Zucchini Stuffed with Meat and Rice in Tomato Sauce with homemade tomato sauce

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

1. 1
   Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, cumin, turmeric, baharat, rice, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

1. 2
   Cut the tops off the zucchini and hollow them out with a teaspoon, leaving walls of about 0.5 cm.

   KnifeCutting board
2. 3
   Fill the zucchini with the mixture up to ¾ full: the rice swells as it cooks.

   💡Fill only three-quarters full: the uncooked rice swells inside the vegetable, and a full filling gets pushed out.
3. 4
   In a bowl, mix the tomatoes with the salt. Don't cook it: the sauce cooks on the pizza in the oven.

   StoveSmall saucepan

   💡Spread cooled sauce on pizza: hot sauce softens the dough even before baking.

   💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
4. 5
   Arrange the zucchini, now stuffed, in a wide pot.

   Wide, shallow pot
5. 6
   Mix the stock, tomatoes, tomato paste, sugar and salt and pour over the zucchini.
6. 7
   Heat in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 0 minutes. Add the tomato paste, stock, tomatoes, sugar and salt and stir until the paste dissolves.

   StoveLid