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Beef Stew in a Pumpkin

Written by Updated on January 8, 2024 in How to, Recipes, Suzy’s Recipe, The Sisters show you how
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On a chilly fall day soup or stew is a go to meal.  Suzy shows how to have a fun meal using a pumpkin as the pot for her beef stew. Yes, beef stew in a pumpkin!  Celebrate #NationalPumpkinDay with this tasty stew. 

Beef Stew in a Pumpkin
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Beef Stew in a Pumpkin

Recipe by SuzyCourse: How to, Recipes, Suzy’s Recipe, The Sisters show you how
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

30

minutes
Cooking time

40

minutes
Calories

300

kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 pumpkin 9 to 12 pounds

  • 2 carrots sliced or chopped

  • 2 stalks of celery chopped

  • 1 small onion chopped

  • 2 sweet mini peppers

  • 4 to 5 cloves of garlic

  • 1 small onion studded with 4 to 6 whole cloves (do not chopped)

  • 10 to 14 small red potatoes sliced

  • 8 ounces sliced mushrooms

  • 1 pound or more or less of beef stew meat

  • Seasoned flour to toss the meat in

  • Oil for sautéing veggies and meat (Suzy likes red pepper flake olive oil)

  • 1 cup red or burgundy wine (Suzy used Madeira)

  • 2 cups broth Suzy used Better than Boullion Beef Base

  • 2 cups water

  • 1/2 tsp salt

  • 1 tsp pepper

  • 1 tsp thyme

  • 2 bay leaves

Directions

  • About 2.5 hours before serving
     
    Cut a top hole in your pumpkin, gut the pumpkin,removing seeds and stringy fibers.  Save the seeds if you want to make pumpkin seeds.
  • Preheat oven to 450°
  • Place your topped pumpkin in a pie deep dish
  • Set in a roaster, place roaster with the pumpkin in it on oven rack
  • Boil water in a Dutch oven or big pasta pot
  • Pour boiling water around pumpkin pie dish in roaster
  • Cover loosely with tin foil. (Pumpkin will get very brown if not fully covered with tin foil).
  • Bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours (if pumpkin is done before stew, turn off oven and leave in till stew is done)
  • While Pumpkin is baking
  • Chop your stew ingredients.
  • Shake stew meat in flour in a zip loc bag.
  • Over medium heat sauté carrots, chopped onion, celery, peppers and garlic till golden.
  • Remove veggies from pot, add oil and meat cook till slightly brown
  • Add wine, broth
  • Add sautéed veggies, potatoes, mushrooms, clove studded onions
  • Add seasoning and water
  • Cover and simmer for 40 to 60 minutes till potatoes and meat are tender.
     
  • Remove pumpkin from oven
  • Place on platter or a pie dish
  • Scoop any water inside pumpkin out
  • To serve
  • Ladle stew into pumpkin
  • Place on table and serve by dishing up a scoop of pumpkin with each serving of stew.

Recipe Video

Notes

  • Enjoy! Yum!

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