Baked Pumpkin
Pumpkin is a full-fledged mistress and mistress of the fall – as only the foliage on the trees begins to turn yellow, a pumpkin appears on our tables in all kinds of variations. It can be pumpkin pie, and pumpkin stew, and just pumpkin freshly squeezed juice.
But today I want to share with you the secret of cooking unusual baked pumpkin.
Lady of the Fall – Pumpkin
There are actually a lot of cooking pumpkin options, all of them do not count. Surely in every house at least once a week they serve on a table pumpkin porridge with rice and milk – a real treat is not only for children, but also for adults. Enjoying the taste of this porridge, involuntarily you return to those times when mother served its incredibly tasty and aromatic pumpkin porridge.
But today we want to share with you one very original pumpkin recipe. The only caveat that can prevent cooking such a dish – not matching pumpkin sizes and your oven. But here you can find a solution – the pumpkin has various sizes, and walking around the market, you will definitely find suitable vegetable.
Ingredients for Baked Pumpkin:
- Pumpkin – 4-5 kilograms
- Beef sirloin – 500 grams
- Potato – 1 kg
- Champignons – 500 grams
- 3 onions
- 4 tablespoons of homemade sour cream (but you can also store)
- Any cheese – 200 grams
- Vegetable oil – 60 grams
- Ground black pepper – 1 teaspoon
- Salt – 2 tablespoons.
Please note that all ingredients are from Calculating the weight of your pumpkin to be around 4-5 kilogram. If it will be less or more, then it is necessary calculate the necessary proportions. The baking time of such a pumpkin is about four hours, and certainly another 1.5 hours it is necessary to stand in the switched off oven so that it is infused.
Cooking Baked Pumpkin
We take the cooked pumpkin, wash it well under running water. Make sure that there are no defects on it, such as white spots or damage. Dry with a paper towel and cut it off. the top. You need to cut so that you can “get through” into the fetus by hand or spoon.
Remove all fiber and seeds from your pumpkin. Now proceed to preparing the “filling”. Cut the champignons into pieces, chop the onion cut into cubes, just like meat cut into cubes. On preheated well fry the meat in an oil pan to form a crust on it, disturb him very often. We take out the meat and fry in the same oil mushrooms and onions, from them all moisture should practically evaporate.
Now we will fill the pumpkin: peeled and diced put the potatoes on the pumpkin bottom in a thin layer, then on top on we send the meat to it and put the potatoes again. Then onion with mushrooms and meat again – in general, you should lay out everything in layers, in this order: potatoes, meat, onions.
Fill everything with water, do not add 4 centimeters to the edge of the pumpkin, and salt and pepper on top, put sour cream. Put in the oven with temperature of 220 degrees and bake the indicated time (4 hours + 1.5 hours to let the pumpkin infuse in the off oven).
Tasty ideas
If you love pumpkin dishes, then you will like it unusually delicious pumpkin soup and original pumpkin casserole. Surprise Households delicious and unusual dishes!
