Ingredients:
- One medium sized pumpkin 🎃
- 1.5 cup of long grain rice 🍚
- 0.5 kg meat 🥩 (lamb or beef)
- 1 yellow onion 🧅
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/4th tsp ground cloves
- 1/4th tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4th tsp allspice
- 0.5 tsp Armenian red hot pepper 🌶️
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt to taste 🧂
Directions:
- Thoroughly wash and soak the rice in cold water.
- Finely chop the onion and sautée until soft.
- Cut the pieces of meat into 1 cm size and add to the onion.
- Continue mixing until the liquid from the meat evaporates.
- Add all the spices and continue mixing.
- Strain the rice and put aside.
- Take off the sautéed ingredients from the stove.
- Wash the pumpkin with soap, dry, and cut the top of the pumpkin into a star-shaped lid.
- Empty the inside of the pumpkin from the seeds and fibre.
- Add salt and olive oil on the walls inside the pumpkin.
- Fill in the pumpkin with layers of rice and sautéed meat.
- Put the cinnamon stick at the very top.
- Add 0.5 cup of boiling water on top of the rice and meat mixture.
- Close the lid.
- Put the pumpkin on the tray and place in the oven 350 F for 1.5 hours. The middle rack.
- Serve hot and enjoy.