When I was growing up, my family often ate dinner in a pumpkin at or around halloween. It is one of my favorite foods, and dinner in a pumpkin is now our family halloween tradition. I'm posting the recipe in case you want to try it too! If you want to cook it in the microwave (which is much, much, faster) make sure your pumpkin is small-ish so it will fit. Last week I baked it in the oven, and it took 2 hours and the pumpkin still wasn't all the way cooked. But it still tasted good.
Dinner in a Pumpkin
1 pumpkin, seeded
1/2 lb ground beef
1/4 c celery
2 T chopped onion
1 c cooked rice
1/2 c ketchup
1 T worcestershire sauce
1 t sugar
1/2 t basil
garlic
1 egg
8 oz tomato sauce
Brown ground beef, celery, and onion. Mix with everything else and put inside a pumpkin and microwave for about 20 minutes or bake in the oven for an hour-ish.
When you scoop out the stew, make sure to scrape a little pumpkin "meat" off the wall of the pumpkin; it's delicious!
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3 comments:
hmm interesting... so it's like a stew, with pumpkin goodness?
Exactly.
Delicious! Dinner in a pumpkin is becoming a tradition for us as well. We almost had it on Tuesday when the elders came over. Sadly, the baby needed attending to and we didn't quite have the time to actually cook it in the pumpkin. Maybe we'll try again though.
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