Most often, pumpkin is used to make porridge or cream soups. But nutritionist Anna Biotorium shared a spicier recipe. She told how delicious to cook fried pumpkin with herbs. This dish is perfect for dinner or lunch. You can also serve it with any meat of your choice: chicken or pork steak, turkey or even fish.
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Fried pumpkin with herbs
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of pumpkin;
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil;
- Half a teaspoon of mustard seeds;
- A pinch of your favorite pepper;
- 1 teaspoon turmeric;
- Salt – to your taste;
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds;
- Half a tablespoon of pumpkin seed oil;
- 100 grams of dill.
Cooking method:
- Remove the skin from the pumpkin and cut it into cubes.
- In the meantime, heat a frying pan with oil and pour mustard seeds into it first. They should crackle and bounce in the pan. Roast for about 20 seconds.
- Then add the rest of the spices and keep on fire for another 10 seconds.
- After that, you can add the main ingredient – pumpkin, as well as 2 tablespoons of water and salt. Simmer everything together for 10 minutes under the lid.
- Before serving, sprinkle the dish with seeds, pour over pumpkin oil and sprinkle generously with herbs.
Enjoy your meal!
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Text of the publication of Anna Biotorium:
This pumpkin dish can be a great option for dinner or lunch.
Ingredients:
300 gr pumpkin
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 2 tsp mustard seeds
a pinch of pepper
1 tsp turmeric
Salt to taste
1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
½ tbsp pumpkin seed oil
100 gr dill
Cooking:
Take a pumpkin, peel it and cut into cubes.
Heat up a frying pan with oil over high heat. Add mustard seeds. The seeds should crackle and bounce around in the pan. Fry for about 20 seconds (cover the pan with a lid so the seeds do not scatter around the kitchen).
Add the rest of the spices and fry for another 10 seconds.
Add pumpkin, salt (to taste), 2 tablespoons of water and simmer for 10 minutes under the lid.
Serve sprinkled with seeds, drizzled with pumpkin oil and generously sprinkled with herbs.
An ordinary pumpkin, but due to the addition of spices and seeds, comes out with an unusual taste.