Totallyawake4-life: Zucchini

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Zucchini Lasagna

Zucchini Lasagna
Serves 4

What You Need

1 pound extra lean ground meat (beef, chicken, turkey, pork choose your preference)
4 cups of homemade Tomato Sauce - or ready made jar if you prefer
500ml Ricotta Cheese
1 cup of shredded cheese ~ we like either straight Mozzarella or a blend of Mozzarella and Parmesan
4 large Zucchini

What You Do

Saute ground beef until evenly browned through and add pasta sauce. In my experience there is no need to grease a saute pan when cooking ground meat I use a little water in the pan at the start to avoid sticking but once the meat releases its oil than you are good to go and the water will evaporate as you cook.
Wash and pat dry than slice your Zucchini lengthwise ~ this is a handy tool for helping
Basically layer as you wood a normal lasagna! I do not grease my pan either instead I put a little sauce on the bottom of the pan and swoosh it around to cover and than layer it with Zucchini slices, scoop of Sauce, Ricotta Cheese and Shredded Cheese. I basically did 4 layers so one zucchini per layer and using 1/4 of the sauce and cheeses for each layer.
Bake in an over at 350 F for approximately 45 minutes until zucchini is tender and cheese is melted and bubbling.
Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing.
Serve with Cheesy Cauliflower sticks or a side salad.

Have an amazing day!

Margaret
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Thursday, September 10, 2015

OK remember I am a recovering 'picky eater' here so those of you who've been eating zucchini forever bare with me as these have been on my list to try for a long time ~ for some reason they frightened me so I would always walk past them in the grocery store and say 'next week' ... I think it is because they look so much like cucumber and well cucumber does not like me for some reason. Not sure what I ever did to it but it will attack me something fierce when it passes my lips!

So I was very pleasantly surprised when we added these to the daycare rotation and like a good role model I believer if I am serving something to the children I need to 'eat it' too unless I cannot for allergy reasons. These were so tasty they are now on the weekly rotation and we are trying lots of 'variations' in the meat and veggies and cheese added to mix it up!

Slice Zucchini in half and create your 'crevice' for your boat

Add your favorite sauce ~ for the kiddies I use pizza sauce
For myself I used Red Hot's Tabasco sauce, Pesto or Salsa cause I like spice

Fill the boat with your favorite toppings ~ we used onion, peppers, bacon, cherry tomatoes.

I sprinkled with some Epicure Poco Picante seasoning for mine cause I like it SPICY but really anything goes with what you fill it with ~ get inventive!