Cooking club 2 - Pumpkin day

At the second meeting we had a pumpkin day. We prepared 3 dishes with this vegetable.

Pasta with pumpkin and butter

Ingredients for 2 portions:

• pasta  
• 1/2 half of small pumpkin
• 1/2 cup of liquid cream 15%
• 5 tablespoons of butter
• 3 shallots - onion - chopped very small
• 4 tablespoons grated Sulguni cheese
• salt, pepper,
• parsley,
• nutmeg

Pumpkin peel and seed seeds. Cut into cubes. In a skillet, over low heat melt the butter, add chopped onions, season with salt and stew it slowly covering it, about 10 minutes, but not brown it. Add pumpkin and season with a pinch of nutmeg. I cover and stew slowly about 15 minutes under tender. I add the cream, 2 tablespoons Sulguni cheese, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, season with salt and pepper. If the sauce is too thick I add a little hot water. For the sauce, I add cooked al dente pasta. Mix, sprinkle the remaining two tablespoons of Sulguni cheese.

Pasta with pumpkin and chicken in tomato sauce

Ingredients for 4 portions:

• pasta
• 300 g pumpkin, cut into small cubes
•  2 medium double breast of chicken
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves of garlic
• tin of chopped tomatoes / or 4 tomatoes cut into cubes
• tomato paste
• 1 chili
• oregano, cumin, curry
• salt, pepper,
• sulguni cheese  

Chicken washed, drought and cut into small cubes. In a skillet until golden brown. I add a small chopped onion and crushed garlic squeezed through. Fry moment until the onion is tender and pour in water. I throw a whole pumpkin and stew about 10 minutes. I add tomatoes and paste. Stew 5 minutes and add spices to taste. Stew pumpkin under tender. Cook pasta al dente in salted water. Sprinkle with grated Sulguni cheese on top.

Chocolate Cake with Pumpkin

The cake tin with a diameter of 22 cm

•  3 eggs
• pinch of salt
• 130 g of sugar
• 150 g melting and cool chocolate
• 200 g grated pumpkin *
• 200 g grind almonds 
• 1 teaspoon of soda
• 3 tablespoons corn flour
• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• grated peel 1 orange
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

* If the pumpkin is too juicy, you can squeeze it gently

Preheat oven to 180 ° C. White of an eggs whip to stiff with a pinch of salt, egg yolk and sugar whip white mass, then add all the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.  Then add the white of an egg and stir gently. We put cake to springform pan and bake 45 minute.

icing on the cake: melt chocolate

* If the pumpkin is too juicy, you can squeeze it gently

Preheat oven to 180 ° C. White of an egg whip to stiff with a pinch of salt, egg yolk and sugar whip white mass, then add all the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.  Then add the white of an egg and stir gently. The weight of a greased springform pan translate and bake about 45 minutes.

Zosia