Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Dinner in a pumpkin

Years ago our friends had us over for dinner in the fall and made us this fun dinner and it has become a happy tradition

Dinner in a pumpkin


  
Cut lid from medium pumpkin, scrape out the inside of the pumpkin and discard what you scrape out. 



 Chop onion. I love the pampered chef chopper. Contact my friend Tina to purchase:) 801-380-9498. Her website is
https://www.pamperedchef.com/pws/tinafairbourn






This is another pampered chef tool I love called the mix and chop.  It breaks up the hamburger into fine pieces and helps brown it so nicely. 



 brown hamburger with onion, salt and pepper





Mix soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms, cream of chicken soup and cooked rice together. 




Mix together with hamburger and onion and scoop 
mixture into pumpkin.





Place lid on pumpkin. Place pumpkin on foil lined cookie sheet and bake in 350 oven for 1-1/2 hours or until pumpkin is tender because we eat that part too with butter and salt.




I usually have my kids draw a face on both sides of it before baking it and they love that. 



The pumpkin darkens up nice and sometimes it oozes juice so be sure to line your pan. 


add a little butter and salt or brown sugar to your pumpkin and it is delicious!

Dinner In A Pumpkin
  
1 Medium size pumpkin, about 4 pounds 
1-1/2 lb lean ground beef
 1 chopped onion 
 1 tsp salt 
 1/4 tsp pepper 
 1/4 cup soy sauce
 2 TB brown sugar 
 2 cup cooked rice 
*the original recipe calls for a can of mushrooms but we don't love them so we leave them out:)
       
 Cut lid from pumpkin, scrape out the inside of the pumpkin good and discard what you scrape out. 
In a large skillet brown hamburger and onion. 
Mix salt, pepper, soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms, cream of chicken soup and cooked rice together. 
Mix together with hamburger and onion. Mix well and place mixture into pumpkin
Place lid on pumpkin. Place pumpkin on foil lined cookie sheet and bake in 350 oven for 1-1/2 hours. 
When you spoon your portion, be sure and scrape and get some of the yummy cooked pumpkin too.

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