Giant Sausage Stuffed Zucchini - Simply Recipes

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Why Make This

  • Transform oversized garden zucchini into a filling, crowd-pleasing dinner.
  • Italian sausage, breadcrumbs, tomato, and cheese bring bold flavor to every bite.
  • You can prepare the stuffed zucchini ahead and bake it right before serving.

Fellow gardeners, you know this tale well. You step away from your garden bed for one minute (or a weekend) and come back to find a monster zucchini hiding in the greenery.

Sometimes the plant warns you. Regular zucchini production starts slowing down, odd for early summer. The reason? All of the plant's attention is going to feeding that one humongous, baseball bat of a zuke.

Fortunately, those ginormous zucchini are perfect for stuffing!

Italian zucchini recipe of two sausage stuffed zucchini on a platter.
Elise Bauer

How To Make Stuffed Zucchini

Making stuffed zucchini is easy. You just cut the zucchini in half lengthwise, and scoop out the insides, leaving a shell to stuff with whatever your heart desires.

This week my heart desired Italian sausage, so my friends, this is what we are using to stuff this particular zucchini.

We brown some Italian sausage, onions, garlic, and some of the zucchini insides, and mix it with fresh breadcrumbs, basil, tomatoes, oregano, and Parmesan cheese. One egg is all you need to bind the stuffing together.

Into the oven go these stuffed zucchini boats to bake for 40 minutes. Yum!

Make-Ahead Stuffed Zucchini

Need to make ahead? You can easily stuff the zucchini a day ahead of time. Just stuff the zucchini, keep it chilled, then bake right before serving.

This is a meal in and of itself—no need to serve it with anything else.

By the way, zucchini tends to become watery and mushy when frozen, so we don't recommend freezing this recipe.

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