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Amazing pumpkin fruit! It can grow in the garden to such a size that you can not lift! And the vitamins in it, microelements of different so much that long to list.



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From pumpkins, you can prepare a huge number of dishes for different tastes: soups, porridges, side dishes, pies, pancakes, casseroles, jelly, jams, jams and even candies.



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But it's all familiar. But if you serve to the table not just porridge in a pan, but porridge directly in a pumpkin, appetizingly baked in the oven, it will be just a holiday - and original, and fun, and hearty!

Pumpkin baked in the oven Traditional hapama It is a pumpkin filled with rice, dried fruits, nuts and honey. Since time immemorial, it has been an obligatory dish of Armenian festive tables, people loved it so much that they even composed a song about it.

Until now, this dish is prepared for New Year, Easter, weddings and birthdays, solemnly taken to the table and sing: "Hey, jan hapama, delicious and fragrant." Hey, jan, hapama, honey inside hapam.

In ancient times there were several options for preparing hapama. For example, filling was prepared from wheat, meat and fresh fruits. However, the most common recipe is with rice, dried fruits, nuts and honey.

The ingredients

• 1 pumpkin
• 100g rice
• 0.5 tbsp.
• 0.3 prunes
• 0.5 tbsp raisins
• 0.5 tbsp walnuts
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 6 tbsp honey
• 100g butter

Preparation

1. Wash the pumpkin and cut the top in a circle, paying attention to the symmetry.
   
   
   
2. Use a spoon to free the pumpkin from the pulp and seeds. Save the seeds for later frying.
3. Cover the walls of the pumpkin with 2 spoons of honey.
4. Cook the rice, but not to be ready to extinguish inside the pumpkin.
5. Put the rice in a separate bowl and add oil to it (leave a small piece to lubricate the pumpkin outside). Wait for the oil to melt, then add dried apricots, prunes, raisins, walnuts, cinnamon.
   
   
   
6. Add to the mixture the remains of honey. Stir thoroughly.
7. Fill the pumpkin with a mixture of rice and dried fruit. Cover the "lid", grease the outside with oil (this will give the pumpkin an appetizing crust) and send it to the oven, heated to 220 degrees for 1 hour.
8. You will know about the readiness of the pumpkin by touching it with a finger. It should be soft, and the fingerprint should remain from the finger.
9. Hapama's ready. Let the pumpkin cool before cutting. Cut it along the ribs to make a stunning impression of a opened flower, while providing everyone with one slice of the dish.
   
   
   
10. While eating, listen to the song "Hey Jan, Hapama." Bon appetit!
    
    
    

Diet buckwheat with pumpkin and chicken The recipe for this treat, in my opinion, is found only in Russian cuisine. "Site" Offers an original, light and super useful recipe: pumpkin stuffed with buckwheat and meat.

The ingredients

• 1 pumpkin
• 300g buckwheat
• 500g chicken meat
• 50g prunes
• 50g butter
• 1 clove of garlic
• black pepper, salt, sugar to taste
• vegetable-oil

Preparation

1. Cut off the top of the pumpkin and get the seeds. The walls should be cleaned, they should be 1.5-2 cm thick, excess pulp will still be useful.
   
   
   
2. Rub the pumpkin walls with the salt and spices you love. Put the pumpkin in the oven heated to 180 degrees for 1 hour.
3. Cut the onions, prunes, pumpkin (pulp taken out) and meat into medium-sized pieces.
4. Cook the buckwheat, but don't make it ready.
5. Take the pumpkin out of the oven and leave it to cool a little, so it will be easier to work with it further.
6. Onions, meat, pumpkin and prunes roast in vegetable oil. Then mix it with porridge. The filling is almost ready.
   
   
   
7. Tightly fill the pumpkin porridge with meat, put a clove of garlic and a piece of butter, cover with a "lid" and put in the oven for 20-30 minutes at 180 degrees.
8. Delicious. porridge ready. Bon appetit!
   
   
   

Preparing such buckwheat for quite a long time, but it turns out really tasty, not like the one we are all used to. Try it, maybe this way of cooking porridge will become your favorite.

Pumpkin is not only an indispensable attribute of a healthy diet, but also a wonderful tool for maintaining the beauty of the face. The orange pulp of the fruit can slow down aging, return the skin to youth and fill it with nutrients.

Pumpkin, carrots and ginger: this orange soup will cheer you up and saturate the body with vitamin C, folic acid and fiber!