Description
Summer’s almost here. This is a great way to use all those zucchini!
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 medium size zucchini
- 1 lb (500 g) ground turkey meat (or ground beef, pork)
- some olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- a handful of rice
- 1/2 tsp basil
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- salt and pepper-to taste
- 3/4 cups (150 ml) tomato puree (homemade, store bought…)
- 3/4 cups (150 ml) water
- 2 tbsp flour
Instructions
- Wash zucchini and cut in half. Use spoon to take out its meat and leave for later, set aside.
- Heat some olive oil and add finely chopped onions. Then add finely chopped garlic and ground meat. Saute for several minutes. Add spices, rice, chopped zucchini meat and some water (enough to cover the ingredients) and let cook on low heat. When cooked, fill zucchini halves with it.
- While it cooks, make the sauce: Take your tomato puree, combine it with water and whisk flour into it. Put everything into a large pot, add stuffed zucchini halves and let cook on low heat until zucchini are completely cooked-soft.
- Serve with mashed potatoes.