With the onset of autumn, pumpkins ripen in our beds. Bright, juicy and incredibly healthy vegetable, from which first, second courses, pastries and of course desserts are prepared. We have collected for you the best recipes for making pumpkin dessert quickly and tasty.
Pumpkin dessert - the basic principles of preparation
Perhaps the easiest dessert that can be made from pumpkin is to bake it with honey or sugar. Baked pumpkin can be beaten with a blender to a puree state. This will be an excellent basis for making mousse, souffle, marmalade, jelly and other desserts.
Pumpkin perfectly absorbs the aromas and tastes of the products with which it is prepared. Therefore, you can safely experiment. For example, pumpkin can be swept in berry or fruit juice. So it will acquire not only an interesting taste, but also a beautiful color.
For desserts, it is better to use nutmeg pumpkin. It is quite gardening and has a pleasant taste.
Before making any dessert, cut the pumpkin into slices, peel the seeds and cut the peel with a sharp knife.
Pumpkin goes well with almost any fruit, citrus, berries and dried fruits. For flavor, spices are added to the dishes: cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, pink pepper, vanilla or nutmeg.
Recipe 1. Curd pumpkin dessert quickly and tasty
Ingredients
100 g pumpkin puree;
sugar substitute;
200 g of cottage cheese;
80 ml skim milk.
Cooking method
1. Cut the pumpkin, peel the seeds and cut the peel with a sharp knife. Cut the vegetable into small pieces. Put in a pan, fill with water and boil over moderate heat until soft. Then drain almost the entire broth, leaving just a couple of spoons, and beat everything with a mashed blender. Put it on a plate.
2. Put sweetener, milk and cottage cheese in the blender bowl. Beat everything until a creamy mass is obtained.
3. Take a bowl or tall glasses of clear glass. At the bottom of the glass, put a few tablespoons of cottage cheese. Put the same amount of pumpkin puree on top. The last is the curd layer. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for an hour.
Recipe 2. Dessert of pumpkin, fruits and vegetables
Ingredients
vegetable oil;
juice of one lemon;
sour cream;
carrot;
pumpkin - 150 g;
honey - 30 g;
two apples;
small turnip.
Cooking method
1. Peel vegetables and apples. Rinse the lemon, wipe with a napkin and cut in half. Cut one half into thin circles, then cut each into slices. Chop the apples into thin slices. Chop vegetables with thin plates.
2. Place the pan on the burner. Once it warms up, pour in a little vegetable oil and add a spoonful of honey. Fry all products in turn in this mixture. Fry over high enough heat with a lid for a couple of minutes. Then bring to softness over low heat. Add a little honey and oil after each ingredient.
3. Put all the fried foods in one bowl. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into it, add sour cream and mix. Refrigerate for at least an hour. Garnish with lemon slices.
Recipe 3. Chocolate Pumpkin Dessert
Ingredients
50 ml of 35% cream;
400 g pumpkin;
50 g of dark chocolate;
75 g of powdered sugar;
a pinch of cinnamon;
30 g of honey;
30 g of starch;
50 g of flour;
yolk.
Cooking method
1. Cut the pumpkin into slices, clean the inner fibers with seeds. With a sharp knife, cut off the peel from the vegetable. Place the pumpkin in a steaming bowl and cook in a slow cooker until soft. Take out the pumpkin and cool. Put the boiled pumpkin in a blender bowl and beat it to a puree state.
2. Combine the flour with starch, add about one and a half tablespoons of drinking water and grind until smooth.
3. In pumpkin puree, add powdered sugar, salt, cinnamon, yolk, a mixture of flour with starch and honey. Mix well.
4. Cover the steaming container with parchment and lay out the pumpkin puree, level it, place it in the multicooker bowl, pouring about half a liter of water into it. Cook ten minutes. Then remove the mashed potatoes from the pumpkin and cool.
5. Break the chocolate into pieces. Pour the cream into the saucepan and place on the stove. Pour in hot cream and mix chocolate until it dissolves. Cool. Fill a bowl or glasses, alternating layers of pumpkin and chocolate.
Recipe 4. Dessert of pumpkin. Marmalade
Ingredients
vanillin;
pumpkin - half a kilogram;
honey - 50 g;
gelatin - 50 g.
Cooking method
1. Peel the pumpkin, thoroughly clean the core. Cut the pulp into small cubes, put in a pan and simmer, pouring a little water, until soft.
2. Pour gelatin with water and leave to swell.
3. Put the finished pumpkin in a blender bowl and beat the vegetable until puree. Add swollen gelatin, vanillin and honey to it. Beat a couple more minutes.
4. Put the resulting mass into a deep form, lining it with cling film. The thickness of the pumpkin layer should not exceed two centimeters. Leave the marmalade until it solidifies. Then cut the dessert with diamonds and roll each in cocoa or powdered sugar.
Recipe 5. Dessert of pumpkin. Mousse
Ingredients
a glass of grated fresh pumpkin;
10 g of lemon peel;
two egg whites;
sweetener.
Cooking method
1. Finely grate the peeled pumpkin pulp. Put the vegetable in a saucepan, pour half a glass of boiled water and simmer until soft on low heat.
2. Wash the lemon and scald with boiling water. Remove the zest from it with a very fine grater.
3. Throw the boiled pumpkin in a colander and cool.
4. Add the sugar substitute to the proteins and beat until dense foam.
5. Combine pumpkin puree with whipped whites and mix gently. Lay out the resulting mass in silicone molds.
6. Place them in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 25 minutes. If you want a dessert with a golden brown, increase the temperature at the end.
Recipe 6. Dessert of pumpkin. Cheesecake
Ingredients
cream cheese - 200 g;
a glass of sugar;
walnuts - half a cup;
cinnamon;
cottage cheese - 100 g;
whiskey - 30 ml;
nutmeg - 2 g;
butter - 150 g;
salt;
cream - 30 ml;
butter cookie crumbs - two glasses;
vanilla sugar - 3 g;
baked pumpkin pulp - 250 g;
eggs - two pcs.
Cooking method
1. Lubricate the demountable form with oil. Put the walnuts in a blender and beat them into crumbs.
2. Combine cookie crumbs with soft butter, nuts, and sugar. Stir until smooth. Put the resulting mass into a mold and smooth, wetting your hands with water. Make the sides. Cover the mold with cling film and refrigerate for an hour.
3. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Cut the baked pumpkin pulp into small pieces and mash it in a mashed potato crush. Add half the sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar. Pour in cream and whiskey. Mix well.
4. Combine the second half of sugar with salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. Shuffle. Add cottage cheese and cream cheese. Beat with a mixer for three minutes until lush. Without stopping whipping, add pumpkin puree to the filling.
5. Put the cottage cheese and pumpkin mass into a mold and smooth with a spatula. Put in the oven and bake for about an hour. Then turn off the oven, open the door and cool the cheesecake. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for four hours. Carefully draw a sharp thin knife between the wall of the mold and the cake. Remove the ring and transfer the dessert to the dish.
Recipe 7. Dessert of pumpkin. Souffle
Ingredients
150 ml of milk;
40 g butter;
three large eggs;
starch - 5 g;
a pinch of salt;
30 g of white sugar;
pumpkin - 100 g;
flour - 40 g.
Cooking method
1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Cut the pumpkin into slices, clean the core and cut the peel. Wrap the vegetable in foil and bake until tender for 35 minutes. Separate the yolks from the proteins.
2. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add the sifted flour without removing from the heat. Stirring continuously, bring to a boil and immediately remove from heat. Keep stirring, pour warm milk into a thin stream. It should be a mixture of the consistency of liquid semolina. Add the yolks and mix.
3. Mash the pumpkin in a mashed potato. Put it in ceramic dishes and cool.
4. Beat the whites in a strong foam, gradually introducing granulated sugar and starch. Add whipped squirrels in mashed pumpkin. Mix gently from bottom to top so that the squirrels do not settle.
5. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Lubricate the molds with butter and slightly rub with sugar. Put the souffle in them, filling the molds in 2/3 of the volume and bake for a quarter of an hour. Souffle rises and browned.
Pumpkin Dessert - Tips and Tricks
- Pumpkin for dessert can not only be stewed or boiled, but also baked.
- Instead of sugar, you can use a substitute or honey.
- Stew or bake vegetables and fruits that are used to make dessert.
- Pumpkin dessert can be served with berry or cream sauce.
