PIZZA ZUCCHINI BOATS WITH PEPPERONI AND SAUSAGE

A healthy, low-carb, recipe for pizza zucchini boats that is complete of Italian sausage, Mozzarella and pepperonis.  Makes a wonderful short and clean gluten-unfastened dinner recipe for a busy weeknight.

Do you adore lovely vegetables complete of yummy goodness as a whole lot as I do?  There need to be a toddler still dwelling within me because I enjoy consuming veggies a lot greater while they are the car for delivering my whole meal.

In case you are having a hard time getting your toddlers to eat their greens, you need to absolutely deliver these pizza zucchini boats a attempt.  they're as an alternative simple to prepare and might be a extraordinary challenge to do together with your child(s) to get them excited about cooking.

A lot of the zucchini education may be performed by using youngsters as you will see inside the video beneath.  you can additionally allow them to vicinity the cheese and any toppings they need onto the pizza zucchini boats.

INGREDIENTS:

• 4-5 medium-large zucchinis
• 1-2 T. olive oil + more for zucchini
• ½ c. onions finely diced
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• ½ t. salt
• ¼ t. pepper
• 1 lb. Italian sausage mild
• 1 c. spaghetti sauce
• ½ c. pepperonis small
• 1 c. Mozzarella cheese
• Parsley fresh (optional)
• Parmesan cheese optional

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 stages.
2. reduce zucchini in 1/2 and scoop out insides. area zucchini pulp in a bowl to reserve for later.
3. Drizzle approximately 1 T. olive oil over the insides of the zucchini and sprinkle with a bit salt and pepper over every.
4. vicinity zucchini on a baking sheet, interior-up, and bake in preheated oven for 7-8 mins.
5. In a medium-big sauce pan, area olive oil, onions, garlic, salt and pepper. Saute for two-3 minutes over medium warmness.
6. upload Italian sausage and prepare dinner over medium warmness for an additional eight mins, or until sausage is nearly performed.
7. measure out 1 c. of the reserved zucchini pulp. Coarsely chop and then vicinity in the pan with the sausage. prepare dinner over medium heat for some other 2-3 minutes, or until zucchini becomes tender.
8. reduce warmth to a simmer and add spaghetti sauce. once mixture is heated via, fill every zucchini boat with identical quantities of the sausage combination. (every boat gets approximately ¼ c. of the mixture.)
9. pinnacle each zucchini boat with Mozzarella and six-8 small pepperonis.
10. return zucchini to the oven and broil for two-three minutes, looking carefully so the cheese does now not burn.
11. pinnacle with clean parsley and Parmesan and revel in!

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