Dinner in a Pumpkin
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 casserole
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
- 1 medium pumpkin
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 (4 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained
- 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
- 1 1⁄2 cups cooked rice
- 1 (8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained (optional)
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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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Tona C.
Moberly, Missouri