Meat with potatoes in pumpkin in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. Pumpkin for such a dish is better to use unsweetened varieties.

2. Step 2:

   

   I wash the pumpkin well, cut off the top of it as a lid, take out the pulp with seeds with a spoon or a knife. The pulp from the walls of the pumpkin from the inside also needs to be cut off, but not very deep to the crust, so that the pumpkin does not lose its shape during baking, the walls do not fail. Cut the pulp into small cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   We lubricate the pumpkin from the inside with vegetable oil, put it on a baking sheet with a small amount of water and send it to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 30 minutes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Any meat can be used: beef as less fatty and high-calorie meat, or pork as more tender and juicy. I took a pork tenderloin. The meat is washed, dried and cut into small cubes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Carrots are washed, cleaned and cut into small cubes.

6. Step 6:

   

   We do the same with onions. We put the vegetables in a deep bowl, we also send the crushed pumpkin pulp there.

8. Step 7:

   

   Potatoes are washed, cleaned and cut into small cubes or pieces of chaotic shape.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour vegetable oil in a frying pan, heat it up. Spread the meat on the heated oil, fry it over high heat, stirring constantly with a spatula, until a light blush. Turn off the fire.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the meat in a bowl with vegetables. Add salt, ground black pepper to taste. You can add some more seasoning to taste. Mix it up.

11. Step 10:

    

    Remove the pumpkin from the oven and stuff it with cooked meat and vegetable filling. Fill the contents of the pumpkin with water so that it does not reach the cut of the pumpkin by a couple of centimeters. If desired, the water can be stirred with sour cream so that meat and vegetables are stewed in a creamy filling, the dish will turn out with a pleasant creamy taste.

12. Step 11:

    

    We close the pumpkin with a lid and send it to the oven for another 35-40 minutes, you need to focus on the work of your oven. At the end of baking, if desired, the filling in the pumpkin can be sprinkled with grated cheese and finely chopped fresh herbs to obtain a fragrant crust on top. Bon appetit!