Stuffing Stuffed Pumpkins

Ingredients

  • 2 small 3-pound sugar pumpkins

  • Vegetable oil

  • Salt, to taste

  • Black pepper, to taste

  • 1 cup diced celery

  • 1 cup diced carrot

  • 1 cup diced onion

  • ½ cup chopped fresh cranberries

  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic

  • Dried, crushed sage, to taste

  • 10 ounces chestnuts, roughly chopped

  • 6 cups dried bread cubes

  • 1 cup chicken broth

  • 1 egg, beaten


Steps

  1. Use a sharp knife to carefully cut the tops off 2 small sugar pumpkins

  2. Scrape and scoop out all the pumpkin seeds and inner stringy pulp bits

  3. Drizzle some vegetable oil into each cleaned out pumpkin and use your hands to spread the oil all around the inside of the fruit

  4. Season the inside of the pumpkins with some salt and black pepper to taste

  5. Place the tops back on the pumpkins

  6. Bake the pumpkins in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour

  7. Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil to a saute pan

  8. Add 1 cup of diced celery, 1 cup of diced carrots, 1 cup of diced onion, and ½ cup of chopped fresh cranberries to the pan

  9. Turn the stove heat on medium and stir to combine the vegetables together as they cook and soften

  10. Add 1 teaspoon of minced garlic and stir again to combine

  11. Season with some salt and black pepper to taste and sprinkle some crushed dried sage

  12. Stir the pan again to incorporate

  13. Add 6 cups of dried bread cubes into a large bowl

  14. Drizzle and pour 1 cup of chicken broth over the bread cubes

  15. Use a wooden spoon to stir the bread cubes and saturate with the broth

  16. After 1 hour, take the whole cooked pumpkins out of the oven and remove the cooked tops off of them

  17. Add the cooked vegetables and cranberries over the soaked bread cubes and stir to combine

  18. Add 10 ounces of chopped chestnuts and stir again

  19. On the side, beat one egg and then pour the beaten egg into the stuffing and stir once more until the egg is incorporated

  20. Spoon the stuffing in the cooked pumpkins, pressing the stuffing down with the back of a spoon to fully stuff the pumpkin

  21. Bake the stuffing stuffed pumpkins in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes - but leave the tops off this time!

  22. Then remove the stuffing stuffed pumpkins from the oven to enjoy


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