Meat Loaf Recipes
Pumpkin Meat Loaf
Ingredients
- 1 (3 1/2 to 4 pound) pumpkin
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
- 3 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1/2 cup fine dry bread crumbs
Instructions
- Cut top from pumpkin; discard top. Remove and discard strings and seeds. Place whole pumpkin, minus top, in baking dish. Add about 1 inch hot water to dish around the outside of the pumpkin. Cover pumpkin and pan with foil.
- Bake in a preheated 400 degrees F oven for 45 minutes, or until pumpkin is tender but not falling apart.
Pour off water.
- Season inside of pumpkin with salt and pepper. Spread with 1 tablespoon of the mustard and sprinkle with brown sugar.
- Combine remaining 2 tablespoons mustard, egg, Worcestershire sauce, salt, ground beef and bread crumbs. Mix well. Spoon beef mixture into pumpkin shell, packing down tightly.
- Return pumpkin to oven and bake, uncovered, for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until pumpkin is tender and meat loaf is cooked.
- Cut into wedges to serve.