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Pumpkin Stewed Rice, Honghe

In the autumn harvest, the pumpkins planted in the East and West Mountains of Mile County are ripe. A woman of the Yi nationality picks a basin-sized pumpkin from the field at will. Cut a bowl-sized hole at the top of it with knife. Draw out the melon plup. Put rice, preserved meat and potherb into the pumpkin. Add some water, oil and salt. Cover the hole with the pumpking rind. Put it on the stove and cook it. About half an hour later, “pumpkin pan " sends forth fragrance. Open the cover, you can see snowy rice, golden pumpkin, red preserved meat and verdant potherb. Let people have a very good appetite immediately