Pumpkin diet

Pumpkin is not the most favorite vegetable in the diet, but eating it will save you from a lot of health worries. If you don’t want to make pumpkin dishes a habit for your daily meals, you can go on a pumpkin diet several times a year, and this will help your body get better or prevent diseases. Several recipes for dishes made from pumpkin will help change for the better your opinion about pumpkin as a food product.

Pumpkin is a vegetable very similar in its range of nutrients to carrots. But compared to carrots, pumpkin contains much more healthy carbohydrates (sugars) and protein. That is, pumpkin is a complete nutritious vegetable.

The good thing about pumpkin is that you can replace some of your usual foods with it and not notice the substitution. For example, the habit of adding boiled, grated carrots to side dishes or salads allows you to replace carrots with pumpkin and thus get a healthy dish. For this option of using pumpkin, lightly boil it in boiling water (dip large pieces of pumpkin into ready-made boiling water, leave for about 5 minutes and remove). This pumpkin is easy to grate on a coarse grater for various salads, appetizers, and side dishes. There is no need to add sugar to the dishes listed, since pumpkin is a sweet enough vegetable that you can avoid adding sugar.

It may seem strange to use pumpkin in sweet compotes (or soups), but it is an ideal herbal ingredient for preparing these dishes. Pumpkin allows you to avoid adding large amounts of sugar to compote (or sweet soup), and this in turn leads to the beginning of a healthy diet. In compote (or sweet soup), pumpkin tastes very well with apples, plums, apricots, peaches and pears, including dried fruits from these fruits.

You can make a change to the recipe for making sauerkraut - replace raw carrots with raw pumpkin. The fermentation process will give the pumpkin an extraordinary taste, which will allow you to prepare pickled pumpkin in the future not only with cabbage, but also with apples or other vegetables that can be pickled.

A salad of grated lightly cooked pumpkin and mayonnaise will become one of your favorite dishes not only on pumpkin diet days, but also on weekdays and holidays. Mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream or kefir (yogurt without fruit additives and sugar), which will make this dish much healthier than the recipe with carrots.

The taste of pumpkin has a lot of advantages that not everyone is aware of. For example, the taste of boiled or lightly cooked pumpkin is very suitable for the taste of salted or pickled vegetables (cucumbers, olives, vegetable peppers, zucchini and eggplants, green tomatoes).

Pumpkin seeds are much healthier than most nuts. But they must be eaten dried (not in an oven or frying pan, but in natural conditions). Roasted pumpkin seeds lose most of their rare nutrients. Pumpkin seeds can be added instead of nuts to various dishes to improve the quality of these dishes.

These simple changes in recipes for familiar dishes will make it easy to switch to a pumpkin diet, and in the future they will become interesting and exclusive recipes for pumpkin dishes that will remind you of pumpkin as a vegetable with a unique taste and beneficial properties.