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ARMENIAN TRADITIONAL GHAPAMA
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Ghapama is an Armenian dish typically prepared by stuffing a pumpkin with rice, various nuts and dried fruits, butter, honey, and cinnamon. The dish is traditionally prepared at festive occasions, and when pumpkins are in season.
This dish is very popular and it even has its own song titled Hey Jan Ghapama.

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INGREDIENTS FOR GHAPAMA

1 medium size pumpkin
1 cup of Uncle Bens rice
4 table spoons of melted butter
1/4 cup of almonds
1/4 cup of pine nuts
1/4 cup of diced dried apricots
1/4 cup of raisins
1/4 cup of diced dried plumbs
1/4 cup of diced dates
honey to taste

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Wash the rice and bring it to boil in a pot of water. Season the water with salt to your taste.
Once it comes to a boil drain the water and set it aside.

Rost the almonds and pine nuts separately in a vegetable oil.
Fry the dried fruits in the vegetable oil too. Do not mix the fruits. Fry each one separately.
Mix everything together once everything is rosted and fried.

Cut the top of the pumpkin and clean the guts.

Drizzle honey in the pumpkin and brush it all around the inside of the pumpkin.

Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper and 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon, 2 tablespoon of honey 2 tablespoon of oil and mix all of this together and make a paste. Pore it in the pumpkin and brush it all around the sides and the top of the pumpkin.

Add 4 tablespoon of melted butter to the rice and mix it.

Spoon 1/2 of the rice in the pumpkin.
Spoon 1/2 of the mixed nuts and fruits and layer it on top of the rice
Add the remaining 1/2 of the rice on top and finish it of with layering the remaining nuts and fruits.
Close it and put it in a pan. Cover it with foil and bake it in a preheated 350 degree oven until pumpkin is tender.

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Enjoy it while it is hot.

Թող ուտողին անուշ լինի!!!

Enjoy it!!!

Խնդրեմ բաժանորդագրվեք և տարածեք։ Գրեք ինծ ես սիրով կը պատասխանեմ։ Սպասում եմ ծեզ։

with love,

Margaret Lalikian

Enjoy it!
Anoush lini!

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