Zucchini Love Boats
DATE: September 27, 2022
- Serves: 4
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Let The Good Thymes Roll
Italian Spice Blend
- 4 medium-sized zucchini, cut lengthwise, seeds scooped out
FOR THE SAUCE
- 2 cups Healthy On You® Marinara Sauce
FOR THE QUINOA STUFFING
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup quinoa, cooked per package instructions
- 6 oz Impossible Burger, ground meat
- 1 tbsp Healthy On You® Let the Good Thymes Roll Italian spice blend
- ½ onion diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup mini bella mushrooms, diced
- ½ red/organge pepper, diced
- ½ tsp sea salt
- ½ cup shredded mozarella
Directions
MAKE THE QUINOA FILLING
- Heat the olive oil in a nonstick skillet or saute pan. the Impossible Burger ground meat and break up and cook until the meat is opaque-about 5 minutes.
- Add the diced mushroom and the Let the Good Thymes Roll spice blend and sauté along with the meat until it releases its juices-3-5 minutes.
- Add the onions, garlic, and stir, combining all the ingredients. Cook for another 5 minutes under low heat.
- Add the diced bell pepper and cook together for another 2 minutes.
- Add the salt and taste. If it needs more, add a dash.
- In a medium-sized bowl, add the cooked quinoa and add in the cooked vegetable mixture and stir well. If the mixture is a little dry, add a little olive oil. Set aside.
PUT THE BOATS TOGETHER
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- In a 9x13 baking pan, add 2 cups of the prepared tomato sauce.
- Add the sliced zucchini boats to the sauce, face-up, side by side.
- Scoop the quinoa filling inside the well of the zucchini where you scooped out the seeds.
- Add more tomato sauce on top of each boat.
- Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, sprinkle the cheese all over and set back in the oven uncovered for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes, add the parsley garnish and serve.
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