A Few Great Fresh Pumpkin Recipes

By Tammie Caldwell


During the pumpkin season, you would see fresh golden pumpkins every where in the food markets. It is regarded as very healthy and nutritious vegetable as it contains good amount of fiber and essential vitamins. At the same time it has some good antioxidant properties as well. You will come across various fresh pumpkin recipes over the internet and they are all worth trying.

Although canned pumpkins are available all around the year but if you have the option, you should substitute the canned ones with fresh pumpkins. If you want to use pumpkin puree in any of your recipes, simply de-seed and slice it and roast it in the oven over medium heat for about thirty minutes. When it cools down, just mash it or blend it making sure all the skin is removed properly. Now this puree can be used in many of your recipes.

Another way of making puree is to peel, de-seed and then cut the pumpkin into big chunks and put them in a pan of boiling water. Let it cook until the pumpkin cubes become tender, now drain the water and mash or blend to make a puree out of it.

You can make fresh soup out of it and it tastes just divine. It is up to you whether you use vegetable or chicken stock in your soup and if you prefer it to be chunky, you can add vegetables like potatoes, carrots, onions or leek to add a bit more flavor and texture to your soup. You can add spices as well to give it more intense flavor.

Pumpkins can likewise be utilized for baking cakes and they also taste flavorful and you will get fond of its divine taste. Adding a few flavors like nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger or all spices could enhance the flavor even further because on its own, pumpkin could taste very mild sometimes.

You would discover pumpkins all over the place amid the Halloween season on the grounds that everybody has a tendency to enhance their homes with cut pumpkins. As more individuals have a tendency to purchase pumpkins amid that period subsequently you will discover rich of formulas the whole way across the web. From pumpkin flavorful dishes to sweets you would discover everything on the web.

Pies and pancakes are also made out of pumpkins very commonly. Because most of these recipes would require pureed form of it so its best to make good amount of puree and then freeze it or put it in the fridge. It can be stored in the freezer for up to six weeks and in the fridge for about two weeks.

Its always healthy to use fresh ingredients in your cooking because there is no substitute for them. Only use jarred or tinned vegetables of this sort when they are not readily available in the market. The reason why tinned or jarred is not that brilliant in terms of taste is because such variety undergoes certain processes in order to increase their shelf life and it impacts their taste to a great extent.




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