Fright Night Delight


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Ingredients

1 medium pumpkin
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon Sea Salt
2 cups black quinoa, uncooked
2 shallots, chopped
1 small apple, chopped
1 inch polska kielbasa, cut small pieces
1 tablespoon olive oil

Preparation

1
Starting with the pumpkin, quarter and seed it, and save the seeds for some other recipe.
2
Chop the flesh into medium pieces, leaving the skin on.
3
Toss them with the olive oil and salt, and place in a baking sheet skin side down.
4
Add a little water to the bottom of the sheet, and bake at 425 F until soft, about 30-45 minutes.
5
While the pumpkin is baking, rinse the quinoa (to remove the bitter saponins).
6
Add to 4 cups of water and bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for approximately 15 minutes.
7
Saute the shallots in the remaining olive oil over medium heat until soft.
8
Add the sausage and apple and continue to saute until sausage is slightly browned.
9
The pumpkin should be ready - have a helper cut or peel the skin off the flesh, and cut the flesh into bite-sized pieces.
10
Add the pumpkin and the quinoa to the saute mixture, and combine.
11
Eat!

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This is a Halloween inspired recipe that will give you a colorful orange and black meal. Try to use a sugar-type pumpkin, as carving pumpkins will tend to be stringy and watery. Onions can be used instead of shallots, and turkey or vegetarian kielbasa can be substituted.

Yield:

6

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 11:18pm

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