How to bake a whole pumpkin in the oven?
Bake in the oven pumpkin can be in many ways. Today we will consider the most original recipe, where a whole vegetable stuffed with buckwheat porridge is used. It should be specially noted that it takes a lot of effort and time to prepare such an unusual dinner.
Tasty and hearty pumpkin, baked entirely in an oven
Necessary ingredients:
- Buckwheat groats - 2 full faceted glasses;
- chicken fillet fresh - 400 g;
- pumpkin large - 1 pc .;
- salt cooked - 2 small spoons;
- onion bulb - 1 large head;
- pepper fragrant black - 1/3 of a small spoon;
- vegetable oil - 45-50 ml;
- garlic fresh large - 1 pc.
Processing of the main vegetable and baking process
Before baking a pumpkin in the oven, it should becarefully handle. To do this, a large and slightly flat (for stability) vegetable needs to be washed well, and then gently cut off the "hat" from it and take out the pulp with bones. And these parts of the pumpkin must be spread out on different plates. As a result of the described actions you should get a kind of "pan" with a lid and walls 2 cm thick.
To properly bake in the oven pumpkin, delicious,appetizing, it must be sprinkled with salt and scented pepper from inside, and then put on a grate and put a "hat" next to it. In this situation, the vegetable should be cooked over medium heat for about 45 minutes.
Process of filling
After the pumpkin is soft and fullbaked, it must be filled with buckwheat porridge with meat. To prepare such a filling filling you should take chicken breasts, wash them well, finely chop, and then fry in a saucepan in vegetable oil along with onions. After that, the meat is required to lay out previously removed pumpkin pulp and processed buckwheat. All the ingredients must be flavored with scented pepper and table salt, pour with drinking water so that it covers products by 1.5 centimeters, and then tightly close and cook for 26 minutes. After this friable buckwheat porridge with chicken fillet should be mixed and flavored with grated garlic.
Forming a dish
As you can see, to tasty bake in a pumpkin ovenit is not necessary to use hard-to-reach and expensive ingredients. Ready-made soft vegetable with a hat should be carefully removed from the oven grid, and then immediately fill the pumpkin with fragrant and crumbly buckwheat porridge.
How to properly serve the table
Such an original dish should be placed on the dining table in a hot state, along with wheat bread and a salad of fresh vegetables.
Useful information for housewives
Cooking this amazingly useful vegetable can notonly with cereals and meat ingredients, but also with other products. For example, it turns out well that the baked pumpkin is sweet. As a filling for this dish you can use raisins, dried apricots, prunes, various nuts, honey, etc. By the way, these components are allowed not only to stuff the pumpkin, but to cook it together with them in a shredded kind. As a result, you can get a very tasty and sweet stew.
