Baked Mini Pumpkin Pots

Name: Baked Mini Pumpkin Pots
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 stale bread (any nonsweet kind), cut into cubes; 113 grams sweet or hot bulk sausage; 4 teaspoons crème fraîche (optional); 5 eggs; 1 Tbsp minced fresh sage, or 1 teaspoon dried; 1 Tbsp minced Italian parsley; 1 teaspoons freshly ground pepper; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 kilograms mini pumpkins (about each)

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Baked Mini Pumpkin Pots a try. One serving contains 178 calories, 11g of protein, and 14g of fat. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up bread, salt, pepper, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

» Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Slice the top quarter off each pumpkin and remove the seeds and stringy bits.

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Pumpkin

Seeds

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

» In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, sauté the sausage for 3 to 4 minutes, until cooked through.

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Sausage

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Drain off any rendered fat and set aside.

Whisk 1 of the eggs, and toss it in a large bowl with the sausage, bread cubes, sage, parsley, salt, and pepper until well combined.

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Bread Cubes

Parsley

Sausage

Pepper

Egg

Sage

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

» Fill each pumpkin with the stuffing mixture to a little less than 1 inch from the top, and place it on the prepared sheet.

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Stuffing

Pumpkin

Bake for 40 minutes, until the pumpkins have soft- ened.

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Pumpkin

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Oven

Remove the pan from the oven and use a spoon to compress the stuffing a little.

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Stuffing

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Pour 1 of the remaining 4 eggs into each pumpkin. Lightly cover the pumpkinswith a sheet of aluminum foil. Increase the heat to 400 degrees F and return the sheet to the oven.

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Pumpkin

Egg

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