Ingredients
Dinner in a Pumpkin
- 1 medium Pumpkin {about the size of a soccer ball}
- 1 medium Onion, diced
- 1 Tbsp Garlic. minced
- 2 Tbsp Olive Oil {you can use vegetable oil}
- 2 lbs Ground Beef or Ground Turkey
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 {4 oz} can Mushrooms or fresh mushrooms
- 1 {15 oz} can Cream of Mushroom (or Cream of Chicken)
- 2 cups Cooked Rice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Start cooking your rice.
- Cut off top of Pumpkin and clean out seeds, scrape inside clean.
- Saute onion and garlic in olive oil
- Add ground beef or turkey, cook on medium until fully cooked.
- Add brown sugar & soy sauce, stir until sugar is dissolved
- In a large bowl add mushrooms, cream of mushroom and milk.
- Add rice when it is cooked. Stir until fully mixed.
- Add meat mixture. Stir until fully mixed.
- Fill pumpkin with rice/meat mixture. Put the top back on the pumpkin & place pumpkin on cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. This can vary depending on the size of your pumpkin. It is done when you can easily scrape pumpkin out from the inside to serve with the meat and rice.