I have a pumpkin...?

Question

But no food processor or blender to make puree what is a good thing to make to eat with this pumpkin? It's a red one.

Answer 1

Baked Whole Pumpkin

1 small sugar pumpkin
6 eggs
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon molasses
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon butter
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Cut the lid off the pumpkin and remove the seeds.
Combine the eggs, whipping cream, brown sugar, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger. Pour mixture into the pumpkin shell and top the butter. Replace lid on pumpkin and place in a baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 to 1-1/2 hours or until mixture has set like a custard. Serve right from the pumpkin at the table, scraping some of the meat from the pumpkin wall with each serving

Answer 2

Cut off the top in a zig-zag pattern and hollow it out as if you were making a jack o lantern out of it.
Brown 1 pound of ground beef, and saute half an onion. Add a small can of mushrooms with the liquid, and a can of cream of celery soup (undiluted). Add a cup of chopped green or red bell pepper, 2 tablespoons dried parsley, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and a 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper.

Spoon the ground beef mixture into the hollowed out pumpkin. Place the zig-zag top back on. Put the pumpkin in a 9x13" baking pan and bake for about 2 hours at 350 degrees.

This works best with a medium sized pumpkin. You can increase the ground beef, add diced potatoes and/or carrots, etc. This is basically a stuffed pepper recipe adapted to a pumpkin shell.

Serve a portion of the cooked pumpkin shell with the filling. The pumpkin should be savory and soft. Pumpkins are very high in vitamins, especially A .

Answer 3

Beef Stew in a Pumpkin

Plump, very fresh 10 - 12 lb pumpkin with a wide, steady base.
4 tbl Olive oil
2 lb Beef cut in 1" cubes
2 tbl Brandy
1 cup Coarsely chopped green onion
1/2 cup Chopped green pepper
3 lrg Minced garlic cloves
3 cup Beef stock
1 cup Madeira or dry sherry
3 med Tomatoes, chopped
1 x Bay leaf
1 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Oregano
1/4 tsp Pepper
1 1/2 lb White potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 " cubes
1 1/2 lb Sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 " cubes
1/2 lb Zucchini, slices about 1/4" thick
1 cup Corn
12 x Dried apricots, up to 14
12 x Pitted prunes, up to 14
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Brown sugar
3 tbl Cinnamon
1 pch Ground cloves

Scrub pumpkin well.
Heat 3 TBSP oil in 5 quart casserole over medium heat. Add beef in batches to brown on all sides. Warm brandy, ignite and pour over beef. Transfer meat to platter and set aside. In same casserole pot combine oil, onion, green pepper and garlic, cooking over medium heat about 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add stock and madeira and bring to boil. Scrape sides and return meat and juices to pot.
Stir in tomatoes, salt, oregano, pepper, bay lea,f and cloves. Cover, reduce heat to low and cook 15 minutes. Add potatoes and cook 15 minutes more. Stir in zucchini and cook 10 minutes more. Add corn, apricots and prunes and cook another 5 minutes. Keep stew warm on low heat while preparing pumpkin.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut pumpkin about 3 or 4 inches from top to form a lid and do not remove stem! Scrape out seeds and string fibers from lid and base. Brush melted pareve margarine (the paper says butter but...)
inside pumpkin and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Replace lid and bake pumpkin in roasting pan about 40 minutes.
Pour juices from pumpkin into stew and stir well. Place stew into pumpkin and bake about 15 minutes longer.
Serves about 8.

Answer 4

Not sure if a red one is edible like Sugar or Fairytale ones, but if so, cut it into small chunks, toss w/ olive oil, salt, and pepper, and roast in the oven until fork-tender.

Answer 5

Red? It could be cleaned out, and used as a soup tureen.
Or you could make pumpkin pudding.

Answer 6

fry in oil ,leave it for 10 min then added sugar in it,stir continously until oil comes out again