Baked Stuffed Zucchini.
You can cook Baked Stuffed Zucchini using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Baked Stuffed Zucchini
- It's 6 of large zucchini.
- It's 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 1 of large onion.
- You need 1 pound of lean ground beef.
- It's 1 teaspoon of oregano.
- Prepare of Salt.
- Prepare of Ground black pepper.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- It's 1/4 cup of milk.
- It's 1 cup of cubed bread.
- You need 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce.
- It's 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese.
- It's of Gruyère cheese (or fontina or mozzarella).
Baked Stuffed Zucchini instructions
- Cut ends of zucchini and then lengthwise in half..
- Boil in lightly salted water until it starts softening (10 minutes). Remove from water. Let cool..
- Meanwhile, dice onion and sauté in oil at medium temperature until it starts to become transparent (10 minutes)..
- Add beef, oregano, salt and black pepper, and cook until there’s no red/pink. Let cool..
- In a large bowl beat eggs. Add milk. Add bread and let it absorb the liquid for 10 minutes. Break apart the bread with your fingers..
- Preheat oven at 400 degrees F..
- Remove pulp of boiled zucchini with a spoon, drain pulp and chop it..
- Add zucchini pulp, sautéed onion, beef, Parmesan and Worcestershire sauce to the bread mixture. Mix well..
- Arrange zucchini halves skin down on a baking sheet with parchment paper. Fill them with mixture..
- Add slices of Gruyère on each zucchini half. Bake for 30 minutes or until cheese browns. Wait 10 minutes before serving..