How to Cook Tasty Baked Stuffed Zucchini

Baked Stuffed Zucchini. Cut both zucchini in half and scoop out the seeds. Remove from the water and set on a baking sheet while preparing stuffing. Trim stems from zucchini and slice lengthwise.

Here's a delicious way to solve the problem of those too-big zucchinis ballooning in your garden at the end of the summer: zucchini boats baked and stuffed with lamb, feta, pine nuts, tomatoes, and more. It's just like your mother used to make, but with an exotic Mediterranean twist! Halve zucchini lengthwise; scoop out seeds. You can have Baked Stuffed Zucchini using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baked Stuffed Zucchini

1. It's 6 of large zucchini.
2. Prepare 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
3. Prepare 1 of large onion.
4. You need 1 pound of lean ground beef.
5. Prepare 1 teaspoon of oregano.
6. It's of Salt.
7. You need of Ground black pepper.
8. Prepare 1 of egg.
9. You need 1/4 cup of milk.
10. Prepare 1 cup of cubed bread.
11. It's 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce.
12. Prepare 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese.
13. It's of Gruyère cheese (or fontina or mozzarella).

Spoon remaining tomato sauce over each. Sprinkle with cheese during the last few minutes of baking. Halve the zucchini lengthwise and scrape out the center flesh, making hollow boats. Finely chop the scraped squash and reserve.

Baked Stuffed Zucchini instructions

1. Cut ends of zucchini and then lengthwise in half..
2. Boil in lightly salted water until it starts softening (10 minutes). Remove from water. Let cool..
3. Meanwhile, dice onion and sauté in oil at medium temperature until it starts to become transparent (10 minutes)..
4. Add beef, oregano, salt and black pepper, and cook until there’s no red/pink. Let cool..
5. In a large bowl beat eggs. Add milk. Add bread and let it absorb the liquid for 10 minutes. Break apart the bread with your fingers..
6. Preheat oven at 400 degrees F..
7. Remove pulp of boiled zucchini with a spoon, drain pulp and chop it..
8. Add zucchini pulp, sautéed onion, beef, Parmesan and Worcestershire sauce to the bread mixture. Mix well..
9. Arrange zucchini halves skin down on a baking sheet with parchment paper. Fill them with mixture..
10. Add slices of Gruyère on each zucchini half. Bake for 30 minutes or until cheese browns. Wait 10 minutes before serving..

Spray the zucchini boats or drizzle them with oil and season with salt and pepper. Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Stir in parsley and sauce. "Mix ground meat mixture with the red peppers, and the scooped out zucchini (chopped), and the egg. Fill the zucchini boats with the mixture, and top each with a slice of cheese. Crispy Stuffed Zucchini are so easy to make!