Serves 4
Prep time 25 minutes
Cook time 50 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup organic red rice
2 tablespoons harder goat cheese
Salt to taste
6 pieces Basil
mortadella - 3 tablespoons
1 tablespoon Olive oil
4 round zucchini (*if you have a hard time finding round zucchini, you can use large regular zucchini as well)
1 red onion
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees
- Put zucchini on their side and slice in half
- Using a melon spoon or a small coffee spoon, hollow out zucchini halves (keep the pulp)
- On a tray lined with parchment paper, lay zucchini down, hollow-side up
- Salt lightly
- Place pulp on a tray and spread out. You are trying to dry it out in the oven
- Cook zucchini and pulp for about 20 minutes or until they start looking dry
- When you take out your zucchini, turn the oven up to 350 degrees
- Boil red rice in salted boiling water and cook for 40 minutes
- Strain in a strainer
- Chop mortadella
- Slice onion
- Tear basil leaves
- Chop goat cheese.
- Mix everything in a bowl with rice, and salt to taste
- Stuff zucchini
- Bake in oven until golden on top, about 8 minutes