Vegetarian Stuffed Zucchini
Walking around the Tuesday market at Bürkliplatz I discovered these beautiful round zucchinis. I bought them right away without really knowing what I was going to cook with them because I love zucchini and obviously because I was attracted by their different shape.
On my way home I thought that I wasn’t going to cut them up and cook them in a way that would “destroy” their shape and that the roundness needed to stay intact so the best way to cook them would be to stuff them and bake them in the oven.
I love this recipe so much because it’s simple, cheap yet so special and delicious - it’s literally made with 4 ingredients (if you want to make it vegan it’s only 3) and it’s mainly baked in the oven so you really won’t have to spend too much time cooking.
You can make plenty of other variations by adding other vegetables (e.g. mushrooms, spinach, pumpkin, carrots, brussels sprouts etc)
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cooking Time: 40 Minutes
Ingredients (for 2):
Round Zucchini - 2
White Onion - 1 Large
Ripe Tomatoes - 4
Feta (you can skip the Feta if you want the dish to be vegan)
Rosemary
Salt & Pepper to taste
Preparation:
The vegetarian stuffed zucchini is one of the easiest recipes with the fewest steps and only 4 ingredients. Start by heating the oven to 180°C conventional heating. Then wash the zucchinis and cutting the top of (as seen in the first image).
Delicately spoon out all the zucchini flesh (put it aside) leaving the zucchinis empty inside.
Sprinkle the zucchinis with olive oil and place them in the oven (along with the top part on the side). We won’t eat the top part but you can keep it for serving later.
Cook the zucchinis for 20min.
Meanwhile you can start working on the filling. Heat some olive oil in a frying pan and add the chopped onion. Cook for around 2 minutes and add the zucchini flesh that we put aside earlier along with the cut tomatoes.
Cook for 15 minutes at medium-high heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.
After the zucchinis have finished cooking take them out of the oven and carefully fill them up with the filling we just prepared adding some Feta in the middle and on top.
Put the zucchinis in the oven again and cook for another 20min or remove if you see that the zucchinis are burning.
Take out of the oven, decorate with some rosemary and serve.