How to Make Award-winning Italian stuffed zucchini boats

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, italian stuffed zucchini boats. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Italian 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 must first prepare a few components. You can have 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. Prepare medium, uniformly-sized zucchini
2. Make ready jar tomato basil marinara, divided
3. Take olive oil
4. Take ground turkey or Italian sausage
5. Make ready diced onion
6. Take minced garlic
7. Get diced red bell pepper
8. Take chopped mushrooms
9. Make ready chopped Italian parsley
10. Make ready Italian herb seasoning
11. Take kosher salt
12. Prepare Fresh cracked black pepper
13. Prepare red pepper flake
14. Take shredded mozzarella cheese
15. Make ready shaved parmesan
16. Prepare Italian Panko bread crumbs

Healthy, low carb, and so easy to make, don't miss these delicious Stuffed Zucchini Boats filled with lean ground turkey and tasty Italian flavors. 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.

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.

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. Tender baked vegetarian zucchini boats recipe with a delicious Italian stuffing. This simple vegetarian zucchini recipe makes a healthy side dish, or light meal. Our vegetarian stuffed zucchini boats make the perfect healthy weeknight dinner.

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