Oven-Baked Pumpkin Stuffed with Meat and Veggies

A festive, tasty and interesting dish to serve! Baked pumpkin with meat and vegetables is not only a very tasty, juicy and satisfying dish that is suitable for lunch or dinner on everyday days, but also a very beautiful and interesting presentation of the dish, which is an edible pot of meat. Such a dish may well decorate a holiday table and pleasantly please household members and guests on Sundays.
cook time: 2h 20 min
Nora Vaughn
Oven-Baked Pumpkin Stuffed with Meat and Veggies

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

94
Calories
6g
Fat
7g
Carbs
4g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Olive oil 3 tbsp
Salt 0.5 tsp
Ground black pepper to taste
Water 0.5 cup
Potato 2 pc
Carrot 1 pc
Bulb onions 1 pc
Pork 500 g
Greenery 10 g
Pumpkin 1.5 kg

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make pumpkin stuffed with meat and baked in the oven? Very simple! Prepare the ingredients according to the list. It is better to use unsweetened varieties of pumpkin for this dish. Any meat will suit your taste, but with pork the dish will be more juicy and tasty; the pumpkin pulp will also be saturated with the juice of the meat. In addition to meat, you can add a little more vegetables, they will only improve the taste of the dish and make it richer.

Step 2

Step 2
Wash the pumpkin, carefully cut off the lid with a sharp knife and remove the soft pulp with seeds. The size of the pumpkin depends on how many people the dish is being prepared for.

Step 3

Step 3
Wash the meat, dry with a paper towel and cut into cubes. Rinse and dry again.

Step 4

Step 4
Wash the carrots, peel and cut into slices or cubes.

Step 5

Step 5
Peel the onions and cut them into cubes with a knife.

Step 6

Step 6
Adding a few potatoes to the ingredients will make the dish even tastier and more satisfying. Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into cubes.

Step 7

Step 7
Place vegetables and meat in a deep bowl. Add spices: salt and ground black pepper to taste and pour a couple of tablespoons of olive oil. Mix the ingredients. Place washed, chopped fresh herbs on top.

Step 8

Step 8
Fill the pumpkin with cooked meat and vegetables. Pour in half a glass of water. The bottom of the pumpkin should also be greased with oil so that it does not start to burn to the bottom of the pan.

Step 9

Step 9
Cover the pumpkin with a lid and place it on a baking sheet. Pour some water into the bottom of the pan. Place the baking sheet with the pumpkin in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 2 hours.

Step 10

Step 10
The dish is ready. With this method of baking, the dish turns out not only tasty, juicy, the meat tender, and the pumpkin soaked in the juice of its contents, but also healthy. You can speed up the cooking process if you fill the pumpkin with already prepared products: fry the meat and vegetables separately from each other in a frying pan, and boil the pumpkin in a slow cooker or double boiler. But the dish will no longer be so tasty and healthy. Bon appetit!

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