Recipe: Appetizing Chicken in a zucchini boat

Chicken in a zucchini boat. So, when you are spooning it into the zuke boats it's mostly chicken while the cheese falls to the bottom of the bowl. I'm thinking if you added the soup to the chicken/cheese mixture and then added it to the boats it would work a lot better without the chicken getting dried out. I love swapping out the processed ingredients in recipes for whole fruits and vegetables!

It gets the chicken parmesan essence from mixing pasta sauce into the chicken. Trim zucchini; slice each zucchini in half lengthwise. Using a spoon or a melon baller, remove flesh from center of each zucchini half. You can cook Chicken in a zucchini boat using 22 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken in a zucchini boat

1. You need of ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ chicken and zucchini◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆.
2. You need of medium zucchini.
3. You need of diced/ shredded chicken, I used chicken breast.
4. You need of large onion.
5. It's of paprika.
6. It's of salt.
7. It's of cayenne pepper.
8. Prepare of cumin powder.
9. It's of extra virgin olive oil.
10. Prepare of ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆sauce◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆.
11. It's of tomato sauce.
12. It's of whole leaf oregano.
13. It's of teaspoonful of cumin powder.
14. Prepare of honey.
15. It's of tablespoonful of minced garlic.
16. Prepare of tablespoonful of extra virgin olive oil.
17. You need of ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ toppings◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆.
18. You need of monterrey jack and colby cheddar cheese, shredded.
19. You need of chopped cilantro.
20. You need of jalapeño pepper slices, pickled.
21. It's of black ripened sliced olives.
22. You need of sour cream.

Chop scooped out zucchini flesh; set aside. Place zucchini halves in a single layer in prepared dish. Trying to feel satisfied while eating a low carb diet can be extremely challenging at times. The more recipes you have that fill you up while putting a smile on your face, the better.

Chicken in a zucchini boat step by step

1. Preheat oven 400° Fahrenheit.
2. Finely chop the onion..
3. Cut the ends off zucchini..
4. Split them lengthways down the middle.
5. Hollow the zucchini halves leaving a bit on the ends, so you can stuff them without stuffing running out. I used a spoon..
6. Heat oil in pan, cube, or shred the chicken into small pieces. Add chicken to pan..
7. Add onion to the chicken with salt, zucchini scrapings, cumin, cayenne, and paprika..
8. Sauté till onion is translucent and chicken is done..
9. Heat oil in the pan. Add the minced garlic and sauté..
10. Add tomato sauce, honey, oregano, salt, cumin, and simmer..
11. After 10 minutes of simmering and stirring occasionally, remove from heat..
12. In an oven safe dish add a quarter cup of the sauce. Set the zucchini boats on top of sauce in dish..
13. Spoon the stuffing mixture into zucchini boats.
14. Pour over the zucchini boats the rest of the sauce..
15. Add cheese and olives on top bake covered 40 minutes. Let sit 5 minutes..
16. Add sour cream, cilantro, and jalapeños. Serve I hope you enjoy!.

These Chicken Zucchini Boats do exactly that. Slice off the ends of the zucchini and cut in half lengthwise. Use a spoon to remove the flesh of the zucchini, then chop the flesh and set aside. In a medium size mixing bowl combine the cooked chicken, cream cheese, ranch dressing, shredded cheddar and buffalo sauce. Scoop the chicken mixture into the zucchini boats.