Hidatsa Stuffed Sugar Pumpkin Recipe
Yield: 6 ServingsRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
1: Sugar pumpkin, 4-5 pounds
2 tsp: Salt,
1/2 tsp: Dry mustard,
2 tbsp: Rendered fat,
1 lbs: Ground buffalo, venison or beef
1 Medium: onion, chopped
1 cup: Cooked wild rice,
3: Eggs, beaten
1 tsp: Crushed, dried sage
1/4 tsp: Pepper,
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Cut the top off the pumpkin and remove
strings and seeds. Reserve seeds for another use. Prick the cavity
with a fork and rub with 1 teaspoon salt and the mustard. Heat fat in
a large skillet, add meat and onion and saute over medium-high heat
until browned. Off the heat, stir in wild rice, eggs, remaining salt,
sage and pepper.
Stuff pumpkin with the meat mixture. Place 1/2" water in the bottom
of a shallow baking pan. Put pumpkin in the pan and bake for 1 1/2
hours, or until tender. Add more water to the pan as neccessary to
avoid sticking.
To serve, cut pumpkin into wedges, giving each person pumpkin and
stuffing.
Source: Spirit of the Harvest
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strings and seeds. Reserve seeds for another use. Prick the cavity
with a fork and rub with 1 teaspoon salt and the mustard. Heat fat in
a large skillet, add meat and onion and saute over medium-high heat
until browned. Off the heat, stir in wild rice, eggs, remaining salt,
sage and pepper.
Stuff pumpkin with the meat mixture. Place 1/2" water in the bottom
of a shallow baking pan. Put pumpkin in the pan and bake for 1 1/2
hours, or until tender. Add more water to the pan as neccessary to
avoid sticking.
To serve, cut pumpkin into wedges, giving each person pumpkin and
stuffing.
Source: Spirit of the Harvest
Source from luhu.jp