Italian stuffed zucchini boats
Italian stuffed zucchini boats

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, italian stuffed zucchini boats. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Measure one cup of marinara sauce and set aside. Trim the ends from the zucchini and slice them in half lengthwise. Using a teaspoon, scrape the inside of the zucchini forming a cavity, being careful not to cut through.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook italian stuffed zucchini boats using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

Hollowed out zucchini are filled with a savory Italian meat sauce made with beef or ground turkey and topped with melted cheese. This is a great way to get more veggies at dinner! PIN IT NOW TO SAVE FOR LATER! Summer yields some of the best produce!

Steps 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.

Our Italian Stuffed Zucchini Boats are a creative way to utilize some of those delicious veggies you have growing in your garden or picked up from the market! Italian zucchini boats are some of our favorite ways to clean out the fridge - and if you've got some ground meat on-hand, why not throw that in too? Stuff the hollowed out zucchini and/or yellow squash and add the filling. Lastly, top with cheese, cover with foil, and bake, removing the foil during the final five minutes of cooking. Let the zucchini boats sit five minutes before serving.

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