Dinner in a Pumpkin
An easy casserole recipe cooked inside a pumpkin
Ingredients
- 2 lbs cooked ground beef or sausage
- 4 oz can of mushrooms
- 1 medium onion
- 1 medium pumpkin make sure it will fit in your oven
- 2 10.5 oz cans of cream of mushroom
- 8 oz water chesnuts
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cup cooked rice
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
Instructions
- First cut the top off your pumpkin & clean out the "guts" as we like to call them. Scrape it as clean as you can get it.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- While cutting your pumpkin you're going to want to brown your meat in a skillet & drain & cook your rice - we use a rice cooker - but you can cook it however you prefer.
- Sauté your Onion in the vegetable oil.
- Combine the meat and Onion with Soy Sauce, Mushrooms, Brown Sugar, & Soup.
- Simmer Mixture for about 10 minutes. Add the cooked rice and water chestnuts.
- When done simmering, spoon your mixture into your clean pumpkin - place the top back on the pumpkin with filling.
- Bake the pumpkin {on a cookie sheet} for 1 hour or until the inside of the pumpkin meat is tender.
- Remove lid & serve.
- Feel free to scrape into that pumpkin to get your vegetable - it tastes yummy.
- We thought it needed a little extra "something" so we made sure to add salt and pepper to taste.