Name: Quick stuffed courgettes
Prep time: 26 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 6 min
Yield: 6 people
Ingredients: 6 courgettes; 120 g cooked rice; 6 tablespoons Tomato sauce for pizzas; 6 Meatballs; 120 g grated cheese; fine (or table) salt; pepper

Step by step recipe:

5 min.
Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Prepare 6 courgettes (use the round sort, as they are easier to stuff): rinse them and slice off the top.
10 min.
Scoop out the courgette flesh with a teaspoon or, better still, a pommes parisiennes spoon. Sprinkle the inside of each hollowed out courgette lightly with table salt.
3 min.
Put a little cooked rice in the bottom of each courgette then add a little tomato sauce.
4 min.
Sit a meatball into each courgette.
4 min.
Top with a little grated cheese.
40 min.
Bake for about 40 minutes, preferably low in the oven, keeping an eye on the colour towards the end of cooking.

Remarks:

Don't throw out the tops or flesh of the courgettes after scooping them out; you can use them in a quick courgette soup with cheese.

If you'd like a hotter flavour, pep up the tomato sauce with a little Tabasco or chilli.

Source:

Home made.

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