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Serves: 6
Total Calories: 540

1 medium sized pumpkin (about 5 pounds)
8 ounces Philadelphia cream cheese
3 tablespoons cooking oils
1 chopped onion
1 cup sliced mushrooms
3 cups medium sized shrimp , cooked
6 large ripe tomatoes
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 clove garlic finely chopped
salt and pepper

Cut the lid off the pumpkin and clean out the seeds etc.

Rub the room-temperature cream cheese inside the pumpkin.

In a frying pan cook the onion, garlic and mushrooms in the cooking oil. Add the cooked shrimp and season with salt and pepper.

Whip the tomatoes in a blender and add to the shrimp mixture with the 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.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 6
Total Calories: 540
Calories from Fat: 261

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