Ukrainian pumpkin mango: how to preserve a vegetable
If you really want a mango, you don't have to buy it in a store. You can save money and replace this fruit with Ukrainian pumpkin. If you preserve the product properly, it will be indistinguishable from mango.
The idea of making canned pumpkin that tastes like mango was published on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova (nadezhda.popova.167). This preparation can even be used for salads and other snacks.
Sliced ingredients for preservation
Source: Screenshot of a post on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova
Ingredients:
- 3 kg. pumpkin
- 3 pcs. orange
- 1 piece of lemon
- 600 g of sugar
- 10 g of citric acid
Method of preparation:
Adding sugar
Source: Screenshot of a post on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova
1. Remove the seeds from the pumpkin.
2. Cut the flesh into cubes.
3. Dice the orange (1 with the peel and two without).
Leave the pumpkin with sugar for 2 hours
Source: Screenshot of a post on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova
4. Cut the lemon in the same way.
5. Combine the pieces of all the fruits in a bowl.
6. Add the sugar.
Putting pumpkin in a jar
Source: Screenshot of a post on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova
7. Add citric acid.
8. Stir and leave in this state for 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
9. Put into jars and pour the juice that has formed.
Sterilization of jars
Source: Screenshot of a post on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova
10. Cover with lids and place in a saucepan covered with a cloth.
11. Cover with cold water.
12. Sterilize for 20 minutes from the moment the water boils.
Ready-made canned pumpkin like a mango
Source: Screenshot of a post on the Instagram page of food blogger Nadia Popova
13. Remove, tighten the lids and wrap in a towel.
14. Wait until it cools down.
15. Yield 7 jars of 0.5 liters + 1 jar of 200 grams.
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