How to eat pumpkin when there are too many leftover pumpkins at home? How to store pumpkins for 1 year without them rotting?

Pumpkin is a vegetable that can be stored for a long time. In fact, it doesn't matter if you can't finish it at once. As long as it is not cut, it can be kept for several months under normal circumstances. Even if it is cut, it can be kept for half a month in the refrigerator. If there are too many pumpkins at home, you can change the taste and cook them in a variety of ways.

How to eat the leftover pumpkin at home

1. Pumpkin stewed with crab: Peel the pumpkin, remove the flesh and cut into small pieces. Peel the crab and brush it clean with a brush. Cut it in half. Heat oil in a hot pan and sauté scallions and ginger. Then add pumpkin and stir-fry until half-cooked. Add crab and water. Cover the ingredients with water. Simmer on low heat for 15 minutes. Then add light soy sauce, oyster sauce and salt and continue to simmer for 5 minutes.

2. Pumpkin pie: Peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp and cut into small pieces. Put it into an electric pressure cooker to steam it. Plug in the power, press the cooking button, and take out the pumpkin after the valve drops. Use a spoon to press the pumpkin into a paste. Add glutinous rice flour and appropriate amount of sugar and salt to mix and knead the dough. Roll it into long strips until it does not stick to your hands. Cut it into equal portions and press it into round cake skins with your hands. Put red bean paste and other fillings in the center of the skin, close it and knead it into a ball. Flatten it into a round cake. Add oil to a hot pan. When the oil is 50% hot, put in the pumpkin cakes and fry them slowly on medium and low heat. When both sides are golden brown, add coconut flakes.

3. Pumpkin porridge: Soak the white lotus for 2 hours, remove the remaining skin, drain the water and set aside, peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp and cut into thin slices, wash the peanuts, choose sticky rice and wash it, then mix the rice, pumpkin, lotus seeds and peanuts together, put them into an electric pressure cooker and add clean water (the amount of clean water is 5 times the amount of ingredients), press the porridge button, wait for the valve to fall, open the lid, sprinkle in a few wolfberries, cover with the lid and simmer for 10 minutes.

4. South Claw Steamed Bread: Pumpkin can be used to make steamed bread, rolls, steamed cakes and many other breakfasts. Take pumpkin steamed bread as an example: peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp and cut into small pieces, steam in a steamer for 15 minutes, then mash it with a spoon, split the yeast with warm water, pour it into the pumpkin puree, add flour and knead the dough, and let the dough soak. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise. When it rises to twice its size, knead the dough again to release the air, then roll it into strips with a diameter of 4 cm, cut it into 3 cm pieces, put it in the steamer, and place the steamer on the steaming mat with a moist steamer cloth. Leave some space between the pieces, cover with the lid and let it rise again to 1.5 times its size, steam for 15 minutes, then turn off the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

5. Pumpkin sauce: Peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp, cut into thin slices, dry in the sun until half dry, steam in a steamer for 15 minutes, boil the glutinous rice until it becomes thick, put it into the steamed pumpkin, add salt, sugar, chili powder, orange peel, minced ginger, light soy sauce and other seasonings, stir into a paste, steam for another 10 minutes, use chopsticks to pinch into small balls, put in a drying tray to dry until the surface is not sticky.

How to store pumpkin for 1 year without rotting

1. In rural areas, the most common storage method is to store pumpkins directly indoors. You can spread some hay or crop straw on the indoor floor and pile up the harvested pumpkins. It is appropriate to stack about 20 pumpkins in each pile. Do not stack too many at one time. When stacking, the side of the pumpkin that was close to the ground when it grew should face down. Pay attention to indoor ventilation and moisture-proofing to prevent sunlight. In winter, close the doors and windows to keep out the cold, or cover the pumpkins with felt.

Another way is to store pumpkins in cellars. Cellars have a suitable and stable temperature, which is also the best storage environment for pumpkins. A layer of hay or crop straw should also be spread on the floor of the cellar. The harvested pumpkins should be stacked in the cellar. When storing, be careful to remove those pumpkins that are traumatized or diseased. Also, be sure to harvest the pumpkins before frost to avoid them being hit by frost.

Here is a little trick for temporary storage of cut pumpkins. Since pumpkins are relatively large and you cannot finish them in one go, and you don’t know what to do with them, I’ll tell you a method. Remove the pulp from the cut pumpkin, apply salt evenly on the cut, then seal it with plastic wrap and store it in the refrigerator.

Why do pumpkins have so many bumps?

The bumps on the surface of the pumpkin are formed due to the growing environment and its own reasons. It is very normal and there is no need to make a fuss. If you are unhappy, just peel them off and don't eat them.

The beauty of plants lies in their natural growth. Their growth process is influenced by the environment and their development paths are different, which are similar but with minor differences.