Whenever I get a big old pumpkin, I always feel a little troubled. It's so big that if you cut it open, you won't be able to finish the whole meal. A common way to eat it in our family is to cut 1/4 pumpkin into thick slices, add soybean paste and stir-fry it to make a big plate full of braised pumpkin. It has a rich flavor and is a great addition to rice. But the old pumpkin is too hard. Peeling is tiring, and slicing is even more tiring. It takes a lot of effort. But we can’t waste food. What should we do with the remaining 3/4?

Taking advantage of the opportunity of staying at home during the epidemic, I took my mother to study how to eat old pumpkin, and figured out 4 new ways to eat old pumpkin that are effortless, nutritious and healthy. Let me share it with you now~

Before making specific ways to eat it, there is a very common step: cut open the old pumpkin, remove the flesh and seeds, wash it, and then cut it into several pieces with the skin. , put in a steamer and steam until soft. (The pumpkin seeds can be saved to make snacks)

You can also steam the pumpkin in a rice cooker separated by water

Pumpkin soup

Ingredients: Pumpkin, milk

Steps:

Scrape out the pumpkin flesh while it is hot and put it into the soy milk machine.

Add appropriate amount of milk into the soy milk machine, and then start the machine.

Open the lid and observe the consistency of the pumpkin soup. If it's too thick, add more milk. If you feel it is not thick enough and the pumpkin has been put in, you can put a small handful of millet in and start the machine again.

Pour the pumpkin soup into a bowl. The old pumpkin itself is quite sweet. If you don’t like sweets, you can enjoy your pumpkin soup. If you want it sweeter, add condensed milk or honey.

If you want to try a Western flavor, you can add an appropriate amount of salt and black pepper to the soup.

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients: pumpkin, flour, corn flour, yeast powder

Steps:

Let the steamed pumpkin dry for a while Yes, wait until the temperature is no longer hot before taking the pumpkin puree.

Sprinkle the yeast powder into the pumpkin puree, let it sit for a few minutes, wait for it to melt naturally, and stir a few times.

Add half a small bowl of cornmeal to the pumpkin puree. (Because my mother likes it and thinks eating more whole grains is good for your health)

Add flour to the pumpkin puree and mix it into a flocculation with a spoon or chopsticks. Don't add too much flour at one time, but add small amounts several times to control the dryness and humidity of the dough.

Knead and knead until you get a smooth dough. If you like a chewier texture, knead it for a while.

Cover with a damp cloth and find a warm place to let the dough slowly ferment and expand. (The temperature is low now, so you can knead the dough after lunch, so that by dinner time, the dough will be almost fermented)

Take out the chopping board and sprinkle a layer of dry flour. Take out the dough, knead it smooth again on the chopping board, turn it into a long shape, and then cut it into small pieces of dough. Cut it into as big a size as you are used to eating.

Pour water into the pot, set up a steam rack, cover with a drawer cloth, put in small dough, leave a gap between the dough, and cover with a lid. Place the steamer in a warm place and let it sit for 10 minutes. The dough will grow again.

Turn on the heat and listen to the sound or watch the water vapor. After the water boils, steam for 15 minutes, then turn off the heat and wait three minutes before opening the lid.

Pumpkin and Scallion Rolls

Ingredients: pumpkin, shallots, flour, corn flour, yeast powder

Steps:

Refer to making pumpkin rolls In steps 1-6 of the bread, you will get a large fermented dough.

Sprinkle a layer of dry flour on the chopping board, place the dough on the chopping board and roll it into a thin sheet.

Spread a layer of oil on the dough and evenly sprinkle with chopped green onions. If you have a strong taste, you can sprinkle some more chili powder.

Turn the dough into strips and cut into small squares with a knife.

Refer to steps 8-9 of making pumpkin buns and steam a pot of fragrant pumpkin and scallion rolls.

Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients: Pumpkin, glutinous rice flour, sugar

Steps:

Heat the pumpkin puree and put it into a large container .

Add glutinous rice flour and sugar to the hot pumpkin puree. When adding the flour, you still need to add it in small amounts. Use a spoon or chopsticks to knead the dough first, and then knead it with your hands after the temperature is no longer hot. (If you want to add glutinous rice flour at once, then the ratio of glutinous rice flour to pumpkin is about 1:1)

Mix the flour and pumpkin evenly and knead into a ball. The final dough will not stick to your hands.

Divide the large dough into small doughs, knead the small doughs evenly and flatten them.

Add oil to a non-stick pan or electric pan and fry over low heat until both sides are golden brown. When frying, pay attention to the other side and don't fry one side for too long. It takes 3-4 minutes for a pancake to be cooked. Don't fry it for too long.

Remove from the pan and plate. Congratulations on a plate of delicious pumpkin pie that is crispy on the outside and glutinous on the inside.

How about it? Did you learn it right away? I'm not lying, it's really a super simple method, but the things you make are delicious, delicious and healthy. If you feel that the calories of frying pumpkin cakes are a bit high, you can add less sugar, then find a kueh seal or mold, use the kueh seal to press the kneaded dough into a tight and beautiful shape, and finally change the frying method to Steam in a pot. I personally think that the fried pumpkin cake is sweeter, but the steamed pumpkin cake also tastes good and looks better!

If you find that the drawer cloth is stuck to the pumpkin buns or pumpkin and scallion rolls after steaming them, don’t worry.

You only need to lift the steamer rack and flip it over the chopping board, then use hot water to wet the adhesion between the drawer cloth and the food to easily separate them. However, if you turn off the heat and wait three minutes before opening the lid after steaming, this situation will generally not occur.