Very often novice cooks think about what can be cooked from a melon, and a few interesting ideas will be described later in our article.
Marinated melon
Ingredients:
- vinegar 6% - 200 ml;
- melon - 500 g;
- cloves - 1 bud;
- water - 200 ml;
- honey - 30 g;
- salt - 10 g;
- cinnamon - to taste.
Preparation
Put honey in the water, salt and add cinnamon with cloves, put on a plate and wait for the boil. Then add the vinegar, turn it off and leave the marinade to cool. Separate from enough ripe melon pulp and cut into small cubes, which should be placed in glass jars and pour cold marinade. Cover the jars tightly with lids and place in a sterilization container in which water is poured so that it covers two thirds of the height of the cans. Boil the melon for about 40 minutes, then roll it.
Pie with melon in the multivark
Ingredients:
- melon - 0,5 pcs. medium size;
- Vanillin - to taste;
- chicken yolks - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 0,75 cup;
- butter - 40 g;
- flour - 2 cups.
Preparation
We remove the seeds from the melon, but leave the skin, then cut it into small cubes and rub it, using a medium grater. You can also use a blender, but then the fruit must be cleaned beforehand. We melt the butter and separate the proteins and yolks in the eggs. Add vanilla, yolks, sugar and butter to the melon and whisk the mass thoroughly with a mixer. Dosain the flour and whisk again. Non-stick capacity multivarka can not be lubricated, steel is better to rub a little oil. Pour the dough into the bowl and set the "Baking" mode for 45 minutes on one side and for an additional 20 minutes to make the pie well on the other side. After cooling, sprinkle the product with powdered sugar.
A simple melon jam recipe
Ingredients:
- melon pulp - 1 kg;
- sugar - 725 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Preparation
With a lemon slice, cut the zest and cut into thin strips. Put it in a saucepan, add sugar and squeeze out the juice of a whole lemon. Fill all 50 ml of well-heated water. Cook the syrup on a small fire, waiting for the complete dissolution of the sugar. Peel the melon, cut it into cubes, throw it into the syrup and bring the mixture back to the boil again. After that, put the jam off the plate and put about 10-12 hours to infuse. Boil the mixture again and leave to cool. After repeating this procedure for the third time, the prepared jam is poured into sterilized cans and closed.
The original recipe for compote from melon
Ingredients:
- grape wine - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- melon - 250 g;
- citric acid - 1 pinch;
- plums - 8 pieces;
- sugar - 0,75 cup;
- water - 3 cups.
Preparation
Pour sugar into the water, put on a plate and cook the syrup. After boiling, it should be boiled for about 4-5 minutes. Cut the plums in half, remove the stones and throw them into the syrup. Wait for it to boil, cool a bit, then add wine and put the melon pulp, cut into small pieces. Add a little citric acid, pour the compote over previously sterilized glass jars and roll them up.
Pies with melon and peaches
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- milk - 1.5 cups;
- yeast - 35 g;
- eggs - 1 piece;
- flour - 5 glasses;
- butter - 40 g.
- For filling:
- melon pulp - 300 g;
- orange - 1 piece;
- sugar - 1.5 cups;
- feijoa - 300 g;
- Peach (without pits) - 300 g.
Preparation
In the milk put melted butter, yeast, pre-soaked in a small amount of heated water, sugar, salt and beat the egg. After that, gradually add flour and knead medium dough. When it stops pestering, leave it in a warm place for about a couple of hours.
From the peach extract the bones, and with melons and feijoa remove peel. Melon and peach are cut into small pieces and mixed with feijoa, passed through a meat grinder. Mix well, pour sugar and orange peel, which is pre-rubbed with a medium grater. Place the filling for about 2-3 hours in a cool place.
Approached the dough, divide into squares of 3x3 cm, roll them well and place the fruit filling in the middle. Connect the edges of the cake and carefully coat them. Lubricate the baking sheet with oil, sprinkle with flour and put pies on it. They are baked for about half an hour (oven temperature should be 180 degrees).