Pumpkin in a Frying Pan - 8 Step-by-Step Roasted Pumpkin Recipes

Pumpkin is a very useful versatile vegetable with which you can easily prepare a tasty and healthy dish, both salted and sweet. For each occasion, you should choose your own pumpkin variety: the sweeter one for desserts and the more piquant one for side dishes, appetizers and main courses.

How to quickly and deliciously fry a pumpkin in a pan?

A simple recipe for cooking pumpkin slices in a pan. The minimum set of ingredients and ease of execution will allow even an inexperienced housewife to cope with the task. Spices will make the dish brighter in taste.

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  The pumpkin is peeled from seeds, peel and fibers, so that only the pulp remains.
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  The vegetable is cut into thin slices. It is better that their thickness does not exceed 2-3 mm.
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  Put pumpkin slices in a deep bowl, sprinkle with salt and mix well. It is convenient to do this with your hands to distribute the salt more evenly. Leave the pumpkin for 20 minutes to drain the juice.
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  Slices of pumpkin are dried with a paper towel, dipped on all sides in flour and browned in a pan with butter. Usually, for a beautiful crust to appear, you need to fry the vegetable for 4-5 minutes on each side with medium heat.
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  Put the finished slices on a napkin to remove excess fat, sprinkle vegetables with your favorite seasoning and serve with sour cream and garlic sauce.

Juicy pumpkin stewed in a pan

A recipe for those who prefer to cook vegetables with a more gentle cooking method. When stewing, the product retains its high taste and leaves more vitamins and nutrients inside.

Cooking time: 35 min.

Cooking time: 5 min.

Servings - 4.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 400 gr.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Spices to taste.
• Rice - 150 gr.
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. The pumpkin is peeled, seeds and fibers, washed and dried, after which the vegetable is cut into large cubes.
2. Cut the peeled onions and carrots at random into small pieces, or grate them if you want a more delicate consistency of the dish.
3. In a frying pan with butter, lightly fry the onions and carrots, and then add the pumpkin cubes. Cover the pan with vegetables and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes.
4. Rice is washed and poured into a pan with pumpkin, onions and carrots. The dish is salted and your favorite spices are added, mixed, poured with boiling water and stewed for another 20 minutes. Heating should be fairly low.
5. Serve hot stewed pumpkin, garnished with chopped herbs, as an independent dish or as a side dish.

Sweet pumpkin in pieces with sugar in a pan

A recipe for those who prefer pumpkin for dessert. Ingredients include apples, cinnamon, raisins and walnuts, making the pumpkin cooked in this way a real royal dish.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings - 4.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 500 gr.
• Butter - 50 gr.
• Apple - 3 pcs.
• Granulated sugar - 5 tbsp. l.
• Cinnamon - 1 pinch
• Water - 100 ml
• Raisins - 50 gr.
• Walnut to taste.

Cooking process:

1. The pumpkin should be peeled to a pulp by removing the skins and seeds. Cut the pumpkin pulp into small pieces and place in a bowl.
2. Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into pieces in proportion to the pumpkin.
3. Put a piece of butter in a deep frying pan, melt it and add slices of pumpkin and apple. Sprinkle with half the sugar and cinnamon on top. Everything is mixed, and the contents of the pan are kept over medium heat under a lid for 25 minutes, so that the pumpkin becomes soft.
4. The raisins are washed and put into the pan along with the rest of the sugar, stir and cook until the liquid evaporates completely. After that, you need to cook the dish a little more, stirring constantly so that the slices are caramelized.
5. The finished dish is served both hot and after cooling, garnished with chopped walnuts.

Step-by-step recipe for cooking pumpkin with onions in a pan

This dish is suitable both as an independent product for lunch or dinner, and as a side dish for meat or fish. It is important to cut vegetables not too finely so that they do not turn into porridge during cooking and preserve the integrity of the pieces.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 5 min.

Servings - 2.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 200 gr.
• Potatoes - 400 gr.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Spices to taste.
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.

Cooking process:

1. Vegetables - pumpkin and potatoes - are peeled, washed and cut into fairly large pieces of the same size.
2. Divide the onion into half rings.
3. Slices of potatoes are fried in a deep frying pan with heated oil, and after 10 minutes pumpkin is put in the same place. To keep the vegetables in shape, it is better not to cover the pan with a lid and stir occasionally.
4. After another 10 minutes, add the onion to the vegetables and continue frying.
5. The dish should be salted and spices added only at the very end of cooking, otherwise the process of cooking vegetables may take longer than usual. The finished dish is garnished with herbs and served. Bon Appetit!

Delicious pumpkin fried with garlic in a pan

Garlic makes pumpkin dishes more savory and aromatic. Crispy, toasted pumpkin slices, generously flavored with garlic, are perfect both as a snack and as a side dish for meat dishes. Fresh herbs go well with garlic, which can be used to decorate a pumpkin dish.

Cooking time: 45 min.

Cooking time: 5 min.

Servings - 2.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 200 gr.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Wheat flour to taste.
• Garlic to taste.
• Dill - ½ bunch.
• Spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the peeled pumpkin into slices, the thickness of which should be about 0.5 cm.
2. The chopped vegetable is placed in a deep bowl, sprinkled with salt and left to let the juice flow.
3. After about half an hour, you can dry the pumpkin slices and dip them in flour on all sides.
4. Garlic and dill are finely chopped, seasoning is added to them.
5. The prepared slices are fried in hot oil until a beautiful golden color, and then folded into a bowl, where they are sprinkled with fresh garlic and dill with spices. The dish can be eaten hot or served chilled as a snack.

How to cook pumpkin with meat in a pan?

A rich-to-taste dish that will appeal to supporters of a healthy diet and those who prefer hearty dishes: pork goes well with pumpkin, and hot peppers add spice to the roast.

Cooking time: 45 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings - 4.

Ingredients:

• Pork tenderloin - 500 gr.
• Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.
• Bulb onions - 1 pc.
• Chili pepper - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 4 teeth.
• Tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l.
• Ground cumin - 2 tsp
• Brown sugar - 1 tsp
• Ground coriander - ½ tsp.
• Ground cinnamon - ½ tsp.
• Salt - ½ tsp
• Tomatoes in their own juice - 1 can.
• Lightly salted chicken broth - 750 ml
• Pumpkin (pulp without peel and seeds) - 500 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the pumpkin into cubes, the onion into half rings.
2. The pork is washed, dried and cut into slices proportional to the pumpkin slices.
3. Finely chopped garlic and hot peppers are fried in a deep frying pan in heated oil, then add the onion and sauté for several minutes.
4. Add meat to the fried vegetables and cook everything together for another 7-10 minutes, adding a little broth.
5. Pour pumpkin cubes into a frying pan to the meat, add spices, tomato paste, a little brown sugar and salt, tomatoes in their own juice and the remaining broth. Cook the stew covered with low heat for about 25 minutes.
6. The stew is served in deep bowls with the resulting gravy, sprinkled with hot peppers and herbs if desired. Enjoy!

A simple and delicious pumpkin recipe with sour cream

Pumpkin can be cooked in a delicate sauce, and then the taste of this vegetable will be revealed in a new way. Well set off the aroma of pumpkin sour cream-garlic sauce with herbs. It is easy to prepare it and thus surprise your loved ones with an original and healthy dish.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings - 2.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 500 gr.
• Sour cream - 200 gr.
• Garlic - 3 teeth.
• Greens - 1 bunch.
• Ground paprika - to taste.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

1. In a deep bowl, mix sour cream (it is better to take fatter for greater benefit and taste) with a little salt, pepper, paprika, chopped garlic and herbs. Stir the sauce thoroughly and let it brew.
2. The pumpkin, peeled from the peel and seeds, is cut into cubes or thin slices.
3. Pieces of pumpkin are fried in a deep frying pan with heated oil until they are covered with a uniform golden crust.
4. Pour the fried vegetable slices with sour cream and garlic sauce, mix and cook for several minutes, then add 30 ml of water, bring to taste with salt and pepper and keep under a lid over medium heat for another 3 minutes.
5. The finished dish is served with chopped herbs and black bread.

Sweet pumpkin with honey for dessert

Original pumpkin appetizer with honey, garlic and rosemary. Caramelized pumpkin turns out to be tender, aromatic and with a bright taste. Such a dish is suitable even for a festive table or a friendly party.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings - 4.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin - 600 gr.
• Butter - 35 gr.
• Honey - 1 tbsp. l.
• Fresh rosemary - 1 sprig.
• Garlic - 1 tooth
• Salt to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the pumpkin, remove the core, but do not peel it. Cut into slices.
2. Melt the butter in a non-stick skillet, then add coarsely chopped garlic and rosemary.
3. Fry the pumpkin slices in fragrant oil on all sides; spend about 6 minutes on each side.
4. Add honey to the pan and continue cooking, turning the pieces over so that the honey envelops them on all sides. It is important not to overheat the pan to avoid burning the honey. Lightly salt the pumpkin slices.
5. You can serve pumpkin in this form with sour cream sauce in which finely chopped garlic and cilantro are placed.