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Stuffed Roast Pumpkin

A vegetarian main that ticks all the boxes

55 mins
10 ingredients
$3.3 / person
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Stuffed Roast Pumpkin

Gear

Ingredients

Serves = 4

  • 1 small Jap or Kent pumpkin (approx 2.5kg), washed thoroughly

  • 1 cup of cooked brown rice

  • 1 425g can brown lentils, rinsed

  • 1/2 cup parsley, roughly chopped

  • 2 tsp Moroccan spice mix

  • 2 spring onion, thinly sliced

  • 1 cup baby spinach, roughly chopped

  • ¼ cup dried cranberries, roughly chopped

  • 50g low fat feta cheese, crumbled

  • Extra Virgin Olive oil

It’s this easy

  • Preheat oven to 200℃

  • Cut a large circle around the stem of the pumpkin (large enough to fit your hand into) and remove. With a spoon, scoop out the seeds and stringy bits from the pumpkin

  • In a separate bowl mix together all other ingredients, except the olive oil

  • Spoon the mixture inside the pumpkin and place carefully on a baking tray, rub olive oil onto the outside of the pumpkin. Roast in the oven for 45 mins, or until the pumpkin is soft when pierced with a fork

  • Slice pumpkin and serve with rice filling

Tweaks

  • Any type of rice, or very small pasta can work well, or you could always use an extra cup of lentils in place of the rice
  • You can use any type of pumpkin, just be sure to remove the seeds. If using a butternut pumpkin, or a piece of cut pumpkin, cover the rice stuffing with foil during cooking to prevent it from drying out
  • Some Moroccan spice mixes may contain gluten, sesame and nuts

Notes

Nutrition information (per serve):

  • Energy (1676kJ)

  • Protein (13.9g)

  • Total fat (8.1g)

  • Saturated fat (2.1g)

  • Carbohydrate (56.8g); Starch (21.6g), Sugars (35.2g), Added sugars (6.5g), Free sugars (6.5g)

  • Dietary fibre (14.8g)

  • Sodium (370mg)

  • Calcium (187mg)

  • Iron (3.6mg)

Allergies

Contains: Gluten, Dairy, Nuts, Sesame, FODMAPs.
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