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Stuffed Pumpkin

Name: How to cook Stuffed Pumpkin - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

H Bilbeisi

Stuffed Pumpkin

It is rewarding to eat this sumptuous meal after all the needed preparations. The stuffing is originally a Greek idea but stuffing the pumpkin is the new concept. It might be suitable for a dinner party.

Ingredient

Food ration :

8 servings

Cooking time :

3 hours

medium sized pumpkin or 1 large butternut squash

1 cup

short grain rice

500 ml

boiling water

250 grams

minced beef

5 tablespoons

olive oil in 2 halves

medium red onion dicef

1 clove

garlic mashed

medium tomato diced

green chilli pepper diced

1 tablespoon

tomato paste

1 tablespoon

ketchup

1 tablespoon

pomegranate molasses

1 tablespoon

sherry vinegar

1 TSP

ground cinnamon

Half

teaspoon Seven spices

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Boil clean water. Add on top of your short grain rice. Cover for 30 minutes before use.

* Step 2

Cook the meat in a pan over low to medium heat till ready.

* Step 3

Put your meat aside. In the same pan heat about 2 tablespoons of olive oil to fry your onion.

* Step 4

Add the garlic, place the meat back in the pan. Add the chilli pepper then the diced tomato.

* Step 5

Add the ketchup and tomato paste. Add the molasses and vinegar. If you need to dissolve the ingredients, add a bit of water to the pan.

* Step 6

Finally add the rice and the spices. Mix well then remove from the heat.

* Step 7

Cut open your pumpkin or butternut squash. Clean the inside well. Fashion a lid to use for covering the rice.

* Step 8

Stuff the meat and rice mix into the pumpkin. Cover with the lid. Hold the lid in place using toothpicks. Sprinkle the remaining amount of olive oil over the pumpkin.