Zucchini Boats Stuffed with Turkey

These zucchini boats are made from the remains of sweet and sour mitballs or meatballs in sweet and sour tomato sauce, recipe which is also presented below, but if you decide not to cook mitballs, you can replace them with roasted minced meat from turkey. Finished turkey mixed with artichokes, sour cream, grated parmesan and spices. Long zucchini boats are filled with this filling and sprinkled with breadcrumbs, which after baking turn into a crisp. Serve tasty pasta boats орзо, смешанной с соусом песто. The photodishes: Robin Miller Time: 30 min. Difficulty: Easy Portions: 2 V recipes use measured containers with a volume of: 1 glass (tbsp.) – 240 ml 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cups (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp. l.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.

Ingredients for the recipe:

The boats

• 2 large zucchini sliced lengthwise in half
• 450 gr sweet and sour turkey cubes, diced, recipe see below
• 1/3 Art. sour cream, regular or low fat
• 0.5 tbsp. coarsely chopped artichoke cores (in oil or brine)
• 1/4 Art. + 2 tbsp. l grated parmesan, split
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp. l breadcrumbs with spices

Sweet and sour turkey mitballs

• 1 kg. minced turkey breast
• 2 tsp seasonings for poultry
• 1 egg white
• 2 cans of 425 gr. canned tomato sauce
• 2 tbsp. low salt chicken stock
• 1 tbsp. chili sauce
• 0.5 tbsp. cider vinegar
• 0.5 tbsp. brown sugar
• 2 tsp dried thyme

Orzo with pesto

• 340 gr orzo pasta
• 2 tbsp. l ready-made basil pesto

Recipes with similar ingredients: zucchini, artichokes, orzo pasta, pesto sauce, chili sauce, minced turkey, seasoning for poultry, thyme, oregano

Recipe preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
2. Using a watermelon or regular spoon, scoop out the seeds from the center of each half of zucchini to make 4 long boats.
3. In a medium-sized bowl, mix diced mitballs (or roasted minced meat from turkey), sour cream, artichokes, 1/4 tbsp. Parmesan, oregano, salt and black pepper. Mix gently to evenly distribute the ingredients. Put the mixture in squash boats. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and the remaining parmesan.
4. Bake the boats for 10-12 minutes until they are browned on top and the filling will not warm up. Serve with pasta orzo with pesto. Orzo with pesto: boil orzo pasta as recommended on packaging. Stir with pesto and serve.

5. Sweet and sour turkey mitballs

   In a large bowl, mix the minced turkey, garlic and seasoning for poultry (or seasoning from dried garlic with herbs without salt), egg protein and 0.5 tsp. salt and black pepper. Mix well and Form approximately 32 balls. Put mitballs to the bottom slow cookers.

6. In a medium-sized bowl, mix tomato sauce, stock, sauce chili, vinegar, brown sugar and thyme. Pour the mixture mitballs.
7. Cover and cook with low heat for 6-8 hours or when strong heating for 3-4 hours. Salt and pepper to taste.