Sunday, May 24, 2015

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.

You can likewise make puree by peeling off the skin after de-seeding then cut it into solid shapes and place in an extensive skillet of bubbling water. Give it a chance to stew until its delicate then deplete out the water and mix or crush it until it gets to be pureed.

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 find pumpkins everywhere during the Halloween season because everyone tends to decorate their houses with carved pumpkins. As more people tend to buy pumpkins during that period therefore you will find abundant of recipes all across the internet. From pumpkin savory dishes to desserts you would find everything on the internet.

Pies and pancakes are also very easy to make and they taste great as well. In most of the recipes, pureed form of pumpkin is used so you could simply use all of it to make puree and then store it in your fridge or freezer and use that puree whenever you require it. You can store it in the fridge for about 2 weeks and in the freezer for approximately 6 weeks.

Its beneficial to utilize fresh food items in your cooking because in reality, there is not a viable replacement for them. Just utilize tinned vegetables of this sort when they are not accessible in the fresh fruits and vegetables market. The motivation behind why tinned variety is not that good regarding taste is because these vegetables undergo lots of different processes in order to make them last for long on the supermarket shelves.




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