How to cook a vegetable stew with pumpkin?

On the eve of important events or during a fast so you want to eat something light and delicious. And there's nothing better than a vegetable stew with pumpkin. There are a lot of options for cooking this dish, the ingredients are in any refrigerator and are available in the vegetable market. The thing remains for small - to find the most interesting and original recipe.

Vegetable stew

Pumpkin is universal. It blends well with other vegetables, is in harmony with meat, can be used for sweet baking and making beverages. Moreover, it is very useful and well kept in the cold season, which means that even in winter it can be used to make a vegetable stew.

With a pumpkin, combine any vegetables. Stew is incredibly light and tasty, looks nice and differs with a rich aroma, can be used as an independent dish or as a side dish to meat. It is worth noting that traditional Russian cuisine knows many recipes in which a pumpkin takes an honorable place.

The easiest recipe for vegetable stew

Pumpkin is peeled off the tough peel and cut into cubes or small slices. Add spices. Here, everyone decides what, exactly: coriander, turmeric, basil, etc. Here it is necessary to pour one teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt. Now the pumpkin needs to be alone, so that it is well absorbed in aromatic spices.

Now you can cut the onions, but it's not worth much to mimic, it's a vegetable stew with pumpkin, so every ingredient should be felt. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and send the pumpkin there, stew it to a transparent consistency. At this time, you need to peel the tomatoes from the peel, cut them into quarters and send them to the pumpkin. Only after this, you can add the onions and bring the dish to the full preparedness, stewing vegetables together for another five minutes.

Pumpkin and meat - the perfect combination

To prepare vegetable stew with meat, the following ingredients are needed:

• One and a half pounds of the pumpkin itself.
• One kilogram of pork.
• One can of canned peas and corn.
• One tomato and two sweet peppers.
• Onion, fresh herbs and spices.

To prepare a vegetable stew with pumpkin and meat, you must first clean the vegetable and cut it into small cubes, and then place in a heated frying pan. Because the pumpkin produces a large amount of liquid, it turns out that it is stewed in its own juice.

At this time, you can engage in meat, which must be cut into small pieces, slightly discouraged and also fry in vegetable oil. Separately, draw the onion. In the pan where the meat was stewed, it should be poured along with the contents of peas and corn. Stir the whole mixture for 15 minutes.

And only now it is possible to connect a stewed pumpkin with meat and other vegetables. Add the sliced tomato, sweet pepper and onions. At the very end it is desirable to add garlic, fresh herbs and spices passed through the press.

The Lenten Stew

This option is ideal for those who are fasting or dieting. The recipe for vegetable stew with pumpkin is simple to prepare, and all the necessary ingredients grow in the garden or are sold in the vegetable market. For ragout you will need: 500 g of pumpkin, 200 g of celery, 1 carrot and onion, 2 tomatoes and bell pepper, sunflower oil and garlic.

You can prepare a vegetable stew with pumpkin and zucchini, but first you should consider this recipe. The dish is prepared very quickly and simply. All vegetables are washed and cut into small pieces. Sweet peppers and tomatoes should be cut into 4-6 slices, depending on their size. Garlic can be crushed with a press, but it is better to cut into several pieces. Carrots are also cut into half rings.

The case remains for small - to extinguish all the ingredients in a frying pan or in a cauldron until ready. At the very end, add the garlic for a rich flavor. The dish can be served cold or hot.

Vegetable stew with pumpkin and potatoes

Ingredients for cooking:

• 1 medium sized pumpkin.
• A few carrots.
• Two onions.
• Two turnips of medium size.
• 5-6 potatoes.
• Spices and garlic.

First of all, a pumpkin is sliced into small frying pan. In a few minutes, she will let the juice out, and already all the other vegetables will be stewed in this liquid. After this, immediately after the pumpkin, turnip is added to the container, since it takes the most time to fully prepare it. Next comes the turn of potatoes and onions - the vegetables are sent to the frying pan after the turnip.

Carrots partially cut into half rings, and the rest of the grate on a suitable grater, then send to all other vegetables. At the very end, add garlic, passed through the press, and spices.

Vegetable stew with pumpkin and zucchini

As already mentioned, the pumpkin can be stored for a long time in the cold season. The same goes for her close relative, the vegetable marrow. So why not combine these two elements in one incredibly tasty dish that will remind you of the generosity of the last summer month? Use in this dish meat or not - a matter of personal preferences. You can add roasted chicken breast or pork to vegetables, or you can serve separately a vegetable stew with pumpkin. The recipe with the photo clearly shows how beautiful and appetizing this dish looks.

You can talk for a long time, but it's time to start acting. So, the following ingredients will be needed for cooking:

• Potatoes - 6 pcs.
• Bulbs - 2 pcs.
• 1 Bulgarian pepper.
• 2 carrots.
• 3 tomatoes.
• A small piece of pumpkin (about 300 g).
• Marrow - 200 g.
• Spices and a little for frying.

All vegetables, except carrots and onions, are cut into large enough pieces and sent to the cauldron for extinguishing. Of course, the dishes should already be heated with a small amount of vegetable oil. Once the pumpkin begins to acquire transparency, you can add chopped onions and spices (turmeric for golden color, curry, pepper, thyme, etc.). Here it is desirable to reduce the heat and leave the vegetables for a while at rest. Pumpkin juice will be enough to ensure that they do not burn out. Then you can add pepper and tomato, season with garlic, hold on the fire for another 10 minutes and put the cauldron in the oven. This dish is very tasty in itself. But you can serve it with juicy and flavored meat.