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Baked Stuffed Pumpkin

"This recipe is wonderful as a side dish, and it is very impressive when you bring the whole pumpkin to the table! May be served spooned over pound cake or pumpkin bread, and garnished with whipped cream."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pumpkin and cranberry work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Cut a lid off the top of the pumpkin, scrape out the seeds and stringy fibers, and set the lid aside.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the chopped apples, walnuts, cranberry sauce, drained pineapple chunks, brown sugar, golden raisins, minced ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. Stir until evenly mixed.

  3. If using, stir the dark rum into the filling. This step is optional.

  4. Spoon the filling into the pumpkin cavity, pressing it down gently so it fills the space, then set the lid back on top.

  5. Place the pumpkin in a baking dish with a splash of water in the bottom. Bake for about 60 minutes, until the pumpkin flesh is tender when pierced with a knife.

  6. Let the stuffed pumpkin rest for 10 minutes, then slice and serve with the filling spooned over each portion.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pumpkin + cranberrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apple + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Apple + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Walnut + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, pumpkin, apple, berry, cranberry, sauce, pineapple):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Chestnutabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Beansabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pumpkin, apple, berry, cranberry, sauce, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).