Minced pumpkin baked in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake minced meat in a pumpkin in the oven? Prepare the products. For minced meat, I took pork pulp, but in general, you can use any other meat — beef, chicken, turkey. Pumpkin is better suited for a small size.

2. Step 2:

   

   Make minced meat by rolling the meat through a meat grinder. You can take ready-made minced meat, but homemade it turns out much tastier. Season the minced meat with salt and pepper, you can add Adyghe salt or any spices for meat.

3. Step 3:

   

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

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the pumpkin and cut off the lid. Spoon out the pulp with the 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 and finely chop the onion. Fry it until transparent in vegetable oil.

7. Step 6:

   

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

8. Step 7:

   

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

9. Step 8:

   

   Stuff the pumpkin with the prepared minced meat filling and cover it with a cut lid on top.

10. Step 9:

    

    Wrap the pumpkin in two layers of foil (with the shiny side inside). Place the foil-wrapped pumpkin in a baking dish or in a frying pan and send it to the oven.

11. Step 10:

    

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