Dinner-in-a-pumpkin

8 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1mediumPumpkin
2poundsLean Ground Beef
1teaspoonSalt
½cupCelery, chopped
½cupOnion, chopped
¼cupGreen Pepper, diced
¼cupSoy Sauce
2tablespoonsBrown Sugar, browned
1cupMushrooms, sliced & drained (4 oz. can)
1cupCondensed Cream of Chicken Soup (10.5 oz can)
2cupsHot Cooked Rice

Directions

Preheat oven to 375ø. Lightly grease a 10" circle in the center of baking sheet; set aside. Place pumpkin on a firm surface. Using a sharp knife cut out stem end about 3" around stem. Cut on diagonal by slanting knife from outer edge of pumpkin toward center. Reserve top of pumpkin. Remove seeds and pulp; discard. In a medium bowl, combine ground beef, salt, celery, onion and green pepper, soy sauce, brown sugar, mushrooms, soup and rice. Spoon mixture into pumpkin.

Replace top of pumpkin. Place filled pumpkin on greased cookie sheet.

Bake about 1 hour in preheated oven until pumpkin is tender. To Serve, spoon some of cooked pumpkin and meat filling onto plates.

For a HALLOWEEN treat, paint a face on the pumpkin with acrylic paints before it is baked.

Source: Tupperware 1994

Submitted By SANDRA MAY On 11-07-94