Pumpkin is one of the most used vegetables in the diets of those who seek to lose weight or eat healthy, although many times the only option to consume is puree accompanying a chicken churrasquito. However, it is a very versatile vegetable that we can include it in an infinity of sweet and salty preparations. Therefore, this time we want to teach you how to prepare some pumpkin baskets, very similar to pumpkin empanadas, so you can use as a home in school, work or as light and healthy dinner. At the end of the elaboration we provide some ideas to accompany them to complete your dish. In recipes, we show you how to make pumpkin baskets. Lets go there!
| 🚻 3 Diners | 🕘 30m | 🍵 Main | 🤯 Diping Difference |
| Ingredients to make pumpkin baskets: |
| 12 empanada discs 6 slices of pumpkin 1 clove of garlic 1 tablespoon of cream or cream cheese 1 teaspoon of nutmeg 1 pinch of pepper 60 grams of fresh cheese (optional) |
| ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: Cheap cost, |
Ingredients to make pumpkin baskets:
1. To start with the pumpkin basket recipe, first peel and cut the pumpkin into cubes. We recommend that you use a pela potato to remove the shell without wasting part of the vegetable, as it happens when we peel with a blade.
2. cook the pumpkin in the microwave in a suitable container and covered for about 15 minutes, also adds 1 clove of peeled garlic. If you do not have microwave, you can steamed it for approximately the same time. With any of the two methods, you will keep all the nutrients in the pumpkin. Instead, if you boil it, some will be lost in the water.
3. When the pumpkin is cooked, pish it together with the garlic clove to puree. Next, it season to taste with nutmeg, pepper and cream or cream cheese. Try it and make sure you like flavor.
Trick: If you wish, you can add corn and make exquisite pumpkin and corn basins.
4. Cover a mold for muffins with empanada covers to form the baskets.
Trick: If you do not have these molds, you can line the base of a clean can with the empanada lid and cook it for 5 minutes in the oven. When it is slightly crispy, you can remove and fill it to heat it with the filling.
5. Fill the baskets with pumpkin puree and, if you want to add cheese, make a small hole in the center.
6. Add the fresh cheese cut into cubes and cook your pumpkin baskets in the preheated oven at 200 ºC or 220 ºC for about 12-15 minutes until the dough is slightly golden.
7. To eat the delicious pumpkin baskets! Tell us in the comments your opinion and share with us a photograph of the final result.
