Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a pumpkin stuffed with meat baked in the oven? Very simple! Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Pumpkin for such a dish is better to use unsweetened varieties. Any meat will suit your taste, but with pork the dish will turn out more juicy and tasty, the pulp of the pumpkin will also be soaked with meat juice. In addition to meat, you can add some more vegetables, they will only improve the taste of the dish, make it richer.
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 this dish is prepared for.
Step 3:
Wash the meat, dry it with a paper towel and cut into cubes. Rinse and dry again.
Step 4:
Wash, peel and cut carrots into circles or cubes.
Step 5:
Peel the onion and cut it into cubes with a knife.
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:
Put the 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. Put the washed chopped fresh herbs on top.
Step 8:
Fill the pumpkin with cooked meat and vegetables. Pour in half a glass of water. The bottom of the pumpkin also needs to be oiled so that it does not start to burn to the bottom of the mold.
Step 9:
Cover the pumpkin with a lid and put it on a baking sheet. Pour a little water on the bottom of the pan. Put the pumpkin pan in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 2 hours.
Step 10:
The dish is ready. With this method of baking, the dish turns out not only delicious, juicy, tender meat, and pumpkin soaked in the juice of the contents, but also useful. You can speed up the cooking process if you fill the pumpkin with ready-made products: fry meat and vegetables separately from each other in a frying pan, and boil the pumpkin in a slow cooker or steamer. But the dish will no longer be so tasty and healthy. Bon appetit!
Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !
Keep in mind that the final result in this dish also depends on how you chop the carrots: grated carrots will turn into mush during heat treatment and mix evenly with the rest of the ingredients, cut into strips or cubes will retain their shape.
In addition to pork, any other meat can be used in this dish. Keep in mind that the cooking time, as well as the taste and calorie content of the dish will change. For example, beef is cooked longer than pork, and chicken fillet or turkey is less.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Pork fat - 333 kcal/100g
- Pork meat - 357 kcal/100g
- Pork - low-fat roast - 184 kcal/100g
- Pork chop on a bone - 537 kcal/100g
- Pork - schnitzel - 352 kcal/100g
- Pork shoulder - 593 kcal/100g
- Boar's leg - 113 kcal/100g
- Pork - 259 kcal/100g
- Pumpkin - 29 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41 kcal/100g
- Greenery - 41 kcal/100g
