Ghapama

// Ingredients

• Medium pumpkin — 1 (2–3 kg)
• Rice — 200 g
• Dried fruit (apricots, raisins, prunes) — 200 g
• Honey — 3 tbsp
• Butter — 80 g
• Cinnamon — 1 tsp
• Salt — a pinch

// Method

1. 01Cut the top off the pumpkin and scoop out the seeds.
2. 02Parboil the rice for 7–8 minutes and drain.
3. 03Mix the rice with the chopped dried fruit, melted butter, honey, cinnamon and salt.
4. 04Fill the pumpkin and cover with its top.
5. 05Bake at 180 °C for 1–1.5 hours until the pumpkin is soft.
6. 06Bring it to the table whole and cut it into wedges — just as the Armenian song about ghapama goes.