Quinoa stuffed zucchini recipe

Do you want to prepare a zucchini stuffed with quinoa and don’t know how? Well, stop looking because we offer you this super simple and practical recipe for zucchini stuffed with quinoa and vegetables.

Also, instead of these ingredients you can choose others to prepare these vegetarian stuffed zucchini because quinoa combines with many foods.

Try this delicious zucchini dish stuffed with vegetables and quinoa and get an exquisite starter to prepare for any occasion.

Ingredients to make Quinoa Stuffed Zucchini:

• 4 zucchini
• 1 onion
• 1 green pepper
• 1 red pepper
• 2 garlic cloves
• 16 yellow cherry tomatoes
• 160 grams of Quinoa
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch of black pepper
• 1 splash of extra virgin olive oil
• grated cheese (optional)
• 1 branch of parsley

How to make Quinoa Stuffed Zucchini:

1. The first thing we have to do to make this quinoa- stuffed zucchini is to wash this pseudo cereal abundantly with water several times and then place it in a pot with twice as much water.
2. Bring the quinoa to a boil and once it starts to boil, cook it for about 15 minutes.
3. Then we drain it well, wash it with cold water to cut the cooking and reserve it for later.
4. Then we preheat the oven to 180 ºC and prepare the zucchini to be able to fill them later.
5. To do this, we wish them well, cut them in half, put them on a baking tray on top of parchment paper, spray them with a little oil, season them with salt and pepper and put the zucchini in the oven for about 20 minutes to cook. A little.
6. Trick: Do not turn off the oven when you finish cooking the courgettes, since you have to use it again later.
7. While the zucchini are cooking, we prepare the vegetables.
8. Then we wash the red and green peppers and cut them into squares, peel and chop the onion and garlic, cut the cherry tomatoes in half and place everything in a frying pan with a little oil to start poaching the vegetables in this recipe.
9. Vegan stuffed zucchini.
10. Cook the quinoa- stuffed zucchini vegetables for approximately a quarter of an hour and season with salt and pepper.
11. Then we add the cooked quinoa and stir everything for a few more minutes to integrate all the flavors.
12. Once the courgettes are baked, we empty the pulp inside with the help of a spoon and being careful not to burn ourselves, we chop it and add it to the pan.
13.  Cook the zucchini sauce stuffed with quinoa and vegetables for about 5 more minutes and adds salt and pepper again if necessary.
14. Finally, we fill the zucchini with the sauce and put them back in the oven so that they finish cooking for about 10 or 15 more minutes.
15.  If you want you can sprinkle a little grated cheese on top of the zucchini stuffed with vegetables and gratin them.
16. Finally, we take the zucchini stuffed with quinoa out of the oven and serve it with a few sprigs of parsley on top.