Stuffed Baby Zucchini in Tomato Sauce

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

1. 1
   Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, cumin, paprika, rice and salt until evenly combined.

To assemble

1. 2
   Halve the baby zucchini lengthwise and scoop out the insides with a teaspoon, leaving walls of about 5 mm.

   KnifeCutting board
2. 3
   Fill the baby 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
   Arrange the baby zucchini, now stuffed, in a wide pot.

   Wide, shallow pot
4. 5
   Mix the tomatoes, sugar, salt and oil and pour over the baby zucchini.
5. 6
   Add the water until it covers the baby zucchini partly.
6. 7
   Heat the oil in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 0 minutes. Add the tomatoes, sugar and salt and stir until the paste dissolves.

   ⚙ SimmeringStoveLid

   💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.