Cucurbit (Cucurbita pepo)

Green or green-yellow squashes resemble huge cucumbers or oblong ones, medium sized pumpkins (they belong to the same family as the pumpkin). They work well in Poland and their price is relatively affordable. Squashes were known already in antiquity. At the famous Lukullus feasts, a dessert made of squash and honey was served. One of the ancient physicians recommended, as an extremely effective laxative, wine, which had to be poured into a hollow squash and kept for a week. Every good cookbook informs you, what a valuable culinary raw material is squash. You can prepare a delicate soup from it, an asparagus-like vegetable, it can be stuffed with rice and meat – and even like Lukullus - give (after appropriate treatments) as a dessert. Squashes, just like cucumbers, they are minimally caloric, however, they contain a lot of provitamin A. They also have, not very much, laxative and diuretic properties, so they favor the metabolism. A dream vegetable for people from the so-called. overweight.