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Chicken Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Name: Chicken Stuffed Zucchini Boats
Ingredients: Zucchini 2 pcs; Chicken fillet 300 g; Cheese 150 g; Carrot 1 pcs; Onion 1 pcs; Garlic 2-3 clove; Tomato sauce 2 tbsp; Vegetable oil 50 ml; Seasoning for chicken 0.5 tsp; Salt - to taste; Black pepper - to taste

The stuffed vegetables baked in an oven are the fine idea for a tasty and useful family lunch or a dinner. In the summer and in an early autumn the choice of vegetables is huge so the recipe can be changed depending on your flavoring preferences. Today I suggest preparing the zucchini stuffed with chicken and vegetables. The vegetables baked under a cheese crust turn out especially tasty and fragrant. For a stuffing I suggest to use boiled chicken fillet, it can be prepared in advance. At will meat can be fried together with vegetables.

Ingredients

60 min

4 servings

Ingredients

Zucchini

2 pcs
Chicken fillet

300 g
Cheese

150 g
Carrot

1 pcs
Onion

1 pcs
Garlic

2-3 clove
Tomato sauce

2 tbsp
Vegetable oil

50 ml
Seasoning for chicken

0.5 tsp
Salt

- to taste
Black pepper

- to taste

Steps

1. Wash young zucchini and cut off tails. Cut vegetables lengthways in halves. Accurately remove a core by means of a teaspoon, forming “boats” with the wall thickness of 1 cm.

2. Let's lower boats from zucchini in the boiling salted water. Boil thoroughly preparations for 5 minutes so that vegetables became softer. Lay out the blanched zucchini in the heat resisting ware for roasting greased with a small amount of vegetable oil.

3. Let's prepare vegetables for a stuffing. Wash carrots, peel and grate on a large grater. Clean onions from a peel and cut into small cubes.

4. On a frying pan with the warmed vegetable oil let’s lay out the crushed vegetables. Periodically stirring slowly, brown onions with carrots to softness on low fire.

5. Boil chicken fillet to readiness in salted water with addition of bay leaf and black allspice. Let's cool meat to room temperature and cut it into small cubes. Also cut a core of zucchini into cubes of the small size.

6. Let's add chicken and zucchini to the browned vegetables and mix. Continue to prepare ingredients together on low fire for 5 more minutes.

7. Then we will add hot tomato sauce, passed through a press garlic cloves and small chopped greenery to a stuffing. Let's bring a stuffing to taste by adding salt and ground spices and mix.

8. Let's fill with stuffing a ready zucchini boats.

9. Grate hard cheese on a large grater and evenly distribute it over a stuffing.

10. Send the stuffed zucchini to the oven warmed up to 180 degrees. Let's bake vegetables at the medium level for 25-30 minutes. During this time zucchini will prepare completely, and cheese will melt and redden.