Pumpkin stew is a hearty dish that can be made with a variety of ingredients, but always includes pumpkin. The dish is often cooked in a pumpkin, which gives it a unique flavor and presentation. Pumpkin stew can be made on the stovetop, in the oven, or in a slow cooker, making it a versatile dish to prepare. With so many different ways to make it, there's sure to be a recipe that will please everyone at your table.
Here are our top 11 tried and tested recipes!
PUMPKIN STEW
This special stew is the meal our two kids look forward to each fall because we only get to enjoy it when the fresh pumpkins come out of the garden. The stew is cooked and served right in the pumpkin shell. A true taste of autumn, it also makes a pretty presentation at a potluck. -Donna Mosher, Augusta, Montana
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 4h30m
Yield 10 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a Dutch oven, brown meat in 2 tablespoons oil. Add water, potatoes, carrots, green pepper, garlic, onion, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer for 2 hours. Stir in bouillon and tomatoes. Wash pumpkin; cut a 6 to 8 in. circle around top stem. Remove top and set aside; discard seeds and loosen fibers from inside. , Place pumpkin in a shallow sturdy baking pan. Spoon stew into pumpkin and replace top. Brush outside of pumpkin with remaining oil. Bake at 325° for 2 hours or just until the pumpkin is tender (do not overbake). Serve stew from pumpkin, scooping out a little pumpkin with each serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 324 calories, Fat 11g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 57mg cholesterol, Sodium 1070mg sodium, Carbohydrate 37g carbohydrate (9g sugars, Fiber 4g fiber), Protein 23g protein.
PUMPKIN STEW
This is a marvelous autumn potluck dinner. Everyone will be very impressed with this thick beef stew made and served in a pumpkin shell! Use a 10- to-12 pound pumpkin; be sure not to overbake!
Provided by Cathryn Gross
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Stews Beef
Time 4h25m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Place beef in the saucepan and cook until evenly brown. Mix in the water, potatoes, carrots, green bell pepper, garlic, onion, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer approximately 2 hours.
- Dissolve the bouillon into the beef mixture. Stir in the tomatoes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Cut top off the pumpkin and remove seeds and pulp. Place the pumpkin in a heavy baking pan. Fill the pumpkin with the beef mixture. Brush outside of the pumpkin with remaining oil.
- Bake in the preheated oven 2 hours, or until tender. Serve the stew from the pumpkin, scraping out some of the pumpkin meat with each serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 592.3 calories, Carbohydrate 61.9 g, Cholesterol 76.2 mg, Fat 27.9 g, Fiber 7.3 g, Protein 29.4 g, SaturatedFat 10 g, Sodium 1084.8 mg, Sugar 11.3 g
PUMPKIN STEW (COOKED IN THE PUMPKIN)
This smells so wonderful while it is cooking and makes a great presentation dish. Good comfort food for cold nights and kids think it's COOL!
Provided by southern chef in lo
Categories Stew
Time 3h10m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Carve a hole in the top of the pumpkin; remove seeds and stringy inside, then set the pumpkin aside.
- Brown the meat in a Dutch oven, then add all the cut up vegetables, salt, pepper, and water. Let simmer 1 hour.
- Place pumpkin in shallow baking pan. Fill with the stew mixture. Brush the sides of the pumpkin with oil and cook on 350°F for 2 hours or until the pumpkin is tender. Serve.
- Be sure to get chunks of pumpkin in your stew as you serve it--this enhances the flavor.
STEWED PUMPKIN
Steps:
- Heat a large heavy saucepan over medium heat and add the butter. Add the calabaza and garlic and cook for 1 minute, stirring once. Add the water, cover the pan, and reduce the heat to low. Cook for about 10 to 15 minutes more, or until the squash is only just tender, stirring the mixture occasionally so that it doesn't stick. Add the green onions, salt, pepper, and chile, and stir to mix. Cook uncovered for 3 to 5 minutes more. Serve warm.
PORK AND PUMPKIN STEW
Categories Leafy Green Pork Stew Low Cal High Fiber Pumpkin Fall Healthy Gourmet
Yield Serves 6 to 8
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a heavy kettle heat the oil over moderately high heat until it is hot but not smoking and in it brown the pork, patted dry, in batches, transferring it with a slotted spoon to a bowl as it is browned. Add the onions to the kettle, cook them, stirring occasionally, until they are golden, and stir in the garlic. Add the tomatoes with their juice, breaking them up, the water, and the pork with any juices that have accumulated in the bowl, bring the mixture to a boil, and braise the stew, covered, in the middle of a preheated 350° F. oven for 1 hour. Stir in the turnips and braise the stew, covered, for 20 minutes. Stir in the greens and the pumpkin and braise the stew, covered, for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the pumpkin is tender. Season the stew with salt and pepper and serve it with the rice.
HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN STEW
I am not sure where this recipe originated, but it has been a Halloween tradition in my husband's family for at least 20 years. It is a dinner we look forward to all year. Served with cornbread or sourdough rolls. Yum!
Provided by Melissa
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Stews
Time 1h40m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a rimmed baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil.
- Wash the pumpkin and cut off the top at an angle to form a lid that won't fall through. Clean out and discard seeds and string.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef, oregano, salt, and pepper in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Add onion, celery, and bell pepper; cook 3 minutes. Add mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce, water, corn, mushrooms, and instant rice. Stir well.
- Pour mixture from the skillet into the pumpkin and replace lid.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour. When serving, scrape the insides of the pumpkin to get some of the soft flesh in each bowl.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 751 calories, Carbohydrate 64.6 g, Cholesterol 136.2 mg, Fat 32.5 g, Fiber 6 g, Protein 57.2 g, SaturatedFat 18.4 g, Sodium 1795.4 mg, Sugar 14.8 g
STUFFED PUMPKIN STEW
Each vegetable is perfectly cooked and colorful, and the chicken takes on a wonderful flavor after it is warmed inside the steaming-hot pumpkin. Each portion of this dinner recipe is served with a big slice of the roasted pumpkin.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Chicken Chicken Thighs
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Prepare an ice-water bath. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add brussels sprouts, and cook until bright green and crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer to ice-water bath. Repeat with green beans and snap peas. Drain.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Rub inside of pumpkin and cut side of its top with 3 tablespoons oil. Place pumpkin and top on a parchment-lined baking sheet, and roast until they are tender but still holding shape, about 1 hour.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Season chicken generously with salt and pepper. Working in batches, cook chicken until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove excess fat from skillet. Repeat with remaining chicken, adding 1 tablespoon oil to skillet with each batch. Place chicken on a baking sheet. Add stock to skillet, and bring to a boil, scraping bottom. Pour stock into a small bowl.
- Roast chicken until golden brown and cooked through, about 40 minutes. Reserve pan juices.
- Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add apples, and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden and softened, about 10 minutes. Stir in chestnuts, and remove from heat.
- Combine potatoes, leeks, carrots, turnips, parsnips, squash, and celery root in a large bowl. Toss with remaining 1/2 cup oil, and season with salt and pepper. Spread vegetables in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet, and roast until golden and tender, about 40 minutes. Add brussels sprouts, green beans, snap peas, apple mixture, and the garlic, and toss. Roast until garlic is golden brown and vegetables are heated through, about 10 minutes.
- Combine chicken, vegetables, parsley, stock, and 2 tablespoons reserved pan juices in a large bowl. Place mixture in pumpkin, and roast until heated through, about 15 minutes. Slice pumpkin into wedges. Serve each pumpkin wedge with some stew.
BEEF STEW IN A PUMPKIN
I only made this once last year, but you should have heard the ooohs and ahhs when I brought it to the table.
Provided by Mirj2338
Categories Stew
Time 2h15m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- Scrub pumpkin well.
- Heat 3 tablespoons oil in 5 quart casserole over medium heat.
- Add beef in batches to brown on all sides.
- Warm brandy, ignite and pour over beef.
- Transfer meat to platter and set aside.
- In same casserole pot, combine oil, onion, green pepper and garlic, cooking over medium heat about 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Add stock and madeira and bring to boil.
- Scrape sides and return meat and juices to pot.
- Stir in tomatoes, salt, oregano, pepper, bay leaf, and cloves.
- Cover, reduce heat to low and cook 15 minutes.
- Add potatoes and cook 15 minutes more.
- Stir in zucchini and cook 10 minutes more.
- Add corn, apricots and prunes and cook another 5 minutes.
- Keep stew warm on low heat while preparing pumpkin.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Cut pumpkin about 3 or 4 inches from top to form a lid and do not remove stem!
- Scrape out seeds and string fibers from lid and base.
- Brush melted margarine inside pumpkin and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
- Replace lid and bake pumpkin in roasting pan about 40 minutes.
- Pour juices from pumpkin into stew and stir well.
- Place stew into pumpkin and bake about 15 minutes longer.
PUMPKIN VEGETABLE STEW
I created this stew as a way to use pumpkin for more than just breads and pies. It's a meal by itself, but also serves as a side dish for meat and potatoes. It's great during the fall, and is as colorful as the season. My family loves it.
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Dinner
Time 1h
Yield 6 servings (2 quarts).
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a large saucepan, combine all the ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 40-45 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 83 calories, Fat 1g fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 1mg cholesterol, Sodium 109mg sodium, Carbohydrate 20g carbohydrate (0 sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 4g protein. Diabetic Exchanges
ARMENIAN PUMPKIN STEW
Provided by Molly O'Neill
Categories dinner, one pot, main course
Time 3h15m
Yield Four to six servings
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Combine coriander, cardamom, cinnamon, cumin and clove in a spice mill or coffee grinder. Grind until smooth. Set aside. Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large, heavy-bottom saucepan. Add the lamb in one layer. Sprinkle with the spice mixture. Sear over medium heat until golden brown, about 3 to 5 minutes. Remove lamb from pan and set aside.
- Add the onion and garlic to the pan. Saute, stirring frequently, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the carrots, celery root, tomatoes and acorn squash. Add the broth. Return lamb to pan. Partly cover and gently simmer until the lamb is tender, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Season with the salt and pepper.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the pumpkin on a baking sheet. Brush the outside with the remaining oil. Bake until tender, about 45 to 60 minutes. Cook the rice according to package directions. Set aside.
- To assemble, place the pumpkin in a serving dish. Fill with the lamb stew. Divide the rice among 4 warmed bowls. Ladle the stew from the pumpkin over the rice. Garnish with coriander and parsley. Serve immediately.
PUMPKIN STEW WITH LAMB
Provided by Craig Claiborne
Categories dinner, one pot, main course
Time 1h35m
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper and set aside.
- Heat oil in a heavy casserole and add half the meat, stirring so pieces brown evenly, 3 to 4 minutes over high heat.
- Scoop out meat and add remaining cubes to the fat still in the casserole. Cook, stirring, about 3 minutes, or until pieces are well browned. Scoop out second batch and add to the first.
- Put onions in the casserole and add garlic. Cook, stirring, about 1 minute, and return meat pieces to the casserole. Sprinkle flour over all and stir to coat pieces evenly.
- Add wine, water, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme and chili pepper and cover closely. Bring to boil and simmer about 40 minutes. Add pumpkin. Continue cooking about 20 minutes longer. Stir in rosemary and corn and bring to boil. Remove bay leaf and serve.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 1048, UnsaturatedFat 49 grams, Carbohydrate 15 grams, Fat 103 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 11 grams, SaturatedFat 51 grams, Sodium 778 milligrams, Sugar 5 grams, TransFat 0 grams
Tips:
- Choose a small, round pumpkin that is about the size of a grapefruit. This will ensure that the stew cooks evenly.
- Cut the pumpkin in half horizontally and scoop out the seeds and pulp. Be careful not to cut through the bottom of the pumpkin.
- Place the pumpkin halves in a large pot and fill with water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes, or until the pumpkin is tender.
- While the pumpkin is cooking, prepare the stew filling. Heat some olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, and celery and cook until softened.
- Add the ground beef and cook until browned. Drain any excess grease.
- Add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste, chili powder, cumin, paprika, and cayenne pepper to the skillet. Stir to combine.
- Drain the pumpkin halves and place them back in the pot. Fill each half with the stew filling.
- Cover the pot and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, or until the stew is heated through.
- Serve the stew hot with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt.
Conclusion:
Pumpkin stew cooked in the pumpkin is a delicious and easy-to-make meal that is perfect for a fall or winter dinner. The pumpkin provides a natural sweetness to the stew, while the beef and vegetables add heartiness and flavor. This dish is also a great way to use up leftover pumpkin after Halloween.
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