Wash the outside of the pumpkin well with water and cut it in half lengthwise with a sharp knife, after cutting off the pumpkin tail. Using a spoon, scoop out the contents of the pumpkin - seeds and fibers.
Never throw away pumpkin seeds or pumpkin tail. The seeds can be dried, fried and chewed at your leisure. And pumpkin tail infusion is an excellent remedy for toothache, tested on myself.
Peel the thick skin from the pumpkin. The skin of a ripe fruit is usually like wood, and peeling is not an easy process. To do this, place half of the pumpkin on a cutting board, cut side down, strengthen it so that it does not slide on the table. Using a vegetable peeler or sharp knife, peel, removing small pieces of peel. Cut the peeled pulp into about 5 millimeters thick.
Place the pumpkin slices in a thick-walled cup or cauldron, sprinkle with sugar, and leave for 5-6 hours. Sugar calculation: for 1 kilogram of peeled pumpkin – 300 grams of sugar.
While the pumpkin slices stand, the juice will release and the sugar will almost completely melt.
Place the cauldron with slices in its own juice on low heat, bring to a boil, and after boiling for 2 minutes, remove from heat and leave for at least 6 hours.
During this time, the pumpkin will cool, soak and become softer. Return the cup (or cauldron) with pumpkin pieces to the fire, add the required amount of citric acid, bring to a boil, boil for 2 minutes and turn off.
Usually 2 boils are enough. Focus on the pumpkin: it should not turn into puree, remain soft and at the same time keep its shape. If the pumpkin remains hard, repeat the procedure a third time.
Drain the syrup. It’s convenient to do this by carefully throwing the future candied fruits into a colander so that the syrup drains well.
Never pour out the pumpkin syrup. It can be added to compote, used as an impregnation for pies and cakes, etc.
We place the boiled slices loosely on the rack of an electric dryer and dry for about 5 hours, preferably changing the racks in places, then the candied fruits will dry at the same time. The drying time depends on the type of pumpkin, its juiciness, the size of the candied fruit, the power of the electric dryer, etc.,
If you do not have an electric dryer, then you can dry candied pumpkin fruits naturally in a dry place: place the candied fruits on parchment (cloth), when they are dry on one side, turn them over. This will take several days. You can also dry candied fruits in the oven at the lowest temperature.
Remove the delicious coffee cakes from the electric dryer rack. They should remain elastic, soft inside, and still a little sticky and transparent on the outside. In no case should you overdry candied fruits.
Candied fruits are pieces of fruit boiled in sweet syrup.
They are used as a filling for biscuits, muffins, cookies, yeast dough and as decoration for decorating cakes and other confectionery products.
Pumpkin can also be used to make delicious candied fruits with a pleasant color and aroma. Let's look at recipes for making candied pumpkin that are both quick and tasty.
In the oven with honey
You can make a delicious treat with honey. To do this, it is important to choose a natural and fresh beekeeping product. Candied fruits are prepared easily and quickly, and the taste is finger-licking good.
Products:
- granulated sugar – 400 g;
- pumpkin – 2 kg;
- natural honey – 10 tbsp;
- lemon – 2 medium-sized fruits;
- powdered sugar.
I do it like this:
- Peel the pumpkin from unedible parts - seeds, fibers and peel and cut into equal cubes. Place the ingredient in a suitable bowl. Add sweet sand and leave at room temperature for half a day to release a sufficient amount of natural juice.
- Wash the lemon and scald it with boiling water. Remove the seeds and puree in a blender until smooth. Place in a suitable pan. Add pumpkin juice, released during the specified period of time, and honey. Stir, put on the stove, boil and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Strain the resulting syrup through a sieve and pour over the pumpkin pieces. Bring to a boil and simmer at low temperature for 90 minutes.
- Using a slotted spoon, carefully remove the candied fruits onto parchment paper to dry further. This process can be carried out in specialized electric dryers or in an oven (there must be a convection mode) at a temperature not exceeding 50 degrees. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Let's take a closer look at how to prepare delicious and sweet candied pumpkin with orange flavor according to a simple recipe in the oven.
Products:
- pumpkin pulp – 1.2 kg;
- filtered water – 100 ml;
- granulated sugar -350 g;
- orange - 150 g;
- vanilla to taste.
- Rinse the pumpkin. Remove peels, unsuitable fibers and seeds. Chop the pulp into medium-sized cubes. Pour boiling water over the orange, peel off the peel and white film, and remove the seeds. Cut into slices.
- Meanwhile, boil water in a separate pan and add granulated sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring regularly.
- Place pumpkin and citrus fruits in the resulting syrup and boil for 7 minutes. Remove the container with the contents from the stove, cover and leave on the kitchen counter for 2-3 hours. Repeat the boiling process 2 more times.
- Strain the syrup through a sieve, remove the orange slices. In appearance, the pumpkin slices become transparent and soft.
- Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Spread the prepared pumpkin in an even layer.
- Place in the oven for 5 hours at a temperature of no more than 50 degrees. Cool, sprinkle with potato starch or sweet powder if desired.
In a slow cooker
You can make a delicious treat using a slow cooker. Kitchen assistants make the cooking process easier.
Products:
- pumpkin pulp - 1.5 kg;
- granulated sugar - 2.2 kg.
Procedure:
- Clean the pulp from inedible parts. Cut into equal slices. Place them in the multicooker bowl, add sweet sand. Close and leave at room temperature for a couple of hours. During the specified time period, a sufficient amount of juice will be released.
- After the time has passed, place the multicooker bowl in the appliance, setting the “Frying/Baking” mode. Time: 40 minutes. During this time period, the pumpkin will be completely cooked, maintaining the integrity of the slices.
- As soon as the oven beeps that it is ready, the pieces are transferred to a sieve. After the excess syrup has drained, the slices need to be laid out on a baking sheet, having previously covered it with parchment paper. Bring the candied pumpkin until done in an electric dryer.
Candied fruits "Dietary"
This type of prepared sweets allows them to be used in the diet of people with a strong restriction on sweets. Let's look at how to make candied fruits without sugar.
Products:
- filtered water - 400 ml;
- natural honey - 60 g;
- fructose - 60 g;
- crushed cinnamon - 10 g;
- pumpkin pulp - 500 g.
I do it like this:
- Chop the main ingredient into medium-sized cubes and dry with paper towels.
- Pour the indicated amount of liquid into a clean pan, add honey and fructose. Put on fire. From the moment it boils, add the pumpkin and continue cooking for 20 minutes. Then remove from the stove, cover and leave the pan with the contents for 24 hours at room temperature. During this time, the slices will be perfectly saturated with sweet syrup. Strain through a sieve and wait for excess syrup to drain. Place on parchment paper and dry the candied pumpkin in a vegetable dehydrator. Moreover, the temperature should be no more than 40 degrees.
- The finished treat is not only tasty, but also healthy, especially for young children.
Quick candied fruits
Products:
- granulated sugar - 200 g;
- pumpkin - 500 g;
- lemon - 1/2 part;
- filtered liquid - 100 ml;
- powdered sugar, cinnamon if desired.
The algorithm of actions is as follows:
- Wash the main ingredient, dry it, remove the skin and seeds. Chop into cubes.
- In a suitable container for cooking, mix clean liquid and sweet sand. Do not forget to stir and bring to a boil. Lay out the prepared slices, cook until softened 2-3 times for 10 minutes.
- Strain through a sieve and wait for excess moisture to drain. Place on a baking sheet, having previously covered it with parchment. Dry for an hour in the oven at a temperature of no more than 130 degrees.
- Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon if desired. Candied fruits prepared at home can be consumed in finely chopped form: as a filling for pies, pancakes or dumplings.
Spicy candied fruits
Products:
- vanilla (pod) - 1 pc.;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- cloves - 2 inflorescences;
- granulated sugar - 900 g;
- filtered water - 700 ml;
- pumpkin pulp - 900 g.
I do it like this:
- Remove seeds, peels and coarse fibers from the main ingredient. Chop into cubes or slices.
- Mix granulated sugar with the specified amount of liquid. Place on the stove and wait until it boils completely. Place pumpkin pieces along with spices. Boil the mixture for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, cover and cool completely. The cooking and cooling process is carried out 3 to 6 times. It is important that the surface of the pieces is caramelized.
- Carefully remove the candied fruits from the syrup, placing them on a sieve. Wait until it drains completely. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the pumpkin wedges on it. Place in the oven to dry. When ready, sprinkle with powdered sugar or potato starch.
- Making candied pumpkin at home is quite easy and simple. The main thing is to follow the step-by-step instructions and remember to maintain the proportions of the products. Candied fruits turn out tasty and aromatic.
Homemade candied pumpkin is tasty and healthy. After all, pumpkin contains a large amount of microelements and is especially useful for people who have problems with the intestines and digestion. It also has a good effect on the kidneys, cleansing them, and benefits people with iron deficiency anemia.
Candied pumpkin can be easily prepared at home. Using this simple recipe with photos, you can preserve all the beneficial properties of pumpkin for a long time and prepare a delicious treat for children and adults.
Ingredients:
pumpkin – 1 piece (it is best to choose a long pumpkin, it is more convenient to cut into even semicircular slices);
sugar – 100 g per 1 kg of pumpkin;
powdered sugar – 3 tsp;
honey – 1 tsp. ;
walnuts – 1 tsp.
How to cook candied pumpkin in an electric dryer
When starting to cook, you should wash the pumpkin, peel it, cut the fruit in half, remove the seeds from the pulp and cut into pieces about 3 mm thick.
Place the chopped pumpkin pieces in a saucepan and add sugar.
Wait until the juice forms.
Bring to a boil and cook over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. This will take about 20 minutes.
Place the pieces in a colander and let them cool.
Roll the pumpkin boiled in syrup into rolls or other desired shapes and place them in an electric dryer in one layer.
Dry for 6-8 hours until completely dry. Drying time depends on the power of the device.
After drying, sprinkle the candied pumpkin with powdered sugar (if they are intended for long-term storage) or sprinkle with honey and sprinkle with nuts (if you plan to eat them quickly). As you can see in my photo, today I made candied fruits in powdered sugar.
Store prepared candied pumpkin in tightly closed jars. Bags made of very thick fabric or paper, which must be tied tightly to prevent the ingress of moisture and pests, are also suitable for storage. Healthy sweets for you! Bon appetit.
Candied fruits are the crusts or hard pulp of sweet fruits or berries. The main ingredients for this dessert are pear, cherry, watermelon rind, citrus fruits or pumpkin. Preparing the delicacy is no different from making jam, and all the ingredients are available in any home.
Candied fruits are used not only as sweets, but also as decoration for jelly, pie or cake. Candied pumpkin pieces contain useful substances, as well as vitamins A, B, C and E. Candied fruits are indispensable in the fight against stress, apathy and asthenia.
Simple recipe
Pre-peeled pumpkin must be cut into medium-sized pieces.
Thin slices can become very dry and simply burn. The lemon needs to be cut into quarters.
Sugar, cloves, cinnamon, lemon, pumpkin are mixed in a small container and everything is set aside until the morning.
Overnight, the vegetable releases juice, allowing the sugar to dissolve faster. The syrup needs to be brought to a boil, boiled for a couple of minutes and removed from the stove. The mixture needs to cool and soak, so this will take 6 to 10 hours. This is one pass, which will need to be repeated 4 more times.
The syrup is carefully drained; it is better to leave the pumpkin pieces in a colander for two hours. If the liquid remains at the bottom, the candied fruits will take a very long time to dry. The future sweet dish is placed on a baking sheet and baked in the oven at 50 degrees for 4-5 hours.
Warm candied fruits are carefully rolled in powdered sugar.
Honey candied pumpkin in the oven
Ingredients:
- sugar – 200 g;
- pumpkin – 1 kg;
- honey – 60 ml;
- citrus – 1 pc.;
- sugar powder.
Cooking time: 4 hours.
Calorie content: 305 kcal.
The pumpkin is cut into small pieces, covered with sugar and set aside overnight. In the morning, the juice should be poured into another container. The lemon needs to be cut into small slices, all seeds removed and chopped using a blender or fine grater.
The processed lemon is then mixed with pumpkin juice and honey. Then the resulting mixture is brought to a boil and boiled for 3 minutes.
The syrup is carefully filtered and poured into a container with pumpkin pieces. All ingredients are boiled for an hour and a half until the syrup begins to thicken.
Almost finished candied fruits are filtered and laid out on parchment to dry. You can dry it either in an electric dryer or in a convection oven at 50 degrees. The cooled, dried pumpkin is rolled in powdered sugar.
Recipe for candied pumpkin spices
Ingredients:
- vegetable (pumpkin) – 1 kg;
- water – 700 ml;
- sugar – 1 kg;
- vanilla, cinnamon - 1 stick each;
- cloves – 2 pcs.
Cooking time: 4 hours.
Calorie content: 125 kcal.
The pumpkin is cleared of seeds and peel, washed and cut into small cubes. In a separate container, you need to boil the syrup from sugar and clean water. After it boils, pumpkin and spices are added to it.
The mixture is boiled for 5 minutes and then cooled. The process is repeated about 6 times until the pumpkin slices become translucent and caramelized.
The candied fruits are taken out and placed in a colander so that the syrup can drain. Then they are laid out on parchment paper and dried. It is better to dry the sweets in the oven at a temperature of up to 50 degrees. After cooling, the candied fruits are sprinkled with powdered sugar. For caramelization, you can use a multicooker by selecting the “steaming” mode.
How to cook candied pumpkin with citrus fruits
Ingredients:
- pumpkin pulp – 2 kg;
- clean water – 1 glass;
- sugar – 700 g;
- orange – 2 pcs.;
- vanillin;
- powdered sugar.
Cooking time: 10 hours.
Calorie content: 205 kcal.
The pumpkin pulp is cut into plates, strips or cubes. Citrus fruits must be peeled, seeds removed and divided into slices. Separately, you need to prepare syrup from water and sugar, bring to a boil and stir constantly.
Pumpkin and orange are added to the sweet mixture, after which it is boiled for 7 minutes. The container with the pumpkin is removed from the stove and set aside for 2-3 hours until completely cooled. The procedure is repeated twice.
Then the syrup is drained from the candied fruits, and orange slices are taken out. Pumpkin pieces should be transparent and soft. They are laid out on a baking sheet, on parchment and sent to the oven for 5 hours at a maximum temperature of 40 degrees.
After cooking and cooling the sweet pumpkin, it is sprinkled with powdered sugar and vanilla.
Candied pumpkin in lemon-orange syrup
Ingredients:
- peeled vegetable (pumpkin) – 1 kg;
- water – 1 glass;
- sugar – 300 g;
- cinnamon – 5 g;
- orange and lemon – 1/2 each;
- cloves – 3 pcs.
Cooking time: 6 hours.
Calorie content: 230 kcal.
The pumpkin must be cut into medium-sized pieces so that they cook at the same time. Then you need to cook a syrup from water, sugar, cloves, cinnamon, and the juice of half a citrus fruit.
After the sugar has completely dissolved, a vegetable is added to the mixture and the heat is reduced. When the syrup boils, the ingredients still need to be boiled for 7 minutes.
Pumpkin slices should be soft. You need to carefully put them in another container to drain off excess liquid, but this will take about 2 hours. The candied fruits are laid out on baking paper and placed in the oven for 3 hours.
After this time has elapsed, the baking sheet is removed, the pumpkin pieces are cooled and rolled in sugar. It is recommended to store the finished treat in a glass jar.
Homemade candied pumpkin is very popular, because even children love this healthy product in this form. All reviews about such a simple but tasty dessert are positive.
Many housewives know several secrets that simplify the preparation of candied pumpkin. Here are the main ones:
- The taste of the prepared delicacy depends on the type of pumpkin. The best option is considered to be the nutmeg type of vegetable, in which the tender pulp resembles the taste of a pear;
- To make sure that the pumpkin dessert is ready to eat, you need to check it for doneness. It should not stick to your hands or be too dry;
- The dessert is easy to prepare in a multicooker, you just need to set the “multi-cooker” mode, set the temperature first to 100 degrees, and then to 85. The lid must be constantly open;
- It is best to store cooked pumpkin in tightly sealed glass jars or a bag made of thick material that helps prevent insects or moisture from entering.
Pumpkin dessert is not only tasty, but also healthy. You only need a couple of ingredients that any housewife has and a little time to prepare sweet candied fruits.
Candied fruits are fruits that have been pre-boiled in sugar syrup and then dried (cured). We usually buy candied fruits in the store, because the choice is huge, for every taste. Candied fruits are made from a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, which we add to cereals, baked goods, or use to decorate and serve bright desserts. Today I want to tell you, dear friends, how to make homemade candied fruits with your own hands. For this we will use one of the most beloved and healthy vegetables - pumpkin, the queen of autumn. Candied pumpkin fruits are incredibly healthy and very tasty. You can offer them to your family instead of expensive sweets. They go well with tea and are eaten faster than they are cooked. Candied pumpkin can be called homemade sweets that you made with your own hands. You can also dip candied pumpkin in melted chocolate, let it harden and they will turn out even more tasty and attractive. My dear friends and site guests - be sure to make candied pumpkin at least once, your family will appreciate it.
Required:
- Pumpkin - 1-1.5 kg.
- Soda - 1 tsp. + water about 1.5 l.
- Water - 600 ml.
- Sugar - 2 kg.
- Lemon - 1 pc. or citric acid - 1 tbsp.
- Powdered sugar
- Parchment paper
How to make candied pumpkin with your own hands:
We use ripe pumpkin for making candied pumpkin. It is desirable that it be dense, but at the same time sweet. Wash the pumpkin and remove skin, seeds, and pulp. cut into fairly large pieces (at least 3x3 cm). During the process of aging in sugar syrup and subsequent drying, the pumpkin pieces will shrink significantly. Place the chopped pumpkin in a suitable sized saucepan. 
Combine water with soda, mix and pour over the chopped pumpkin. Leave it like this overnight at room temperature. 
The next day, rinse the pumpkin pieces in several waters. Drain all the water from the pumpkin. Separately cook sugar syrup from water and sugar, boil for 10 minutes. Pour the prepared sugar syrup over the chopped pumpkin and leave it to soak again for a day. 
These are the wrinkled pieces of pumpkin we got after soaking in hot syrup. 
Drain the syrup and bring to a boil again with the addition of chopped lemon or citric acid. Boil for 5 minutes, add pumpkin pieces to the boiling syrup and boil for 5 minutes. If your pumpkin is quite ripe, you can not boil the pieces, but leave them in hot syrup again overnight. Boil only those pumpkins that are very dense. Otherwise it may fall apart. My pumpkin is so tender that I didn’t boil it, but simply put it a second time in boiling syrup with the addition of citric acid and left it until it cooled completely for a day. 
The next day, remove the pumpkin pieces from the syrup and let them drain thoroughly. And place pieces of fragrant pumpkin soaked in syrup on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Piece by piece. Place the baking sheet in a slightly open oven at 110 degrees for 2-4 hours. 
The drying time of the pumpkin depends, of course, on the variety. Sometimes 2 hours is enough to dry candied fruit, sometimes even 4 hours is not enough. So you navigate yourself. Additionally, candied fruits can be dried at room temperature without removing them from the baking sheet. 
As soon as we take the candied fruits out of the oven, you can sprinkle powdered sugar on top for beauty and greater sweetness. 
Delicious and incredibly healthy, aromatic candied pumpkin will delight your whole family.
Svetlana and my home kulinarochka2013.ru wish you all a bon appetit!
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