Pumpkin fried in a frying pan

Bright pumpkin in a simple and affordable design! A small snack with a recognizable taste! Dedicated to pumpkin lovers! Cooking pumpkin fried in a frying pan is easy and very simple, besides it is a good way to make a meal more diverse and delicious!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 4 % 1 g
Fats 65 % 15 g
Carbohydrates 30 % 7 g
152 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products necessary for cooking pumpkin fried in a frying pan. You will need the pumpkin itself, the kind that you prefer. You will also need salt, vegetable oil for frying (so that it does not foam) and a little dried or fresh thyme for flavor. Also take a frying pan with a good coating.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    If the pumpkin is large, then for convenience, cut it into large pieces with a sharp knife. From each piece, cut off the hard skin, as well as the soft fibrous part of the core, so that a homogeneous dense pumpkin pulp remains.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut each piece of pumpkin into plates about 4-5 mm thick. The form can be any. The size is not very big, but also not very small.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put thyme and ground black pepper in the oil, if the spices sizzle, then the oil is well warmed up. Carefully place the pumpkin slices in a frying pan and fry on both sides until the pumpkin is soft and slightly appetizing browning.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put the finished pumpkin slices on a plate covered with paper napkins or towels so that excess oil is absorbed. Each portion of fried pumpkin is lightly salted, it is advisable to use fine salt for this. Pumpkin fried in a frying pan is ready! It can be served both hot and chilled. According to your taste, you can supplement the pumpkin with chopped fresh herbs

Pumpkin fried in a frying pan is a dish that can become a good base, the basis for various bright sauces (cheese, tomato, ..). Even ordinary sour cream (natural, fresh) or thick unsweetened yogurt can be served to pumpkin cooked in this way.
This snack has a relatively neutral taste, so it would be appropriate to serve it not as an independent dish, but as a small addition to the meal.
Thyme will perfectly complement pumpkin, so its presence is highly desirable in this recipe.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Pumpkin - 29   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Thyme - 101   kcal/100g
  • Dried thyme - 276   kcal/100g
  • Thyme - 276   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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