Pumpkin is an orange beauty that is found in a variety of dishes from soups to desserts and winter preparations. It turns out especially tasty in a baked form. Yes, if also with an apple! Beauty!
Baked pumpkin with apples - general principles of preparation
Pumpkin can be baked in slices or whole. In the second embodiment, the vegetable is usually stuffed, after removing the seeds with loose pulp. The pieces are baked in a mold or on a baking sheet, foil can be used.
Baked apples should only be used solid. Soft, overripe and loose fruits will quickly turn into porridge, spoil the dish.
What else can add:
• spices;
• dried fruits;
• fresh berries and fruits;
• cereals;
• cottage cheese.
For taste, added granulated sugar or honey, lemon juice or diluted acid. Pumpkin with apples is usually baked in the oven. the duration depends on many factors: the degree of ripeness of the fruit and moisture, additional ingredients used fillings. You need to check the pumpkin, for this, pieces of pulp are pierced with a toothpick or a match.
Baked pumpkin with apples and raisins
A chic dessert made from simple and healthy products. Be sure to use natural bee honey, nuts and seeds, you can use any.
Ingredients
• 0.8 kg of pumpkin;
• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 3 apples;
• 0.5 cups sour cream;
• a handful of raisins;
• 50 g of plums. oils;
• breadcrumbs.
Cooking
1. A piece of butter grease the form in which we will bake the dish. Sprinkle with crackers. You can take ordinary semolina.
2. Put the rest of the oil in a pan, melt it.
3. Dice the pumpkin, put it in a pan and cook over low heat for about seven minutes. Turn off.
4. Cut the apples into slices, sort out the raisins, and rinse.
5. We chop the nuts. You can use sunflower or pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds. We put into the dish what is in the house.
6. Put a layer of pumpkin in the form, sprinkle with raisins.
7. On top of the pieces lay out pieces of apples.
8. Prepare a filling of honey and sour cream, mix them thoroughly. If the honey is thick, then melt it before.
9. Add cinnamon and prepared nuts to the fill.
10. Evenly coat the apple layer with the prepared sauce.
11. Put the dish in an oven preheated at 240 ° C. We bake at high temperature for about 20 minutes until a beautiful crust appears on apples.
Baked pumpkin with apples and sugar
The recipe for a simple baked pumpkin with apples, which can be done in five minutes and brought to readiness in the oven. Sugar can be used white, but brown sand is best for baking.
Ingredients
• 400 g pumpkin;
• 3 apples;
• 100 ml of water;
• 5-6 tablespoons of sugar.
Cooking
1. Heat the water on the stove, add sugar, stir, set aside, let the grains dissolve.
2. We clean the pumpkin, cut into arbitrary cubes, put the first layer in any greased form.
3. Peel the apples, cut them in the same cubes, lay the pieces on top of the pumpkin.
4. Pour all this with sugar dissolved in water.
5. Put in the oven, bake pumpkin with apples for about 25-30 minutes. If the pieces are small, then it may take less time. We warm the stove to 200 ° C.
Baked pumpkin with whole apples
A whole pumpkin, baked with apples in the oven, looks spectacular on the table and will become its main decoration. You can add any dried fruits and nuts to the filling. Here's an example.
Ingredients
• pumpkin up to 1.5 kg;
• 3 apples of the Golden variety;
• 30 g of oil;
• 80 g sour cream;
• 2 tablespoons of nuts;
• 0.5 cups of raisins;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• a spoonful of sugar (adjustable to taste).
Cooking
1. At the washed pumpkin the top is cut, 2-3 cm high. It will be a lid. Take out all the flesh with seeds.
2. Heat the oil in a frying pan, put the sliced apples, fry over high heat to evaporate the juice. Cool.
3. Mix apples with washed raisins, nuts, cinnamon.
4. Put the filling inside the pumpkin.
5. Sour cream should be mixed with a spoonful of sugar.
6. Pour the filling on top.
7. Cover the pumpkin with a lid, place it on a baking sheet or in a suitable shape.
8. Send to the oven preheated to 200 degrees, bake the pumpkin until the pulp is ready. It takes about an hour. You do not need to lubricate the crust, it will become rosy and shiny without it.
Baked pumpkin with apple slices
Another simple way to cook a baked dish, which will require a piece of foil and any sugar.
Ingredients
• 300 g pumpkin;
• 2-3 apples;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1 tsp oils;
• cinnamon as desired.
Cooking
1. If the foil is thin, then use in 2 layers. We form a trough from a piece with small sides up to two centimeters. They will hold the eye-catching juice.
2. Transfer the trough into a mold or onto a baking sheet. You can do it right in the form, so as not to lose money with the size.
3. Lubricate the foil with oil.
4. Cut the pumpkin into long slices, up to one centimeter thick.
5. Cut the apples into large pieces. The skin does not need to be removed, the core with seeds is removed immediately.
6. Put slices of pumpkin and apples on a greased foil in one layer. Alternate in any order.
7. Mix sugar with cinnamon. Or we use only sand. A beautiful crust on a pumpkin is formed from brown sugar. But you can use white sand.
8. Sprinkle the laid pieces with sugar, send the dish to bake.
9. At a temperature of 200, it will take twenty minutes, but look at the readiness of your dish.
Baked pumpkin with apples under meringue
A recipe for a very tender dessert under an airy cloud of meringues. You can take a little more pumpkin or apples, but the total number of products should not change.
Ingredients
• 2 egg whites;
• a little lemon juice (you can take diluted acid)
• 0.2 kg of apples;
• pumpkins 0.3 kg;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• a couple of spoons of nuts;
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• 20 g of oil;
• 0.5 cups of powder (sugar can be).
Cooking
1. A mold with a diameter of about 20 cm should be greased with a piece of oil.
2. Pour raisins with hot water, let it swell a little.
3. Turn on the 180 oven.
4. Cut the apples into 8 parts, remove the middle.
5. Pumpkin should be cut into approximately the same slices as apples. Put everything together in a form, pour lemon juice on it.
6. Remove the soaked raisins from the water and also add to the mold.
7. Sprinkle the dish with cinnamon, bake for a quarter of an hour.
8. Chop the nuts finely.
9. During this time, you need to cook nut meringues. Beat chilled proteins until a dense foam.
10. Gradually inject the powdered sugar. You can use sand, but it will take longer to beat until all the grains have dissolved.
11. Add nuts, stir.
12. Remove the pan from the oven. Put the meringues on top of apples with pumpkin, smooth the layer with a spoon.
13. Put back into the oven, lowering the temperature to 150 degrees. Cook the dessert for another half hour. Cool.
Baked pumpkin with apples, rice and dried fruits
Another recipe for baked pumpkin with whole apples. For this dish, it is better to use long rice.
Ingredients
• 1 small pumpkin up to 1 kg;
• 100 g of rice;
• 2 apples;
• a large handful of dried fruits;
• 100 ml cream;
• cinnamon.
Cooking
1. Rice is boiled until cooked, all the water is drained.
2. Apples are peeled, diced, sent to rice.
3. Dried fruits must be washed. Raisins are laid whole, dried apricots with prunes and other large fruits can be cut.
4. Mix dried fruits with boiled rice and apples. You can season the filling with cinnamon.
5. At the washed pumpkin, the lid is cut off from the side of the tail, the pulp is selected.
6. Put the filling inside the pumpkin, pour a small amount of cream. Similarly, you can use sour cream.
7. Close the lid, bake until the pulp is soft in the oven. If the crust is thin, set 200 degrees. If there is a lot of pulp, then you can make the temperature a little lower than 180-190.
Baked pumpkin with apples, orange and lemon
A variant of a very fragrant dessert of baked pumpkin with citruses and apples. Take one small orange, it will be enough for this amount of pumpkin.
Ingredients
• 2 apples;
• 1 orange;
• 0.5 lemon;
• pumpkins 0.4 kg;
• 5 tbsp. l Sahara.
Cooking
1. Peeled pumpkin and apples are cut in equal cubes about one centimeter, mixed, stacked in shape.
2. The pulp of orange and lemon is also cut, but very finely.
3. Lay out citrus slices on top of a pumpkin with an apple.
4. Sprinkle everything on top with sugar.
5. Cover with foil, bake at a moderate temperature for 20 minutes.
6. Take out, mix with a spatula, cook without foil for another 15 minutes until the pumpkin is soft. We evaporate part of the juice.
7. Take out the dish completely, mix so that all the pieces are covered with syrup. At this stage, you can irrigate dessert with liquor, sprinkle with cinnamon, cool.
Baked pumpkin with apples - useful tips and tricks
• Pumpkin will cook for a long time if sour juice of apples falls on it. Therefore, you can first bring the vegetable to half-preparedness, then add apples to it.
• The remains of baked pumpkin with apples can be used as a base for fritters. You need to grind everything thoroughly, add an egg, a little semolina or flour. If you put the cottage cheese, you get wonderful cheesecakes: bright and fragrant. In its pure form, a baked dish can be used as a filling for pies, pancakes, rolls.
• Citruses are an ideal supplement for pumpkin dishes. They neutralize the aroma of the vegetable, turn the dish into a real dessert. It is not necessary to use fully fruit, in most recipes you can do only zest.
• Both pumpkin and apples go well with meat. Therefore, they can be used not only for desserts, but also for main dishes.
