Pumpkin Beef Stew with Sweet Potato baked in a Pumpkin

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ChefVatoEggroll: **Pumpkin Beef Stew**
**Ingredients:**
1 lb Beef Sirloin
1 Pie Pumpkin (medium size)
**Veggies:**
½ Red Onion
¼ c Green Onion
½ Red Pepper
1 Sweet Potato
1 Red Potato
2 Celery Sticks
**Spices:**
½ t Mexican Oregano
¼ t Sage
¼ t Pepper
½ t Salt
½ t Onion Powder
½ t Garlic Powder
**Gravy:**
2T Braggs Aminos or Soy Sauce
1T Miso
2T Flour
2c Water
2T Butter
½ c Sour Cream
**Prepare Pumpkin:** Wash outside and dry it. Cut top off with angle going down and inward so it does not fall into the pumpkin. Scrape the top and also the inside of the pumpkin out. Set the seeds aside in a bowl to rinse and roast later.
**Set oven for 350 degrees.**
**Sear beef** in a large pan (will be used for total recipe) with a little oil (can salt beef a little). Cut into small bite-size pieces. Put beef in a bowl and set aside pan to make the gravy in.
Prepare Veggies: Cut up all the veggies into small bite-size pieces and put into a bowl, set aside.
**Prepare Gravy:** In a 4-cup glass measuring cup: pour in the Aminos or Soy Sauce and Miso then fill up the glass with Broth or water to 2 cups. Put butter into the pan with beef goodies and melt. Add the flour and stir into the butter. Pour in the liquid from glass measuring cup and stir to dissolve the flour mixture on medium high heat. Once dissolved, turn heat to medium low and stir until thickened. Add the sour cream once thickened. Turn off heat and set aside.
**Prepare total Recipe:** Put beef and veggies into the gravy. Add spices and stir. Place the mixture into prepared pumpkin. Place pumpkin top on. Place pumpkin into a glass pan. Pour in boiling water to ½ inch up the side of the pumpkin. Place a foil tent over the top of the pumpkin, no need to cover it completely. Place pumpkin in the oven for 1 – 1 ½ hours at the 350 degrees. Check pumpkin for tenderness to be done, veggies should be tender.