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Recipe Collection Meal Time Main Meal Baked Pumpkin
Recipe Collection Meal Time Main Meal Baked Pumpkin
Baked Pumpkin
Description
It can easily be the central point of a vegan meal.
Ingredients
- 1 four pound pumpkin
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 inch cube fresh ginger root
- 3 Tbs extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 zucchini, sliced
- 4 oz sliced mushrooms
- 1 fourteen oz can chopped tomatoes
- 1 cup pasta shells
- 2 cups vegetable stock
- salt
- ground black pepper
- 4 Tbs ricotta cheese (optional)
- 2 Tbs fresh basil, chopped
Methods/steps
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Cut the top out of the pumpkin and remove the seeds and string. using a very sharp knife, carefully remove as much of the flesh as possible, but not too much that the pumpkin will no longer be sturdy. Chop the flesh into chunks.
- With the lid back on the pumpkin, bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour. The inside should soften.
- Aas the pumpkin bakes, gently fry the onion, ginger and pumpkin flesh in the olive oil for about 10 minutes. Stir only occasionally. add zucchini and mushrooms, cooking for 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, pasta and stock. season well to taste. Bring this to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes
- If using, stir in the cheese, and the basil into the pan. Carefully pour this into the pumpkin shell to be served.
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