Stuffed miniature squash

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
16 Baby zucchini or baby yellow sunburst squash; up to 20
2 Ripe avocados; seed, peeled, cut up
2 tablespoons Lemon juice
1 tablespoon Snipped fresh basil <<<or>>> 1 teaspoon dried basil; crushed
½ teaspoon Garlic salt
¼ teaspoon Pepper

Directions

NORMA WRENN

If baby vegetables are unavailable, use 8 small zucchini and increase the cooking time to 5 minutes. Cut and scoop out each zucchini as directed, except cut the squash in half crosswise before filling (to make 4 appetizers per zucchini).

In a saucepan cook baby zucchini and/or sunburst squash, covered, in a small amount of boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes or till crisp-tender.

Drain; chill squash till cool. For zucchini, cut each in half lengthwise.

With a small spoon, scoop out most of the flesh from each zucchini, leaving a ¼-inch-thick shell. For sunburst squash, using a knife or apple corer, cut around stem. With a spoon, remove stem and hollow out as much of the flesh as you can, working fromteh hole in the top of the squash (do not break through the bottom skin). For filling, in a blender container or food processor bowl combine avocados, lemon juice, basil, garlic salt, and pepper. Cover; process till smooth. Using a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip, pipe filling down the center of the zucchini or sunburst squash cavity. (Or, just spoon filling in each.) Serve immediately. (The filling darkens upon stand.) Per Serving: Calories 46 Protein 1 g Carbohydrate 3 g Total Fat 4 g Saturated Fat 1 g Cholesterol 0 mg Sodium 67 mg Potassium 207 mg Source: Better Homes and Gardens Farmer's Market Cookbook adapted for MM Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #1065 by "M. Hicks" <nitro_ii@...> on Jan 31, 1998

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