Treasure Pumpkin recipe
(6 servings)

Ingredients:
1 pumpkin (approx. 3kg)
5ml salt
25ml butter / margarine
200g mushrooms, fresh or canned (250ml)
150g blanched almonds (250ml)
200g pink prawn tails
200g finely sliced beef fillet
15ml soya sauce
20g sugar (25ml)
37,5ml pale dry sherry
125ml chicken stock
500g sliced green beans

Method:
1. Cut off top of pumpkin to make a lid. Scrape out the seeds and stringy fibres and scoop out small balls of pumpkin, but leave some flesh to keep wall intact.
2. Boil pumpkin balls in salt water for 5 minutes and set aside.
3. Sprinkle inside of pumpkin with salt and place in a small colander. Place colander in a large saucepan and fill pot to within 2,5cm of bottom of colander with water, cover pot with lid or foil and steam for approximately 10 minutes, then remove pumpkin and set aside.
4. Melt butter in a large casserole, add mushrooms, almonds, prawns, beef, soya sauce, sugar, sherry, stock and close with lid to simmer for 5 minutes.
5. Boil beans until tender, strain and together with pumpkin balls mix gently with mushroom mixture.
6. Fill mixture into pumpkin, return pumpkin to casserole – in the colander – cover tightly and steam for 5 minutes. Serve immediately.