Dinner in a Pumpkin
"One of our families favorites at Halloween."
submitted by: Julie Parker
serves: 8-10
Ingredients:
1 small to medium pumpkin
1 cup uncooked rice
2 cups water
1 1/2 pounds of hamburger
1 medium onion, chopped
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 tablespoons soy sauce
4 oz canned mushrooms
8 oz sliced water chestnuts (drain first), can substitute 1/2 cup chopped celery
Directions:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Hollow out pumpkin, rinse well and dry the inside and outside. Set aside. (You can draw a jack-o-lantern face on it.)
- Boil water and add rice. Turn down heat and cover. Cook rice 20 minutes or until tender. Set cooked rice aside.
- Brown hamburger with onion, add soup, soy sauce, mushrooms and water chestnuts.
- Simmer all of this together for about 6-8 minutes. Stir it into the cooked rice and dump all of this mixture into hollowed out pumpkin.
- Cut a small hole in the edge of the lid to allow steam to escape
- Place on cookie sheet. (I cover it with foil to make clean up easier)
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hrs, maybe a tad longer. (you want the pumpkin to be cooked) Serve by scooping out onto plate, then also scoop out the cooked pumpkin and add salt, pepper and butter if desired.
