Pumpkin with meat and green peas stewed in a pan is a minimum of calories and a maximum of benefits. Plus great taste, affordable ingredients and short cooking time.
If the dish is made from pumpkin and green peas, it means that it will be bright and rich in color. So that vegetables do not lose their colors and retain vitamins, you need to add them at the end of cooking, when the meat is ready. Green peas are pre-blanched - dipped in boiling water for a minute and then quickly cooled in ice water. After such processing, the peas, even when reheating the finished dish, will remain bright green and will not darken.
Cut the pulp of the pumpkin into large pieces (with sides of about 3x3 cm).
Cut the peeled onion into thin half rings.
Cut the meat into large, portioned pieces.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put the meat, sprinkle with ground black pepper. Make a medium heat, fry the meat until the color changes (it becomes light).
Pour half a glass of water or broth into the pan, let the liquid boil. Reduce the fire and simmer the meat under the lid for 20 minutes. Add water or broth as the liquid evaporates.
The meat should be soft at the end of cooking. Now you need to increase the fire, evaporate the liquid and lightly brown the pieces of meat. Put the onion in the pan, fry it until translucent.
Add pumpkin, salt meat and vegetables. Cover and simmer over low heat until pumpkin is soft. Depending on the type of pumpkin, it will take 5-10 minutes to cook it.
While the meat is simmering with vegetables, prepare the green peas. Boil water in a saucepan. Pour frozen peas into boiling water. Leave for a minute.
After a minute, remove the peas with a slotted spoon (or drain the water into a colander), lower the peas into ice water. Leave for a few minutes.
When the pumpkin becomes soft, put the green peas in the pan, mix everything and hold on low heat for another 2-3 minutes. Ready meat can be served as an independent dish.
Peas and pumpkin, which we cooked with meat, will serve as a side dish.
Pumpkin with meat is a very bright, fragrant and truly homemade dish. A feature of this particular recipe is the addition of sour cream, it is she who binds together all the ingredients and makes the meat with pumpkin so delicious. My husband, despite his dislike for pumpkin, ate this dish with great pleasure and constantly praised it.
Let's start cooking with the preparation of products. Peel onions and carrots. Grate the carrots and cut the onions into cubes.
Wash the pumpkin, peel and cut into large cubes. You can use frozen pumpkin.
Peel the potatoes too and cut into cubes. Rinse sliced potatoes under cold running water to remove excess starch.
Rinse the meat, pat dry and cut into cubes. Use meat that has been taken out of the refrigerator beforehand for cooking, so it will cook more evenly and will be juicier.
The products are prepared, you can proceed directly to the preparation of the dish. Heat a little odorless vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onions and carrots in it for 10 minutes. The vegetables should brown slightly.
Increase the fire to the maximum and put the meat in the fried vegetables. Fry the meat while stirring for 5 minutes, then add a glass of hot boiled water to the pan, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the meat. I used beef and simmered it for 40 minutes before adding the rest of the ingredients. If you use veal or pork, then the cooking time must be reduced. If the water boils away quickly, add a little more.
Then add pumpkin and potatoes to the pan and simmer the stew for another 20 minutes. The total cooking time for meat in my case was 1 hour, vary this time depending on the type and quality of meat.
5 minutes before the end of cooking, add sour cream to the pan. To prevent sour cream from curdling, pre-mix it with 3-4 tbsp. spoons of hot boiled water.
Add salt, pepper, mix everything gently and at the very end of cooking add finely chopped fresh herbs.
Mix everything again and remove from heat.
Beef with pumpkin is ready, serve it hot in large bowls. When serving, sprinkle the pumpkin stew with chopped fresh herbs.
Bon appetit!
You can watch the funny video below:
I have been looking for a simple recipe for pumpkin with meat in the oven for a long time, but alas, nothing worthwhile was found. Either it was a pot roast or complicated recipes with stuffing, so I had to write the recipe myself. I did not do any particularly complex mental somersaults, but simply took the most ordinary recipe for baked meat and added pumpkin to it. With some trepidation, I took out the finished pumpkin with meat from the oven, asked my husband to try it. The reaction pleased me: instead of scattering in praises, the husband silently ate the entire portion and just as silently took a second one for himself. The verdict was: delicious, but not enough pumpkin. So the next day I added a double serving of pumpkin. In the recipe, I will give the proportions for the required minimum, and then it’s your choice - you can double the amount of pumpkin, or maybe even triple.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
The algorithm of our actions will be similar to the one used for cooking meat in French. Have you done this at least once? Then it will be very easy for you.
Let's start with the pumpkin. It must be cut, cut off the skin and scrape out the seeds with fibers. Then cut into cubes or like these triangular slices. The pieces should not be too small and not too large. Thickness - no more than 0.5 centimeters. I even cut it a little thinner. Next, put the pumpkin in a bowl. Grate two cloves of garlic there, sprinkle with ground pepper, dried herbs, add 3 tablespoons of oil, mix, cover and let stand so that the pumpkin absorbs the sauce. It will radically change her taste. Only a subtle pleasant aftertaste will remain pumpkin.
Next, we move on to the meat. It must be washed, dried and beaten well with a special hammer. If you have not dried the meat, then cover it with a plastic bag, and then beat it off - then the meat will not splatter the entire kitchen.
You need to fry the meat in a hot frying pan. This is the whole point - so that a crust forms on top, which will prevent the juice from flowing out, which means that the meat will turn out to be especially tender. For these purposes, I use a stainless steel pan - it can be safely heated to high temperatures, which cannot be said about its Teflon counterparts.
4-5 minutes on one side, turn over and fry the same amount on the second.
Salt and pepper the cooked meat. Put into a baking dish. If you have a ceramic one, like mine, then you can not lubricate it - the meat will not stick.
Step two is frying the onions. It must be cut into half rings and then again in half - you get quarters. Fry until light golden, so that the characteristic smell of fried onions begins to be felt. Then put on top of the pieces of meat.
Step three - cheese and mayonnaise. Yes, you can do without mayonnaise. For example, replacing it with sour cream. But my husband loves this kind of baked meat.
Three cheese on a grater. We spread the hats on the meat. Leave a little to sprinkle the pumpkin on top.
The last layer is pumpkin. We cover the whole meat with it. Sprinkle with cheese. Pour the oil remaining at the bottom of the bowl with pumpkin from above.
We put the pumpkin with meat in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, on the middle level. Bake for 35-45 minutes. The time depends on how quickly the pumpkin bakes. Just in case, poke it with a fork. If soft, you can take it out of the oven.
Bon appetit!
Pumpkin makes not only delicious casseroles, diet desserts, sweet pastries. Pumpkin goes well with meat. Dishes are fragrant, tender, juicy, low-calorie, which is very important for harmony. There are many recipes in which pumpkin with meat can be served on a diet table due to the fact that the meat is stewed with a minimum of fat or without it at all.
Do not think that it is good and no longer good for anything. Do not know, ? Cook it with meat (or minced meat), the combination will be perfect.
Try cooking pumpkin dishes with meat
We master further, here is another interesting one. Most of the old recipes for pumpkin with meat are exactly this way cooked dishes, when the inside of the pumpkin is taken out, the pulp is mixed with other ingredients according to the recipe - with meat, cereals, other vegetables, always with the addition of spices - and all this stuffing is put back into the “pot” ”- shell, peel. Then all this splendor is baked in the oven (earlier in the oven).
Pumpkin pot with meat
Pumpkin with meat baked in the oven in "pots" according to this recipe is very tasty, and the meat is soft, tender, fragrant.
This simple recipe, one of my all-time favorites, is a variant of numerous pumpkin dishes with meat. Pumpkin with minced meat is an extremely easy way to quickly and tasty feed the family with a healthy, satisfying meal.
Minced meat is also suitable for pumpkin dishes
The recipe recommends beans, with it you will get a hearty dish with a peculiar, unique taste, but even if you don’t have beans at the moment, don’t give up cooking, pumpkin with minced meat will still turn out to be successful even without it.
We cut the meat into pieces, put it in a saucepan, season with salt and all the spices according to the recipe. Let marinate for half an hour.
We clean the vegetables, cut into cubes, finely chop the garlic and onion. Fry the meat over medium heat in a frying pan or in a saucepan for 10 minutes, put it in a separate bowl.
Put onions and garlic in a frying pan (stewpan), simmer for no more than five minutes, combine with meat. We put all this in a saucepan, add tomatoes (if canned, then with juice), pour a glass of boiling water, simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
We combine pumpkin, potatoes with meat, salt, if necessary, cook the stew until tender
half an hour. Fragrant, hearty tasty dish is ready, Bon appetit!
I recently struggled with the question: What to cook with pumpkin?
For roast pumpkin in the oven you will need:
Pumpkin, pork (I have a neck, a piece for each), garlic (I took 3 thick slices on a baking sheet), 1 huge tomato, maybe two, 200 grams of hard cheese is simpler, like Russian. You can use mayonnaise, I didn't use it. And salt and pepper.
Roast pumpkin according to the simplest recipe is ready! Fast and delicious!
You can start dinner and at the same time think - what else can be cooked from pumpkin?!)))
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