Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Stuffed Zucchini Boats
by Gertrude Duncan
Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, stuffed zucchini boats. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Stuffed Zucchini Boats is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Stuffed Zucchini Boats is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have stuffed zucchini boats using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed Zucchini Boats:
Prepare 4 zucchini
Take 1 celery stalk diced
Prepare 1 yellow/spanish onion diced
Make ready 1 red bell pepper diced
Prepare 2 clove of garlic minced
Make ready 2 tbsp breadcrumbs
Take 8 tbsp Monterey Jack cheese shredded ( any favorite cheese will do)
Get 1/4 cup grated or shredded parmesan ( fresh preferred)
Prepare 1 tsp pepper
Take 1 tsp paprika
Get 1 tsp dried oregano
Make ready 2 tbsp prosciutto or bacon (omit to make vegetarian)
Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil
Get 1 salt to taste
Steps to make Stuffed Zucchini Boats:
Cut the zucchini in half down the middle.
with a small spoon scoop out the insides removing the seeds and most of the meat. put into a bowl
to a sautee pan add oil, onion, celery, bell pepper and sautee until translucent. should take 5 to 7 min on about medium high heat. add your salt pepper, paprika and oregano as well.
add garlic and prosciutto and cook for one minute. then add the insides of the zucchini that were scraped out. A rough chop of them will do just fine. sautee for a couple minutes.
Turn heat off and add parmesan and bread crumbs. incorporate into mix and set aside to cool for 10 to 15 min. In the mean time turn the oven on to 400°F.
scoop mixture into zucchini boats making sure to not over fill. just touching the top is enough.
add 1 tablespoon of cheese to each zucchini boat.
In a 400°F oven, cook zucchini on a pan or on a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray, until golden brown on top, about 25 min. keep an eye out bc ovens have different temperatures.
1 to 2 zucchini per person would be my suggested serving portion.
serve as any side dish or as a healthy snack!
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