chopped pumpkin and cover with coconut milk, stir well.

The stewed pumpkin will be very soft or with crunchy, not completely finished, depends on the type of vegetable and your taste, so I will not say the exact cooking time.

Prepared by Sergey Sharzhanov

Eating pumpkin for food is extremely beneficial for our body. Possessing a unique set of vitamins, trace elements and minerals, this fruit is a low-calorie product, recommended for dietary and health food... The use of pumpkin for food will help cleanse the body, will have a positive effect on the work of the heart, liver and gastrointestinal tract.

The most beneficial way to cook pumpkin is to stew it. You can cook deliciously stewed pumpkin with vegetables, meat, chicken, cereals and dried fruits. In this way, from this healthy berry, you can get both a hot main course and a sweet vitamin dessert that will please even the smallest family members.

Selection and preparation of products

A summer pumpkin variety is more suitable for stewing, its pulp is more juicy and tender, and the rind is not as dense as that of winter varieties. Be sure to peel the fruit, extract the seeds, which can be eaten separately, and cut into portioned pieces of the same size.

As a rule, only part of the fruit is needed to prepare a dish. Leftover pulp can be stored in the freezer by cutting or grating beforehand.

Pumpkin is ideally combined with meat products - beef, pork, chicken, minced meat and turkey meat. It is stewed with potatoes, cabbage, carrots, onions and zucchini. Stews are often cooked with mushrooms, a little spice is added, a small amount of salt and pepper is enough. Sugar, honey, raisins, dried apricots are added to sweet dishes.

Cooking methods

Stewing is one of the most useful ways to cook pumpkin, because it practically does not use fat, but keep the maximum nutrients and vitamins will help a slow cooker and an oven. The stewing process on the stove takes no more than 15 minutes, therefore, so that the pumpkin does not boil over and turn into porridge, it is added towards the end of cooking, especially if the pumpkin is stewed with meat.

There are many recipes for various dishes - stews, dishes in pots, pumpkin with meat, vegetables, sweet stewed pumpkin with raisins and prunes. In the oven, you can prepare an original festive dish using pumpkin peeled from pulp and seeds as a stew pot.

Simple recipes for delicious dishes

Stewed pumpkin with vegetables and mushrooms

Pumpkin vegetable stew is prepared with the addition of any vegetables, most often onions, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, bell peppers, tomatoes. Zucchini, beans and eggplant also go well with pumpkin. To make the dish more satisfying, mushrooms or meat are added to it.

Vegetables are chopped into pieces of approximately the same size and shape, placed in a saucepan in stages, depending on the time it takes to cook them. The pumpkin cooks very quickly, so it is sent to stew last. Stewed pumpkin with vegetables is served hot and cold, as a side dish or as an independent dish.

To prepare a vegetable stew with pumpkin and mushrooms, you will need:

• 1 kg of pumpkin pulp;
• 2 onion heads;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 large bell pepper;
• 10 large mushrooms or medium-sized porcini mushrooms;
• 6 tomatoes;
• garlic, spices to taste;
• frying oil;
• 0.5 liters of broth or pure water.

Preparation:

1. In tomatoes, cut out the place where the stalk is attached, make cross cuts on the skin and immerse it in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then transfer it to cold water and remove the skin.
2. Pepper, peel and cut into slices, peel and chop the onion, grate the carrots.
3. Peel the pumpkin and seeds, cut the pulp into cubes.
4. Heat the oil in a deep saucepan, fry the onions and carrots.
5. Cut the mushrooms into slices and add to the onion, fry until the liquid evaporates.
6. When a ruddy crust appears on the mushrooms, send peppers and pumpkin to them, simmer over medium heat, adding water or broth if necessary. The liquid should only cover the vegetables so that they are not fried, but stewed.
7. After 20 minutes, add chopped tomatoes and garlic, bring to a boil, set the fire to a minimum, add spices and bring to readiness.

Stewed pumpkin with meat in the oven

Meat stewed with pumpkin in pots is very tasty and aromatic. It is better to take pork or veal from meat, in addition to pumpkin, you can use any vegetables, but such a dish will be most delicious if you add potatoes and tomatoes as an additional ingredient.

Ingredients:

• 800 grams of meat;
• 6 potato tubers;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 300 grams of pumpkin pulp;
• garlic and spices to taste.

Preparation:

1. Cut the meat into strips or cubes, put in pots.
2. Then put onion rings and garlic slices, season with spices.
3. Cut the potatoes and pumpkin into cubes and place on top of the onion.
4. The last layer will be tomatoes cut into circles.
5. Pour a little water into each pot, until the middle of the pot, cover and bake for 60-90 minutes at 180 degrees.

Stewed pumpkin with chicken in a slow cooker

With the help of a multicooker, you can quickly and without unnecessary hassle cook delicious dishes from pumpkin, retaining most of the vitamins, while not worrying that the dish will burn or remain raw. You can quickly prepare a hearty, light and healthy dinner by stewing a pumpkin with chicken or turkey.

You will need:

• 500 grams of chicken fillet;
• 1 onion and carrot;
• 500 grams of pumpkin pulp;
• frying oil;
• spice.

Preparation:

1. Chop the onion into small cubes, chop the carrots on a grater, put the vegetables in a multicooker bowl, lightly greased with vegetable oil.
2. Fry until soft.
3. Rinse the chicken fillet, remove the films and excess fat, cut into small pieces.
4. Send to fry with vegetables, season with spices.
5. Then cover with a lid and simmer for 60 minutes.
6. Cut the pumpkin, peeled and seeds, into medium-sized cubes and transfer to the meat.
7. Simmer for another 30 minutes in the same mode.

Cooking secrets

Stewed pumpkin is one of the simplest dishes that can be cooked very quickly, even without special culinary skills. Knowing some of the tricks will simplify the cooking process even more:

1. For stewing, it is better to choose a small pumpkin, weighing up to 3-4 kg.
2. Pumpkin seeds are not used in the stewing process, but they can be dried and eaten, added to salads, eaten raw, or fried in a dry skillet.
3. During the stewing process, the pumpkin does not release a large amount of liquid, therefore, so that the dish does not burn and become soft, water, vegetable broth or meat broth are added to the pan with vegetables as needed.

Putting out a pumpkin is easy, and what delicious and healthy dishes you get! Stewed pumpkin will certainly appeal to both adults and children.