Recipe

Russian Stuffed Pumpkin Recipe

	Mystic_river1 / All my dishes 1 year, 2 months ago This spectacular stuffed pumpkin can be the centerpiece of your Thanksgiving table. Pumpkin is stuffed with rice, apples, raisins and sour cherries, then baked Prep:30m Cook:120m Servings:8	Mystic_rive
	rice apples raisins cherries butter sugar cinnamon

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Ingredients

4 lb Pumpkin

1 1/2 c Long-grain rice

2 lg Tart cooking apples (like

-Granny Smith), peeled,

-cored and diced

1/2 c Golden raisins

1/2 c Dried sour cherries

-(available in specialty

-food stores)

8 tb (1 stick) unsalted butter,

-melted

1 tb Sugar or more to taste

3/4 ts Ground cinnamon

Salt to taste

1/4 c Hot water

Directions

Cut the stem end of the pumpkin as if you were about to carve a jack

o'lantern. Set aside "lid".

Remove insides of pumpkin and discard

(or save to roast and munch on).

Using a grapefruit knife or melon

baller, scoop out the flesh of the pumpkin as much as you can without piercing the skin.

Chop flesh and set aside.

In lg saucepan, bring 3 qts of salted water to boil and dump in the

rice.

Cook over high heat, covered until still a bit hard to the

bite...about 15 minutes.

Drain well.

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In large bowl, combine, pumpkin, partially cooked rice, raisins,

dried sour cherries and melted butter.

Season with sugar, salt and

cinnamon.

Spoon stuffing loosely into pumpkin, sprinkle with the hot

water and put "lid" on tightly.

Place on baking sheet and bake till

pumpkin is tender to a point of a knife...about 2 hrs.

Cut into wedges and serve.

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Comments

virtualsteve 1 year, 2 months ago said:
I'm going to try this recipe tonight. Appreciate you sharing it with all of us. I will come back with my review later. :)
SECOND POST AFTER BAKING THIS DISH: Have come back now as promised - did indeed try this last night and it worked quite magnificently. One point (I hope it's useful for others too) is that try as I might I couldn't find sour cherries so I substituted with unsweetened cranberries and they were great. Thanks again. Steve

trigger 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Thank you for posting this interesting recipe. I have one more of my Hopi squash still on the vine that I will use for this recipe.
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morninlite 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Very interesting. Sounds delicious.

mark555 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Between you and Mornin’ I’ll need two pumpkins to make a meal. Sounds great.

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