Recipe: Tasty Stuffed Pumpkin

Stuffed Pumpkin.

To make Stuffed Pumpkin you need 19 ingredients and just 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

1. It's 1 of medium sized pumpkin or 1 large butternut squash.
2. You need 1 cup of short grain rice.
3. Prepare 500 ml of boiling water.
4. Prepare 250 grams of minced beef.
5. You need 5 tablespoons of olive oil in 2 halves.
6. You need 1 of medium red onion dicef.
7. Prepare 1 clove of garlic mashed.
8. It's 1 of medium tomato diced.
9. It's 1 of green chilli pepper diced.
10. It's 1 tablespoon of tomato paste.
11. Prepare 1 tablespoon of ketchup.
12. It's 1 tablespoon of pomegranate molasses.
13. You need 1 tablespoon of sherry vinegar.
14. Prepare of Salt to bring the mix slightly salty.
15. Prepare of Black pepper.
16. You need 1 TSP of ground cinnamon.
17. You need Half of teaspoon Seven spices.
18. You need of Chopped Italian parsley.
19. Prepare of Chopped peppermint.

Stuffed Pumpkin instructions

1. Boil clean water. Add on top of your short grain rice. Cover for 30 minutes before use..
2. Cook the meat in a pan over low to medium heat till ready..
3. Put your meat aside. In the same pan heat about 2 tablespoons of olive oil to fry your onion..
4. Add the garlic, place the meat back in the pan. Add the chilli pepper then the diced tomato..
5. Add the ketchup and tomato paste. Add the molasses and vinegar. If you need to dissolve the ingredients, add a bit of water to the pan..
6. Finally add the rice and the spices. Mix well then remove from the heat..
7. Cut open your pumpkin or butternut squash. Clean the inside well. Fashion a lid to use for covering the rice..
8. Stuff the meat and rice mix into the pumpkin. Cover with the lid. Hold the lid in place using toothpicks. Sprinkle the remaining amount of olive oil over the pumpkin..
9. Place in the oven covered with aluminum foil for 2-3 hours at 180 degrees C..
10. This how it looks after you remove the lid. The rice is soft and well cooked. The squash is tender. Enjoy!.
11. I occasionally stuff the pumpkin with minced meat with condiments with rice as a side dish. It is very delicious..