In the cold season, I especially want some warming dishes that fill the house with a sweet pleasant aroma and create a cozy atmosphere. An excellent option is a pumpkin with apples baked in the oven, which conquers with a delicate taste, low costs and high useful properties.

Baked pumpkin with apples

On the eve of Halloween, mischievous children make costumes and make scarecrows out of pumpkins. Why not complement the atmosphere with a dish of whole vegetables stuffed with apples? Such a dinner will not only fill the body with the necessary vitamins and minerals, but also will cheer up all family members.

Baked whole pumpkin with apples is prepared with the following ingredients:

  • one and a half kilogram pumpkin;
  • sour cream - 80-90 g;
  • a pound of apples;
  • walnuts - 50-60 g;
  • raisins - 0.1 kg;
  • butter - 30 g;
  • cinnamon - 3 g;
  • granulated sugar - depending on the type of pumpkin - about 2-3 tbsp. spoons.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. First of all, thoroughly rinse the pumpkin, cut off the tail with the top from it and set it aside. He is still useful to us.
  2. We clean the pumpkin from seeds and pulp.
  3. We do the same with apples: we clear them of impurities and remove the middle. Cut the prepared fruit into cubes with a side of about 3 cm.
  4. Now the apples need to be fried in a pan. To do this, melt the butter and fry the fruits until the excess moisture evaporates.
  5. Next, wash the raisins and dry it with a clean towel. For deeper cleaning, you can pre-soak the product in water at room temperature for half an hour - an hour.
  6. Finely chop walnuts with a knife or chop in a blender.
  7. After that we combine the filling together: apples, raisins and nuts.
  8. We stuff the pumpkin with the mixture and sprinkle cinnamon on top.This spice can be added directly to the filling, but this method may not be to everyone's taste.
  9. It remains only to mix sour cream with granulated sugar, pour over its obtained preparation and cover everything with a cap and a tail.
  10. That's all, the pumpkin can be sent to the oven at 200ºC for an hour. Cooking time can be increased depending on the softening of the fetus.

Cooking in slices

For those whose oven does not hold a large fruit, there is another way. Baked pumpkin with apples will be softer than whole. In addition, the cooking time will not be so long. It is better to take apples of hard varieties so that all components are baked evenly.

In this case, you will need:

  • a pound of pumpkin;
  • two apples;
  • granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • cinnamon - 1-2 g;
  • lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. The pumpkin should first be cleaned of pulp and seed, washed and cut into medium-sized pieces. The resulting slices can immediately be laid out in a mold.
  2. Now we wash the apples, remove the core and cut them into slightly larger parts than the pumpkin.
  3. Next, squeeze the juice from the lemon, water the workpiece.
  4. We mix sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle pumpkin and apples on top, trying to evenly distribute the dry ingredients.
  5. The dish is ready for baking. Set the mode to 200ºC, cooking time 25 minutes.

With honey slices

This honey recipe will be appreciated by the sweet tooth. Honey with pumpkin is very harmonious, this combination is a bit like a summer melon or marmalade. But it is worth paying attention that the grade of nutmeg pumpkin is not quite suitable for this recipe, because the fruits are already very sweet. Some housewives do not even add sugar when cooking from this variety.

To achieve the perfect taste, you must observe the following proportions:

  • a pound of pumpkin;
  • honey - 200 g;
  • apples - 300 g;
  • cinnamon - 4-5 g;
  • purified water - 0.1 l.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. First you need to prepare the pumpkin: wash, peel the seeds and pulp, dry. So that each piece is well saturated with honey, cut the vegetable into small slices.
  2. Apples are also preliminarily peeled, and the core is extracted from them. Grind the product with slices.
  3. Mix the two components and spread on a baking sheet.
  4. Dissolve honey in water and evenly pour pumpkin and apples on it.
  5. And the last step is to sprinkle cinnamon on the workpiece. Now the dish can be placed in the oven for baking for an hour at a temperature of 160ºC.

Baked pumpkin with apples, orange and lemon

A true vitamin boom can be created by cooking pumpkin, apple, orange and lemon together. In the fall, such a delicious cocktail will raise immunity and mood. Sour fruits will successfully balance the soft velvety notes of pumpkin, which will allow you to get great taste pleasure.

The composition of such a recipe is as follows:

  • pumpkin - 0.5 kg;
  • one orange;
  • one small apple;
  • half a lemon;
  • granulated sugar - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
  • cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. This recipe shows the weight of already peeled pumpkin. When processing it, it loses about 20% of its weight, so we can conclude that initially the vegetable should weigh 600-700 g.
  2. Cut the prepared pumpkin into small pieces, not more than 3-4 cm.
  3. The washed and peeled fruits are also cut into small slices and mixed with pumpkin.
  4. Add sugar and cinnamon to the mixture, pour over lemon juice. If you wish, you can cut the lemon into slices and also send it to the dish, but it is worth considering that the result will be more acidic and will not work for people with high acidity.
  5. All this is uniformly distributed on a baking sheet, covered with foil and placed in an oven at a temperature of about 180ºC. In this position, the dish is baked for 20 minutes, then the foil is removed and cooked for another 15 minutes.

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With rice and dried fruits

A dish that can be suitable not only for dinner, but also perfectly plays the role of lunch or a quick snack - rice with dried fruits and pumpkin.

To prepare such a treat, stock up on such products:

  • pumpkin - 250 g;
  • brown rice - 0.1 kg;
  • raisins - 50 g;
  • dried fruits to taste (dried apricots, dates, prunes) - 100-150 g;
  • granulated sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • purified water - 250 ml.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Rinse and clean all ingredients, soak rice and raisins in clean water for half an hour.
  2. At this time, we cut dried fruits into 2-3 parts. Can be smaller.
  3. Grate the pumpkin on a coarse grater or cut into small cubes.
  4. Now we mix all the products and put on medium heat. When the dish boils, reduce the fire. Periodically, the process should be monitored. If the rice is still damp and the water has boiled away, you need to add a little liquid. After full cooking, leave the lidded rice with pumpkin for another 10-15 minutes.

Potted in the oven

A radically different hearty recipe was left in the end - this is a pumpkin with apples in a pot.

In addition, you do not need to worry about calorie content, because most of the components are easily absorbed, namely:

  • pumpkin - 700-800 g;
  • apples - 5-6 pieces;
  • honey - 3 tablespoons;
  • ground cinnamon - 2-3 g;
  • purified water - 5 tbsp. spoons;
  • vanilla sugar - 10 g;
  • raisins - 40 g.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Rinse apples and pumpkin, peel the pulp, seeds and core. Cut into equal cubes of 3 cm.
  2. Mix all the ingredients in a separate bowl, distribute in pots.
  3. Pour a small amount of water into each pot and put in the oven. At this point, it should be warmed up to 250ºC.
  4. For 20 minutes, the dish is stewed like this, but after the specified time the temperature is reduced to 120ºC and simmer for another 15 minutes.

For cooking, you can use fruits of almost any kind, but the most popular are large-fruited, hard-boiled and nutmeg pumpkins.

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