Dinner in a Pumpkin

"This recipe was published in the Post-Dispatch several years ago. This is a fun way to serve supper to your family on Halloween. Get the kids involved with the preparation. From the kitchen of Tona Thornburg Court, Bridgeton MO."
 
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Ready In:
2hrs
Ingredients:
10
Yields:
1 casserole
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cut off the top of the pumpkin and thoroughly clean out seeds. Paint an appropriate face on the front of the pumpkin with a permanent marking pen or acrylic paint. Set pumpkin shell aside.
  • Saute onion in oil in a large skillet until tender. Add beef; cook until browned. Drain and discard grease from skillet. Stir the soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms and soup into the meat mixture.
  • Simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add cooked rice and water chestnuts. Spoon mixture into the cleaned pumpkin shell; replace pumpkin top.
  • Place entire pumpkin, with meat mixture inside, on a baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven 1 hour, or until inside flesh of pumpkin is tender.
  • Put pumpkin on a serving plate, remove top and serve meal from pumpkin. For the begetable, scoop out cooked pumpkin and serve.

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