Pumpkin is a super-useful melon culture. Pumpkin fruits contain a lot of very useful substances for the human body. By taste and aroma, the pumpkin is harmoniously combined with a variety of products, including meat of different animals.
If you cook in a certain way, different dishes from pumpkin with chicken , they can be recommended for diet. This, however, does not at all mean that they will be boring, insipid and tasteless.
Here are some recipes in which a chicken with a pumpkin - the main ingredients (of course, we will use other products to make it as useful and tasty as possible).
Pumpkin with chicken in the oven
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet (meat from the breast) - about 300 g;
- pulp pulp - about 400 g;
- cream dairy natural (can be replaced with pink table unglazed wine) - about 100 ml;
- dry ground spices (saffron, nutmeg, sweet pepper, paprika, cloves);
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- a little chicken fat;
- fresh greens (parsley, dill, rosemary, basil, coriander).
Preparation
Chicken fillet cut into short strips (across the fibers). Pumpkin pulp will be cut 1.5-2 times larger than chicken fillet.
Refractory form for baking (preferably glass or ceramic) is abundantly smeared with chicken fat (or vegetable oil). We will lay out pieces of meat in the form alternating with pumpkin. Let's dress the cream with ground dry spices and a little bit. Pour chicken with pumpkin pour, cover with a lid (or foil) and place in a preheated oven for 40 minutes. A ready-made chicken with pumpkin and cream sauce is laid out on plates and served, seasoned with chopped garlic and greens.
A similar dish from the same products can be cooked in a serving pot or in a large family pot. If you slightly change the recipe, you can cook in the oven chicken with pumpkin and potatoes. To do this, cut the peeled potatoes in the same way as the pumpkin.
You can prepare for a family dinner a small pumpkin stuffed with chicken and rice. And you can cook not only in a round pumpkin, using it as a pot, but also in pumpkins of oblong forms, cutting them in half along and using them as baking dishes.
Pumpkin stuffed with chicken and rice
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 pc. medium size;
- chicken fillet - about 400 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- rice unpolished yellow - about 300 g;
- pepper sweet red - 1-2 pcs .;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- dry ground spices (for example, curry mixture);
- egg chicken at will - 1-2 pieces;
- fresh greens are different.
Preparation
First we will prepare forcemeat, having passed meat, an onion, sweet pepper and garlic through a meat grinder with a large nozzle. No, of course, if you want - you can cut chicken fillets (as well as onions, peppers and garlic) by hand with a knife in very small pieces. Then carefully rinse the rice with cold running water, then fill it with boiling water and after 5-10 minutes we will drain the water.
Mix the minced meat with rice and dry spices. You can slightly add and add the egg, if you wish.
If the pumpkin is round, cut off the top and remove the seeds with a spoon. Fill with minced meat and pour sauce, broth or water, because the rice will swell and increase the volume. Close the lid with the top (or you can cover it with a flat cake from a simple dough).
If the pumpkin is oblong - cut in half and do it like boats. Fill the boats with stuffing (you can cover them with foil). Next, put the stuffed pumpkin in the oven, heated to a temperature of 180-200 degrees C, and bake for 40 minutes. During the preparation of juices and pumpkin flavors soak the stuffing - it will be very tasty. You can cut a pumpkin slices. Serve with greenery.