Beany Zucchini

Submitted by archimageiros

"From the American Dry Bean Board"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 large zucchini, cut lengthwise into halves (about 8 ounces each)
• 1 cup chopped red bell pepper
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 medium tomatoes, seeded, chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh basil (or 1 tsp. dried basil leaves)
• 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans (or 1 1/2 cups cooked dry-packaged garbanzo or red beans) or (15 ounce) can red beans, rinsed, drained, coarsely mashed (or 1 1/2 cups cooked dry-packaged garbanzo or red beans)
• 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese, divided

directions

1. Hollow out zucchini with sharp knife, leaving 1/4-inch shells; reserve shells. Chop the zucchini that was removed.
2. Sauté chopped zucchini, bell pepper, onion, and garlic in oil in large skillet until crisp-tender, about 8 minutes.
3. Add tomato and basil and sauté until tomato is wilted and mixture is fairly dry, about 5 minutes.
4. Add beans to side of skillet; coarsely mash about half the beans. Mix beans and 2 tablespoons cheese into zucchini mixture.
5. Spoon mixture into reserved zucchini shells; sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons cheese.
6. Grill, covered, over medium-hot coals until zucchini shells are crisp-tender when pierced with a sharp knife, 10 to 15 minutes.

Reviews

[Georgiame]

FANTASTIC!! I did modify this quite a bit though - I am a vegan so I mixed nutritional yeast in with the mashed beans and I omitted the red pepper. SO good!!!

 

[LizP5885]

This was FANTASTIC, Only change I made was using canellini beans in place of garbanzos. So fresh and tasty. I had to add a little salt and pepper for flavor.

 

[ramsey_penegar]

I made some minor changes, I didn't have a tomato so instead I used some pasta sauce...used chedder instead of parm. It was easy and DELICIOUS!