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Calabacitas Rellenas
By Fernando Herrera
INGREDIENTS:
8 round zucchini
1/2 onion diced
1 chopped tomato, diced
1/2 cup cream
1/4 Manchego cheese
1/2 lb Lean ground pork
Salt and pepper
Powdered seasoning (to taste)

Tomato sauce (optional to accompany gourds):
2 tomatoes
1/4 Onion
1/2 clove garlic
Grind all the ingredients in a blender and season with a little chicken broth to taste

 

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Wash the pumpkin and cut off the ends. Put pumpkins to cook 15 minutes or until soft. Get pumpkins and spoon make a hole in the center and take out the pulp being careful not to break. And without pulp you put them upside down on a plate to release the water. Take the pulp of pumpkins and finely spades. In a separate pan, heat up two teaspoons of olive oil, add the onion and sautée lightly over a low heat with lean ground pork, you leave 2 minutes and add the tomato dices, you leave 2 minutes and add the pulp chopped pumpkin. Season the mixture with salt, pepper and powder seasoning to taste. Mix the ingredients for 3 minutes and add the cream, let boil over low heat and add half the grated cheese, let it melt and turn off the fire. Drain the pumpkins and put in a refractory, the arrange it and stuffed with this mixture. Add half the grated cheese on top so that Broil. Finally the metes baked for 15 minutes or until melted cheese. The broth can be used with the previously mentioned and white rice.

Serves 4