Stuffed Zucchini
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Ingredients
- 1 Zucchini
- ⅓ cup cooked millet
- 4 spring onions
- 1 small chopped eggplant
- Handful of chopped mushrooms
- ½ cup stock or broth
- 2 large handfuls of spinach
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Pinch of chilli flakes
- 4 tbsp of pesto of your choice
- 2 tbsp Parmesan
For the topping:
- 1 cup Lupin Flakes
- 3 cloves garlic less if you prefer
- ½ cup almonds or walnuts
- Lemon thyme/thyme/rosemary
- 2 tbsp Parmesan
- Pinch Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Cut zucchini in half down the middle and hollow out, leaving a solid rim to hold your fillings.
- Rub with olive oil and season with salt and pepper, then place in oven at 180C while you prep the rest.
- Cook millet until soft with a little crunch. While that’s boiling, sauté spring onions in olive oil, then add 3 crushed garlic cloves and a pinch of chilli flakes.
- Next add the inside part of the zucchini, a handful of chopped mushrooms, 1 small chopped eggplant, 1 bay leaf and ½ cup stock or broth. Once this has cooked down add pesto of your choice, spinach, nutritional yeast or parmesan and cooked millet.
- Scoop into your hollow roasted zucchini.
- For the topping, place in food processor 1 cup Lupin Flakes, 1 – 3 cloves of garlic, ½ cup almonds or walnuts and a sprinkle of lemon thyme/thyme/rosemary, 2 tbsp nutritional yeast and salt and pepper. Blitz into a fine crumb then fry in some olive oil until the mix starts to become golden.
- Top your stuffed zucchini and place back in oven until golden.
Nutrition
Calories: 443kcalCarbohydrates: 34gProtein: 26gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 434mgFiber: 21gSugar: 8g
