The 3 Best Recipes With Pumpkin

Pumpkin may seem like a boring ingredient, but you can use it in many interesting ways. We have put together 3 of the best recipes with pumpkins that you can try.

Pumpkin is the perfect ingredient for making many recipes. Thanks to its versatile texture, sweet taste and aroma, it is used by many chefs around the world in their cooking.

Pumpkin is also rich in antioxidants that fight the effects of free radicals, as well as vitamin C and lycopene. Due to its high content of beta-carotene, it helps to keep our eyes healthy, eliminates fat and prevents constipation.

Three recipes with pumpkin

1. Pumpkin Spaghetti

For this recipe, use a special tool to make spaghetti out of the pumpkin. For example, you can use a spiralizer that can be purchased in many places, such as stores that specialize in gastronomy.

Ingredients

• 1/2 small pumpkin (900 g)
• 1/2 cup mushrooms (50 g)
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon pepper (15 g)
• 2 tablespoons salt (30 g)
• 1/2 tbsp oregano (8 g)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil (15 ml)

Course of action

• First, peel and wash the pumpkin and cut in half.
• Then use the spiralizer to shape the pumpkin like spaghetti.
• Then sauté the pumpkin spirals and mushrooms in a frying pan over medium heat. This will take approx. 10 minutes.
• Then add the ingredients one by one and stir well to mix the flavors.
• Finally, remove the dish from the heat, let it cool and enjoy a delicious spaghetti pumpkin dish at home. You can add a little parmesan cheese if you like.

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2. Pumpkin salad

If you do not like to eat heavy dishes in the evening, a salad is the best option for you. This recipe uses not only pumpkin as the main ingredient, but also as a dressing.

We hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients

• 1/2 pumpkin (900 g)
• 1 avocado
• A head of broccoli without the stem
• 1/2 onion
• 1/4 cup cheese (50 g)
• 3 tablespoons olive oil (45 ml)
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• 2 glasses of water (400 ml)

Course of action

• First, peel and wash the pumpkin and cut into small pieces. Use a little more than half for dressing and the rest for salad.
• Place the largest half of the grasshoppers in a saucepan over low heat and bring to a slow boil along with the broth and olive oil. Remove the pan from the heat when it starts to boil, let it cool, pour off the water and put the cubes in the blender with a little water so that it becomes creamy.

• Next, cut the onions in julienne style, broccoli into small pieces and the avocado into cubes. Put the ingredients in a bowl together with the other half of the pumpkin seeds.
• Mix the ingredients well and add the goat cheese.
• Finally, spread the creamy pumpkin dressing over your salad. Bon appetite!

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3. Pumpkin Cream

There are many recipes with pumpkins that become delicious and creamy. This one is one of them. It is very easy to make and uses ingredients that you already have available. And even though the dish is low in calories and carbs, it will keep you full until bedtime.

Ingredients

• 1/4 pumpkin (400 g)
• 1/2 glass skim milk (100 ml)
• 2 tablespoons corn starch (30 g)
• 1/2 stalk of leek
• 2 tablespoons salt (30 g)
• 1 tablespoon pepper (15 g)
• 1/2 tablespoon coriander (as a garnish) (8 g)
• 1/2 glass of water (100 ml)

Course of action

• First, peel and wash the pumpkin well. Cut it into medium-sized pieces.
• Then put pumpkin, water and milk to a boil.
• When the pumpkins have softened, remove the pan from the heat. Let it cool and pour off some of the moisture.
• Then put pumpkin puree in the blender. To get a creamy consistency, you can use a little of the same liquid that you cooked the pumpkins in.
• Finally, serve and garnish with cilantro. Enjoy a light and delicious pumpkin cream.

Try one of these pumpkin recipes the next time you need to cook.