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Middle Eastern stuffed zucchini recipe with a spiced rice and meat filling, cooked in red sauce. A must-try!

Middle Eastern Stuffed Zucchini Recipe

rice,

lb beef

onion,

parsley

dill

(14.5 oz) diced tomato with juice

water

tbsp Private Reserve extra virgin olive oil

tsp allspice

garlic powder

Salt and pepper

lb Medium-sized zucchini

(14.5 oz) tomato sauce

In a large bowl, combine the stuffing ingredients of rice, ground beef, shredded onion, fresh parsley, dill, diced tomatoes, water, olive oil, allspice, garlic powder, and salt and pepper. Mix by hand to combine.

Now, remove the top of 3 tomatoes and remove the core to hollow out the tomatoes making room for the stuffing. Do this using a corer like this one.

With a knife, remove the very top of the zucchini, then cut each zucchini in half to make shorter zucchini for stuffing. Now you need to hollow out the zucchini to make room for the stuffing.

Insert your corer about 3/4 of the way into the zucchini, making sure not to poke the bottoms. Twist the corer and pull out the zucchini cores or hearts. Do this a few times, and gently scrape the sides of the zucchini until you have hollowed each out making room for the stuffing. You'll want to leave about 1/4 inch rim of zucchini.

Lightly oil the bottom of a large deep cooking pan like this one. Slice the remaining tomato and spread over the bottom of the pan. Now add the onion slices and the cores or hearts of the zucchini. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper.

Now, using your hands, gently stuff the hollowed tomatoes with the rice stuffing. Then loosely stuff the zucchini with the rice stuffing about 3/4 of the way (do not over-stuff or crowd the rice stuffing in the zucchini or it will not cook well).

Arrange the stuffed tomatoes in the center of the cooking pan, then add the stuffed zucchini (stuffed side up) around them. Tilt the zucchini a little, this helps them cook nicely through using less liquid.

Now add the tomato sauce and water. Sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper.

Place the pan on the stove and cook on medium-high heat until the liquid starts boiling. Turn the heat down, cover and simmer for for 50 minutes until the zucchini is tender and the rice stuffing is fully cooked.

Transfer to a serving platter or individual bowls. Top with the sauce from the cooking pan. Enjoy!

Getting ready to stuff my yellow squash and only had 80% lean ground beef so I will use it.  I usually use tomato juice rather than sauce and just a pinch of cinnamon to the meat/rice mixture.  Why the cinnamon?  It's the way my Lebanese mother made koosa.   Like your recipes.

Hi Suzy! Hi yank you got your amazing recipes! I cooked several for my husband as he observes Ramadan and great food is making it special. Not sure what I did wrong with this particular recipe (followed it exactly), but ended up with too much liquid and the vegetables were literally drained in it and boiling even on low setting. I had to literally remove at least 2 cups of liquid during the cooking process and rice turned out super sticky. What went wrong?!! Thank you

Delish. I made the filling and cored the zucchini separately, in advance. Then, when I had time, I put them together. It really was very simple and the result is a light, delicious meal which I served with homemade flat breads and a big Greek salad.

I made this recipe and am blown away with the results, as I have also been with about 6 other recipes of yours I have tried. The flavors brought out from your herbs, spices and seasoning combinations is far above being spot-on and I am so glad I came across you on Pinterest; I will be coming to you for more with confidence and excitement. This Stuffed Zucchini is so fantastic with the allspice and dill flavors, which I admit I was alittle doubtful about. I am in love! Your Med. Tuna Salad is the best, the lemon rice and zucchini boats plus others have been amazing, delicious and so satisfying. Right On!!! :)

I love these! What are your suggestions to build a meal around this as the main dish? Thank you!

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