Description: Vegetable haters or lovers? This baked courgette can be liked by both types of eaters. Lower calories than pizza as the base is courgette 🙂
Serves: 6 pieces
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- Courgette – Cut in half, 3 piece or 600g
- Broccoli – chopped, 100g
- Onion – chopped, ½ piece or 75g
- Bacon – chopped into small pieces, 40g or 2 rashers
- Ground black pepper – 1 dash
- Cheese (parmesan, mozzarella) – grated or chopped, 100g
- *Alternatively, cheddar cheese or Monterey Jack can be used
Method
1. Scoop out the courgette flesh by using a spoon. Be careful overdoing otherwise it may make holes.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180C.
2. In a non-stick pan, fry the bacon until it gets crispy. Put it aside.
3. In the same pan, add the broccoli, onion, courgette flesh, black pepper, and fry them for a few minutes to remove the water content from the courgette.
4. Stuff them into the hollowed courgette (no.1).
5. Put cheese on top and bake it in the oven for 20 minutes until the surface becomes golden brown.
To serve: Sprinkle bacon and ground black pepper.
Nutritional Values Per Serving
| Kcal | Protein | Fat | Carbs | Fibre | Sugars | Salt | Saturated Fat | Vitamin C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115.1 | 8.5g | 6.7g | 6.0g | 1.7g | 3.9g | 0.7g | 3.1g | 33.7mg |
| 5.8% | 17.0% | 9.5% | 2.3% | 5.5% | 4.3% | 11.1% | 15.4% | 84.2% |
Nutritional Tips
A lot of children love pizza and do not like vegetables … This may be helpful for those who want to eat more vegetables and less energy. Also, this is suitable for gluten-free diets.
You can also use any favorite vegetables such as mushrooms, asparagus, cauliflowers, corn, peas, tomatoes and peppers. It works better with less watery vegetables but you can make it with watery vegetables. Either pre-cook watery vegetables before you prepare the stuffing or use salt to remove water in advance.
I tried a similar recipe with aubergine, I will introduce it another time 🙂
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