Do you want to surprise guests and serve a spectacular treat? Then we offer to cook the dish "Stuffed Baked Pumpkin". It will become an adornment of any table.
Stuffed Pumpkin with Meat, Mushrooms, Potatoes and Garlic
This dish can also be prepared in ordinary pots. But if you use pumpkin, then the taste of the food will turn out to be extremely refined. So, the composition:
- a large pumpkin (about a kilogram by 3 or 4, if you take it larger, then increase the number of other ingredients);
- potatoes weighing 500 grams (you can use cereals: buckwheat or rice);
- mushrooms (frozen or fresh of any kind) weighing 400 grams;
- 1-2 onion heads (medium size);
- salt, garlic, pepper, meat seasoning, dill.
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Pumpkin baked in the oven with meat is prepared as follows.
1 step: preparation
Wash the pumpkin, wipe with a towel. On the side where the ponytail is, cut off the top. It does not have to be very large, but the hole must be left sufficient to extract the seeds. Scrape the insides with a spoon. Scrape the sides as well. Their thickness should be about 1.5 centimeters. Leave the bottom untouched.
2 step: stuffing with potatoes
Pumpkin baked in the oven with meat will turn out even tastier if vegetables are added to it. Mix the pulp from the sides with minced meat, garlic, salt, add dill. Simmer in a pan with a little water for 15 minutes. Cover. Cut the potatoes into cubes, add them to the minced meat and simmer for another 10 minutes.
3 step: adding mushrooms
Fry the mushrooms with onions in a separate pan. Once they are ready, combine them with the rest of the meat, put the spices.
4 step: stuffing pumpkin
Grate the prepared pumpkin inside with black pepper and salt. Outside, coat with vegetable oil. Put the stuffing inside, fill with the broth that was formed during the stew. Now put the pumpkin on a baking sheet (deep), oiled, or in a pan and place in the oven for 40 minutes (if the pumpkin is more than 3 kg, then for an hour). The meat baked in a pumpkin will become soft and tender during this time. We also smear the cut off top with oil, salt and pepper and put it next to it for baking.
5 step
At the end of time, check the dish for readiness. If the knife enters the pulp easily and effortlessly, then the pumpkin, baked in the oven with meat, is ready. Transfer it to a beautiful flat dish, sprinkle with herbs and call the guests to the table.
Pumpkin Stuffing Options
For pumpkins, you can use various fillings. For example, the following recipe uses onions, mushrooms, beef tenderloin, potatoes, sour cream, cheese, vegetable oil, salt and seasonings. The amount of ingredients will depend on the size of the pumpkin. About 500 grams of meat will require a pound of mushrooms and a kilogram of potatoes. The remaining components can be taken "by eye". The meat should be fried over high heat until a crust forms. Lay out. In the same oil, spasser the onion, add chopped mushrooms. Lay in a pumpkin in layers: meat, part of the potato, sliced into medium-sized cubes, mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper. Pour boiling water over 2/3. Put sour cream. Keep in an electric oven at 220 degrees. Baked pumpkin in the oven with meat will be ready when the potatoes are soft. 15 minutes before the end of time sprinkle with grated cheese and wait until the crust forms. In addition, you can stuff the pumpkin with various vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, pepper, carrots. Experiment!