Pumpkin with apples, baked in the oven in pieces, whole. Recipe with photo

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Prepared by: Marina Zolotseva

10/04/2015 Cooking time: 45 min

Sweets and desserts are not always high in calories and harmful. I suggest you take note of an excellent recipe for making baked pumpkin with apples. This is a natural treat for the whole family.

General principles of cooking

Pumpkin is not only tasty, but also healthy vegetable. With regular use, it is able to cleanse the body of waste and toxins, normalize metabolism and water-salt balance. Pumpkin also reduces blood pressure, increases hemoglobin, improves tissue structure and elasticity, and strengthens the immune system.

If you bake a vegetable with apples without any high-calorie additives, you will get a dish that can be included in your diet even during a diet. Especially if natural sweeteners are chosen. For example, honey, Jerusalem artichoke syrup.

Prepare pumpkin for baking according to the following procedure:

• first the vegetable is washed very thoroughly;
• afterwards, be sure to clean out all excess (these are seeds and internal dense partitions);
• The skin is not cut off from the pumpkin in all recipes - if it is baked whole, then you can leave the fruit unpeeled;
• All that remains is to leave the prepared pumpkin whole and fill it with filling or chop it into pieces.

Next, you can add additional ingredients to the vegetable and send the treat to bake in the oven.

Properties

Those who regularly include dishes with sun pumpkin in their diet leave only positive reviews about its miraculous benefits. When stewed, this vegetable has a positive effect on intestinal function. It improves digestion and relieves constipation. But this is not the only positive quality of pumpkin.

Benefit

Since the rich composition of this vegetable contains potassium, eating pumpkin has a positive effect on the functioning of the heart, strengthens blood vessels, normalizes blood pressure and is an excellent prevention of various diseases. In addition, the vegetable has a positive effect on kidney function, preventing stones from being deposited. It also improves bladder function, helping to fight cystitis.

This vegetable contains B vitamins, which means that pumpkin has a positive effect on the functioning of the nervous system, helps fight depression, irritability and insomnia. Stewed pumpkin also has a positive effect on liver function.

Harm

It is not recommended to consume this vegetable for people suffering from diabetes. You should not include it in your diet if you have digestive problems (diarrhea). It is worth considering that in case of excessive consumption of vegetables, even in a healthy body, some problems with the intestines may occur. It is also not recommended to eat pumpkin if you have an allergy or individual intolerance to this product.

Classic recipe

Pumpkin baked with apples in the oven is often prepared according to a common classic recipe. In this case, the dish will include only 2 main components. They are baked in sugar syrup. As a result, vegetables and fruits turn out very tender, sweet, and tasty. This treat can be served as a complete dessert for the whole family. Even the youngest gourmets will love it.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin – 370-400 g;
• apples – 3-4 pcs.;
• filtered water – ½ cup;
• sugar.

The amount of sand in this recipe is determined by taste. In addition, you need to consider how sweet and juicy the vegetable itself is. If desired, any nuts and dried fruits can also be added to the treat. They will make the dish even more interesting.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. The vegetable should first be rinsed very thoroughly with running water. Then thinly cut off the skin.
2. It is imperative to remove all seeds and dense membranes from inside the fruit.
3. All that remains is to cut the pumpkin into medium-sized pieces. They can be of any shape.
4. Next you need to wash, dry and peel the apples. Not only is the peel cut off, but the cores with seeds are also removed. The rest of the fruit should be cut into approximately the same pieces as the pumpkin.
5. Any heat-resistant container of a suitable size will need to be covered first with pumpkin, and then with apple slices. The entire bottom of the dish should be covered with these ingredients. If desired, you can use lemon juice. All products are sprinkled with it. This will make the treat more flavorful and its ingredients softer.
6. At the next stage, you can start cooking the sweet syrup. For this, filtered water and sand are mixed in a common container. The mass is sent to boil over medium heat. Sweet grains should completely dissolve in the liquid.
7. When the syrup is ready, it should be poured into the pumpkin and apples. If you plan to use nuts and dried fruits, then they will also be added to the products at this step. Additional ingredients must be pre-chopped.
8. Afterwards, you can send the form with all the contents to the oven to bake at medium temperature. This process will take approximately 20 to 30 minutes. The exact time will depend on the size of the fruit and vegetable pieces.

The finished hot dessert can be served immediately. It is delicious to complement it with aromatic herbal tea. If desired, you can sprinkle the treat with powdered sugar on top. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the delicacy will turn out too sweet.

Pieces

Pumpkin baked with apples in the oven is most quickly prepared in pieces. The main secret of this recipe is ground cinnamon. It gives the dish an amazing appetizing taste and aroma. It is advisable to use freshly ground spices. This version of the spice will be especially aromatic. To do this, you need to buy cinnamon in sticks.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• fresh pumpkin – 330-350 g;
• ground cinnamon – ½ tsp;
• water – 75-80 ml;
• beet sugar – 55-60 g;
• apple – 130-150 g.

The weight of vegetables and fruits in the recipe is indicated in already peeled form. In addition to cinnamon, you can use other spices if desired. For example, nutmeg or vanilla. It will be enough to add 1 pinch of the latter to the treat.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. If the pumpkin is initially taken whole, then you will need to peel it in a thin layer and cut out the seeds. The remaining clean pulp will be cut into large cubes. Their optimal size is 2 by 2 cm.
2. Prepared vegetable cubes must be placed in a heat-resistant form. The latter can be pre-oiled with a thin layer.
3. Apples need to be peeled and cored. The remaining part will also be crushed. It is advisable to cut it into medium slices. Afterwards, sprinkle on top of the vegetable pieces in the mold.
4. The next step is to add sugar and freshly ground cinnamon to the ingredients. The portions of these ingredients can be increased to suit your taste. Sugar and cinnamon should evenly coat the vegetable and fruit pieces.
5. Filtered water will be poured into the mold last.
6. Bake the dessert at medium temperature for just under half an hour. When approximately half the recommended time has passed, the contents of the form should be thoroughly mixed.
7. All that remains is to bake the dish until the pumpkin is soft.

   
   Baked pumpkin with apples

Before serving, you need to divide the treat into portioned plates. It’s very tasty to first sprinkle it with lemon juice and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. The finished dessert is suitable for a Lenten menu. It will also appeal to vegetarians.

Entirely

Pumpkin cooked in the oven is sweet and aromatic in itself. But it will be especially tasty when baked with apples. Nuts, dried fruits, and spices are also added to this treat. You can choose them according to your taste. But walnuts are best suited for nut desserts, and raisins are the best dried fruits. The latter should be taken without seeds.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin – 1.4-1.5 kg;
• apples – half a kilo;
• butter – 35-40 g;
• sour cream (medium fat content) – 70-80 g;
• raisins (seedless) – ½ tbsp.;
• cinnamon – 3-4 g;
• granulated sugar.

The amount of sugar for this recipe is determined by taste. For example, you can use 2-2.5 tbsp. l. sand for the specified amount of products. But it is also possible to increase the recommended portion. It’s delicious to combine sugar and natural bee honey in the recipe.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. A whole ripe pumpkin should be washed under running water. Preferably using a stiff brush.
2. Afterwards, you can cut off the top of the fruit. It must be removed along with the tail. It is convenient to do this using a sharp wide knife. But don't throw away the top. In the future, it will replace the lid for the dish.
3. At the next stage, you will need to use a large spoon to remove all the pulp from the pumpkin along with the seeds. In this case, the skin should not remain too thin. Otherwise, it may break through during baking or when cutting ready-made treats into portions.
4. You will need to wash the apples and cut out the core with seeds. Afterwards, the fruit should be cut into cubes of approximately medium size. The apple pieces should be slightly smaller than the pumpkin pieces.
5. The fruit cubes must then be poured into a frying pan with a thick bottom and heated melted butter. The apples should be lightly fried so that all excess moisture evaporates from them.
6. Next, rinse the raisins with warm water, then pour them onto a napkin and dry them slightly.
7. Walnuts or other selected nuts must be shelled. Afterwards they are chopped into small pieces with a sharp knife. If desired, you can first lightly fry the nuts in a dry frying pan without oil until a bright aroma appears.
8. You will need to combine the apple slices in the frying pan with nuts and raisins. Afterwards the filling is sprinkled with ground cinnamon. You can also use other spices.
9. All that remains is to combine the sour cream with the entire amount of granulated sugar in a separate bowl. The resulting sweet sauce is poured into the filling.
10. The prepared pumpkin needs to be filled with sour cream mixture. Next, it must be closed with the previously cut “lid”.
11. The treat will be baked at 195-200°. After approximately 50-55 minutes, you can check the readiness of the pumpkin. This can be done conveniently with a knife or fork. If after the specified time the vegetable turns out to be still a little hard, the baking time should be increased by another half hour.

You can serve the beautiful treat whole, without cutting it first. This is especially true if the dessert is being prepared for a holiday table. After serving, the pumpkin will be cut into portioned pieces and served with tea or coffee. The apple filling is placed on the slices nearby.

Pumpkin with chicken and onions in the oven - recipe from Yulia Vysotskaya

A simple and quick to prepare recipe that is suitable for a family or holiday table. Chicken legs can be replaced with turkey, which will make the dish more dietary. The spices and herbs that Julia recommends in the video will give the chicken and vegetables an indescribable aroma and rich taste.

Do you have any favorite recipes from the Queen of the Fall Harvest? You can share your finds in the comments. And, of course, impressions of the prepared delicacies from my selection. See you soon, culinary experts!

Sincerely, Olga Steshkina

With honey and cinnamon

Pumpkin baked with apples in the oven goes well with various sweet additives. But it is best to choose cinnamon and natural bee honey for this purpose. The latter is best used liquid. If the product has already become candied, you can melt it in a water bath or in the microwave.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin (peeled of all excess) - half a kilo;
• apples – 270-300 g;
• honey – 1 full glass;
• filtered water – ½ cup;
• ground cinnamon 4-5 g.

Since the recipe contains a large amount of honey, you don’t need to use sugar at all.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. The vegetable is first thoroughly washed. Afterwards, you need to cut the pumpkin and remove all the seeds from it. The remaining pulp will be cut into neat small slices.
2. At the next stage, you should wash the apples, peel them, and then remove the seed boxes. The remaining parts are cut into semicircular slices.
3. Next, you can place the prepared vegetable and fruit pieces on a baking sheet. They should be alternated randomly.
4. To prepare the filling, you need to dilute the honey with warm water. The mixture of pumpkin and apples is then covered with the resulting liquid.
5. All that remains is to remove the baking sheet with all its contents into the oven, preheated to the minimum temperature. Under these conditions, the dessert will bake for approximately 80-130 minutes. If the minimum temperature in the oven is 160°, then you should not cook the treat for longer than 70 minutes.

The fully prepared treat is sprinkled with cinnamon just before serving. It will highlight the aroma of the dessert. If someone at home does not eat honey for some reason, it can be replaced with thick sugar syrup. In this case, the chopped pumpkin must first be sprinkled with lemon juice.

Pumpkin and chicken meatballs

Take:

• 4-5 potatoes
• 600 g pumpkin
• 500 g chicken fillet
• 1 egg
• 100 g barley
• 1 onion
• sour cream - to taste
• salt - to taste

Preparation:

1. Rinse the chicken fillet thoroughly, dry it and mince it twice.
2. Peel the pumpkin, peel the onion, mince the vegetables, then mix them thoroughly with the minced meat.
3. Add barley and egg to the minced meat, salt to taste. Leave for 10-15 minutes (to swell the cereal).
4. Form meatballs and place in a frying pan or baking dish. Pour some water into the bottom and brush each meatball with sour cream.
5. Preheat the oven to 180°C, bake the meatballs for 25-30 minutes. The dish is best served with mashed potatoes and a salad of fresh vegetables.

With orange

Another delicious aromatic ingredient for the dish is fresh orange. Take 1 fruit for about half a kilo of pumpkin pulp. An interesting unusual component in such a dish is hard cheese. For example, the usual Dutch or Russian. The calorie content of the treat is approximately 123 kcal per 100 g.

And BZHU:

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin (peeled of all) – 370-400 g;
• sweet and sour apples – 3 pcs.;
• orange – 1 pc.;
• Russian/Dutch cheese - 170-200 g;
• sugar – 2-2.5 tbsp. l.;
• butter fat – 1.5-2 tbsp. l.;
• ground cinnamon – 1 tsp.

This quantity of products is designed for approximately 6-7 servings.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. All vegetables and fruits from the recipe must be washed. Afterwards, clean off everything unnecessary.
2. The prepared pumpkin must be chopped into cubes, the orange must be disassembled into slices and removed from the skin, the apples must be cut into arbitrary medium pieces.

3. At the next stage, you need to coat the mold with soft butter. The pumpkin cut into pieces is poured into it first. It remains to distribute chopped apples and orange on top.
4. Lastly, everything is covered with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. You can also coat the pieces with honey if you wish.
5. All that remains is to cover everything with foil and put it in an oven preheated to 195-200°. The dessert will bake for about half an hour.
6. Afterwards, you can remove the foil, cover everything with cheese shavings and return to bake for another 12-14 minutes. As a result, the pieces of the main ingredients should brown and the cheese should melt.

The fully prepared dish is placed into portioned plates. The dessert is delicious to try both hot and cold. You can sprinkle the treat on top with powdered sugar - white or colored.

Nutritional and energy value:

With rice

Pumpkin baked with apples in the oven can be complemented with rice. Then you get a hearty treat that can be served, for example, for breakfast. The dish is deliciously complemented with cinnamon, nutmeg and raisins.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin (peeled of all excess) – 580-600 g;
• butter fat – 80-90 g;
• rice – 140-150 g;
• apples – 2-3 pcs. (depending on the size of the fruit);
• raisins (seedless) – 3.5-4 tbsp. l.;
• cane sugar – 65-70 g;
• cinnamon, salt and nutmeg - 1 pinch each;
• sour cream (medium fat content) – 3.5-4 tbsp. l.

For the specified amount of rice, take 2 times more water to cook it.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. Pour filtered water into the pan and salt it. For this amount of liquid, approximately ½ tsp will be enough. salt crystals. Under these conditions, the rice will cook until half cooked with frequent stirring.
2. Afterwards, you need to drain the liquid, and add a piece of butter to the still warm rice. You need to mix the ingredients until the oil is completely dissolved.
3. The next step is to cut the pumpkin into 2 parts, remove all the seeds, and spoon the pulp from the middle onto a plate. The extracted product is cut into small pieces with a knife.
4. Apples should be removed from skins and seeds. The remaining parts are cut into small pieces.
5. All that remains is to pour warm water over the washed raisins. After about 3-4 minutes, the liquid can be drained.
6. Then all prepared products will be laid out in a large bowl. These include cereals, fruit pieces, steamed dried fruits, sugar, and spices.
7. After mixing the resulting filling, you need to fill the pumpkin halves without pulp. The top of the blanks is coated with sour cream.
8. The pumpkin with the filling must then be placed in the oven, preheated to 185-190°. The treat will bake for about 1 hour.

You can easily check the readiness of the treat using a dry wooden stick. If the pumpkin is easily pierced, then you can cut it into pieces and serve it. If desired, you can complement the treat with sour cream sauce. For example, a dairy product whipped with sugar and banana.

Pumpkin stuffed with apples

You can bake the whole pumpkin. It will take more time to bake, but the result is an original dish. You can serve only apples, they will be saturated with pumpkin flavor, or you can eat the pumpkin pulp.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium pumpkin;
• 5 apples;
• 100 gr. walnuts;
• 3 spoons of sour cream;
• 100 gr. Sahara;
• 100 gr. raisins;
• cinnamon.

Preparation:

1. Cut the cap off the pumpkin. Remove the seeds.
2. Cut the apples into cubes, sprinkle them with cinnamon, add raisins, crushed nuts and a little sugar.
3. Place apple slices into pumpkin.
4. Mix sour cream with sugar, pour this mixture over the top of the pumpkin.
5. Place in the oven for an hour. Check the pumpkin for doneness.

With dried fruits

Dried fruits help make pumpkin-apple dessert not only tastier, but also healthier. You can take different ones. For example, raisins and dried apricots will fit perfectly into the treat. It is advisable to pre-soak them with warm water.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• fresh pumpkin (pulp) – 280-300 g;
• apple – 1 pc.;
• dried apricots – 5-6 pcs.;
• raisins (dark, seedless) – 2.5-3 tbsp. l.;
• butter fat – 1.5-2 tbsp. l.;
• honey.

Honey is used instead of sugar in this recipe. Its quantity can be determined according to taste.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. The first step when preparing all the components of the recipe is to pour warm water over the dried apricots and raisins. The ingredients will soak for about a quarter of an hour. Afterwards, dried fruits need to be rinsed with fresh water and cut into miniature pieces with a sharp knife.
2. The pumpkin, cleaned of all excess, will need to be cut into medium cubes (without seeds and partitions). The resulting pieces are poured into an oiled baking dish. First - half a pumpkin.
3. An apple without skin and seed is chopped into arbitrary slices. They should be poured on top of the pumpkin along with the dried chopped dried fruits.
4. Afterwards, you need to tap the mold on the table so that the food fits tightly in it.
5. The last layer will be the remaining pumpkin and pieces of the remaining butter.
6. The treat will be baked at medium temperature for approximately 35-40 minutes.

The fully prepared dish is thoroughly mixed with a spoon, poured with honey to taste, and then placed on plates. It is delicious to try both warm and chilled.

With nuts

Any nut is suitable for this dish. You can take assorted or just walnuts. They are thoroughly shelled and crushed.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin (pulp, cleared of all excess) - half a kilo;
• apples – 3 pcs.;
• lemon – ½ piece;
• nuts (mixture or just walnuts) – 80-100 g;
• liquid honey – 2.5-3 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon – 1-2 pinches.

Sequencing

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. The first thing you need to do is chop the peeled vegetables and fruits. You can choose any shape of the pieces. It is convenient to cut the pumpkin and apple into cubes of the same size.
2. Afterwards, the resulting pieces must be mixed and sprinkled with freshly squeezed lemon juice.
3. All that remains is to chop the selected nuts and add them to the mixture of the main components.
4. All mixed products are transferred to a fireproof container. They are sprinkled with cinnamon on top.
5. The treat will be baked for 35-40 minutes at 185-190°.

The fully prepared dish is poured with melted honey on top. Immediately after this you can serve it to the table.

With sour cream

The addition of several additional ingredients will help make the taste of the autumn dish more refined and richer. Sour cream will give the dish creamy notes, and raisins will give a more pronounced aftertaste.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin – 800 g;
• apples – 900 g;
• butter – 50 g piece;
• cinnamon – 5 g;
• raisins – 100 g;
• sour cream - the same amount;
• honey (liquid) – 30 ml;
• breadcrumbs - as needed.

Preparation stages:

1. The peeled vegetable is cut into cubes, which are lightly simmered in a frying pan with butter and 30 ml of water.
2. The raisins are washed.
3. The apples are peeled and cut into cubes.
4. The baking sheet is oiled and crushed with breadcrumbs.
5. Pumpkin, raisins, and apples are laid out in layers.
6. Prepare a mixture of honey, cinnamon and sour cream.
7. It is used to pour the base of the dessert.
8. Bake the dish for 20 minutes at 220 °C.

Useful tips and tricks

The following tips will help you prepare delicious baked pumpkin with apples:

• It is best to choose nutmeg pumpkin varieties for the treat under discussion;

• the pulp of a juicy ripe vegetable should be bright orange;
• apples should be sweet and sour;
• If the treat lacks sourness, you can supplement it with lemon/lime juice.

Today there are more than 30 recipes for cooking pumpkin with apples in the oven. When baked, the right vegetable turns out soft, tender, and juicy.