Minced pumpkin baked in the oven

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr 20 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to bake minced pumpkin in the oven? Prepare your food. For minced meat, I used pork pulp, but in general you can use any other meat - beef, chicken, turkey. A small pumpkin is best.

2. STEP 2

   

   Make minced meat by grinding the meat through a meat grinder. You can use ready-made minced meat, but homemade is much tastier. Salt and pepper the minced meat, you can add Adyghe salt or any spices for meat.

3. STEP 3

   

   Rinse the rice, add hot water and cook on the stove until half cooked. Rice can be replaced, if desired, with any other cereal or not added at all. Place the rice in a sieve and let the liquid drain.

4. STEP 4

   

   Wash the pumpkin and cut off the cap. Use a spoon to scoop out the pulp and seeds. At the same time, remove a little more of the hard part of the pulp from the walls of the pumpkin.

5. STEP 5

   

   Peel the onion and chop finely. Fry it until transparent in vegetable oil.

6. STEP 6

   

   Finely chop the cut pumpkin pulp and add it to the onion in the frying pan. Fry everything until half cooked over low heat.

7. STEP 7

   

   Combine minced meat, boiled rice and fried onion with pumpkin. Stir the filling until smooth.

8. STEP 8

   

   Stuff the pumpkin with the prepared minced meat filling and cover with the cut-off lid.

9. STEP 9

   

   Wrap the pumpkin in two layers of foil (shiny side inward). Place the foil-wrapped pumpkin in a baking dish or frying pan and place in the oven.

10. STEP 10

    

    Bake the pumpkin in the oven for two hours at 200 degrees. Then take it out, let it cool slightly and remove the foil. Serve the pumpkin whole. It looks very impressive and original. Then cut each guest a portion. The pumpkin is cut well (in slices), the minced meat keeps its shape and does not crumble. The pumpkin turns out very soft and serves as an excellent side dish for baked minced meat. Bon appetit!