Stuffed Round Zucchini
By: Susan Harr
Published: Monday, June 13, 2011 - 6:40am

Ingredients




2 round zucchini
2/3 cup brown rice cooked
1/2 yellow pepper diced small (I wanted to use green but only had the yellow)
1 carrot diced small
2 cloves of garlic
3 scallions sliced small
2 small campari tomatoes diced small
dash oregano
dash basil

Preparation

1 Add a small amount of olive oil to a skillet and saute the carrots about 3-4 minutes,then add the yellow or green pepper and garlic and saute another minute. 2 Add the reserved zucchini,scallions,tomatoes and herbs,saute another minute or two. 3 Salt and pepper to taste. 4 Stuff the zucchini with the rice mixture and place in a baking dish. 5 I added a little water in the bottom of the baking dish,bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.

About


Look at these zucchini!! I have never seen round zucchini before so I couldn’t resist buying them. With summer nearly here,the produce markets are filled with wonderful fresh vegetables including this unusual zucchini. I bought two (went back later and they were all gone) and since there is only my husband and myself these days,two was enough. The only thing I could think of to to with them was to stuff them. My melon baller came in handy for this job. I lopped off the top,scooped out the inside and saved it to saute with the other vegetables. Since the zucchini were so small (about 3 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches ) I didn’t measure the ingredients I just eye-balled the amounts and only had a small bit of the rice stuffing left over,so I just ate it standing by the stove. Let me know what you think??