Surprise your guests with spicy and tender meat in a honey pumpkin. The dish is very fragrant and juicy. Be prepared for your guests to ask for supplements.
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You will need
- - 3 pumpkins (preferably butternut variety);
- - 6 pcs. chicken drumsticks;
- - 1 stalk of leek;
- - 100 g dried apricots;
- - ½ tbsp. rice;
- - 6 cloves of garlic;
- - 1-2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- - 50-70 g of butter;
- - salt and pepper to taste.
Instruction manual
1
Rinse the chicken drumsticks. In a pan, mix the vegetable and 30 g of butter. In this mixture, over low heat, fry the meat, pre-salt and pepper it. Fry the drumsticks on each side for at least 5 minutes.
2
Then remove the legs from the pan and sauté the leek and crushed garlic instead.
3
Boil rice in salted water and add butter. Cut dried apricots into thin strips.
4
Wash the pumpkin, cut it in half and remove the seeds. Remove the pulp from the pumpkin so that the walls remain 1-2 cm thick. Put rice with chicken in the pumpkin, with the lower legs stacked on top and squeeze them a little into the rice.
5
Wrap each pumpkin in foil and place on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven for about 2 hours.
Useful advice
Serve the dish hot. And do not throw out the pulp from the pumpkin, it can make an excellent dessert.