Autumn salad with pumpkin: important points

I have a Golden autumn, and this means that you can cook a variety of autumn seasonal dishes from ingredients which are typical only for this wonderful pore years. Pumpkin is a bright product like barvista very. Fruit or vegetable? A lot of disputes about this question, but it seems to us, the main thing that is very useful and tasty product to prepare delicious seasonal dishes. Pumpkin cooking: salads, side dishes, casseroles, cereals, pastries. Today we will be talking about delicious autumn salad in which the main ingredient is considered to be the baked pumpkin. Part of this salad included: pumpkin, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, and a dressing made of vegetable oil and lemon juice.

 

 

Traditionally, before cooking, we start in the first place, the choice of ingredients. Special attention should be paid to selection of pumpkin as it is the main ingredient. Pumpkins can be found in supermarkets and in the markets. First, rate the fruit pumpkin visually: it is important to avoid the pumpkin green places, because it shows that he is still not fully ripe. Than orange the pumpkin, the sweeter it tastes. The rind of the pumpkin must not be damaged or dark spots, this is the main sign that the pumpkin is beginning to rot. It is best to choose a pumpkin of medium size, because too much pumpkin can be very stringy.

 

 

The most important step in the preparation of this salad is roasting the pumpkin, because it is important that it is well cooked and not fall apart while mixing the salad. The pumpkin should be cleaned and cut into plates with a length of three centimeters and a thickness of one centimeter. Baking tray lay a parchment paper greased with vegetable oil. Put the slices of pumpkin on a baking tray, grease with vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt, black pepper and dried oregano or Basil that you like. Bake the pumpkin worth the ten minutes-twenty at a temperature of 200 degrees.

 

 

After the pumpkin has cooled, you can begin to collect our salad. Tomato cut into large cubes, lettuce and break into not too large pieces. Tomato and lettuce on a platter pour dressing of vegetable oil and lemon juice and mix well, sprinkle roasted pumpkin, feta and sprinkle with toasted pumpkin seeds.