Spicy Pumpkin Lunch Box
- 2 (2 lb) pumpkin
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 2 -3 spicy vegetarian sausages or 2 -3 spicy pork sausages, sliced into discs
- 12 yellow onion, chopped finely
- 12 teaspoon ground roasted habanero pepper
- 2 -3 tablespoons flax seeds
- 5 garlic cloves, sliced thin
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 teaspoon salt
- Preheat the oven to 400.
- Heat the olive oil with the onions, chili powder and garlic in a large cast iron skillet, when they get fragrant, add the sausage discs.
- Toss together.
- After a few minutes, add the rice and stir fry for a three minutes.
- Turn off the heat and mix in the flax seeds and salt.
- Put aside.
- Lobotomize the pumpkins: cut the tops off (if you cut in a zig-zag, it's easier to put it back on later), scoop out the seeds and stringy stuff inside.
- If you want to roast the seeds (totally advisable), rinse them off and set aside.
- Pack the stuffing inside the pumpkins, replace tops.
- Put the pumpkins on a baking sheet in the preheated oven, and cover with tinfoil or an additional baking sheet inverted.
- Pop in the oven, check after 20 minutes, check after an additional 10-20 minutes.
- Pumpkins are done when they are slightly soft, and slightly brown.
- Serve with the lids on, and let eaters open them.
pumpkin, rice, vegetarian, yellow onion, ground roasted habanero pepper, flax seeds, garlic, olive oil, salt
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/spicy-pumpkin-lunch-box-270966 (may not work)