Stuffed Zucchini With Chicken Sausage Recipes

Steps:

• Cut zucchinis in half lengthwise and spoon out the seeds, being careful not to go through to the skin. Place zucchini guts in a bowl; mix in diced tomatoes, white onion, and green pepper.
• Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and sautè until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the zucchini pulp mixture. Sautè until almost tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in sausage, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
• Let mixture simmer for about 5 minutes; add the tomato sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes more, then reduce heat to low.
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bring a pot of water on the stove to a boil.
• Place the zucchini halves in the boiling water for 3 minutes. Remove the zucchini.
• Place zucchini halves into an oven-safe baking dish. Fill the pieces with your sausage mixture. Top them off with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. Cover with foil.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove the aluminum foil. Continue to cook until tender, about 30 minutes more.
• Garnish with fresh parsley and enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Cut each zucchini lengthwise in half. Scoop out pulp, leaving a 1/4-in. shell; chop pulp. Place zucchini shells in a large microwave-safe dish. In batches, microwave, covered, on high 2-3 minutes or until crisp-tender., In a large skillet, cook sausage and zucchini pulp over medium heat 6-8 minutes or until sausage is no longer pink, breaking sausage into crumbles; drain. Stir in tomatoes, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, herbs and pepper. Spoon into zucchini shells., Place in 2 ungreased 13x9-in. baking dishes. Bake, covered, 15-20 minutes or until zucchini is tender. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Bake, uncovered, 5-8 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. If desired, sprinkle with additional minced parsley.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• With a teaspoon, scoop out the flesh from the interior of the zucchini, so they resemble boats. Place the zucchini boats in a 9-by-13-inch casserole dish. Chop the zucchini flesh and set aside.
• In a medium saute pan over medium-high heat, add the olive oil and let heat through. Add the sweet and the hot Italian sausage, and cook for 4 minutes. Add the garlic, onion, chopped zucchini flesh, tomatoes and some salt and pepper. Cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
• In a medium bowl, add the Parmesan, mozzarella, breadcrumbs and parsley; mix to combine.
• Spoon in and mound the sausage mixture into the zucchini boats. Sprinkle the breadcrumb mixture over top. Place in oven and bake until golden on top, 20 minutes.

Steps:

• In a large ovenproof skillet, saute onion in 1 tablespoon oil for 3 minutes or until crisp-tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add zucchini and red pepper; saute for 3 minutes or until crisp-tender. , Remove from the heat; stir in the cheese, basil, salt and pepper. Carefully loosen the skin on one side of each chicken breast to form a pocket; stuff with vegetable mixture. , In the same skillet, brown chicken skin side down in remaining oil. Turn chicken. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°.

Steps:

• Cut 4 of the zucchini and 4 of the yellow squash in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds.
• Sprinkle with the kosher salt and set them upsdide down on paper towels to drain for 30 minutes.
• Finely chop the remaining 2 squash.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Prepare sheet pan by very lightly greasing it.
• Get out your food processor.
• Heat 1 tbl of the olive oil in a heavy skillet.
• Add the shallots and cook until translucent but not brown, about 2 minutes.
• Add the mushrooms and 1/2 tsp of salt (approx.).
• Raise the heat to moderately high and cook, stirring, until the mushrooms begin to brown and the liquid they give off is evaporated- about 8-10 minutes.
• Transfer the mixture to a large mixing bowl.
• Saute the chopped zucchini and yellow squash with more olive oil and another 1/2 tsp salt, cooking until light brown and no more liquid is in the pan.
• Add to the mushrooms.
• Add the sausage to the pan and saute until brown.
• Transfer the sausage to the food processor and process until very fine.
• Add to the rest of the ingredients, add the breadcrumbs, cheese, parsley and mix well.
• Taste and season with additional S&P if needed.
• Fill the zucchini and squash shells, sprinkle with extra cheese.
• Add about 3 tbl of water to the pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
• Serve with a rice pilaf.