Stuffed pumpkin can be a decoration for any autumn table. The fact is that you can fill it with almost any ingredients: meat, cereals, fruits, and even dessert.
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Pumpkin stuffed with meat will require long cooking. It is necessary to choose a small young fruit, not more than two kilograms. Next, carefully cut off its "cap", remove all the seeds and proceed to the preparation of the filling. For this three hundred grams of pork you need to cut into small pieces, fry with onions chopped in rings. Add the bell pepper straws to the pan. Cook everything for half an hour to make the meat mixture thick. At this time, boil a glass of rice, be sure to salt it and add butter. Stir all the ingredients and fill them with pumpkin. We put it in the oven for two hours, at a temperature of no more than one hundred and eighty degrees. If desired, you can grease the surface with mayonnaise at the very end and sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
Stuffed pumpkin with buckwheat porridge . Rinse a kilogram of chicken liver, cut the film and cut each into two halves. Fry with chopped onions very finely. Boil a glass of buckwheat porridge, as usual, adding a little sugar, butter and salt. Then mix it with the liver. At the pumpkin, cut off the top, clean the seeds, grease the surface with grease and lay out the filling. Bake in the oven for about an hour and a half. The temperature should be traditional, no more than 180 degrees. Make a pour of 250 grams of sour cream, 100 grams of mayonnaise, half a glass of water, a pinch of salt and a small amount (50 grams) of grated parmesan. Pour sauce on porridge and bake for half an hour.
Pumpkin stuffed with rice and raisins . Prepare, as usual, a ripe two-kilogram pumpkin. Boil a glass of rice and add butter to it. In a separate container, mix one hundred grams of soaked raisins, one hundred fifty - sliced prunes and slices of two large apples peeled. Add two large spoons of sugar, a little cinnamon and rice. Put the filling in the pumpkin and put in the oven. The method of baking a dish will be the same as in the first two recipes.
Stuffed pumpkin with meat is a truly masculine dish. It is necessary to cut different types of meat with a thick straw: pork neck, chicken fillet, veal tenderloin, turkey meat. In total, about a kilogram of any meat will be needed. Fry it with two chopped onions. Prepare the pumpkin and fill it with the filling. Make gravy. Add three tablespoons of flour toasted in butter in boiling milk (half a liter). Boil, salt and put the lavrushka, and wait until the mixture thickens a little. Pour it on the meat. Stuffed pumpkin should be baked for at least two hours.
desserts
Pumpkin can be filled with a variety of fruit desserts.
For example, make a salad of any fruit, mix with honey, yogurt and place inside the pumpkin. It turns out very tasty, because the dish is saturated with the aromas of this bright yellow fruit.
You can also offer an interesting pumpkin salad . Three hundred grams of pulp cut into cubes, mix with slices of three small apples, juice of one lemon, crushed walnut kernels and a large spoon of honey. Fill a small pumpkin with this filling and serve.
The serving of this dish will be very interesting. It is not recommended to throw away the hat that is cut off. The finished dish must be closed with it and in this form put on the table. Then you can immediately cut the pumpkin into pieces and serve it to the guests along with the filling, or use it as an original pot, first enjoying only the “core”.
Enjoy your meal!