This is a beautiful and delicious side dish to add to your holiday feast and it is quite simple to make! Just imagine a few cute little pumpkins running down the center of the table, so festive! Really all there is to it is putting the stuffing into the pumpkins and then in the oven!
Ingredients:
1 sugar pie pumpkin
1 cup rice
¼ lbs ground sausage
2 cloves garlic
¼ cup chives
pinch of saffron
1 cup swiss cheese
1 cup cream
1 cup water
1 tsp nutmeg
Salt & Pepper
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Clean pumpkin like you would carve it, save the top. Salt & pepper the inside to your taste.
- Place pumpkin on a cookie sheet and roast for about 30 minutes.
- While the pumpkin is roasting cook the ground sausage in a pan.
- Finely chop garlic and chives and add to the sausage pan just before sausage is cooked through.
- Add the water, cream, rice, nutmeg and pinch of saffron. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer until the rice is cooked.
- When rice is done, about 20 minutes, add cheese and stir until melted.
- After the pumpkin is done roasting for the first 30 minutes stuff the rice mixture into the pumpkin.
- Roast for another hour or until the pumpkin is tender to a fork’s touch.
- Remove from oven, allow to cool for 10-15 minutes, then enjoy!
