Be very welcome and welcome to Paulina Kitchen !! What a result of the east good that we are going to talk about today. Today the pumpkin will be the star in our meals, we will see many recipes with pumpkin and the easiest ways to give good use to this fruit that is often not exploited in the best way.
We love it on Halloween, but its use cannot only be decorative. Pumpkin is a vegetable widely used to cook for its flavor and is also very healthy .
How is the best way to cook the pumpkin? How to cook it? What to do with pumpkin seeds? Do not worry that we leave experts in the subject from here.
On the pumpkin
now an easy ABC of what this fruit is simply to know what we face. Let's start at the beginning, and its cultivation goes back approximately 5000 AC , in different parts of the world.
Curious fact: From the beginning of its history, pumpkin is known as a fruit from which multiple uses could be taken; For example, pumpkin served to transport water inside, such as kitchen utensil, music instrument, toy and even dressed in it.
Its varieties:
Next we will detail 4 main species that belong to the same genus Cucúrbito.
Penpo pumpkin : This type of pumpkin is especially summer, it is characterized by having fine skin and are often used as ornamentation so they are very beautiful in sight.
Moschata pumpkin : When we talk about moschata pumpkins we have to keep in mind that it is a species with a much thicker and rough skin, because of these characteristics they have a greater conservation period. This variety is in autumn/winter. In Spain this variety for pastry and as a pastry fill is used.
Mixed pumpkin : These are a group of pumpkins that have a semi -a -colored meat and a cream color. Its consumption is not very common and much of them is used as an ornamental pumpkin.
Maximum pumpkin : Within this group we can include greater food and commercial interest. Maximum cucurbit pumpkins are characterized by being large pumpkins (sometimes giant).
Pumpkin recipes, the previous
preparation before consumption ; We are going to prepare our pumpkin to cook it following these steps:
Important to place newspaper on the surface where we are going to work. The first step will be to remove the stem with a sharp knife.
We can hit the pumpkin against a hard surface to split it.
Another way is to cut it in half with a sharp knife and very carefully.
Once it started in half; We cut the stem, remove the seeds scraping the inside with a spoon and remove the entire fibrous dough.
When we have the pumpkin open , we calculate how much we want to consume at the time and if it is not going to spend whole we will have to wrap it well in transparent film or in a hermetic container and reserve it in the refrigerator two or three days.
Also, of course we can freeze it, cut into dice or portions.
Not to waste the seeds: clean and dry the pumpkin seeds, place them in a container. A little olive and salt oil, mix well and baked at 120 ° C for approximately one hour. Stiring occasionally to cook on both sides and you have a very healthy and very healthy snack.
This was done by my grandmother to eat in the afternoon? Try everything that can be done with pumpkin and get all the juice you deserve!
Yami.
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