Pumpkin is an extremely useful vegetable. Due to great micronutrient status and a big number of vitamins, a pumpkin is recommended to eat at any cardiovascular diseases, edema, anemia and adiposis. It is not so difficult to prepare the pumpkin, having saved all useful properties, but any cooker knows that cutting pumpkin down is troublesome. Follow our recommendations and this process will become much easier.

How to cut a pumpkin correctly

1. Clean a pumpkin from dirt with a brush scraper carefully.
2. Place the pumpkin to an oven or microwave.
   Pumpkin's being-inside-time depends on its size. The bigger fruit, more time is needed for its preparation. A pumpkin with weight approximately 1,5 kilos needs 6-7 minutes, and the bigger one needs 10-15.
3. Take the pumpkin out of the oven; crosscut it into two equal parts and clear out seeds.
4. Rind it in several places. It is necessary not to lose the pumpkin's shape during the following preparation.
5. One of the recipes of making tasty and nutritious dish from pumpkin is given downwards.

Recipe
Kabocha-no-nimono (boiled pumpkin)
Slice a pumpkin as it is shown on the picture. Place the pumpkin to a pot, filled with liquid and containing 3 parts of water, 1 part of sugar and 1 part of soy sauce. Boil it till it is possible to pierce it with hashi.

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