Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, stuffed pumpkin. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Stuffed Pumpkin is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Stuffed Pumpkin is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have stuffed pumpkin using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Pumpkin:

1. Take 1 medium sized pumpkin or 1 large butternut squash
2. Get 1 cup short grain rice
3. Take 500 ml boiling water
4. Get 250 grams minced beef
5. Get 5 tablespoons olive oil in 2 halves
6. Prepare 1 medium red onion dicef
7. Take 1 clove garlic mashed
8. Take 1 medium tomato diced
9. Prepare 1 green chilli pepper diced
10. Get 1 tablespoon tomato paste
11. Prepare 1 tablespoon ketchup
12. Get 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses
13. Prepare 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
14. Take Salt to bring the mix slightly salty
15. Make ready Black pepper
16. Make ready 1 TSP ground cinnamon
17. Prepare Half teaspoon Seven spices
18. Take Chopped Italian parsley
19. Make ready Chopped peppermint

Instructions to make Stuffed Pumpkin:

1. Boil clean water. Add on top of your short grain rice. Cover for 30 minutes before use.
2. Cook the meat in a pan over low to medium heat till ready.
3. Put your meat aside. In the same pan heat about 2 tablespoons of olive oil to fry your onion.
4. Add the garlic, place the meat back in the pan. Add the chilli pepper then the diced tomato.
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.
6. Finally add the rice and the spices. Mix well then remove from the heat.
7. Cut open your pumpkin or butternut squash. Clean the inside well. Fashion a lid to use for covering the rice.
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.
9. Place in the oven covered with aluminum foil for 2-3 hours at 180 degrees C.
10. This how it looks after you remove the lid. The rice is soft and well cooked. The squash is tender. Enjoy!
11. I occasionally stuff the pumpkin with minced meat with condiments with rice as a side dish. It is very delicious.

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