Healthy winter recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has pumpkin, olive oil, wild rice, fennel bulb, bramley apple, lemon, fennel seeds, chilli flakes, garlic clove, pecan, parsley, tahini and pomegranate seeds.
Stuffed pumpkin
Course: Healthy winter
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Olive Oil: 4 tbsp olive oil
- Parsley: 1 large pack parsley, roughly chopped
- Lemon: 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- Chilli Flakes: 1/2 tsp chilli flakes
- Tahini: 3 tbsp tahini
- Fennel Bulb: 1 large fennel bulb
- Pumpkin: 1 medium-sized pumpkin or round squash (about 1kg)
- Bramley Apple: 1 Bramley apple
- Pecan: 30g pecans, toasted and roughly chopped
- Pomegranate Seeds: pomegranate seeds, to serve
- Wild Rice: 100g wild rice
- Fennel Seeds: 1 tbsp fennel seeds
Directions
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Cut the top off the pumpkin or squash and use a metal spoon to scoop out the seeds. Get rid of any pithy bits but keep the seeds for another time (see ourpumpkin seed recipe ideas). Put the pumpkin on a baking tray, rub with 2 tbsp of the oil inside and out, and season well. Roast in the centre of the oven for 45 mins or until tender, with the 'lid' on the side.
- Meanwhile, rinse the wild rice well and cook following pack instructions, then spread out on a baking tray to cool. Thinly slice the fennel bulb and apple, then squeeze over 1/2 the lemon juice to stop them discolouring.
- Heat the remaining 2 tbsp oil in a frying pan. Fry the fennel seeds and chilli flakes, then, once the seeds begin to pop, stir in 1/2 the garlic and the fennel. Cook for 5 mins until softened, then mix through the apple, pecans and lemon zest. Remove from the heat. Add the mixture to the the cooked rice, then stir in the chopped parsley and taste for seasoning.
- Pack the mixture into the cooked pumpkin and return to the oven for 10-15 mins until everything is piping hot. Meanwhile,whiskthe remaining lemon juice with the tahini, the rest of the garlic and enough water to make a dressing. Serve the pumpkin in the middle of the table, topped with pomegranate seeds and the dressing.
