When some family members prefer vegetables for lunch, while others prefer meat, any housewife may have a choice as to what can be cooked to surprise and delight everyone. If you often have such dilemmas, pay attention to our recipe - stuffed
zucchini baked in the oven. Agree, the perfect combination: the benefits of vegetables, nutritious meat protein, the original serving. Your family will rightfully consider you an ideal hostess. The dish is prepared quite simply and quickly (not counting the time that the vegetables will be in the oven), so even working women will like this recipe.
How to make stuffed zucchini baked in the oven
For the dish you will need:
- 1 young zucchini of medium size, it is better to take a thicker vegetable;
- 150 g of meat or chicken minced meat;
- 1 piece of onion and garlic (clove);
- 1 egg;
- 4 tbsp. l natural tomato paste;
- olive oil, a little paprika, salt and other spices to taste.
Stuffed
zucchini, baked in the oven, is prepared as follows: wash the main vegetable of our dish, cut along exactly in half and remove the pulp with a spoon. You should get a "boat" with walls one centimeter thick. It needs to be salted, sprinkled with pepper, then greased with olive oil and sent to bake in the oven (set the temperature to average, degrees 180) for 20 minutes or half an hour. In the meantime, you can start making the filling: chop the onion finely, fry in oil, when the pieces become rosy, add minced meat to them. Cook the meat for 5-7 minutes, then, of course, salt, sprinkle with pepper and squeeze the garlic. Mix well. At the very end, add a couple of spoons of natural tomato paste and finely chopped greens. Remove the frying pan from the heat, cool the meat mass slightly, beat 1 chicken egg in it. The filling is ready. Take out the “boats” from the stove after the set time and fill them with
meat. Stuffed zucchini, baked in the oven, must be cooked for another 20 minutes, after which it can be served. It will be a great independent second for dinner.
Baked stuffed zucchini stuffed with tomatoes and mushrooms
Of course, minced meat is a good addition to vegetables, but you can try something new. For example, stuff the "boats" with fragrant mushrooms and tomatoes. For a dish, take:
- 0.5 kg of squash;
- a little flour;
- 200 g of mushrooms (white or champignons are suitable);
- 200 g of tomatoes (these are 2 medium vegetables);
- 150 g of sour cream and spices.
Prepare zucchini in the same way as in the previous recipe: first make "boats", and then send them to bake in the oven for 20 minutes. For the filling, cut the mushrooms into small pieces, add salt and fry in vegetable oil, then add the cubes from the tomatoes, a little flour for the density, mix, simmer for a couple of minutes. The filling is ready. Now fill the cavity of the zucchini with a mixture of vegetables, pour sour cream and send to the oven. How much to bake stuffed zucchini? In this case, 10-15 minutes will be enough, because the filling in this recipe is only vegetables, and they do not require careful heat treatment. After the dish is ready, it can be served to the table. Pay attention to its low calorie content. Those on a diet must certainly include it in their diet.