Spiced pumpkin sauce
The sauce for meat dishes at home always refers to moments of excellence. Pumpkin is one of the most healthy foods, but you can Does this ingredient make a sauce that fits perfectly meat, and maybe not to him alone? What if it harmonizes with rice and any kind of cakes?
Pumpkin Sauce Recipe
Pumpkin is very useful in any form, but not everyone loves it, but some can only use in processed form and then in a small amount. How to turn this feature to your advantage and relatives? Make spicy pumpkin sauce alone eat with meat dishes, the second – with tortillas, and the third with boiled rice. Simplicity of cooking leaves only pleasant impressions, as well as the taste of the sauce itself.
The main ingredients:
- pumpkin – 700 g;
- tomatoes – 3 pcs.;
- large red bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- garlic – 5 cloves;
- cayenne pepper – 1 pc.;
- Turkmen zira – 1 teaspoon;
- lemon juice – 1 teaspoon;
- dried oregano – 1 pinch.
Cooking method
We wash, clean and weigh the pumpkin, because 700 grams of it should be in pure form. Then make mashed potatoes from it: add the cut pumpkin in a saucepan, add some water and simmer until tender. Be sure to stir so that the product does not burn. After part pour water into a mug and set aside for better times, and the rest just merge. Knead pumpkins in mashed potatoes, you can do it any convenient tool.
Peel the cooked tomato. Best to do it through scalding with boiling water after a cruciate incision. If a tomatoes are very dense with a thick skin, then they can literally put in boiling water for 1-2 minutes and also remove the skin from them. Finely chop and immediately send to the pumpkin puree.
Zira is ground in a mortar. Cayenne and Bulgarian Red Peppers we clear from seeds, grind with a knife and also send to a pumpkin. Seven after that it is salted, grated in a mortar of zira is added to it, It is tasted on pepper and all this is boiled for about 15 minutes.
Extruded garlic is added to the boiled mixture. Check mashed liquid and if it is not enough, then pour that broth, which was left in the cup. We get the consistency of the sauce that necessary and cook another 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and place in the blender bowl, where it all whipping. Then we pour the saucepan in the same and bring the sauce to boiling, adding lemon juice, after which you can mix a couple of times remove from heat.
It is better to serve in a cooled form to the table, as in this case will be richer taste.
Storage options: if you liked the final sauce and it turned out quite a lot, you can hot immediately pour into sterilized banks and roll up.
