Pumpkin is one of the most amazing vegetables. Our hostesses prepare a lot of various dishes from it: main dishes, cakes, pastries, delicious mashed soups. Very often, this vegetable is used for stuffing, when it is filled with various fillings, for example, potatoes, rice, mushrooms or meat, sometimes combining these products. Today we will tell you how to cook pumpkin stuffed with meat and potatoes.
Getting ready for halloween
Everyone knows what kind of holiday it is. And that during its holding an important role is played by a pumpkin. We found her another destination, more necessary and useful - in cooking. We need: medium-sized pumpkin, two onions, three potatoes, two cloves of garlic, sour cream, 650 grams of meat (any), herbs, pepper and salt. And now we are preparing a dish called: “Pumpkin Stuffed with Meat and Potatoes”. We wash the pumpkin, cut the lid, take out the seeds, and remove the pulp and cut. We also wash the meat, cut into cubes. We heat the frying pan with oil, fry the onions until golden brown, add the pulp of pumpkin, meat, and fry for another five minutes. Pour potatoes, diced, fry again for five minutes. Pour one and a half glasses of water into the pan, add sour cream (three tablespoons), simmer until water boils completely.
A couple of minutes before the fire is removed, pepper, salt and sprinkle with herbs. Put the
stew with vegetables in the cooked pumpkin
, close the pumpkin lid. We lubricate it ourselves with vegetable oil, put it on a baking sheet covered with foil. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, send the baking sheet inside. Cooking time - 45-50 minutes. Then leave for another 20 minutes, already in the oven off. A pumpkin
stuffed with meat and potatoes is ready.
We stuff pumpkin with vegetables and pork meat
This time we will fill our large vegetable with pork meat. Anyone who does not eat pork can replace it with beef, but the taste will be a little different. We will need (for six servings): one large pumpkin, meat - 0.6 kg, the same number of potatoes, onions - 100 grams, sour cream - one spoon, vegetable oil and salt. Now we offer the recipe for stuffed pumpkin in the oven. Cut the lid off the pumpkin, remove the seeds, cut out part of the pulp, but not all. We cut the washed meat into cubes, and we do the same with the extracted pulp and potatoes, of course, washing it before and peeling it. Finely chop the onion and fry it until golden brown.
Add meat, pumpkin, potatoes, fry for five minutes. We spread sour cream, greens, finely chopped, a glass of water, salt, cover with a lid and stew the potatoes until half cooked. We put everything in a pumpkin. Further, everything is the same as in the previous recipe. After an hour, we take an exotic dish out of the oven and serve it on the table. We hope that you have learned well how to cook stuffed pumpkin. They are mostly similar, differ only in some ingredients and nuances of cooking.
Pumpkin with chicken meat and vegetables, ingredients and preparation
What is good stuffed pumpkin? This is a versatile dish, tasty, satisfying and healthy, the ingredients of which you can arrange at your own discretion. Look at the photo. Pumpkin stuffed with meat and vegetables, even outwardly causes an appetite, despite the fact that you may have recently had lunch.
It is an excellent alternative to other stuffed vegetables, such as zucchini, tomatoes and peppers. To complete our recipe you will need: medium-sized pumpkin, chicken fillet - one kilogram, three potatoes, carrots, bell peppers, tomato - one at a time, onions - three pieces, a bunch of any herbs, vegetable oil - 100 ml, pepper and salt.
Recipe
Cut the chicken into pieces. Put it in a heated skillet with vegetable oil and fry until it turns golden. We wash the pumpkin, dry it, carefully cut off the upper part, which will act as a lid. We select the core, seeds, take out the pulp with a spoon, trying not to damage the vegetable. As a result, we get a pumpkin pan and a lid for it, as well as pulp, a third of which we set aside for use. From the inside we rub vegetable oil, add salt. Cut the peeled and washed onions into cubes, add to the meat, mix and fry together in a frying pan until the onions get a golden color.
Cut the peeled carrots into strips, add to the pan. It is no longer necessary to fry, immediately remove from heat. Dice the potatoes, add to the meat. We also cut the tomato into cubes, julienne - Bulgarian pepper. We clean the garlic, you do not need to cut the cloves, chop the greens, then we send all these vegetables to the pan. There we also add the deferred pumpkin pulp. Pepper, salt and mix thoroughly, as it is impossible to do this in a large vegetable. Now gently transfer from the pan all its contents into a pumpkin. We try not to damage its walls. Then close the saucepan with a lid. It was a recipe for stuffed pumpkin in the oven. Now is the final stage.
Stew the pumpkin in the oven
We lay on a clean baking sheet, crosswise, several pieces of large size foil. In the center we set our large workpiece and wrap it with this foil. Preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees, send a baking sheet with pumpkin into it.
After three to four hours, we take it out of the oven, remove the foil, transfer it entirely to a large plate, remove the lid. A pumpkin stuffed with meat and potatoes is ready. Serve on the table in any form - both hot and cold. You can get the filling, or you can cut into slices. Enjoy your meal!