Italian stuffed zucchini boats
Italian stuffed zucchini boats

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, italian stuffed zucchini boats. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This low-carb, Italian-inspired dish has so much going for it! It involves lean ground turkey, fresh veggies, and is topped with cheese and toasted bread. Enjoy these vegetarian zucchini boats with your family or friends sometime, and I know you'll love them as much as we did. 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!

Italian stuffed zucchini boats is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Italian stuffed zucchini boats is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook italian stuffed zucchini boats using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Italian stuffed zucchini boats:
  1. Get 3 medium, uniformly-sized zucchini
  2. Prepare 1 (24 oz) jar tomato basil marinara, divided
  3. Get 1 tablespoon olive oil
  4. Take 1 lb ground turkey or Italian sausage
  5. Prepare 1/3 cup diced onion
  6. Make ready 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  7. Make ready 1/3 diced red bell pepper
  8. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
  9. Get 1/4 cup chopped Italian parsley
  10. Get 1 tablespoon Italian herb seasoning
  11. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  12. Get to taste Fresh cracked black pepper
  13. Get 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flake
  14. Take 1 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  15. Take 1/4 cup shaved parmesan
  16. Take 3 tablespoon Italian Panko bread crumbs

Our vegetarian stuffed zucchini boats make the perfect healthy weeknight dinner. They are easy to make and very versatile. Stuffed Zucchini Boats is a great diet refresh recipe too. Works well with Keto diet and the Mediterranean diet, and it's so yummy and kid friendly that the whole family will love it too.

Instructions to make Italian stuffed zucchini boats:
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Measure out 1 cup of the marinara sauce and set aside.
  2. Trim ends from zucchini and slice in half, lengthwise. Use the tip of a spoon to scrape out the zucchini flesh (see recipe note), chop it and set it aside. Place the scooped out zucchini boats into a 13"x 9" baking dish and add about 1" of water. Cover with foil and bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, until just slightly fork-tender. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool slightly.
  3. Add olive oil to a 12" skillet and place over MEDIUM heat. Add turkey (or beef), onion, bell pepper, and garlic to the skillet. Cook, stirring to break up the ground meat as it cooks. Continue to cook and stir until meat is thoroughly cooked and veggies have softened. Drain off as much grease as possible and return the skillet to the heat.
  4. Add the chopped zucchini flesh, mushrooms, remaining marinara in jar (reserve 1 cup for later), parsley, Italian seasoning, salt, fresh ground black pepper, and crushed red pepper. Stir well to combine. Bring to a simmer, then reduce heat and allow to simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes.
  5. Remove partially cooked zucchini from baking dish and pour off water. Pour the 1 cup of reserved marinara sauce into the empty baking dish and place zucchini boats on top of the sauce.
  6. Divide the filling between the zucchini boats. If you have extra filling, spoon it into the dish around the zucchini boats. Cover the dish with foil, and bake for 20 minutes, or until zucchini is fork tender. Remove dish from oven and set oven to BROIL.
  7. Remove foil and sprinkle zucchini boats with mozzarella, Parmesan and the panko bread crumbs. Place dish in oven, watching closely, and cook for just a couple of minutes until cheese has melted and bread crumbs are golden brown.

Stuffed Zucchini Boats is a great diet refresh recipe too. Works well with Keto diet and the Mediterranean diet, and it's so yummy and kid friendly that the whole family will love it too. But these Stuffed Italian Zucchini Boats actually dabble in both realms. Sprinkle the stuffed zucchini boats with cheese and bake! The zucchini maintains its structure and cooks without being mushy, while the filling is a soft.

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