Pumpkins are still hard when they are raw, and the pulp is very thick. It takes time to steam them from the inside out. Wash the pumpkin, cut into pieces, steam it in a steamer for about 20 minutes, and poke it with chopsticks. If it can be easily poked, it means that the pumpkin is steamed. If you can't poke it, you need to steam it for a while until it is soft and cooked.
There are still some skills in steaming pumpkins. If you steam the pumpkin directly in the pot, you may not be able to eat soft, delicious, sweet but not greasy pumpkin. When steaming pumpkins, be sure to choose the right steps. For the pumpkin that needs to be steamed, first scrape the skin of the pumpkin and cut it into pieces with uniform size, so that the pumpkin can be heated evenly.
Put the cut pumpkin on a plate and sprinkle with some honey or sugar. Generally speaking, after the water is boiled, it can be steamed for about 15 minutes. At this time, the pumpkin we eat is soft and delicious, sweet but not greasy.
Peel the steamed pumpkin, crush the pumpkin pulp, then add glutinous rice flour and knead it into a ball. Cut it into balls, press it into solid cakes, and then fry it in the oil pan, which becomes a delicious pumpkin cake. The pumpkin pie is crisp and soft, and smells like pumpkin. It can be eaten as a snack, which is very good.
Pumpkin porridge is very simple to make, just peel the pumpkin and cut it into pieces. When cooking porridge, put the pumpkin in and cook it together. Cooked porridge has the smell of pumpkin, and pumpkin is especially soft and glutinous after cooking, which is not only delicious, but also helpful for digestion.
Fried pumpkin can be eaten as a dish. Peel the pumpkin and cut it into slices or shreds. Then, as usual, take the oil pan, stir fry, add salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar and other seasonings, and decorate it with chopped green onion before cooking, which is refreshing and delicious.
Baked pumpkin with cheese can be tasted as dessert. Put the cheese on the raw pumpkin, then put it in a tin foil tray and bake it in the oven. Baked pumpkin is covered with a thick layer of cheese. When eating, you can enjoy the milk flavor of cheese, the softness of pumpkin, and you can brush it, which is beautiful and delicious.