This is a really easy recipe. The best thing for you to know is that you can take most rice or potato dishes and add it to a cooked pumpkin and make this dish.
Dinner in a Pumpkin
Ingredients:
10-12-inch Pumpkin2 cups of of cooked rice or a mixture of vermicelli and rice1 large onion, chopped3 stalks of celery, chopped1 red pepper, chopped4 cloves of garlic, chopped2 lbs. chicken, chopped in bite size pieces2 tablespoons olive oil1 can stewed tomatoes or Rotel tomatoes2 tablespoons soy sauce2 tablespoons brown sugar, packed4-oz sliced mushrooms, drained8-oz can sliced water chestnuts, drainedSalt, Pepper, Garlic Powder
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.2. Remove top of pumpkin and set aside; hollow out, discarding everything but the pulp. 3. Decorate with permanent markers, if desired. You could write the name of the dish, draw a pumpkin face, etc. 4. Take 1 tablespoon of oil and lightly oil the inside of the pumpkin. 5. Sprinkle around the salt, pepper and garlic powder.6. Put the pumpkin and top in a baking dish and then on a baking sheet and cook for 1 hour in the oven.
While pumpkin is baking put together the rice mixture.
1. With 1 tablespoon of oil, saute onion, celery and garlic for 5 minutes.2. Add in red pepper, mushrooms and chicken. Cook until chicken is no longer pink (about 5 minutes.)3. Add in tomatoes, soy sauce, sugar, water chestnuts and seasoning to taste. 4. Once combined, let simmer for 5 minutes and add in cooked rice. 5. Turn off heat. Add mixture to pumpkin that has cooked for 1 hour.6. Add the top to the pumpkin and put back in oven. Cook for 1 more hour.7. Cooking time varies by size of pumpkin but a 10-12 inch pumpkin should only take 2 hours total to cook. After the 2nd hour, the pumpkin should be soft to touch. Don't overcook or the pumpkin may collapse.8. To serve put it on a fun platter. Scoop out the food on a plate making sure you are getting pumpkin with the rice mixture. You can also slice the pumpkin and include rice on top of each slice. 9. Serves 6-8. It is so tasty and a great way to get pumpkin in the diet. 10. This dish provided a lot of liquid. We used it to add on top of our food.
*THIS can be made with any of your favorite rice or potato mixtures. I found it best to precook the pumpkin and the inside filling. This smelled so good cooking. I can't wait for it to get cooler out so that I can make it again.The vegetables that I used can also be substituted for any of your favorites.
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