Creamy pumpkin puree: a basic recipe

Good to all! Welcome one more day to Paulina Kitchen. What joy makes me see them here today sharing with me the recipe for this delight of creamy pumpkin puree .

The beauty of the simple, here in its food version, for the world ... accompany me that today I will share with you the best of the best ways of pumpkin . Rich, easy and delicious.

The pumpkin is one of the favorite fruits of this blog, it is also one of the richest to cook any type of dishes, lends itself to delicious combinations, both salty and sweet either: either: either:

• Pumpkin puree, mixed puree (now we will learn to do the best)
• Buñuelos
• Pumpkin Budines (pumpkin cake)
• Base of a pizza (pizzas on pumpkins)
• Cakes (pumpkin -based flour cake)
• Pumpkin hamburgers
• Soups
• Stews, noodles, stuffed pasta 
• Pumpkin gnocchi
• Pumpkin stuffed with risotto , quinoa or legumes , etc.

Do not forget that with the pumpkin seeds you can make a very delicious snack! They look for it in the pumpkin recipes that we have on the blog, try it and realize how much I love them ❤️️.

Reminder : If you have the possibility of having a garden in their homes, we can separate a few seeds from the pumpkin that we buy to cook, wash and sow them. The station of this fruit is spring-summer . Whether they want to sow or simply remember it to get the freshest fruit .

Pumpkin benefits

As to love her a little more. Pumpkin helps control blood pressure : eating pumpkin is good for the heart! It helps fertility , in addition, the properties of pumpkin are also essential during pregnancy and breastfeeding . They offer an impulse to our immune system, ocular health and helps prevent cancer . We love you pumpkin!

About pumpkin puree: a kitchen classic

Pumpkin is one of our favorite fruits , since it leaves us a lot of juice in the kitchen. It will always be a super light and economical option.

On this occasion we will cook our oven pumpkins . But we know that there are different options to obtain desired cooking for pumpkin puree , for example: steamed, baked or boiled.

Alert: if possible, we will avoid boiling fruits and vegetables if we want them to keep much of their vitamins, antioxidants and enzymes that help their assimilation

• It is estimated that the food can be lost up to 90% of basic principles. Minerals such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, chlorine and phosphorus are quickly dissolved in cooking water when we boil our fruits or vegetables.
• A better option will be to steamed vegetables and some meats.

Returning to our pumpkin puree ...

To take into account if you are going to prepare pumpkin puree

This puree can be served as a single dish for a light dinner, if we add more liquid, whether water or milk, we could take it as a spoon soup. Among us, I recommend that you cut a little cheese and let it melt with the heat of the soup, probate it because it is great!

It can also be a perfect garnish for meats and fish , we will use less liquid to achieve a consistency similar to a puree of potatoes. For this option I recommend adding some freshly ground black pepper on top and you will not regret it! A delight!

We can eat this hot, warm and even cold puree (with Milanese) on heat days. And if you have left over it in a tupper and leave it in the refrigerator to use in other meals. It can endure up to 2-3 days without problems, obviously we can also freeze it.

• Puré Express trick : We are going to clean the pumpkin and place it in a steam case to put it in the microwave 8-10 minutes. We can click with a fork to check when it is already soft. Then take everything and go!

With all these tricks and secrets about pumpkin, are we going to learn how to make it puree? Successes! Anything ask us!

Pumpkin puree recipe

Ingredients

The amount is for 1.5 kg of pumpkin puree approx. And 4 portions leave there.

• 1.5 kg pumpkin
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil

Cooking pumpkin 

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC
2. We clean the pumpkins and split them in 2 along. 
3. Remove the pulp and seeds. (We separate the seed seeds and keep them to make our snack)
4. We take the pumpkin to a plaque. We season with salt, olive oil, pepper. 
5. We click the pumpkin with a fork and bake at about 200 °. 
6. The pumpkin will be more or less 1-1.30 hours until it is tender!

How to make easy cream pumpkin puree

1. Remove all the pulp from the pumpkins , putting it in a large bowl or in the glass of a blender.
2. Crush until a creamy and soft texture is. This step can be done by hand without any problem.
3. Add the butter, salt and pepper. Continue crushing until the butter melts.
4. Add the milk jet and join well. In the end, you can put a dash of olive oil on top. Ready!