Chicken Baked In A Pumpkin Frango Na Moranga Recipes

COUNTRY CHICKEN (FRANGO CAIPIRA)

Steps:

• Marinate chicken for one half hour in garlic, onion, lemon juice. Fry chicken in cooking oil until golden. Add the seasonings the chicken has been marinating in. Add cilantro and chopped tomato. Cover and let cook over low heat until tender. Add butter and bell pepper. Continue cooking until tender.

CHICKEN BAKED IN A PUMPKIN (FRANGO NA MORANGA)

Steps:

• Cut the lid off the pumpkin and clean out the seeds etc. Use your hands to rub the room-temperature cream cheese inside the pumpkin. In a frying pan cook the onion, and garlic in the cooking oil. Add the cut up chicken and fry, seasoning with salt and pepper. Add mushrooms. Whip the tomatoes in a blender and add to the chicken mixture with the chopped parsley. Pour this mixture into the pumpkin, replace the lid and bake for about an hour in a 350 degrees oven, or until the pumpkin is tender, but not overcooked. Serve with Brazilian rice. When you dish this up from a buffet table, be sure to scrape some of the pumpkin into the chicken mixture as it is delicious. This is a real favorite at our house and with all of our married children when pumpkins are ready for sale.