Zucchini Stuffed With Meat and Rice + Seasoning Nonna + Photos

Zucchini Stuffed With Meat and Rice + Seasoning Nonna + Photos

ingredients:
4 to 6 courgettes medium (Italian)
3 cups (tea) of ground beef
 1 ½ cups raw rice washer drain, let it dry in the colander.

For every 2 cups of half ground beef is rice
(1 cup (tea).
Spices:
1 onion large grated
1 tablespoon (soup) salt
1 tablespoon (coffee) seasoning Nonna (optional)
1 cup (tea) of salsa with chopped stem, or to taste
1 or 2 tablespoons (soup) of chopped fresh mint
1 pepper finger girl seedless without white ribbed
finely chopped as fine as possible, or hot sauce to taste
Put the spice of nonna not put another pepper
Sauce :
1 cup (tea) of grated onion
1 cup whole dried apricots or 1 tablespoon honey
2 celery stalks cut into thin slices
1 leek cut into thin rodelinhas
1 liter of homemade tomato sauce, or 1 can of ready sauce
using dilute sauce with two cans of water.
1 tablespoon salt.

Prepare the zucchini mode:
Wash the zucchini. If you are injured or imperfections, scrape with a knife. Wash again.
Cut the zucchini into two pieces, removing the stem and cut the bottom so that it is standing.
Dig with a small spoon to remove the core. To reserve.
Prepare the meat mode:

In a large bowl place the ground beef rice washed and well dried, add the onion, pepper, salt, parsley and mint bites, the spice of nonna.
"(The spice of nonna replaces pepper)"
Mix all the ingredients.
Let stand in refrigerator covered with film paper for an hour.
The courgettes are raw.
Fill the zucchini so do not get too tight.
Do not forget that the rice grows after cooked.
If you very filling it bursts.

Mode Prepare the sauce:
Fry the celery in the middle of cooking add the leek and onion. Leave the heat until the onion is wilted.
Add the tomato sauce with a little water, and salt, leave the fire until a well-cooked sauce. Let cool.
Place the sauce in a medium saucepan go distributing the stuffed courgettes so that it is a side by side, covered with sauce.
Add the apricots sauce or honey.
Leave the fire until the courgettes are cooked, that is, and rice should be well cooked.
Can Serve with eggplant paste that is on blogs and pods cortadinha shanks. And lettuce salad with cherry tomatoes and grated raw carrot. Accompanies yogurt or cottage cheese.

 Tempero da Nonna

ingredients:

1 tablespoon (soup) spicy paprika or pepper
1 tablespoon (soup) or (tsp) nutmeg
1 tablespoon (soup) of powdered ginger
1 teaspoon (tsp) ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon (coffee) of ground cloves
1 tablespoon (coffee) of ground bay

Way of preparing:

Mix everything and store in a glass with tightly closed screw cap, where there is no light and moisture, or place in tightly closed weak small. Do not store in the refrigerator.

When using the first time put only a pinch of this spice.
Then gradually increase the amount until you get used to it.

Put in pasta sauces, meat, poultry, fish, soups etc.