Пт, 07 окт 2016 Автор: Мария Сафонова
Pumpkin pulp is rich in nutrients.
It is recommended to use hypertensive patients, with problems with
eyesight and to increase the body’s defenses.
It is worth noting that most vitamins are destroyed when
heat treated, therefore for the prevention of hypovitaminosis
It is better to eat a vegetable in its raw or dried form.
Contents
How to store a pumpkin at home for a long time:
features of the organization of the process
Having organized the proper storage of vegetables, you can ensure yourself
access to treat until spring.
Late-ripening are suitable for long-term storage in winter.
varieties. In a private house, it is more convenient and simple to keep the fruit in
the cellar. It is in this room that the optimum
conditions for the safety of fresh pumpkin:
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air humidity in the range from 75% to 80%;
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temperature range (3-15 degrees);
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ventilation;
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no permanent light source.
Minor fluctuations of indicators will affect the duration
preserving the fetus, but low temperature is particularly damaging:
when freezing and re-thawing pumpkin rapidly
spoils. Increased humidity in the room also contributes
rotting.
If the cellar is not, for the preservation of whole fruits can
use a basement, storeroom, shed, balcony or garage. The main thing,
so that the specified indicators of external influences are not very different from
mentioned
Preparing for storage of pumpkin at home
Whole fruits have their own specific storage:
1. Storage preparation implies drying vegetables on
sun to evaporate moisture. Only then can you carry pumpkins
to the place of storage. Vegetables without stalks are stored for long, therefore
they are best used immediately.
2. For a long lying need to carefully select the whole, not
scratched, smooth fruits.
3. You can put pumpkins on pallets, hay, racks, straw,
shelves. You can not place them on the ground.
4. It is necessary to fold the stem up so that the fruit does not
in contact with each other (contact points occur at the contact points
foci of rot).
5. When stored indoors with access to sunlight
it is necessary to cover the pumpkins from the light.
In urban apartments with limited space is not often
it turns out to store fresh vegetables in reserve. Therefore, peeled and
sliced pumpkin stored in the refrigerator up to 10
days. To extend the shelf life of peeled slices, they need
wrap in foil or cling film. If the pulp is not
used for food, you can move it to the freezer,
pre-folded in a tightly closed container. Frozen Pieces
The fetus is stored for several months. After defrosting to use
immediately and do not allow re-freezing.
Storing pumpkins: how to dry a vegetable?
If the listed methods for some reason do not fit
for storage, then there is another method to pamper yourself in the winter
sweet pumpkin – dry it. In this form, the vegetable is essential
decreases in volume, while preserving vitamins.
The best way to cook is in an electric dryer.
(much faster than in the oven). If such a device in the house
No, you can resort to a proven, but not such a quick method –
dry in the oven ordinary plate.
Stages of preparation:
1. Clean the washed vegetable from the peel and sunflower seeds, remove defects
(rotten parts, bump spots).
2. Cut the peeled pulp into slices (1 cm thick).
Place on a baking sheet of parchment paper and dry
at a temperature of 60 degrees.
3. To preserve the beneficial properties of the fetus for a long time,
dried pieces should be placed in an opaque container and tightly
to cork. It is also recommended storage in linen bags – in
In this case, excessive moisture must not be allowed and it must be ensured that
insects do not spoil the product.
Pumpkin storage: pickling
Unusual storage will allow the whole family
indulge in the cold season useful and tasty
dish:
1. Rinse the pumpkin in cold water, peel the seeds and peel,
cut into small slices. The weight of the pulp for salting should
be 5 kg.
2. Fold pieces of vegetable in sterilized jars, pour
boiled and cooled water with salt dissolved in it (1.5 kg).
The liquid must cover the top of the pumpkin.
3. Roll the container lid and set aside in a dark place.
The seaming thus prepared can be stored at room temperature.
temperature all winter.
Pumpkin seeds
Removing seeds from the fruit, do not throw them away – in
dried form is not only a tasty delicacy, but also rich
source of vitamins, micro and macronutrients, interchangeable and
essential amino acids. Eating the seeds of this melon
crops, in winter, you can avoid the use of expensive
vitamin complexes. Essential substances for the body
You can fill eating 100 g of seeds per day.
You can choose any of the options for storing pumpkins at home.
conditions – the vegetable remains fresh and fragrant for a long time, and
retains its beneficial properties.
