Goulash with pumpkin and dried prunes

Delicious comfort food.....


6 onions
2 garlic cloves
200 g of soft dried prunes
1,5 kg Beef chunks ( Gulasch)
1 cinnamon stick
2 bay leaves
Allspice
1/2 l dry red wine (or beef broth)
400 ml beef stock
salt and pepper to taste
400g Hokkaido pumpkin



Preheat oven to 225°C, cut the prunes in  halves, cut the onions and garlic in pieces. Mix all the ingredientes beside the pumpkin in a Dutch oven, cover and let cook in the oven for about 2 hours.
While the meat is cooking, wash the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut into pieces. At the end of the time add the pumpkin and 200ml hot water to the meat and let simmer without lid for another 20 minutes. Add more salt and pepper for taste.