Pumpkin with mushrooms and meat: popular recipes
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How to cook pumpkin with meat and mushrooms in the oven
The dish, the recipe of which is given below, is present in the cuisines of many peoples of the world and in restaurants is served with special honor. In order to cook a pumpkin with meat and mushrooms in the oven, you will need the following ingredients:
- pumpkin weighing about 4 kg;
- meat, preferably beef - 1 kg;
- celery stalk - 4 pcs. (you can add a little celery root);
- mushrooms - 200-250 g (champignons);
- red onion - 2 goals;
- bell peppers - 2 pcs.;
- 3 tomatoes;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- carrot;
- young zucchini.
Wash the pumpkin thoroughly, carefully cut the “lid” and remove the pulp. It is important that the walls of the vegetable are at least 1.5 cm in thickness. Separated pulp from seeds and mix with chopped garlic, salt, pepper, add spices (basil, thyme, rosemary). Send the prepared form to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. At the same time, you need to bake pulp pulled out and seasoned in spices in a container, pepper and tomatoes.
To prepare the filling, you need to rinse the onion and celery, chop and send to stew. After 5-7 minutes add the mushrooms washed and cut into 4 parts to them.
In the meantime, the meat should also be washed, dried, chopped, separately fried over high heat to form a crust and sent to vegetables. Remove the peel from the baked tomatoes and peppers, chop and add to the vegetables with meat.
Wash carrots and zucchini, peel, cut into small cubes, combine with meat, vegetables and baked pulp, mix thoroughly.
Place the filling in the pumpkin, close with a “lid” and send to the oven for another 20 minutes.
The recipe for potatoes with meat and mushrooms in a pumpkin
In addition to meat and mushrooms in this delicious orange vegetable, you can cook various cereals, but the most popular is the recipe for making potatoes. To prepare potatoes with meat and mushrooms in a pumpkin, you will need the following ingredients:
- 2 pumpkins up to 1 kg each;
- 500 g of pork and potatoes;
- 150-200 g of mushrooms;
- 100 g of onions;
- 1 tbsp. a spoon of nonfat sour cream;
- vegetable oil, salt.
Cut the “lids” of the pumpkins, use the spoon to pick the seeds and some pulp, which you need to cut into cubes. Wash and cut the meat into cubes. Wash, peel and dice potatoes. Wash the mushrooms, dry cut into 4 parts.
Fry onion, diced in vegetable oil until transparent, add pumpkin and meat to it, simmer for 5-7 minutes. Then add mushrooms and potatoes, fry for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add sour cream, spices and herbs to taste, mix and place in “pots”.Pour 1 cup of water into each, close with “lids” and bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
Baked pumpkin with meat and mushrooms in a slow cooker
You can also cook pumpkin baked with meat and mushrooms in a slow cooker. Thanks to similar processing of products, they retain a maximum of useful elements. The meat is saturated with the taste of vegetables and mushrooms and is very aromatic. To prepare this dish you will need:
- 800 g pumpkin;
- 1 kg of veal;
- 300 g of mushrooms;
- 4 things. onions;
- 50 g pitted prunes;
- 1 bell pepper;
- vegetable oil;
- soy sauce;
- salt and pepper.
Peel the pumpkin, cut into medium-sized cubes, sprinkle with soy sauce and send to the refrigerator. Wash the meat, dry, cut into cubes, salt, pepper, add the peeled and chopped onions and mix. Cut the mushrooms into thin slices and add a little salt.
Remove the pumpkin from the refrigerator, mix half the mass with the crushed prunes and place in the multicooker bowl greased with vegetable oil. The next layer you need to put the meat with onions, a little squeeze everything to seal. Then lay the mushrooms in the top layer - the remaining pumpkin, combined with chopped pepper. It is necessary to cook the dish in the "Stew" mode for one and a half hours.
Pumpkin with meat and mushrooms, stewed in pots
Pumpkin stewed with meat and mushrooms will turn out to be especially aromatic if cooked in small portioned clay pots. To prepare a dish you need to stock up on such products:
- 700 g of meat;
- 200 g of mushrooms;
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 6 medium sized potatoes;
- bulb;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 2 tomatoes;
- favorite spices and salt.
Wash the meat, dry it with a paper towel, cut into large cubes and arrange it in pots. Top with garlic, chopped onion rings and plates. Salt everything and pepper. After that, you need to send mushrooms sliced in slices into pots, peeled and diced potatoes, diced pumpkin and finally cover all the components with tomatoes.
In each pot you need to pour water up to half, add bay leaf and send to the preheated oven for an hour and a half at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Optionally, you can change the composition of products or supplement it with other vegetables and spices. As for meat, it is recommended to take lean pork or beef to cook this dish.
Mushroom, meat, pumpkin and potato recipe
The following recipe for mushroom, meat, pumpkin and potato dishes will surely appeal to all family members. This dish can safely claim the title of a restaurant masterpiece, so with it you can decorate both everyday and festive tables.
We will need:
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 5 potatoes;
- 100 g of mushrooms;
- Egg;
- 5 tbsp. tablespoons of hard cheese;
- 100 ml cream;
- olive oil;
- salt and pepper.
Wash the potatoes thoroughly, wrap in foil and send to bake in the oven for 40-60 minutes. Meanwhile, you need to cook the rest of the products:
- peel the pumpkin, grate, fry in oil until cooked;
- wash mushrooms, dry, cut into slices;
- grate the cheese, mix with cream and beaten egg;
- salt and pepper.
Cool the finished potatoes, remove from the foil, cut off the longitudinal “lid” from each potato and carefully select the pulp with a teaspoon. Put the filling into the obtained recesses, pour the egg-cheese mass on top and send it to the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
