Oh, my gourd! we have a recipe for you that uses miniature pumpkins. When it comes to preparing and serving food, they say “It’s all about the presentation”. This stuffed miniature pumpkin recipe creates the perfect novel presentation. Amazingly, all foods, hot and cold, look better and taste better when stuffed in a miniature pumpkin.
Small three-inch to four-inch “Pepo” or “Jack-Be-Little” miniature pumpkins make a novel serving dish for your favorite stuffing. Your guests will rave about eating out of the cute little mini pumpkins.
Did You Know? Farmers in the United States harvest over 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins per year. Now, that’s a lot of pumpkin pie. And, this figure doesn’t include home gardeners.
Stuffed Miniature Pumpkin Ingredients
Miniature pumpkins
Your favorite stuffing (see suggestions below)
How to Make Stuffed Miniature Pumpkin Directions
First, preheat the oven to 250°F. While the oven is coming up to temperature, prepare the miniature pumpkins.
Wash the pumpkins.
Cut the tops off the pumpkins.
Scoop out the insides.
Place a piece of foil on a cookie sheet and place the pumpkins on the sheet.
Put the pumpkins in the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the insides just begins to soften.
For use with cold foods, allow to cool.
Stuff pumpkins with your preferred stuffing (see below).
Stuffing Tips and Suggestions:
You can use a wide variety of foods and recipes to stuff in the pumpkin.
The food can be hot or cold.
For hot foods, you can even cook it right in the shell.
Use your creativity and when in doubt, try it.
Some of our suggestions are listed below:
Hot Foods
Use a stuffed miniature pumpkin for all kinds of hot foods. Here are a few ideas:
Hot Apple Sauce
Turkey or Chicken stuffing
Soup, especially Pumpkin Soup
Cold Foods
Besides hot foods, stuffed miniature pumpkins are great for serving cold foods. Here are some ideas:
Apple Sauce, a great serving dish for kids.
Pumpkin Puree, add Nutmeg and Whipped cream on top
Jell-O
Vanilla or Chocolate Pudding
Ice Cream- Vanilla or Pumpkin are certainly great seasonal ice cream flavors. Use Chocolate for the kids
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