PUMPKIN MUFFINS: A DELICIOUS DESSERT

Use the season of the pumpkin and prepare delicious muffins in which you will enjoy your afternoon coffee or tea.

The pumpkin is definitely a champion of iron, copper, and fluorine content. It contains many minerals such as potassium, calcium, manganese, zinc, cobalt, silicon. In addition to being rich in pectins and sugars, the pumpkin is abundant with vitamins C, E, vitamins from group B and beta-carotene.

In the sequel, take a look at how to use her benefits in an irresistible dessert.

Ingredients required:

• 200 gr. cleaned pumpkin
• 400 gr. flour
• 150 gr. powdered sugar
• 3 eggs
• 400 ml. milk
• 100 ml. oil
• 50 gr. raisin
• 5 dry apricots
• baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• Preparation:

  • Cut the pumpkin into smaller pieces, put it in a pot on fire, add the milk and cook until it softens. Then strain it and grind it, let the milk cool down.
  • Mix the flour with baking powder, cinnamon and powdered sugar.
  • In a separate bowl, mix eggs, oil, cooled milk and pumpkin. Gradually add the prepared mixture to the flour and then stir until you have a homogeneous mixture.
  • At the end, add the raisins, chopped dried apricots and slowly stir.
  • Coat the muffin tin with oil and flour. Pour the prepared mixture into them and bake in a heated oven at 180 ºC until they get a gold-orange color.