A sunny, bright, colorful pumpkin is the queen onany rustic kitchen garden. A real farmer knows that this plant is useful in all senses and can cook with it a lot of delicious dishes. But in the city, unfortunately, the pumpkin is not very popular. Of course, we all know about the pumpkin porridge, which was spoiled by our mothers and grandmothers, and also a couple of simple dishes, where there is an orange beauty. Therefore, they prepare a pumpkin for women, they do not know that a simple dish like a pumpkin salad has so many varieties that every member of the family will be satisfied with the dishes served to the table. If you think that the recipes of salads with pumpkin are monotonous and banal, you are deeply mistaken. Today, we will dispel your doubts and provide recipes for ten excellent dishes that will surely take their place on your dining table. But first, a little off the topic and consider the process of preparing a pumpkin to prepare salads. 
Pumpkin processing before use
Salad can be prepared from raw, baked orboiled pumpkin. Recipes containing baked pumpkin are good for slimming women, they will help to comfortably "survive" a diet. Bake it in the oven, pre-cut into small slices. Cook the pumpkin need 10-15 minutes, no more, since the pulp should remain sufficiently dense. Before cooking, the product is cut into cubes. Before any of the cooking methods, the pumpkin needs to be processed. Remove seeds and fibers. If you are going to bake a pumpkin, leave the peel, you can clean it immediately before cooking the salad. Seeds are best removed using an ordinary spoon. By the way, pumpkin seeds can also be used in cooking, along with walnuts and sunflower seeds. 
Recipes with raw pumpkin
Pumpkin salad with apples and honey you will need:
- 300 grams of raw pumpkin,
- 200 grams of apples,
- 100 grams of honey of May.
Peeled pumpkin finely chopped, poured honey andgive to brew for half an hour. Apples are added last. They are cut into cubes and mixed with all the ingredients. That's all, lean salad of pumpkin is ready. Salad with nuts and apples You will need:
- 300 grams of raw pumpkin,
- 200 grams of apples,
- juice and 1 lemon rind,
- 1 tablespoon of honey, for lack of it you can use granulated sugar,
- 50 grams of peeled walnuts.
Apples and pumpkin rubbed with a large grater. Lemon half a lemon juice and zedra, sweeten with honey or sugar, sprinkle nuts, also grated. We mix everything thoroughly, we can serve to the table! Such recipes for pumpkin salads are good for their simplicity and cheapness. They are available to everyone. Salad with pumpkin and tomatoes You will need:
- 300 grams of raw pumpkin,
- 300 grams of ripe, dense tomatoes,
- a small bulb,
- a bunch of green salad,
- salt and sweet pepper to taste,
- a mustard spoon,
- 50 grams of any vegetable oil.
Pumpkin three on a grater, better on a large one. Tomatoes cut into small, thin slices, onions - ringlets. We mix all this, salt and pepper. Salad can simply break your hands into small pieces, add to the rest of the ingredients. To a ready salad of pumpkin and tomato, add the sauce made from vegetable oil and mustard. 
Recipes with boiled pumpkin
Salad from boiled pumpkin and pickled cucumbers You will need:
- 200 grams of slightly salted cucumber,
- 300 grams of boiled pumpkin,
- 1 head of onions,
- 50 grams of vegetable oil,
- 30 grams of vinegar 9 percent,
- salt and pepper,
- a bunch of parsley.
Pumpkin, cut into cubes, boil forten minutes. Cucumbers, too, cut into cubes and mixed with boiled pumpkin. Onion finely crumb, add to salad, pepper, salt, season with vegetable oil. Sprinkle with parsley on top. Salad of pumpkin and cucumber perfectly complement any dish! Salad of garlic and pumpkin You will need:
- A pound of boiled pumpkin,
- 6 cloves of garlic,
- 30 grams of vinegar,
- 30 grams of soy sauce,
- 50 grams of vegetable oil,
- pepper, at will.
Pumpkin is cleaned, cut into slices and dipped ina pot of boiling water. Cook for about seven minutes on a small fire. Cool the pumpkin cold, cut into cubes and mix with garlic, previously finely chopped. Season with soy sauce and vinegar, if desired, you can pepper. Vegetable oil is heated and poured into a salad, served to the table. 
Recipes for salads with baked pumpkin
Baked pumpkin with vegetables You will need:
- 100 grams of white cabbage,
- 300 grams of pumpkin baked,
- 100 grams of potatoes,
- 200 grams of tomatoes,
- one onion,
- a bunch of parsley,
- vegetable oil, salt, cumin.
Salad of baked pumpkin with vegetables is prepared verysimply, however, like the rest of the recipes. First, bake a pumpkin in the oven for fifteen minutes, no more. Potatoes cook in a uniform, cool and clean, cut into slices. Cabbage finely shred, salted and keep on a slow fire for five minutes, so that it is steamed in its own juice, add cumin to taste. Tomatoes and onions are sliced as convenient for you. Such recipes include laying on a dish in layers. First half of the pumpkin, then cabbage, potatoes, onions, tomatoes. We spread the rest of the pumpkin from above. Each of the layers is slightly salted and sprinkled with vegetable oil. We decorate a salad with vegetables and pumpkin parsley. Salad of pumpkin and soybean cottage cheese You will need:
- 400 grams of pumpkin,
- 200 grams of soy cottage cheese,
- floor spoons of ground black pepper,
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds, pre-fried,
- spoon of vinegar and coriander.
Bake the pumpkin and make mashed potatoes. Cottage cheese carefully grind with spices and vinegar, mix the ingredients and decorate with greens. Baked pumpkin with black olives You will need:
- 50 grams of olives without stones,
- 300 grams of pumpkin,
- 3 tablespoons of oregano leaves, well ground,
- marinade from olives,
- olive oil,
- black pepper to taste.
Sliced pumpkin with olive oil,sprinkle with pepper and bake in the oven for about half an hour. After the pumpkin has cooled, put it on a dish, add olives, cut into circles, and oregano. All slightly mixed and poured with marinade. As you can see, recipes of pumpkin salads are very diverse, for every taste and color. Yes, and they are prepared very simply, so that you can pamper your family every day with a new dish. Salad with pumpkin - it's not only tasty, but also very useful, especially as a side dish to meat dishes. Nutritionists recommend pumpkin and recipes with it to those who want to lose weight. Therefore, you can safely replace the usual pasta and potatoes with a pumpkin salad with any ingredients you like. And the weight will not be typed, and the feeling of hunger will go to the background, and after all this is so important to those who want to lose weight. We advise you to read:
