This vegetable is good for creating a wide variety of dishes. But still, the stuffed pumpkin baked in the oven is the real queen: tasty, healthy, beautiful.

Oven stuffed pumpkin

Pumpkin has one amazing property that culinary experts make full use of - perfectly harmonizes with different products. And with meat, including.

To make such a meal, you will need the following ingredients:

  • pumpkin;
  • pork meat - take ½ kg;
  • potatoes - the same amount;
  • eggplant - 2 pieces;
  • bulbs - 2 heads;
  • garlic - no more than 3 cloves;
  • basil, parsley, dill (fresh herbs) - as much as you see fit;
  • salt, ground black pepper - focus on your own taste;
  • vegetable oil to fry meat.

First, we make an edible pot from pumpkin - cut the top-lid, take out the seeds, leave the flesh on the walls.

Now proceed to the filling. Pour small pieces of meat into a pan with hot oil and fry. After we add salt and all seasonings, mix. Let the meat pan stand on a hot stove for about 10 minutes.

Then we take out the pork, put it in a bowl. And in the juice left from it, we stew the onion, finely chopped before it.

We turn eggplants and potatoes into the same smooth cubes or cubes. Mix them with meat, onions, herbs, garlic. The fragrant mass of vegetables and pork is sent to a pumpkin pot. And put it in the oven, already roasted to 200 ° C.

In about an hour, the pumpkin stuffed with meat will be ready.

For all cooking pumpkin cooking options, it’s important to choose the right fruit. Need not too large (in such more juice and taste), round, elastic, preferably summer varieties.

With buckwheat porridge

Such pumpkin filling as buckwheat porridge is a component traditional for Russian cuisine. Our ancestors prepared this dish in a Russian oven. And the modern housewives were perfectly replaced by the oven.

So, we need products:

  • pumpkin - take a weight of 1.5 kg;
  • buckwheat - a glass;
  • onion - 1 piece;
  • sour cream - ½ cup;
  • eggs (need hard-boiled) - not less than 4;
  • greens, spices, salt;
  • butter - 30 g.

We turn pumpkin into dishes in the same way as described in the previous recipe. Only this time, cut the flesh from the walls of the fetus and use the knife to turn it into cubes.

Boil buckwheat in the usual way.

Fry the meat with onions in a pan - for this we have butter. Add spices to the onion-meat mixture, add salt and pepper. It remains to stiffen until the composition reaches the desired condition.

We mix all this with buckwheat porridge, add pumpkin cubes, chopped eggs (the size of the fragments is not so important), sour cream and greens.

With the resulting filling, fill the pumpkin saucepan and put it in a red-hot oven. Somewhere after 60 minutes, we check the readiness - we try to pierce the barrel with a match. If possible - you can extract.

With minced meat and potatoes

A very good option is to fill the pumpkin with meat and potatoes passed through a meat grinder. Moreover, there are two types of serving such a dish: as a casserole or in a pumpkin pot. Today we are mastering the second option.

What do you need?

  • Pumpkin - from 1 to 1.5 kg in weight;
  • onion - take 1 piece;
  • minced beef meat - enough 200 g;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • tomato paste - 1-1.5 tablespoons;
  • cheese (hard, for example, "Russian") - enough 100 g;
  • salt, ground black pepper.

How to get a saucepan from a pumpkin, we already know.

Then we make minced meat.

  1. Shred the onion as small as possible, pass.
  2. Add ground beef to the pan and wait for it to brighten.
  3. Add tomato paste, pepper and salt.
  4. We send garlic to the minced meat, passed through the garlic press.

The resulting meat mixture is filled with pumpkin. We put it in a hot oven.

At the end, fill the top with cheese (processed on a coarse grater). Leave the dish to readiness.

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Cooking with meat and mushrooms.

Mushrooms and meat are good in many dishes. And pumpkin baked in the oven is no exception.

Prepared from:

  • whole pumpkin fruit;
  • chicken pulp - 400 g;
  • onions - heads;
  • carrots - 1 root vegetable;
  • champignons - 250 g;
  • potatoes - 350 g;
  • parsley - not less than a tablespoon.

Getting to the vegetables. Using a knife, we turn everything into fragments of comparable shape and size.

From chicken we make thin long strips (for this we cut along the fibers).

Mushrooms are cut in the form of plates.

Fill the pumpkin. Season the composition with salt, favorite spices and dilute with a glass of boiling water.

You can cover with a “lid” and remove for 40-45 minutes in the oven.

Stuffed Chicken Pumpkin

If you show a little imagination, even such a simple dish, at first glance, the dish can provide a magical taste.

Structure:

  • small pumpkin - from 800 g to 1 kg in weight;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • ground black pepper - ¼ teaspoon;
  • Provencal herbs - ½ teaspoon;
  • thyme - ½ teaspoon;
  • onions - 1-2 small heads are enough;
  • chicken meat - ½ kg;
  • millet groats - ½ cup;
  • vegetable oil (preferably odorless) - at least 5 tablespoons;
  • salt;
  • green parsley and dill - together 5-6 branches;
  • hard cheese (any grade) - 50 g.

Make a pumpkin pot. From the inside we rub its walls with a fragrant mixture made from a tablespoon of oil, ground pepper, salt, Provence herbs. The workpiece will have to spend half an hour in an oven heated to 180 ° C.

During this time, we cook millet and turn chicken into minced meat using a meat grinder. While the porridge cools, fry the minced meat and chopped onion with the remaining oil.

The time has come to pull out a pumpkin. When it cools down and stops burning hands, carefully remove the flesh from the walls, take out and finely chop. Now you can combine pumpkin pulp, porridge and onion-chicken mixture together.Mix it all and lay in a pumpkin.

Then you need to close the "pot" with a "lid" and hold it in the oven for another half an hour.

Somewhere 10 minutes before time runs out, remove the lid and pour grated cheese on top. Let the pumpkin come, but already open.

Pumpkin vegetable stew

If there is a goal to prepare a light lean dish, choose a recipe for vegetable stew. You can stuff pumpkin with vegetables alone, without cereals and meat.

This requires the composition:

  • pumpkin;
  • carrots - 2 root crops;
  • celery - 2 stalks;
  • cauliflower - half a head of cabbage;
  • green peas (fresh, frozen or canned) - 100 g;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • spice;
  • fresh greens;
  • salt to taste;
  • vegetable oil (should be odorless).

To do this, cut the flesh of a pumpkin and make cubes out of it with a knife.

We turn carrots into thin circles or their halves. Celery - in thin circles. Garlic - in almost transparent plates. Shred the cabbage as small as possible.

In a pan or stewpan, heat the oil, fry a “duet” of celery and carrots.

Then the turn comes to go there pumpkin pulp and cauliflower. Stew.

Add peas to the stew. Flavor with salt and spices. We put vegetables in a pumpkin, close with a “cap”.

After about half an hour in an oven heated to 200 ° C, you can check whether the dish is ready by piercing the wall with a match.

Whole pumpkin stuffed with rice

Baked pumpkin is often filled with rice. The sweet version with milk is especially loved by children.

You will need:

  • pumpkin fruit - not heavier than 1.5 kg;
  • rice - 2 glasses;
  • milk - take ½ liter;
  • cow oil - enough 30 g;
  • granulated sugar - optional.

In the pumpkin saucepan, at the bottom, put the oil.

We wash the rice many times, at the end we arrange the cereal for a 5-minute “bath” in boiling water to remove gluten from the grains and give the porridge friability. Pour into oil (2/3 filling pumpkin). Sweet.

Pour the edible container with milk. About 40 minutes in an oven heated to 220 ° C, and you're done.

Sweet cooking recipe

Whole baked pumpkin can serve not only as breakfast or as part of a hearty meal, but also as a delicious dessert.

We offer a recipe:

  • medium sized pumpkin;
  • dried apricots, raisins, prunes (can be replaced with dried plums) - 200 g of each component;
  • rice - 300 g;
  • granulated sugar - 200 g;
  • vanilla - as much as you want;
  • cinnamon or cloves.

What to do with pumpkin is described above.

Cook rice, not bringing to readiness. It will need to be carefully mixed with all dried fruits, sugar and selected spices.

Sweet-flavored filling “load” into the pumpkin, close the lid (from it).

We put in a spacious deep bowl so that the "pot" does not fall to one side, and send it to the oven (heated to 180 ° C).

After an hour and a half, you can get yummy. The readiness will be reported by the fragrance and the surface of the queen of the fields, shiny as a mirror.

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