Unpolished rice with baked pumpkin

1. First of all, you need to cook a pumpkin, since in this recipe it is cooked the longest. To do this, wash the pumpkin and cut into large chunks. You can immediately peel the pumpkin from the seeds and peel or do it after baking. Now wrap the pumpkin in foil and bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for 40 minutes. If you don't have an oven or you don't want to spend a lot of time cooking pumpkin, then instead of baking, you can put it out on low heat.

2. Pumpkin seeds can optionally be dried in a frying pan until golden brown. They can decorate the finished dish.

3. Now let's get on with the rice. For this recipe, crumbly, not boiled rice is needed. Therefore, before cooking, it needs to be rinsed several times in cold water. After that, boil the rice.

4. To give the dish a unique taste, you need to make a simple and very tasty sauce. To do this, combine all the remaining ingredients in a bowl. Be sure to try the ready-made sauce and, if necessary, add more sugar.

5. Put the finished rice on a platter, add soft and juicy pieces of melon on top, pour the resulting sauce over the dish. Decorate the finished dish with arugula and sunflower seeds.

Eat with pleasure!