Recipe Details

Summary

Name: Argentinean Stew in A Pumpkin Shell

Category: Main Dish

Ingredients and Directions

2 pound beef, stew meat, cut in 1 1/2 inch cubes

1 each onion, chopped

2 each garlic, cloves, minced

3 tablespoon oil

2 each tomatoes, chopped

1 each bell pepper, green, chopped

1 salt, pepper

1 teaspoon sugar

1 cup apricots, dried

3 each potatoes, white, peeled, diced

3 each potatoes, sweet, peeled, diced

2 cup beef broth

1 each pumpkin, medium

1 butter, or margarine, melted

1/4 cup sherry, dry

1 each corn, whole kernel, can, drained

Trim any excess fat from beef and cook with onion and garlic in oil until meat is browned. Add tomatoes, green pepper, 1 tablespoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, sugar, apricots, white potatoes, sweet potatoes and broth. Cover and simmer 1 hour. Meanwhile, cut top off pumpkin and discard. Scoop out seeds and stringy membrane. Brush inside of pumpkin with butter and sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper. Stir sherry and corn into stew and spoon into pumpkin shell. Place shell in shallow pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour, or until pumpkin meat is tender. Place pumpkin in large bowl and ladle out stew, scooping out some of pumpkin with each stew serving.