There are many ways to bake pumpkin in the oven. Today we will consider the most original recipe, which uses whole vegetables stuffed with buckwheat. It should be especially noted that for the preparation of such an unusual dinner it is necessary to make a lot of effort and devote quite a lot of time.
Tasty and satisfying pumpkin, baked whole in the oven
Essential Ingredients:
- buckwheat - 2 full faceted glasses;
- fresh chicken fillet - 400 g;
- large pumpkin - 1 pc.;
- table salt - 2 small spoons;
- onion - 1 large head;
- allspice black - 1/3 of a small spoon;
- vegetable oil - 45-50 ml;
- fresh large garlic - 1 pc.
Basic vegetable processing and baking process
Before baking pumpkin in the oven, it should be carefully processed. For this, a large and slightly flat (for stability) vegetable needs to be washed well, and then carefully cut the “hat” from it and remove the pulp with seeds. Moreover, these parts of the pumpkin must be laid out in different plates. As a result of the described actions, you should get a kind of "pan" with a lid and walls 2 centimeters thick.
In order to properly bake a pumpkin in the oven, it’s tasty and mouth-watering, it must be seasoned with salt and allspice from the inside, then put on a wire rack and put a “hat” next to it. In this position, the vegetable should cook over medium heat for about 45 minutes.
Filling process
After the pumpkin becomes soft and completely baked, it must be filled with buckwheat porridge with meat. To prepare such a hearty filling, you should take chicken breasts, wash them well, finely chop them, and then fry them in a saucepan in vegetable oil along with onions. After that, the previously removed pumpkin pulp and processed buckwheat are required to be laid out for the meat. All the ingredients must be flavored with allspice and table salt, pour drinking water so that it covers food by 1.5 centimeters, and then tightly close and cook for 26 minutes. After this, the loose buckwheat porridge with chicken should be mixed and seasoned with grated garlic.
Dish formation
As you can see, in order to deliciously bake pumpkin in the oven, it is not necessary to use hard-to-reach and expensive ingredients. Ready soft vegetables with a hat should be carefully removed from the oven, and then immediately fill the pumpkin with fragrant and crumbly buckwheat porridge.
How to serve to the table
Such an original dish should be set on the dining table in a hot condition along with wheat bread and a salad of fresh vegetables.
Useful information for housewives
This amazingly useful vegetable can be cooked not only with cereals and meat ingredients, but also with other products. For example, a well-baked pumpkin is sweet. As a filling for such a dish, you can use raisins, dried apricots, prunes, various nuts, honey, etc. By the way, the listed components not only allow you to stuff the pumpkin, but cook it together with them in chopped form. As a result, you can get a very tasty and sweet stew.