Stuffed Miniature Pumpkin Recipe

Stuffed Miniature Pumpkin Description

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

Preheat the oven to 250° F.
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

Hot Apple Sauce

Turkey or Chicken stuffing

Soup, especially Pumpkin Soup

Cold Foods

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 great, Chocolate for the kids

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