A lot of delicious dishes can be prepared from pumpkin: from soups to original desserts. Stuffed pumpkin is especially popular. This dish always looks festive and gives housewives the opportunity to dream up with fillings. Pumpkin can be stuffed with buckwheat, mushrooms, rice, lentils, meat, apples. It is baked in the oven and acts as a kind of pot, which is completely edible.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- For pumpkin with rice and apples:
- ripe pumpkin;
- a glass of rice;
- 200 g pitted prunes;
- 2 apples
- 100 g of raisins;
- 5 g of vegetable oil;
- 5 g ground cinnamon;
- 30 g of sugar;
- 50 g of butter.
- For pumpkin with meat:
- pumpkin;
- 400 g of meat from chicken thighs;
- 20 g sour cream;
- 10 g butter;
- salt and ground pepper.
Instruction manual
1
Wash the pumpkin under a stream of water, it is best to rub it with a brush. Pumpkin should have a regular rounded shape and be elastic, dense and fleshy. It is advisable to choose a vegetable with red pulp for this dish. Carefully cut off his upper part - it will serve as a cover. Scrub the pulp with pumpkin seeds. It is very convenient to do this with an ice cream spoon. The wall thickness of the pumpkin should not be less than two centimeters.
2
Rinse the rice in cold water until it is clear. The more thoroughly you wash this cereal, the more crumbly the filling will be. Basmati rice is more suitable for stuffing pumpkin. It has a pleasant aroma and sticks together less during cooking. Boil it until half cooked, discard in a colander and rinse in cold water. Put in a separate plate.
3
Remove the peel from the apples, cut them into quarters, remove the seeds and cut into small slices. Soak for half an hour in warm water raisins and prunes.
4
Add sugar, chopped apples, raisins, prunes, cinnamon and butter to rice. Mix everything and start the prepared pumpkin with this mass. Cover the vegetable with a “lid”, cover it with vegetable oil and place in an oven heated to 180 degrees. Stuffed pumpkin should be baked for at least 1.5 hours, the cooking time depends on the size of the vegetable. The finished pumpkin is easily pierced by a toothpick and looks rosy. Serve it hot.
5
Try making stuffed pumpkin meat. To do this, wash the pumpkin, cut off the top of it and remove the pulp with seeds.
6
Cut the meat from the chicken thighs and chop it into small pieces. Put them on a plate and season with ground pepper, salt. Grate the pulp of a pumpkin and mix it with meat. For greater juiciness and tenderness of the filling, you can add sour cream to it.
7
Stuff the pumpkin with the meat filling. Put it in a deep form and cover with a cut off crown, and on top put a few small pieces of butter. Pour some water into the mold; its level should be at least two centimeters. Bake stuffed pumpkin for 180 hours at 180 degrees. Cut the finished vegetable into pieces and serve.
Useful advice
For stuffing you should take a small pumpkin.
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