In autumn and winter, almost all pumpkins are collected and stored at home. If someone in the family doesn't like pumpkins or can't eat them all, fresh pumpkins will rot easily if they are stored too much.
In fact, pumpkins can also be made into dried pumpkins without losing their flavor. Making dried pumpkins into dried pumpkins can keep pumpkins for a longer time, and they will not go bad after a year!
How to keep pumpkins for one year without spoilage?
(1) peeling
Peel the pumpkin first, and then dig out the pumpkin seeds. The dug pumpkin seeds can be collected and fried.
② Cutting
After peeling the pumpkin, cut it into thick slices, but not too thick, otherwise it will be moldy after drying, and cut it into thick slices with a thickness of about 2cm.
③ airing
Cut it and put it in a basket to dry. Dry pumpkin for four or five days in sunny days. Bad weather is easy to mold.
④ Steam after cleaning.
Then wash the dried pumpkin in clean water for two days to remove the dust on the surface. Wash and squeeze the water. After the water in the rice cooker is boiled, dry the pumpkin and steam it for about five minutes. Don't steam for too long, or the pumpkin will be steamed. After steaming, take it out and put it in a basket to dry.
⑤ sun drying
After two or three days in the sun, it is basically completely dry. The drier it is, the better it is preserved. Dried pumpkin will be kept in a sealed jar and won't go bad for a year.
Sun-dried pumpkins taste a bit like dried sweet potatoes. It tastes particularly fragrant and chewy, but the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes. If you like to eat soft glutinous rice, take as much as possible and steam it a little, and the taste will be soft and glutinous.
How can old pumpkins be preserved for a long time if they can't be eaten?
1, remove the pulp and pumpkin seeds.
First, prepare an inexhaustible pumpkin, and then remove its pulp. The first bad part of the pumpkin is the pulp inside.
If there are more pumpkin seeds in it, we can take them out to dry and make them into pumpkin seeds to eat.
Step 2 Wash and sprinkle with salt
The cleaner the pulp is removed, the better, so it is easier to preserve. Sprinkle a layer of Jamlom salt on the treated pumpkin, and then spread it evenly by hand.
With refined salt, the incision of pumpkin is not easy to breed bacteria. This makes it easier to save later.
3. Wrap the plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator.
The processed pumpkin is covered with a layer of plastic wrap and then stored in the freezer.
This will prevent the pumpkin from going bad. Pumpkins stored in this way can be stored for a week without any problems.