Khabarovsk summer residents harvested a large pumpkin harvest this year. This bright autumn vegetable is unpretentious and accessible, and it makes tasty and healthy dishes that will decorate any table and put you in a sunny mood. Pumpkin is absolutely versatile; you can use it to make original soups, bake it, and make flavorful cookies and pies. And most importantly, pumpkin is an attribute of the fun Halloween holiday, which is celebrated on the night of October 31 to November 1. Having prepared many tasty and healthy dishes from the orange pulp, Khabarovsk residents take knives in their hands and cut out a Jack Lantern, decorating it with magically terrifying patterns. AmurMedia news agency learned the recipes for the most popular pumpkin dishes among Khabarovsk residents.
Baked pumpkin
Baked pumpkin. Photo: Website https://7dach.ru
Baked pumpkin in the oven in pieces or whole is a tasty, elegant and healthy dish. Recipes for oven-baked pumpkin are very varied. Pumpkin baked with honey is especially popular. Fragrant pumpkin baked in the oven with honey is an excellent dessert.
Products:
- pumpkin pulp - 500 g
- honey - 2 tbsp.
- cinnamon - 1 tsp.
- chopped walnuts - 2 tbsp.
- natural yogurt – 150 ml
- sugar - 1 tbsp.
- a few drops of lemon juice
- mint
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Wash the pumpkin and dry well. Cut into slices and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Brush each slice with honey and sprinkle with cinnamon and nuts. Place in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
For the sauce, finely chop the mint and stir into the yogurt whipped with sugar. Serve the baked pumpkin slices along with the resulting sauce.
Pumpkin dish in the oven: pumpkin candy recipes
An interesting treat that even children enjoy eating. Baked pumpkin dishes according to this recipe are prepared quite quickly.
- medium pumpkin for 1–1.5 kg:
- sugar – 2–3 spoons;
- vanilla;
- walnuts – 10–15 pcs.;
- liquid honey – 2 tablespoons.
Wash the pumpkin and cut it into several large pieces right in the skin. We clear each piece of seeds and loose pulp. Now we cut into portioned elongated strips, which will be our candies.
Candies can be baked from pumpkin either with or without the peel.
Place the pumpkin pieces on a baking sheet that needs to be greased with vegetable oil.
Sprinkle each candy with a mixture of sugar and vanilla.
Pumpkin itself is quite sweet, but sugar will help the flavors develop more.
Place in a preheated oven.
There the sweets will spend at least 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling.
Clean and crush the walnuts.
Mix chopped nuts with honey.
When the candies are baked, take them out of the oven, place them on a dish and pour over the nut-honey mixture.
That's it, delicious healthy pumpkin sweets are ready. It can be served either hot or cold.
Witch's panicles
A very simple and very original appetizer.
Products for cooking:
- Cheese type “Russian or “Creamy”;
- Bread straws (salty or neutral to taste);
- Green onions, parsley or dill.
1. Cut the cheese into small thin slices and cut into “noodles” on one side.
2. We twist each piece around a straw and fix it with green onions, sprigs of parsley, dill or any greenery that is at hand.
Pumpkin Pie for Halloween
We have already written about simple and very tasty pumpkin dishes. It is considered the main symbol of Halloween, so it is included in sweet and main dishes, it is included in salads, soups, and diet menus. It’s great if pumpkin becomes the queen of your table.
We offer a recipe for a delicious pie that even the little ones will love.
What will you need?
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 100 g butter;
- 150 g sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 lemon;
- 1 cup wheat flour;
- 1 teaspoon of soda.
How to make your own pumpkin pie?
- First you need to peel the pumpkin and grate it on a fine grater. Squeeze out the juice.
- Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out the juice. There should be about 50 ml of fresh juice.
- Grind the butter together with the sugar. Add eggs to the mixture and mix.
- Add lemon zest, pumpkin, flour and soda dissolved in lemon juice to this mixture.
- Stir the mixture and place in the pie pan. It should be oiled.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
- You can decorate your pie in a variety of ways. It all depends on your desire.
You can also cook the pie in a slow cooker, for which you just need to set the desired program.
You can also make delicious pumpkin muffins using this recipe as a basis.
Pumpkin muffins
And don't forget about little sweet tooths. We will prepare small muffins for them, that is, pumpkin cupcakes. These miniature Jack-o'-lanterns would definitely be appropriate on a holiday table.
- ripe pumpkin – 200 gr.;
- nuts – 100 gr.;
- chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- sugar – 150 gr.;
- full-fat sour cream – 6 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil – 6 tablespoons;
- flour – 240 gr.;
- baking powder - 1 tsp.
- heavy cream – 25 ml;
- dark chocolate – 50 gr.
Clean and fry the nuts in a dry frying pan. Grind them with a blender or rolling pin.
Grate the pumpkin, let it stand for a while and squeeze out all the juice.
You don't have to pour out the juice. It will come in handy for making Halloween cocktails. It keeps well in the cold for 24 hours.
In one bowl, mix all the dry ingredients, namely flour, sugar and baking powder. In another bowl we do the same with sour cream, vegetable oil and eggs. We combine both resulting mixtures and add prepared chopped nuts and pumpkin pulp to them.
Grease muffin tins and spoon pumpkin batter into each one.
The muffins will rise while baking.
Therefore, you should not apply more than 2/3 of the volume of the form.
We bake the treat for about half an hour at 180 degrees.
We will use the frosting to draw faces on the cupcakes.
It is very easy to prepare.
Just melt the chocolate in a water bath and mix it with cream.
If you want to make little ghosts out of your pumpkin muffins, decorate them with whipped cream and cottage cheese caps.
Be sure to prepare pumpkin pie, delicious pumpkin dishes, recipes for which can be found in the article “Pumpkin Pies for Halloween.” And don't forget about apple dishes, as well as non-alcoholic cocktails.
Zucchini and pumpkin pie
A simple but incredibly tasty vegetable pie made from puff pastry. It is a striking example of the fact that pumpkin can be used to prepare not only sweet desserts, but also hearty pies to replace the main dish.
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Products:
- pumpkin - 250 g;
- zucchini - 200 g;
- 2 onions;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- cream - 250 ml;
- 1 pack of puff pastry;
- salt, pepper, paprika.
Cut the zucchini and pumpkin pulp, peeled and seeds, into small cubes. Cut the onion into quarters, and at the same time chop the garlic cloves.
Stew all vegetables in cream with spices for about 15 minutes.
Grease a baking dish and place a layer of puff pastry in it. Next, we form high sides and lay out the finished filling. Decorate the pie with a mesh of strips of puff pastry.
Bake for 40 minutes at a temperature of about 180°. A delicious and satisfying pie is ready!
The process of decorating sweet “cockroaches”
To make such a dessert more tasty and original, it should be additionally dipped in it. It is done as follows: the milk delicacy is broken into slices, and then placed in a ceramic or glass bowl and melted in the microwave. After this, 2/3 of the date is dipped into the warm glaze, which is subsequently placed in the refrigerator. When the chocolate has completely hardened, the dried fruits can be safely placed in a bowl and served along with tea.
Very soon the scariest holiday of the year will come - Halloween. In recent years, it has been popular not to acknowledge it, not to celebrate it, and to otherwise pretend that it doesn’t exist, but regardless of what you personally think, it exists and most likely isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Alas, living in society, it is difficult not to accept its trends, so most likely one way or another you will still be faced with the question of the Halloween menu
— you may have to prepare something for a matinee in kindergarten, a charity fair at school, or even, at the child’s request, organize a small party for friends.
In general, ideas on what to cook for Halloween
are needed, no matter what!
Everyone in our world is a little crazy. L. Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
I won't be planning a Halloween menu
— I’ll just share with you those ideas that I found on the Internet a long time ago and kept for myself just in case.
This year we will spend the Scariest Night visiting friends - most likely, we will carve something unusual out of pumpkins with the children, light many, many candles and bake some cookies. This will be enough to amuse the children, tell them about the traditions of other countries and cultures, show them an example of how this holiday generally takes place, and at the same time explain why it does not fit very well into our customs. In general, whether we organize something or not, whether you are planning what to cook for Halloween
or not, I will still sketch out a rough list of ideas. What if it comes in handy?
The main criterion when drawing up a sample menu for Halloween
there was simplicity - I was looking for quick and affordable ideas, the implementation of which did not require spending two days of time, digging up a bunch of devices and rare products, and learning special technologies.
Considering that I perceive this holiday solely as a way to entertain children and teach them about the traditions of other countries, I do not intend to make complex cupcakes and stand over multi-tiered cakes for many hours in a row. One, two, and that’s it, the scary Halloween menu
is ready!
1. Fruits
Halloween is a rich theme. A little imagination can turn bananas into ghosts and tangerines into pumpkins. To realize these ideas, you need almost nothing except, strictly speaking, the fruits themselves. Oh, yes, a couple of spoons of lemon juice will also come in handy - to keep bananas, apples and a number of other juicy delicacies fresh for a long time and not darken, you should sprinkle them with lemon, otherwise your ghosts will quickly turn, if not into representatives of the population of the African continent, then definitely into mulattoes .
By the way, you can play with anything, for example, an apple: choose beautiful blood-red fruits, dip them in melted chocolate - ready, a scary treat in the spirit of Halloween in your pocket. Oh, better on a plate!
2. Stuffed eggs
- an easy way to make something worse. Spiders made of black olives or eyes made of green olives and red ketchup pupils will scare anyone. These dishes are probably not suitable for a children’s party, but they can be offered to adults.
By the way, the same black olive spiders can be used to decorate not only stuffed eggs, but also any salad or even pizza. It turns out that with a minimum of labor costs, a maximum of fear and taste comes out!
3. Witch's broom
- one of the main attributes of the holiday! It’s as easy as shelling pears to make it from a piece of hard cheese, a straw and a sprig of green onions or any herbs. The simplest things, as a rule, cause the biggest stir - I’m sure these “brooms” will sell out right away!
However, you can make a broom in a sweet version - buy chocolate candies with a characteristic grooved edge (or make them at home, just pour the chocolate into special molds), slightly warm the straw, insert it into the center of the candy or glue it with a small amount of chocolate. Not as impressive, but still an option.
4. A great option for Halloween decor - food appliques. An ordinary cucumber circle easily turns into all kinds of faces and scary faces
. Instead of a cucumber, you can take carrots, pumpkin, beets and a lot of other products.
Yes, you can also experiment with shapes - for example, cutting out a skull is also not so difficult, if you have the desire.
Olive spiders
The simplest Halloween paraphernalia is spiders. Feel free to decorate your dishes with them! After all, they can be made incredibly simply - from pitted olives.
1. Cut the olive in half. From one half we will make the base of the spider, and from the other - the legs.
2. For the paws, cut the other half into 4 more pieces.
3. From the resulting plates and halves of an olive we form a spider.
These spiders can be used to decorate any dish, such as stuffed eggs or salad.
