Stuff pumpkin

September is harvest time pumpkin, one of the most useful and versatile vegetables that you can cook a variety of dishes from soups to snacks and desserts. Today we will talk about this second dish of this vegetable as stuffed pumpkin - all its variants always turn out delicious!

Stuff the pumpkin in a myriad of fillings - from sweet to meat: suited for this fruit (raisins, Apple, plum and so on), cereals (millet, rice, and so on), various meat and poultry pieces or minced. Varying toppings options, you can cook full meals for lunch or dinner, which will be not only tasty, but also very useful! In additions such dishes just don't need - they are wholesome and nutritious, but don't overload your digestive system, because, as you know, pumpkin is a very easily digestible vegetable, which is quickly and easily digested.

In obesity, edema, and anemia, as well as in all diseases of the cardiovascular system and many digestive diseases doctors recommend to eat pumpkin regularly.

Pumpkin appeared in the human diet for a very long time: first it began to grow indigenous people of North America about 5 thousand years ago. Of course, for such a long history of consumption of this vegetable in food recipes pumpkin a lot, but stuffed pumpkin was in the middle ages and remains today one of the most popular choices of dishes from this vegetable.

The first North American settlers cooked pumpkin: they cut out the stem, through the resulting hole was removed the seeds and then filled the resulting empty space honey, milk and spices and then baked pumpkin in hot ashes.

Recipes for stuffed pumpkin

Cook the stuffed pumpkin with a variety of fillings. We will tell you about the most delicious versions of this dish, which will be a great lunch or dinner for the whole family.

To make the filling was juicy, it can be mixed with any sauce or sour cream.

Recipe pumpkin, stuffed with pork and vegetables

You will need: pumpkin, carrot, sweet pepper, pork, pineapple.

How to cook stuffed with meat and vegetables pumpkin. Cut off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds. The meat is medium-sized slice and fry in butter. Carrot RUB on a medium grater, to saut. Put the carrots and the meat in the pan, add the slices of pineapple (fresh or canned), sliced into strips pepper, stir, salt and put a small amount of water. Stuff the cooked pumpkin filling, put it, having cut off the tip, in a cold oven and turn the middle (closer to low) temperature, bake for 2 hours. Serve the stuffed whole pumpkin with a large spoon, with which you will be able to get the stuffing and oskalivanii the pumpkin flesh from the walls.

Stuff for this recipe you like a pumpkin and her mate, you need to cover with foil to avoid burning.

Pumpkin goes well with many foods, including mushrooms, so the filling can be made and mushroom.

The recipe for pumpkin stuffed with mushrooms and bacon

You will need: 4 small pumpkins, 400g oyster mushrooms, 250g of sliced bacon, 125 g butter, 50 g sugar, 1 bunch of different herbs, 1 onion, 1 tbsp. of any syrup, nutmeg, salt, cloves and ground cinnamon.

How to cook pumpkin with mushrooms and bacon. From tycoon cut off the lid, remove the seeds and finely chop the mushrooms, half of the butter to heat, fry the mushrooms. The remaining melt butter, add sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves, salt, let cool, then mix with syrup and coat the inside walls of tycoon. Put in a pumpkin mushrooms, put them on pieces of fat. Take a baking sheet with high sides, put it stuffed pumpkin around to lay quartered onions and herbs, pour hot water to a height of 3 cm, bake the pumpkin in the oven, preheated to you, within 40 minutes

To prepare this dish is not necessarily small pumpkins, so you can bake and one large.

Delicious and hearty filling for pumpkin - potato and bacon. If your home like dishes more filling, try to prepare a stuffed pumpkin.

The recipe for pumpkin stuffed with potatoes and mushrooms

You will need: 500g potatoes, 140 g of bacon, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 small pumpkin, 1 dried red chili pepper, 2 tablespoons of thyme leaves, olive oil.

How to cook pumpkin with potatoes and bacon. The oven to heat up abs. From tycoon cut off the lid, remove the seeds. Potatoes cut into cubes and pour hot water, boil for 8 minutes, then drain. Chile to crumble. Cut the bacon into cubes, crush the garlic. Grate the pumpkin from the inside Chile, salt and pepper, put on with parchment baking sheet, drizzle with oil and bake for 15 minutes Until baked pumpkins potatoes mixed with garlic, thyme and bacon, salt, add 1 tbsp oil. Stuff the pumpkin filling, place in the oven, cover cut tops and bake for 45 minutes, reducing the temperature to 180 degrees. Willingness to check fork - it should be easy to enter in the wall of the pumpkin.

The same way you cook one large pumpkin - just cut it in half and nafarshiruyte half. You can also stuff the zucchini.

For lovers of easy diet meals is a great option for lunch or dinner will be a pumpkin stuffed with vegetables.

The recipe for pumpkin stuffed with cabbage and carrots

You will need: 3 carrots, 1 onion, cabbage and pumpkin, greens.

How to cook pumpkin and cabbage. Cut off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds, then use a tablespoon to scrape the flesh so that there is only a thin wall. Finely shred the cabbage, carrots RUB on a medium grater, chop onion, garlic grind all together to put out to tender. Put the filling in a pumpkin, bake in a preheated medium temperature oven for 30-40 minutes

The pulp out of the pumpkin, you can use for making mashed potatoes, soup, porridge, etc.

Very tasty pumpkin stuffed with lamb - this dish will appreciate all lovers of Oriental cuisine.

The recipe for pumpkin stuffed with lamb

You will need: 600g lamb 2 onions, 1 pumpkin, pepper powder, salt.

How to cook pumpkin with meat. Finely chopped lamb, mixed with chopped onions, pepper and salt. Cut with pumpkin cap, stepping down from the peduncle 2-3 cm, take the seeds out, put in the pumpkin stuffing, place it on a baking sheet and bake for 2-3 hours in the oven at medium heat until tender. Submit the pumpkin in the same form as it was baked, or to separate the flesh from the peel, chop it and put it together with meat on the dish.

You can replace the lamb with beef.

The last recipe, about which we will tell you - this recipe is pretty unusual, it pumpkin stuffed with nuts.

The recipe for pumpkin nut filling

Ingredients: 1 can pumpkin weighing about 1.5 kg, 75g butter, 2 onions and Cup dried dogwood, 1 Cup chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

How to stuff a pumpkin nut filling. Cut from