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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook italian stuffed zucchini using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Stuffed Zucchini:
- Get 3 zucchini
- Prepare 3 tsp Virgin olive oil
- Make ready Filling
- Get 1 cup Ricotta Cheese
- Get 1/4 cup Mozzarella cheese
- Make ready 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
- Take 2 tbsp Marinara sauce
- Take 1 pinch Basil
- Prepare 1 tsp garlic sea salt
This high-protein seasonal recipe is deceptively easy, too! This week my heart desired Italian sausage, so my friends, this is what we are using to stuff this particular zucchini. We brown some Italian sausage, onions, garlic, and some of the zucchini insides, and mix it with fresh breadcrumbs, basil, tomatoes, oregano, and Parmesan cheese. I don't often recommend freezing anything in the squash family, but this recipe holds up pretty well in the freezer.
Steps to make Italian Stuffed Zucchini:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Scoop out middle of zucchini to make it "boat like". Save some of the zucchini insides.
- Baste inside of zucchini with olive oil.
- place zucchini inside oven for 10 minutes or until tender.
- While that is cooking mix ricotta in a bowl with your choice of marinara sauce. (I used "Classico: Parmesan and Romano" for mine).
- Mix basil and garlic salt into the ricotta mixture. I used fresh basil but you can use dry basil and just double the amount.
- Take zucchini out of oven and fill with ricotta mixture.
- Top with shredded cheese mixture.
- Place in oven for 5 more minutes or until cheese topping is melted.
- Enjoy!
For this Italian stuffed zucchini, I opted for an easy bolognese sauce that goes right in the zucchini boats and then all you have to do is add cheese on top before you bake them! Use extra-lean ground beef (or ground turkey!) and saute that with minced up carrots, celery, onions and garlic. I've always had to be creative when getting my family to eat vegetables, so I decided to make stuffed zucchini using the pizza flavors that everyone loves. We like to include sausage for a main dish but it could be a meatless side dish, too. This delicious stuffed zucchini recipe can be served as either a side dish or a main dish..
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