In winter in the barns many people have fragrant colorful pumpkins. And did you know that they can be tasty stuffed, baked with various hearty fillings and surprise and pamper your loved ones with this fabulous dish in a vegetable pot, because it is served on the table right in this magical pumpkin.
Usually baked whole stuffed pumpkin produces at all a staggering impression and, certainly, raises the authority of the hostess, who fed them with such exquisite and unusual food. Although, to bake a stuffed pumpkin in the oven is actually very simple. Let's try!
Pumpkin stuffed with meat
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 piece;
- lamb - 500 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- red onion - 1 pc .;
- sugar - pinch;
- salt, zira - to taste;
- canned tomatoes - 6 pcs .;
- parsley greens, coriander - if desired.
Preparation
The recipe for a pumpkin stuffed with meat is quite simple. We take a ripe little pumpkin, gently cut off the top, cleanse the seeds and lubricate the inside with oil. Then close it with a lid and put it for 30 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees. In the meantime, we are preparing the filling. Melt the butter in the saucepan and fry the mutton, cut into small cubes. Add to the meat of ziru, onions and simmer all for 15 minutes on low heat. Next, put the peeled tomatoes, salt and saccharum to taste. We cook the meat for another 30 minutes, add saffron and finely chopped greens. Then shift the stuffing into the pumpkin and again put the dish in the oven, for another 20 minutes.
Pumpkin stuffed with vegetables
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 piece;
- chicken breast - 1 pc .;
- mushrooms - 250 g;
- potatoes - 2 pieces;
- zucchini - 1 piece;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- sweet Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece;
- cheese - 100 g;
- cream - 100 ml;
- milk - 150 ml;
- butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Preparation
First, we cut off the top of the pumpkin, take out all the flesh carefully, leaving the walls about 2 cm thick. Lubricate the inside with butter, rub garlic, pour a little water and bake at 180 ° C in the oven until soft.
Pumpkin pulp, zucchini, onions, mushrooms, potatoes, chicken cut and fry separately in a frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil. Then we mix all the ingredients, salt, pepper, season it with spices, pour in milk, cream and stew on low heat with the lid closed for 10 minutes.
With the filling stuffed, stuff our pumpkin and bake it for 20 minutes in the oven at medium temperature. At the very end, sprinkle it with grated cheese, wait until it melts, and serve a ready stuffed mushroom pumpkin on the festive table.
Pumpkin stuffed with rice
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 piece;
- sweet pepper - 1 pc .;
- rice - 0,5 items;
- chicken breast - 1 pc .;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- seasoning for pilaf - 1 teaspoon;
- lemon - 0,5 pieces;
- vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
First, let's prepare the filling. To do this, chicken meat cut into small cubes, salt, pepper, pour lemon juice and leave to marinate.
Rice is washed in warm water and boiled until ready. Onion cut into half rings and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. We spread it to the washed and dried rice, mix it. Bulgarian peppers cut into small cubes and add to the rice. Marinated meat mixed with filling, salt to taste.
Pumpkin carefully washing, cut off the top and carefully take out the flesh. Now the pumpkin pot is oiled and filled with a delicious filling of rice and chicken mixed with pulp! We close the lid cut before. Heat the oven to 180 ° and bake the pumpkin for 2 hours.