Green Bean stuffed Zucchini - weekend recipe

This is a vegetarian dish you can use as a side dish or an appetizer. It is wonderful with your excess zucchini and the wonderful filling made with string beans and cheese.  I love these sliced in wedges to serve as an appetizer with a rich red sauce or a creamy dip.

Stuffed Zucchini with Green Beans

8 small zucchini (If you use a larger zucchini you should remove the seeds first)

2 cups cooked string beans, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces

1/4 cup chopped shallots

3/4 cup grated Gruyere cheese

1 tsp. thyme

Salt and pepper, to taste

1/2 stick butter

1/2 cup bread crumbs

1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

Slice zucchini lengthwise and parboil for 5 minutes. Scrape centers (with a melon baller or small spoon) into a bowl and set aside. Also set aside remaining zucchini shells. Sauté shallots in half of the butter. When shallots are golden, add thyme and chopped centers from zucchini. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in green beans along with Gruyere. Stuff into zucchini shells. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and Parmesan. Dot with remaining butter. Bake at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

RECIPE THEME

Each month a theme is chosen and a number of recipes on that theme from my massive archive will be shared.  This year we have 12 new topics, different from the topics of last year.  To find the recipes of last year, check out this recipe link or search the blog with the topic Recipe2018. 

You can search the monthly theme by looking for the theme keyword in the search box and it will pull up the recipes on that theme as posted, so look at the bottom of the recipe in each posting for the KEYWORD in the () to search for each  month.  All recipes this year will be tagged Recipe2019 so you can find them all.

The themes are:

Jan 2019 – Chicken and Dumplings (CDumpsJan)

Feb 2019 - Pasta Dishes (PastaFeb)

March 2019 - Edible Flowers (FlowerMar)

April 2019 - Seafood Recipes (SeafoodApr)

May 2019 - Cajun And Creole (C&CMay)

June 2019 - Vegetarian Dishes (VegJun)

July 2019 - Zucchini Recipes

August 2019 - National Mustard Day – mustard recipes

September 2019 - Quiche

October 2019 - Crock Pot meals

November 2019 - Pies

December 2019 - Mocktails