Pumpkin is a common ingredient in autumn, not only is it soft and sticky, but it is also particularly cheap. In rural homes, people will plant a few pumpkins in the field or in the yard, because it is not only low on the environment, very easy to grow, but also very resistant to storage. After the pumpkin is harvested in autumn, as long as it is dried in the sun for a few days and then placed in a cool place, even if it is put for a month or two, even if it is eaten in the winter, it will not be bad.
One of the most common ways to eat pumpkin is to chop and boil a piece of rice soup, which is pumpkin porridge. Pumpkin porridge is soft and delicious, golden in color, very appetizing.
What I'm going to share with you today is another recipe for pumpkin, which is a steamed dish. Generally in some large banquets will have this dish figure, its approach is to cut the pumpkin into cloves and place it in the container, steamed in the pot, poured with boiled honey juice, and then sprinkled with red dates and goji berries for embellishment, this dish is not only sweet and delicious, soft and sticky, but also very beautiful.
There may be some friends themselves at home have also made this dish, but they do not have the soft glutinous food made by the hotel, and it is not sweet enough, this is actually after we cut the pumpkin, directly on the pot steaming, and the hotel to do this dish will add a step before steaming, and this step, we often ignore, the following I will share the correct way of this dish to everyone.
Steamed pumpkin ——— honey juice———
Ingredients required:
1 round pumpkin, 5 red dates, 10 goji berries, 10 grams of honey, 5 rock sugar, sugar, a little potato starch
Procedure:
1: Prepare a round pumpkin, cut the pumpkin from the middle, scrape off the outer skin, remove the melon, wash and set aside.
We should pay attention to the round pumpkin in the picture as much as possible, because this round pumpkin is not only sweet, but also cut out and plated more beautifully.
2: Cut the round pumpkin in half, cut it into small triangles as shown below, and arrange it in a round bowl.
Here we should pay attention to the fact that the small triangular pieces cut must not be too large, otherwise it is not easy to steam.
3, put a few dates in the middle of the pumpkin, and then put a few rock sugar and 10 grams of honey in the middle of the pumpkin, so as to increase the sweetness of the pumpkin.
4: Bring water to a boil, add pumpkin to a boil, steam on high heat for 30 minutes. Cover the pumpkin with a plate while steaming to prevent too much water vapor from flowing in. After 30 minutes, the steamed pumpkin is placed directly on the plate.
5, start the pot to ignite, add an appropriate amount of water, put the goji berries into the pot, boil on high heat and add a little more sugar, after the water boils again, pour in the water starch to hook, hook until the soup is translucent, the consistency is like yogurt.
6, put the hooked soup on the steamed pumpkin, this soft and sticky, sweet and delicious honey sauce steamed pumpkin is ready.
Summary of gastronomic points:
1, we should try to use round pumpkin production, because round pumpkin is sweeter, the dish is more beautiful, and the long pumpkin is slightly worse.
2, before steaming pumpkin, remember to put a few rock sugar and honey in the middle of the pumpkin, which can greatly improve the sweetness of the pumpkin.
3, steaming pumpkin, you can use a chopstick to insert a down to determine whether the pumpkin is cooked, if it is very easy to insert thoroughly, it means that the pumpkin is steamed.
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