Ingredients:
- 1 large zucchini (split and hollowed)
- 1 lb sausage
- sage
- pistachios
- nutmeg
- cardamom
- pomegranate molasses
- 1 cup black rice
Ingredients (alternate):
- 1 giant zucchini sawn into boats
- I run the seeds and such through a blender and add them back into the mix
- 1 lb hot Italian sausage
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1 cup rice (cook it ahead though)
- 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 green bell pepper finely diced
- 1 onion finely diced
- Kalamata olives (sliced or diced)
- plain smoked almonds (house-made)
- ground flaxseed (boost fiber)
- cardamom
- basil
- parsley
- thyme
- black and white pepper
- cayenne
- salt
Directions:
- split zucchini and hollow the inner bits (you can grind these and eat them if you want)
- mix the stuff together (including any ground up bits from the zucchini)
- fill the boats with all the stuff
- bake for an hour at maybe 325f
- adjust the above as necessary
Best of luck.
Latest version (20230924):
Ingredients (alternate):
- 1 giant zucchini sawn into boats
- run the seeds and such through a blender with the following
- cashews
- sun dried tomatoes
- 1 lb hot Italian sausage
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1 shallot finely diced
- mushrooms
- 1/2 cup white wine (used to deglaze after sausages, shallots, and mushrooms fry)
- ground flax seed and oat bran (boost fiber)
- cardamom
- cinnamon
- thyme
- black and white pepper, cayenne, salt
- 1 cup rice (cook it ahead though)
Ingredients (alternate):
- mushrooms
- black rice
- bacon
- caramelized onions
- 3 eggs (binder)
- ricotta
- mozzarella
- pecorino
- garlic confit
- marjoram
- savory
- salt
- pepper
- white pepper
- cayenne
- cornstarch
Any of these could be used or modified for stuffing bell peppers of any color.
Here is one I used for bell peppers.
Ingredients:
- 1 lb spicy Italian sausage
- 1 C black rice
- finely chopped shallots
- garlic
- 3 plums chopped
- ½ C oat meal
- 1 T ground flax seed
- 1 T oat bran
- yogurt
- salt, pepper, and cayenne
The bell pepper go into the oven (300-325f) for maybe 90 minutes.
