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How to cook sweet pilaf in pumpkin

1. Rice for sweet pilaf needs to be sorted, washed, and filled with water. Add salt, cook until half cooked. To do this, just bring the rice to a boil and cook for 5-6 minutes. Turn off the heat and keep it on the stove for a while.

2. While the rice is cooking, cut the top off the pumpkin.

Select all seeds.

If the walls of the pumpkin are thick, then remove a little pulp from the walls. After all the manipulations, you should end up with a pumpkin with a container inside, a kind of saucepan made from fresh pumpkin.

Grease the inside of the pumpkin walls with oil.

3. Combine rice with apple, raisins and pour honey over everything.

Instead of honey, you can add sugar to the filling.

4. Place everything in the pumpkin, add oil, cover with the cut off top.

5. Set the oven to + 190. Send the pumpkin to bake. If it is small, then 50 minutes will be enough. An average pumpkin will need to cook for about 90 - 100 minutes.

Remove the finished khapama and cut into slices.

Sweet pilaf in pumpkin is a sign of a holiday or a festive family feast.

Prepare your food.

Rinse the pumpkin, cut off the “cap” on top - it will serve as a lid when baking in the oven.

Using a spoon, remove the core and seeds from the pumpkin.

Pour boiling water inside the pumpkin, cover with a lid, and let cool completely.

Rinse the rice thoroughly with water, changing the water 5-7 times. Then pour boiling water over the rice and cover with a lid. When the water has cooled, drain the water. To reduce the cooking time for pilaf, the rice can be pre-boiled until half cooked (I did not boil it).

Pour boiling water over raisins, prunes and figs for 3-5 minutes. Drain the water and dry the dried fruits with a paper towel. Peel the apples and cut them into large pieces.

In a deep bowl, combine rice, prunes, figs, raisins, apples and assorted fruits and nuts.

Add sugar to taste, I added 3 tablespoons, but for my taste it was not enough sweetness. Stir.

Drain the pumpkin. Transfer the contents of the bowl to the pumpkin.

Immediately place the pumpkin on the foil.

Pour the contents of the pumpkin with 2-2.5 cups of boiling water and cover with a pumpkin “lid”.

Wrap the pumpkin in 2 layers of foil.

Place in a preheated oven at 180-200 degrees for 2-2.5 hours.

During baking in the oven, the rice will steam well in the pumpkin, dried fruits and apples will give a wonderful aroma to our sweet pilaf. The finished pumpkin should be completely soft; it is convenient to check this with a wooden skewer. Unfold the foil, remove the lid, and place a piece of butter on top.

This pilaf can be served immediately. But it will become tastier if you let it brew, to do this, cover the pumpkin with a “lid”, wrap it in foil again, put it in a warm oven, let it brew for about 25-30 minutes. Sweet pilaf cooked in pumpkin can be served with melted honey - tasty, simple and original.