Recipe: Appetizing Meat Stuffed Summer Squash

Meat Stuffed Summer Squash. Stuffed zucchini and summer squash recipes - how to make meat and rice stuffed squash in the oven. Easy food recipe to cook stuffed squash or zucchini in. The only challenging part about creating stuffed summer squash recipes is figuring out what to call them.

Stuffed summer squash is absolutely delicious and is a colorful and attractive side for most any meat or fish entree. This yummy stuffed squash is adapted from Cotton Country Cooking, one of my favorite, most oft-used cookbooks. Use beautiful summer squash as the base for this baked dish stuffed with ground turkey, vegetables, herbs and spices. You can cook Meat Stuffed Summer Squash using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Meat Stuffed Summer Squash

1. You need 1 of minced meat of choice (I used extra-lean turkey).
2. You need 1 of onion finely chopped.
3. You need 1/2 tbsp of ras el hanout (couscous spice mix).
4. It's 1/2 tsp of harissa (hot pepper paste).
5. It's of salt & pepper.
6. Prepare 2 of extra-large summer squash (I used grey ball and green patty pan).

Scrape out seeds and stringy pulp from each squash half, leaving a large cavity for stuffing. Arrange snugly in a large, lightly oiled ovenproof baking dish. Mix together the panko, Parmesan and chopped parsley in a small bowl and sprinkle on top of the stuffed squash. Stuffed Summer Squash with Merguez Sausage and Goat Cheese - Tastes Like Not Summer Squash.

Meat Stuffed Summer Squash step by step

1. Cut your summer squash in two in the direction that will allow you to make baskets best..
2. Empty your squash leaving 1/4" of flesh all around and reserve the flesh..
3. Finely chop the squash flesh left from emptying them..
4. Mix all ingredients except squash baskets..
5. Fill in your squash baskets with meat mix and press to evacuate all the air. You can overfill ;-).
6. Cook in preheated oven at 400º for about an hour in a greased plate (I use lasagna type plate because it makes some juice while cooking). You'll know they're done when the meat is brown and the squash tender..
7. Serve with lemon couscous and veggies of your choice..
8. Enjoy!.

These stuffed squash will be especially useful if you're living next door to the "why the hell do they plant such a huge garden?" neighbors. For the squash, rinse squash, cut in half lengthwise and scoop out seeds with a spoon. Add herbs, minced meat and thyme to the pan and continue to saute until the meat is cooked through. Squeeze the bread and beat eggs. This stuffed squash recipe is so good and full of so much flavor!