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Stuffed Pumpkin

October 15, 2020

This delicious baked pumpkin is easy to prepare and makes an impressive holiday dish. Use one of our Long Island Cheese Pumpkins or a small pie pumpkin for best results.

Serves: 8 • Prep Time: 30 min • Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

  • 1 Pie pumpkin
  • 1/2 loaf Crusty bread, cubed
  • 6 ounces Gruyère cheese, cubed smallishly
  • 5 Bacon slices, fried till crispy and crumbled
  • 4 Garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon Thyme
  • 1/3 cup Heavy cream
  • 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg, freshly grated
  • Salt, to taste
  • Freshly ground 4 peppercorn blend, to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Pretend like you’re going to make a Jack-o-Lantern, and cut a lid from the top of the pumpkin at a 45 degree angle. Scoop out the innards (save the seeds to bake for a snack). Place the clean pumpkin in a round baking dish.
  3. Combine the crusty bread, cheese, garlic, bacon and thyme in the pumpkin. The quantities really depend on how big your pumpkin is; it should be at least 3/4 of the way full.
  4. Mix the heavy cream, nutmeg, salt and pepper in a separate bowl. Pour the cream mixture over the contents of the pumpkin. Pop the cap back on that baby and bake it for 1-2 hours (depends on the size of your pumpkin). You’ll know it’s done when you can easily pierce it with a fork. If it’s looking a bit soggy in there, take the cap off of the pumpkin for the last 15 minutes of baking .
  5. Slice and serve like a pie. Impressive.

Filed Under: Fall, Recipes, Winter Tagged With: garlic, pumpkin, squash, thyme

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