Chicken in a zucchini boat
Chicken in a zucchini boat

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken in a zucchini boat. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. 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.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken in a zucchini boat using 22 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken in a zucchini boat:
  1. Take ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ chicken and zucchini◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
  2. Prepare 3 medium zucchini
  3. Get 12 ounces diced/ shredded chicken, I used chicken breast
  4. Take 1/2 large onion
  5. Make ready 1 teaspoon paprika
  6. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  8. Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin powder
  9. Prepare 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  10. Prepare ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆sauce◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
  11. Prepare 15 ounces tomato sauce
  12. Take 1/2 teaspoon whole leaf oregano
  13. Make ready 1 teaspoonful of cumin powder
  14. Get 1-1/2 tablespoons honey
  15. Take 1 tablespoonful of minced garlic
  16. Take 1 tablespoonful of extra virgin olive oil
  17. Prepare ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ toppings◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
  18. Make ready 2 cups monterrey jack and colby cheddar cheese, shredded
  19. Take 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
  20. Prepare 1/3 cup jalapeño pepper slices, pickled
  21. Make ready 1 cup black ripened sliced olives
  22. Prepare 1/3 cup sour cream

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Instructions to make Chicken in a zucchini boat:
  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!

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