Beef and rice stuffed pumpkin

original post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2015/10/beef-and-rice-stuffed-pumpkin.html

Ingredients

For the pumpkin

1 whole pumpkin

1 tablespoon oil

3 pinches of salt

2 pinches of black pepper

For the stuffing

2 teaspoon coconut oil

½ cup onions

¼ cup sweet peppers

¼ cup carrots

¾ lb ground beef

1 ½ teaspoon ( or Salt to taste)

¼ teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

¾ cup rice

2 cups water

¼ cup raisins

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375
• Wash and dry the pumpkin, slice the top off and scoop out all the seeds
• Add salt black pepper and oil to the pumpkin rubbing it all over the insides and edges
• Place pumpkin (top and body )cut side down on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 35 minutes
• In a saucepan head the oil, add onions sweet pepper and carrots cook to soften
• Add beef cook constantly stirring until the beef turns gray
• Stir in the rice salt, black pepper, smoked paprika, coat all the rice grains with the oil from the pot
• Add the water and raisins, reduce heat to low cover and simmer until the rice grains are 90 percent cooked
• Once the grains are almost cooked, remove the pumpkin from the oven and fill with the rice/beef mixture
• Cover the top of the pumpkin with foil and put back the pumpkin (body only) Steam cook the rice in the bumpkin belly for another 15 minutes
• Remove from the oven allow to rest and serve.