Marmalade is loved by adults and children, but a purchased product is often replete with harmful additives. It is more useful to cook the sweets yourself, for example, from pumpkin. Useful properties of homemade dessert and the intricacies of its preparation are discussed in today's article.
The benefits and harms of pumpkin marmalade
Pumpkin, without a doubt, is a useful product. It is used in a therapeutic diet and for weight loss, mashed potatoes are given as complementary foods to young children.
Did you know? According to the description of the Spanish missionary Bernardino de Sahaguna, the Aztecs ate not only the fruits of pumpkins, but also the flowers and stems of the plant.
Pumpkin marmalade has a wide range of beneficial effects:
- improves metabolic processes and digestion;
- carotene in the fetus helps maintain visual acuity;
- normalizes blood pressure;
- has a diuretic effect, normalizing the water-salt balance;
- saturates the body with vitamins and minerals;
- normalizes the level of hemoglobin in the blood;
- strengthens bone tissue and muscle fibers;
- removes toxins and lowers cholesterol;
- increases the elasticity of blood vessels;
- slows down the aging of skin cells;
- increases the ability of cells to regenerate;
- improves cardiac activity.
When eating marmalade from pumpkin, you should also be aware of the possible harm.
A sweet product can be harmful in the following conditions:
- acute form of gastritis or ulcers;
- diabetes;
- acid-base imbalance in the stomach.
How to make at home
Marmalade is not difficult to prepare, and special skills in culinary art are not required.
Did you know? In the Guinness Book of Records, a record weight of pumpkins was recorded - 1190.5 kg. The giant fruit was raised by a farmer from Belgium.
Kitchen appliances and utensils
In order not to be distracted during the cooking process, you need to cook all the kitchen utensils in advance.
In the process you will need:
- baking dish;
- measuring cup;
- blender
- sharp knife;
- pan;
- deep dish with a wide bottom;
- food wrap;
- stirring spoon.
Ingredients
The components in the recipe can be replaced - for example, instead of sugar, use honey, and instead of gelatin, agar-agar.
Essential Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 0.5 kg;
- juice of 1 lemon;
- sugar - 150 g;
- gelatin - 30 g.
Important! Marmalade with agar agar is useful for endocrine diseases, as it replenishes the iodine deficiency in the body.
Cooking sequence
The best varieties for sweet dishes are considered nutmeg pumpkin and “Candy”. Both have a sweet and juicy pulp, with a soft structure.
Cooking Technology:
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into large rectangular pieces.
- Place the pieces in a baking dish, bake at a temperature of 180 ° C for 20-30 minutes. Readiness is determined simply: if a toothpick easily enters the pulp, then it’s ready.
- Cool the pulp, then grind it with a blender.
- To exclude the presence of pieces, the pulp is ground through a sieve.
- Pumpkin pulp, sugar and lemon juice are mixed in a saucepan.
- Then pour gelatin, mix thoroughly and leave for 15 minutes to swell.
- To dissolve gelatin, put the pan on a slow fire, stirring the contents. The mass should not boil.
- Ware with a wide bottom should be covered with cling film.
- Next, pour the pumpkin-gelatin mixture into the dishes, put in the refrigerator overnight.
- The hardened mixture is removed from the container with the film. The film is removed.
- Marmalade is cut in arbitrary shape and roll in sugar.
Video: how to cook pumpkin marmalades at home
Important! If there is no glass baking dish or container with non-stick coating, then the existing baking sheet should be covered with parchment.
Pumpkin marmalade turns out to be tasty and pleasant-looking. It is not difficult to cook, especially since the recipe can be varied by adding other components - spices, fruits.
