A few words about the wonder of nature. About the unique properties of pumpkin mankind knows many centuries. This "Sunny berry" is beneficial to children and adults. It contains a unique complex of vitamins and minerals, which is absorbed by the body. During the year pumpkin is kept at room temperature, while its quality greatly improved. From pumpkin soups, side dishes, salads, pancakes, jam, juice and jelly. Pumpkin called a champion on the content of useful substances necessary for normal functioning of the human body. Despite the fact that the water in it is over 90%, pumpkin is rich in vitamins a, C, E, D, PP, K, b and a rare vitamin So it includes also pectins, amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, fiber, glucose, fructose and various minerals – fluorine, magnesium, potassium, copper, calcium, zinc, manganese, phosphorus, iodine. Interestingly, the amount of iron in pumpkin is the winner among vegetables, and protein contains more than chicken or quail eggs. In addition, it is five times faster than carrots for carotene content. Carotene in the human body turns into vitamin a and is a powerful antioxidant.

Useful properties of pumpkin are not only raw, but in cooked form, in the seeds or juice. Pumpkin when used correctly has a healing effect on humans, and therefore should take pride of place in the diet of every family!

So, prepare all the necessary products. My pumpkin, zucchini and fruit.

Pour 8 tablespoons of cereal 5 tablespoons of boiled and cooled to room temperature water. Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable refined oil or cold-pressed oil with a high temperature of dymlenija. Leave to soak for 20 minutes. Note! Temperature dymlenija vegetable fats and oils: "dymlenija Temperature" is the temperature at which oil starts to smoke in the pan, from this point on in this run the reaction for the formation of toxic and carcinogenic substances. Each variety of oil has its own temperature dymlenija. Generally, all oils are divided into oil with a high temperature of dymlenie and low temperature dymlenija. Oils with a high temperature of dymlenija it is recommended to use for frying, in particular, for deep-frying. The refining process raises the temperature of dymlenija. Oil with low temperature dymlenija to use for frying is not recommended. Lead temperature dymlenija some oils. Oils with a high temperature of dymlenija: Peanut — 230°C Grapeseed — 216°C Mustard — 254°C Corn oil refined — 232°C Sesame — 230°C extra virgin Olive—191°C Olive 190°C Palm — 232°C Sunflower oil refined — 232°C Canola oil refined — 240°C Rice — 220°C Soybean oil refined — 232°C Hazelnut oil 221°C Oils and fats with low temperature dymlenija: Walnut oil — 150°C Linseed — 107°C unrefined Sunflower — 107°C lard — 180°C Butter — 160°C Standard electric stoves provide heating temperature is usually not more than 300°C, a gas stove, more. There is evidence that on gas stoves cast iron frying pan can be heated up to 600°C!

Wash and soak the apricots for 15 minutes in boiled and likewise cooled to the room temperature water.

Cut the pumpkin into two parts. Take 600 grams of pumpkin. The extracted pulp with seeds. Wash the seeds and dry them for future healthy recipes. Cut the pumpkin into slices of 1.5 cm thickness, cut pumpkin, peel and grate on a coarse grater. The remaining 100 grams of pumpkin - peeled two cloves, put them in the fridge, we'll need them for registration of submission.

Wash and peel the Apple, cut into 4 slices, extract the core. Three on a coarse grater. Clean young zucchini 1/2 and similarly three on a coarse grater.

Supplement prepared from citrus. Erase the zest from 1/2 orange on the same coarse grater. Then cut it into circles with a thickness of 0.5 cm, removed the grain and cut into cubes with a sharp knife. The same cut into cubes 2 slices of lemon.

Cut into small cubes soaked in water dried apricots.

Collect the main ingredients are added to grated pumpkin, the zucchini and the Apple soaked grains, add 3 eggs and 2 tablespoons of vegetable refined oil. Stir it carefully.

Add supplements of dried apricots, orange, lemon, and orange peel.

Stir it carefully.

Add 10 tablespoons of almond flour (I use white almond flour from peeled nuts). I want to make a note about flour: You can use any white flour to keep the orange color of hedgehogs.

Mix everything thoroughly until the consistency of thick cream. Allow the base to rest, in the meantime, start cooking the slow cooker and shapers.

Prepare the slow cooker: pour the basic bowl of 0.8 l of boiled water at room temperature.

Set the compartment roasting.

Prepare the ramekins with foil. Cut into rectangles 19x 15 cm 12 pieces. Prepare 2 tablespoons of vegetable refined oil and a silicone brush for greasing.

Evenly coat one side of foil with oil - our inner side. Zavertyvaniem-type wrappings mant: do the parallel sides of the two smaller sides and pull the two free corner long sides, at the intersection of fix their ACC. Prepare 12-Cup muffin. Let the General form is spherical with a crumpled edges.

Carefully fill in form 2 tablespoons of the basics. The molding edges of the forms, slightly bending them inward, bringing the overall shape to spherical.

On the steam compartment of the slow cooker can fit 6 ramekins. Set them so that they could pass freely steam the air.

Set the mode of the slow cooker: steaming, timer - 15 minutes. While cooking hedgehogs in a slow cooker prepare the pumpkin for serving - cut the pumpkin turned out. Take 100 grams of chilled pumpkin. Two slices cut into platelets with a length of 2.0-2.5 cm, thickness of 3 mm in the form of needles.

After 15 minutes, delicately remove the finished forms for metal edges of the foil, lay a second batch, similar to 15 minutes. From this quantity of products obtained 12 hedgehogs, if necessary, one tab in the steam compartment - reducing products twice.

Allow the molds to cool slightly.

Carefully remove the foil.

For submission we use our cut needles from raw chilled pumpkin. Put cooked hedgehogs on the plate and "put" them needles. Face do of halved green grapes. Hedgehogs is perfect served for Breakfast both cold and warm. I got einoe family.

Here such solar hedgehogs appear in the section. You can also serve with a ready-made hedgehog a couple of tablespoons of honey according to Your desire.

Bon appétit!