Cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa
Cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This cheesy zucchini quinoa is a great way to sneak in vegetables to a cheesy comforting dish that everyone will love. Two to three times a week I walk up to the fish counter in my local store and the little Ecuadorian fish man starts unwrapping the salmon before I even have to say anything. One of my goto side dishes is a cheesy broccoli rice which is super easy to make and downright tasty. Ever since I discovered that quinoa can be a good substitute for rice in a lot of dishes I have been slowly remaking a lot of my favourite rice dishes with quinoa and it was time to try a cheesy broccoli quinoa.

Cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa using 7 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa:
  1. Prepare 160 g quinoa or rice
  2. Take 300 g minced meat
  3. Get 1 zucchini/courgette
  4. Prepare 1 onion
  5. Get 1 big clove of garlic
  6. Take 100 mL cooking cream (cow or soy)
  7. Get 150 g shredded cheese (use whatever cheese you like!)

Cheesy quinoa mixed with noodles and topped with a little parmesan to form a crust make this a comfort side dish like no other. You'd probably agree that zucchini isn't much of a comfort food, but using a spiralizer to make zucchini noodles changes them from an ordinary in season summer vegetable to a fake out fantastic pasta dish! Zucchini With Quinoa Stuffing Zucchini With Quinoa Stuffing. The stuffing tasted very good before baking, but after stuffing the zucchini and baking it, the filling turned out very bland.

Instructions to make Cheesy filled zucchini with quinoa:
  1. Preheat the oven at 200°C (or 392°F).
  2. Shred the onion and crush the garlic to a pulp.
  3. Cut the zucchini in half and scoop out the inside with a spoon. Cut the insides in small pieces!
  4. Spread some olive oil on the outside off the zucchini halves.
  5. Put olive oil in a hot pan and add the minced meat.
  6. Add part of the garlic and season to taste. I seasoned with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and a spice mix containing (ground) paprika, coriander, curcuma, fenegriq, chilli powder, ginger, cumin, cardemom and fennel seeds.
  7. When half of the minced meat is ready, add the shredded onion and the rest of the garlic. Cook for about 5 minutes.
  8. Add the zucchini insides, mix and cook for about 3 minutes.
  9. Add the cooking cream and let it reduce.
  10. Reduce the heat and add half of the shredded cheese (I use a mix of gouda, emmental and rigatello)
  11. Stir and adjust seasoning to taste.
  12. Fill the zucchini with the mixture and add shredded cheese on top to get a nice crust!
  13. Put it in the oven for 15 min at 180°C.
  14. Prepare the quinoa as described on the package. You can add chicken stock to the water to improve the taste!
  15. Put everything on a plate and enjoy your meal! Cheers!

Zucchini With Quinoa Stuffing Zucchini With Quinoa Stuffing. The stuffing tasted very good before baking, but after stuffing the zucchini and baking it, the filling turned out very bland. I think I might skip the beans in the filling, as I believe their flavor/texture is what took over. Quinoa Stuffed Zucchini makes a delicious a gluten-free meal that is incredibly satisfying! Made with just a few ingredients, flavorful low-cal veggies like zucchini served with high protein grain like quinoa are great alternatives to pasta and rice.

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