When a person decides to go on a diet, he must avoid stress. But parting with tired extra pounds is often associated with separation from your favorite goodies. Is this not a shock to the body? As a result, he only accumulates fats, trying to escape from stress. And then a pumpkin comes to the rescue. This sunny and bright vegetable is one of its kind is able to cheer up. In addition, pumpkin contains many useful substances and vitamins. It improves the condition of the skin and hair, relieves fatigue. Low calorie content (about 160 kcal per one hundred grams) and perfect compatibility with other food products make pumpkin indispensable for various diets. And the dishes from this sunny vegetable are incredibly tasty. The following are the best pumpkin diet recipes . One vegetable can create (with skillful combination with other products) a very diverse menu.
Pumpkin pancakes
We need only two hundred grams of pulp peeled and peeled. Pumpkin diet recipes allow you to cook both the main dish and dessert. If you add a teaspoon of honey to the dough, the pancakes can be served with tea. And if you sprinkle the finished products with grated cheese, they can make a dish for a light lunch. So, first chop the pulp of a pumpkin on a fine grater or in a blender. Add one chicken egg, a quarter cup of fat-free kefir, soda and (in the dessert version) vanillin. Gradually add four tablespoons of flour. Knead the dough. Sweeten with honey if desired. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, grease with vegetable oil and sprinkle with semolina. We spread pancakes. We bake at two hundred degrees until tender.
Steam cutlets
Vegetarian and diet pumpkin recipes often include similar vegetables. So this time, the carrot will enter the duo - the same orange root-crop raising the mood. Both vegetables individually with three large chips. 450 grams of pumpkin will need three carrots. We let the root crops to readiness in half a glass of milk. Add the grated pumpkin and two tablespoons of semolina. Knead and cook for about ten minutes. Then cool the mixture a little and drive one egg into it. This minced meat is sweetened and salted. Leave it for five minutes to swell semolina. Formed cutlets sprinkle with olive oil and put in a double boiler. Cooking twenty minutes. Cutlets can also be fried in olive oil. You just need to pre-run them in breadcrumbs. Cutlets will turn out with a fried crust.
Cheese balls
Diet recipes from pumpkin allow the use of dairy products. If you can afford to eat hard cheese, make delicious balls. They perfectly satisfy hunger. This dish is cooked in a double boiler. We rub coarsely one hundred grams of pumpkin pulp and the same amount of hard cheese. Drive in the egg, mix. Add two tablespoons of flour, salt and spices. We achieve uniformity of the test. Then divide it into balls the size of a nut. In a double boiler, cook them for a quarter of an hour. If the pumpkin is removed late in the autumn, time needs to be increased. Summer vegetables cook faster.
Baked Pumpkin
Dietary recipes for this melon crop need not be complicated. So this dish is made very simple. Yes, and products for it require a minimum: a small pumpkin, sesame seeds, honey. The last ingredient can be replaced with hard cheese. Then the dish can be served not to the dessert table, but as a snack. Cut the pulp of the pumpkin into medium sized pieces. Put them on a baking sheet, sprinkle with sesame seeds. If we are preparing a snack, sprinkle pumpkin with grated cheese. Bake in the oven for ten minutes. For the dessert option, melt the honey in a water bath. We pour them baked pumpkin and coconut powder.
Dried fruit dessert
Refusing sweets is the biggest feat that those who are losing weight are taking. But you can also cook dessert pumpkin dishes. Diet recipes include both fresh and dried fruits. In this dessert, the proportions depend on your taste. Fresh apples, peel and core, cut into cubes. Grind pumpkin pulp in the same way. Bake these two ingredients in the oven for ten minutes. During this time, we calcinate the kernels of walnuts and chop them. Cut dried apricots into small pieces. Pour raisins with hot water, squeeze. Sprinkle apple-pumpkin dessert with nuts and dried fruits. We’ll send it to the oven for another seven to ten minutes. Ready dish pour honey. This dessert is delicious both hot and cold.
Diet Pumpkin Puree Soup
The recipe for this light first course can be attributed to summer foods. Soup is very tasty when cold. But you need to start cooking it ahead of time, because it contains chickpeas. Turkish peas should be soaked overnight and then boiled until softened. We heat the empty pan and pour a spoonful of olive oil into it. Then add curry. If it is a powder, then two teaspoons, and if pasta - one. When the aroma of spices floats in the kitchen, add a small sliced pumpkin and chopped onion. Let’s sweat the vegetables under the lid for eight minutes. During this time, grate finely five centimeter root of ginger. Pour 700 ml of water into the pan (and if you do not consider the calories meticulously, then you can also use the broth). Immediately add boiled chickpeas (400 g) and ginger. When the soup boils, remove it from the heat and turn the liquid into mashed potatoes using a hand blender. Add salt to taste, add pepper. Season yogurt with pumpkin soup. Dietary recipe involves the exclusion of broth. The dish is cooked on the water. Instead of yogurt, soup can be sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs.
Sweet baby porridge for breakfast
Gram a piece of pumpkin finely. Bring this mashed potatoes with a glass of skim milk. Boil, stirring constantly, for about ten minutes. Add two tablespoons of oat bran. Sweeten the dish with sweetener or honey. Cook for another five minutes. The calorie content of such a dish is only 39 kcal per hundred grams.
Millet porridge with pumpkin
Autumn gourds are perfectly combined not only with vegetables and fruits, but also with various cereals. Pumpkin millet porridge is very tasty. The recipe tells us to first soak 200 g of cereal in water. Then we drain the water, pour a new one and cook the usual fresh porridge under the lid. Half a kilo of pumpkin pulp is cut into small triangles. Spread 35 g butter and two tablespoons of honey in a frying pan. When these two ingredients melt, add the chopped pumpkin. Fry until soft and caramel. Put the porridge in the pots, filling the dishes to half. Put the pumpkin on top. Pour a glass of 10% cream, put a little butter in pots. Tom in the oven at 130 degrees until fully cooked. In a dry frying pan, calcine the walnut kernels (do not overdo it with them: they are very fat). Grind and sprinkle with them and cinnamon the finished porridge.
Greek Pumpkin Stew
We chop two cloves of garlic. Fry them in olive oil (20 ml). Two hundred and fifty grams of pumpkin pulp cut into pieces. We clear half a large pod of bell pepper from seeds. Cut into strips. We spread the vegetables to the garlic and fry for about five minutes. Add two hundred grams of tomatoes in your own juice. We close the pan and simmer over low heat for about a quarter of an hour. Salt according to our taste. Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs, basil and parsley.
And these are far from all diet pumpkin dishes for weight loss. Recipes suggest to include this sunny vegetable in rice and cottage cheese casseroles, to make salads and main dishes from it, for example, vegetable sauté. If the pumpkin is baked and mashed, you can stuff chicken with it. She goes well with her brothers - zucchini and eggplant.