Zucchini boats in the oven with minced meat and mushrooms

3 servings
1 hour

With this recipe, you can fulfill several goals at once. First, to feed the whole family quickly and deliciously, combining a side dish and hot in one recipe; secondly, surprise guests with the original serving of a simple dish if there is a festive dinner, and, again, tasty feeding them; and thirdly, to have always in stock a proven good recipe for the preparation of young courgettes, in the season of which, there are a lot of them. So this recipe has some advantages!

How to make courgette boats? Prepare the ingredients. I took fresh mushrooms, but you can use frozen ones. Keep in mind that their frying time will increase slightly, as they will give a lot of excess moisture that will need to be evaporated.

Wash the courgettes (I have zucchini) and wipe them dry. Cut in half. With a knife, make cuts inside without reaching the skin. Spoon out the flesh and set aside. We will add it to the mince later, finely cutting it. And the squash themselves will be the basis for our boats.

Clean the mushrooms from garbage, wash and finely cut. Peel the onions from the husks and finely chop them too. Heat the pan on the stove. Pour vegetable oil into it. Fry the onions and mushrooms in a pan in the oil until tender, stirring. Grate a coarse grater with hard or semi-hard cheese.

Add the fried mushrooms with onions, chopped courgette flesh and 2/3 parts of the grated cheese to the finished minced meat (I have a mixture of chicken and pork). Mix everything. Add salt and pepper to taste. Turn on the oven 190 degrees to warm up.

Line the oven tin or baking tray with baking paper. Spread out the prepared courgette & quot; boats & quot;. Fill them evenly with minced meat. Top with the remaining grated cheese. Place the tray in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes. Determine the time and temperature of baking by your oven.

For & quot; boats & quot; need sails. We will make them from fresh cucumber. Pre-wash it, cut the edges. Thinly cut into rectangular plates. This can be done with either a very sharp conventional knife or a special vegetable cleaning knife. Using a toothpick, give the cucumbers the shape of a sail.

Stick toothpicks with cucumber sail into ready-made hot courts-courgettes and immediately serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!