After seeing a Youtube of this Peter was equipped enough to carry it through. Effectively a pumpkin is used as a cooking pot and the result was successful.
The ingredients are worth noting: raw chicken pieces, red capsicum, tomatoes, chilly, salt, cumin powder, cardamon powder, coriander, onion, chopped cashews, and a zucchini.
We have access to a fairly useful outside fire cooker made from an old gas bottle, but the Youtube showed that all that is needed is an open fire and a secure frame to hold the pumpkin steady.
Before the mixture was added the shell got a bit of a 'firing' to harden and seal up the shell. It was particular useful to do this because Peter had accidentally punctured the bottom and repairs were needed.
Ingredients were then added and so began nearly a three hour cook. The fire was continually stoked. It did not matter that the outside of the pumpkin was turning black. A massive amount of constant heat was required to cook everything through. The pumpkin was tough enough to withstand for that length of time though it sat in a round disposable aluminum baking tray in case there was leakage.
A piece of brick material was place over the smoke escape to better direct the fire around the base of the pumpkin.
Our meal brought in from outside
Our meal ready to be served over a layer of steamed rice
The soft pumpkin scraped away from its blackened skin on the lower part of our 'pumpkin pot'. The upper part still had hard pumpkin. We were pleased at how tasty the meal was along with the ready supply of pumpkin 'mash'. This was definitely worth doing again.
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