Healthy Recipes Link Up - Stuffed Zucchini

It's that time again, Pam from Our Love Nest is hosting her link up party for healthy recipes.  This week I am posting about a recipe we tried out last year after cleaning out our garden and finding several large zucchinis.  Ryan We did the big Fall clean up this weekend and again, we had some veggies to use up so we went pulled out this recipe from allrecipes.com.

STUFFED ZUCCHINI

Ingredients

• 4 medium zucchini
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 pound Italian sausage
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup dried bread crumbs
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed tomato soup
• 1 cup water

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Grease or spray a 13x9 inch baking dish.
2. Cut the zucchini in half lengthwise. With a spoon, scoop out the seeds. Chop and reserve about 3/4 of the seeds for the stuffing. In a medium bowl, mix together the ground beef, sausage, chopped onion, bread crumbs, egg and the reserved zucchini seeds. Place the meat mixture equally into all of the zucchini halves; mixture should be piled up over the top. Place the filled zucchini halves into the prepared baking dish.
3. In a bowl, stir together the crushed tomatoes, tomato soup, and water. Spoon the tomato mixture over the filled zucchini, liberally. Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 45 minutes. You may want to place foil or a cookie sheet underneath the baking dish because it tends to bubble over and splash.

* We also added some shredded cheese on top and then let bake until the cheese was golden brown.  Delicious!

*Photo and recipe from www.allrecipes.com.