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Zucchini Recipes: Baked Stuffed Zucchini (zucchine ripiene)
Posted on May 21, 2009 10:39:31 PM
Baked stuffed zucchini
(the URL is wrong, I know…) This is ons of my favorite zucchini recipes: baked stuffed zucchini. It’s a perfect mid-week dish: scrape, stir-fry, fill, bake. Facile, isn’t it?
For two people:
- 2 zucchini
- ½ onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 50g bacon bits
- 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
- salt and pepper
- 1 ball of mozzarella cheese. diced
- parmesan (optional)
Score the zucchini length and width-wise, making sure you don’t tear the skin. With a spoon, scoop out the pulp, dice it and set aside.
In a frying pan, heat the olive oil and add the onion and the bacon. Let it sweat at low heat for about 10 minutes until the onion is tender and lucid and the bacon is a bit crispy.
Add the chopped tomatoes and the 3/4 of the zucchini pulp and let it simmer for 10 minutes and take off the heat. Let it cool and mix in the mozzarella cheese.
Preheat the oven at 180°C 356°F.
Lay the zucchini shells in an oven proof pan and fill them with the stir-fried mixture. Grate some Parmesan on top if you like.
Bake the stuffed zucchini in the oven for 25-30 minutes and serve hot. Easy zucchini recipe…