Pumpkin baked in the oven with meat. Holiday recipe

Want to surprise guests and serve a spectacular treat? Then we suggest to prepare a dish "Stuffed baked pumpkin". It will become an ornament of any table.

Stuffed pumpkin with meat, mushrooms, potatoes and garlic

This dish can be prepared in ordinary pots. But if you use a pumpkin, then the taste of the food will turn out to be extremely refined. So, the composition:

• A large pumpkin (about a kilogram for 3 or 4, if you take a larger, then increase the number of other ingredients);
• Potatoes weighing 500 grams (you can use grains: buckwheat or rice);
• Mushrooms (frozen or fresh any sorts) weighing 400 grams;
• 1-2 heads of onions (medium size);
• Salt, garlic, pepper, meat seasoning, dill.

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Pumpkin, baked in the oven with meat, is prepared as follows.

Step 1: Preparation

Wash the pumpkin, wipe with a towel. On the side of the tail, cut off the top. It should not be very large, but the hole should be left sufficient to extract the seeds. Scrape the entrails with a spoon. Boca also scrape off a little. Their thickness should be about 1.5 centimeters. Keep the bottom untouched.

2 step: stuffing with potatoes

Pumpkin, baked in the oven with meat, will get even tastier if you add vegetables to it. Flesh from the sides mixed with minced meat, garlic, salt, add dill. Stew in a pan with a little water for 15 minutes. Cover with a lid. Cut potatoes into cubes, add it to the stuffing and stew for another 10 minutes.

Step 3: adding mushrooms

In a separate frying pan fry mushrooms with onions. Once they are ready, combine them with the rest of the mince, put the spices.

Step 4: Pumpkin stuffing

Prepare the pumpkin thoroughly inside with black pepper and salt. From the outside, cover with oil. Pour the filling inside, pour the broth, which formed when extinguishing. Now put the pumpkin on a baking sheet (deep), oiled, or pan and place in the oven for 40 minutes (if the pumpkin is more than 3 kg, then for an hour). Meat, baked in a pumpkin, during this time will become soft and gentle. Cut the upper part also spread butter, salt and pepper and put it side by side for roasting.

Step 5

After the time has elapsed, check the dish for readiness. If the knife enters the pulp easily and effortlessly, the pumpkin, baked in the oven with meat, is ready. Transfer it to a beautiful flat dish, sprinkle with herbs and invite guests to the table.

Pumpkin filling options

For pumpkin, you can use a variety of fillings. For example, the following recipe uses onions, mushrooms, beef tenderloin, potatoes, sour cream, cheese, vegetable oil, salt and seasonings. The number of ingredients will depend on the size of the pumpkin. Approximately 500 grams of meat require half a kilogram of mushrooms and a kilogram of potatoes. The remaining components can be taken "by eye". Meat should be fried on high heat until a crust is formed. To lay out. In the same oil, save the onions, add chopped mushrooms. In a pumpkin lay layers: meat, a piece of potatoes, cut into small cubes, mushrooms. Salt and pepper. Pour boiling water over 2/3. Put the sour cream. Keep in an electric oven at 220 degrees. Pumpkin, baked in an oven with meat, will be ready when the potatoes become soft. For 15 minutes before the end of the time, sprinkle with grated cheese and wait for the formation of crust. In addition, you can stuff a pumpkin with various vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, pepper, carrots. Experiment!