Candied pumpkin: delicious and quick recipes

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

• Category:

  dessert

• Cooking time:

  13 hours

Ingredients

• pumpkin
• lemon
• sugar

Handmade candied pumpkin fruits are amber, sweet and healthy slices filled with the warmth of the summer sun. Cooking them is not so difficult, the main thing is to know which pumpkin variety is better to use and some secrets of their preparation. So, let's look at how to make candied fruits - quick and delicious recipes in a dryer, oven and multicooker.

Choosing a pumpkin for candied fruits

Today there are several varieties of pumpkin, each of which will produce candied fruits with a different effect and taste. So, the simplest varieties such as "Accord" or "Aport" are suitable for products with a marmalade structure. But candied fruits with the effect of "croutons" can be obtained from starchy French or Japanese vegetable varieties.

The main thing is not to stumble upon fodder, they are used to feed animals and from them candied fruits will turn out to be fibrous and tough.

Unripe fruits are not suitable for candied fruits or, on the contrary, are too juicy; already at the first stage of boiling, you can get porridge. It is best to take any dessert fruit that has a firm flesh. You can find out whether a vegetable is ripe well by its clear sound (you just need to knock on the pumpkin) or by the seeds, they should be full and easily separated from the pulp fibers.

When choosing a vegetable, you should pay attention to its surface, it should be without any damage and soft “bald spots”.

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Simple recipe

For those who are preparing candied pumpkin for the first time, there is a simple step-by-step recipe with the addition of lemon.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin (1 g);
• 280 g sugar;
• one lemon.

Cooking method:

The pulp of the vegetable is mode in squares, put in a bowl, add sugar, pour over with citrus juice, stir and leave for 12 hours

Then pour sweet pieces of vegetable into a saucepan, put thin slices of citrus, bring to a boil and wait for five minutes

Then we give the pumpkin time to cool down and repeat the process two more times. Then we transfer the pumpkin to a sieve so that all the syrup is gone, put it on a baking sheet and dry it in the sun

If the candied fruits stopped sticking to your fingers and began to bend well, then they are ready, sprinkle them with sweet powder and store them in a glass jar.

With orange and cloves in the oven

Candied pumpkin fruits with orange and cloves are especially sweet and aromatic. We will cook and dry such ingredients together with the vegetable, so the products will be able to absorb all the taste and aroma of citrus and spices.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram of pumpkin (pulp);
• one orange;
• 700 g sugar;
• 2-3 cloves.

Cooking method:

1. Grind the pumpkin and put it in an enamel bowl, sprinkle with sugar, shake and keep in the cold for a couple of hours.
2. Before cooking, add orange juice, cloves, and citrus zest, cut into small strips, to the pumpkin slices.
3. We put the pan with the contents on the fire, let it boil and cook for five minutes, then cool it down and repeat the process two more times.
4. After that, we transfer all the ingredients (without syrup) to a baking sheet with parchment, dry in the oven, be sure to open the door, for 5 hours, and then set aside the products for another day in the open air.

We store the finished delicacy in glass jars.

Recipe in an electric dryer

If your family does not like pumpkin, then no one will refuse delicious and sweet “sweets”. From such a vegetable, you can quickly and tasty make a healthy treat that can be served with tea, you can decorate desserts or bake pies with them.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin (weighing 2 kg);
• 580 g granulated sugar;
• 10 g citric acid.

Cooking method:

1. Peel off the peel from the pumpkin, cut the pulp into squares, put it in a bowl, sprinkle with sugar and leave for 6 hours. During this time, the pieces of vegetable will exude juice, and the sugar is completely absorbed.
2. We send the pumpkin cubes in their own juice to the fire, let them boil and cook for two minutes. Then we remove from the stove and forget about them for 6 hours. During this time, the vegetable will become softer and soaked in syrup.
3. After the time has elapsed, return the vegetable to the stove, add citric acid, boil again and cook for two minutes. If after the second boiling the pumpkin remains firm, then repeat the procedure a third time. The pieces of vegetable should be soft, but should hold their shape and not turn into a puree.
4. The syrup should not be sent to the sink, because you can cook compote from it or use it as an impregnation for pies and cakes.
5. We transfer the vegetable preparations to the grill of the electric dryer and turn on the device for five hours. In order for the vegetable slices to dry at the same time, it is worth interchanging the grate.

As soon as the pieces become elastic, but at the same time remain soft inside and sticky, then remove them from the grate, the main thing here is not to dry the candied fruit. Sprinkle the products with powdered sugar and you can enjoy the dessert.

In a multicooker

You can also make delicious candied pumpkin fruits using a multicooker. For the recipe, you can take any spices, vanilla, cinnamon or cloves.

Ingredients:

• 400 g pumpkin (pulp);
• 280 g sugar;
• cinnamon stick.

Cooking method:

• Grind the pumpkin into cubes, pour it into the bowl of the appliance, sprinkle with sugar and put the bowl with the contents in the cold for the whole night.
• The next day we return the bowl to the appliance, add cinnamon to the vegetable sticks and turn on the “Baking” option for 25 minutes, so that the sweet granules disperse in the pumpkin juice.
• After the signal, cool the pumpkin, then switch to the "Stew" program for 15 minutes, so that the sweet aromatic liquid soaks the slices well.
• Then cool it down again and return to the “Baking” program, open the lid, gently turn the pieces over and bake the products for 15 minutes. If the syrup looks like liquid caramel or jam, then the candied fruits are ready, they can be transferred to parchment and dried in the open air.

Sprinkle the finished products with powder and serve with tea.

Candied pumpkin with honey

Today there are different recipes (with photos) of candied pumpkin fruits, but each of them uses sugar. We offer you a recipe with the addition of honey, such a dessert will be more useful, especially for children and those for whom sugar is contraindicated.

Ingredients:

• 400 g pumpkin pulp;
• two tablespoons of honey;
• two tablespoons of fructose;
• spoon of cinnamon.

Cooking method:

Cut the pumpkin into cubes, put it in a saucepan, pour two glasses of water and put in cinnamon, cook the vegetable pieces until they become soft

Pour the same amount of liquid into another container, pour fructose and add honey, as soon as the syrup boils, put the pumpkin pieces, cook for 20 minutes

We soak the pumpkin directly in the syrup for a day, then separate them from the liquid, and dry in the oven for 40 minutes.

Frozen pumpkin candied fruits

Today, every housewife tries to prepare as many vegetables and fruits for the winter as possible. You can cook delicious porridge or make candied fruits from frozen pumpkin.

Ingredients:

• ½ kg frozen pumpkin;
• 380 g sugar;
• 300 ml of water;
• cinnamon, vanilla to taste;
• sweet dusting powder.

Cooking method:

1. Pour sweetener, spices into a saucepan and pour water, cook sweet and aromatic syrup.
2. We take the vegetable out of the freezer, you do not need to defrost it, put the pieces in the boiled syrup and after boiling again, cook for 20 minutes.
3. After letting the vegetable cool, then boil it again for 10 minutes.
4. As soon as the contents of the pan have completely cooled down, transfer to a sieve and wait until all the syrup is gone.
5. We dry pieces of pumpkin in any way: in the oven, in an electric dryer or in the fresh air, if it is warm and sunny outside.

Secrets of delicious candied pumpkin fruits

1. Candied fruits can be served as a stand-alone dessert or used to decorate desserts.
2. Instead of granulated sugar, you can take honey or fructose, which will allow you to enjoy dessert even for those who are contraindicated in dishes with sugar.
3. Before drying a vegetable, it must be kept in sweet syrup for at least ten hours, so the candied fruits are plump and do not fall apart.
4. For drying in the oven, do not grind the vegetable too finely and thinly, otherwise the candied fruits will turn out tough.
5. If the recipe includes a lemon, then choose a large fruit with a thin skin.
6. Dried products must be removed from the baking sheet immediately so that they do not stick. If this still happens, then return the products to the oven for a couple of minutes and let the syrup melt a little.
7. So that the finished products do not stick together, they need to be well sprinkled with sugar.
8. From 1 kg of pulp, approximately 250 g of candied fruits are obtained, so if there is a desire to cook more, then we double the amount of ingredients.

Boiled candied fruits can be not dried, but put into a jar along with syrup and served like jam.