Friday, October 26, 2012

Foodie Friday Dinner in a Pumpkin


Dinner In A Pumpkin
This recipe has been a tradition around the time of Halloween or Thanksgiving for my family since I was a very little girl. I love squash in the fall and autumn. Pumpkin is a autumn/winter gourd-like squash and is perfect for this recipe.

Ingredients:
1 large pumpkin (however, needs to be small enough to fit in your oven)
1lb hamburger (ground beef)
1 medium onion chopped
3-4 stalks celery chopped
1 green pepper chopped (you can also do a mix of equal value green, red and yellow peppers if you have them for extra color)
1 container chopped mushrooms
spoonful minced garlic
spoonful mined ginger
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 cups cooked rice (can use white, brown or mixed)
basil for garnish (optional)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut off the top of the pumpkin and scoop out seeds. Save the seeds for yummy roasted pumpkin seed recipes. In a large skillet brown hamburger and add onions, celery, peppers, mushrooms, garlic and ginger. Mix and saute. Add cream of mushroom soup, soy sauce, brown sugar and rice to other ingredients. Mix well. Add all ingredients to the inside of the prepared pumpkin. Place stem top back on the pumpkin. Put a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet and and put the whole pumpkin on it. Bake for about an hour or until the pumpkin is soft on the inside.

*if you want to make it a Jack O' Lantern as we did for a festive table you can by carving only the top layer of pumpkin skin off in your design and then pealing it off to show the face.

7 comments:

Ellen said...

What a neat idea. I have never tried to cook anything in a pumpkin before!

Kecia | From Mom's Desk said...

This sounds so cool. I have never heard of cooking within a pumpkin before!

Unknown said...

That is very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Kelsey Apley said...

Looks neat! Never ever thought of this!!!

Cheap Is The *New* Classy said...

How inventive!

Dawn
www.cheapisthenewclassy.com

Unknown said...

I've actually had a dinner like this before. It was quite delicious, and I'm not a pumpkin fan!!

Four Paw Savings said...

This is one of the coolest ideas I have ever seen! I would have NEVER thought of cooking in a pumpkin, but I will definitely have to try it at some point! This would be super impressive to do when you are having guest over.

*Nicole