Pumpkin Shell Beef Stew
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 2 lbs beef stew meat, cubed
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 2 large tomatoes, chopped
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 3 baking potatoes, peeled and diced
- 3 sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1 cup dried apricot
- 2 cups beef broth
- 1 (1 lb) can corn, drained
- 1⁄4 cup sherry wine
- 1 medium pumpkin
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- salt and pepper, to taste
directions
- In a large pan suitable for stew, cook garlic, onion, and beef in oil until meat is browned. Add tomatoes, geeen pepper, sugar, apricots, beef broth, sweet potatoes, baking potatoes, and some salt and pepper.
- Cover and simmer 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Meanwhile, cut top off of pumpkin. Scoop out seeds and stringy membrane. Brush inside of pumpkin with butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Once the hour has passed, stir sherry and corn into stew and pour stew into pumpkin shell.
- Place pumpkin shell on baking sheet and bake 1 hour, or until pumpkin meat is tender.
- Place pumpkin in large serving bowl and ladle out stew, scooping out some of pumpkin with each stew serving.
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I live in Minneapolis with my husband and our dog Dexter. We just got married in Oct. of 2006 and live in an old house that we remodeled ourselves and turned into a duplex. He's a med student and is just starting his residency in family practice. I'm an adult mental health case manager. My job is super-stressful and takes up most of the brain power that I have in a day, but cooking is relaxing to me, and I love trying new combinations of foods.
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