Stuffed Zucchini
A flavour packed zucchini stuffed with Mexican mince!
Equipment
- 1.5L – 3.5L slow cooker
- 5L – 7L slow cooker
- Optional: Oven to brown
Ingredients
Filling
- 500 grams pork mince
- 35 gram sachet of taco seasoning
- 125 gram can of corn kernels, drained
- 125 gram can of diced capsicum, drained – or swap for 1/2 cup fresh diced
- 435 gram can of refried beans – in the taco section of supermarket
To Assemble
- 2 large zucchinis (or more, see NOTE below)
- 1 tbsp fine breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup Grated cheese
- 2 tbsp fine grated parmesan cheese
Instructions
Cooking the filling …
- Add all the filling ingredients to small slow cooker and mix well. Cook on low for 3hrs, stirring occasionally to remove any lumps.
- I did this the day before then stored the cooked mince in the fridge overnight.
Cooking the stuffed zucchini …
- Take each large zucchini and slice carefully in half. Lay each half down and carefully scoop out the centre flesh – leaving a small perimeter around the edges to hold it's shape (see smaller photo above). I did this with a tsp spoon measure but a melon baller would also work.
- Take approx 1 – 1.5 cups of your cooked mince mixture and add the breadcrumbs, mix well.
- Use this mixture to fill the hollowed out zucchinis.
- Place these filled zucchinis in slow cooker, on a sheet of baking paper, and cook with TEA TOWEL TRICK in place for 3hrs low (see notes)
- Option 1: Add a little grated cheeses on each one in final 15mins of slow cooking to allow cheese to meltOption 2: Carefully move the zucchini's to oven tray, top with the cheeses and brown in a hot oven for 5mins
NOTES
- This recipe makes enough mince mixture for at least 8 zucchinis instead of 4 if you need them. Remember to add more breadcrumbs if you do make more mince mixture. Alternatively you could use your leftover Mexican mince in this recipe >>> HERE
- Because I cooked the mince the day before I was starting with cold mince. If you cook this both on the same day, starting with hot mince in the zucchini, it will reduce the cook time of the stuffed zucchinis, so just cook until they are nicely tender 🙂
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