Description
Fresh out of the oven…zucchini packed full of meat, sauce and cheese makes a delicious dish!
Ingredients
- ½ pound ground beef
- 1 large zucchini, ends trimmed
- ½ cup bread crumbs
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 (16 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
- ½ (6 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly
- 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease. Transfer beef into a large mixing bowl.
- Slice zucchini in half lengthwise
- then use a spoon to scoop out the flesh
- leaving a 1/2-inch-thick shell all around zucchini. Chop scooped-out zucchini flesh and add to beef in the mixing bowl.
- Stir spaghetti sauce
- Parmesan cheese
- bread crumbs
- black olives
- and garlic into beef-zucchini mixture until well combined. Lightly stuff both halves of zucchini with filling. Place filled zucchini halves into a baking dish; cover tightly with foil.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Remove the baking dish from the oven; turn on the broiler and adjust an oven rack to within 6 inches of the broiler’s heat source.
- Uncover the baking dish; sprinkle 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese over each zucchini half. Broil until cheese is browned and bubbling
- about 5 minutes.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 50 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 4