Stuffed Pumpkin

Name: Stuffed Pumpkin
Total time: 10800 s
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 medium sized pumpkin or 1 large butternut squash; 1 cup short grain rice; 500 ml boiling water; 250 grams minced beef; 5 tablespoons olive oil in 2 halves; 1 medium red onion dicef; 1 clove garlic mashed; 1 medium tomato diced; 1 green chilli pepper diced; 1 tablespoon tomato paste; 1 tablespoon ketchup; 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses; 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar; Salt to bring the mix slightly salty; Black pepper; 1 TSP ground cinnamon; Half teaspoon Seven spices; Chopped Italian parsley; Chopped peppermint

H Bilbeisi @cook_5053849

It is rewarding to eat this sumptuous meal after all the needed preparations. The stuffing is originally a Greek idea but stuffing the pumpkin is the new concept. It might be suitable for a dinner party.

H Bilbeisi @cook_5053849

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Ingredients

3 hours

8 servings

1medium sized pumpkin or 1 large butternut squash
1 cupshort grain rice
500 mlboiling water
250 gramsminced beef
5 tablespoonsolive oil in 2 halves
1medium red onion dicef
1 clovegarlic mashed
1medium tomato diced
1green chilli pepper diced
1 tablespoontomato paste
1 tablespoonketchup
1 tablespoonpomegranate molasses
1 tablespoonsherry vinegar
Salt to bring the mix slightly salty
Black pepper
1 TSPground cinnamon
Halfteaspoon Seven spices
Chopped Italian parsley
Chopped peppermint

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Steps

3 hours

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.