My dear foodies,

Today I bring you a delicious recipe where the star ingredient will be zucchini. How many times have you eaten stuffed zucchini? But these are a 100% vegan version free of products of animal origin and gluten, suitable for anyone, the stuffing will be made with quinoa a super food that has also earned a privileged place in the vegan group. Join me in preparing this delicious recipe.

Zucchini stuffed with quinoa

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My secrets INGREDIENTS

(for 2 portions):

♡ 2 zucchini moon (round, although you can use the normal if you can not find)

♡ 1/2 onion

♡ 100 gr of quinoa

♡ 1 clove of garlic

♡ Vegan cheese (for example this from Violife)

♡ Linseed

♡ Salt and pepper

♡ Extra virgin olive oil

♡ 1 dash of soy sauce

PREPARATION

Preparation time: 20min
Cooking time: 40min
Total: 60min

The first step is to wash the Zucchini very well, then with the help of a knife we will cut the top in order to extract all the pulp inside, you can use a spoon for this purpose, just remove the pulp does not exceed in removing part of the walls, we do not want the zucchini to crack during preparation.

The next step will be to cut the onion previously washed and we will also finish chopping the pulp of the zucchini, next we will take to the frying pan previously heated, we add a generous jet of olive oil and we will cook to medium fire, we take advantage to put salt pepper to the taste.

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While we are doing the preparation of the quinoa that we will wash very well with water, the quinoa we must cook it with the same time of the rice, this means that for each cup of quinoa we must add 2 cups of water by face cup of quinoa that we use. When it is boiling, add a little salt and pepper. And in just 20 minutes we will have the quinoa ready.
The next step will be to add the quinoa in a frying pan with what we have sofrito of onion and the pulp of the zucchini. We finish by giving it a blow of fire incorporating and mixing very all the ingredients of the filling, add a little soy sauce. To finish, let the filling warm up.

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The next step is to preheat the oven to about 180 degrees centigrade, while the oven is heated will be enough time to fill both courgettes with our preparation, when the time is up we will take the oven for only 15 minutes, throw some linseed, you can leave them to brown more, this is your choice I like it to be well browned.

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I let you try this recipe and tell me what you think! ;)

Benefits of zucchini

The zucchini is one of the foods most used for diets after operations, some type of disease, anemia or dehydration problems due to its high water content, has almost no vegetable fat, has high concentrations of folate and vitamin C which strengthens the immune system. In addition to offering a delicious flavor when making different recipes. Among its main benefits we have that it is excellent to help us to have the digestive tract free, in addition with its high values in potassium it can eliminate all type of toxins of the organism, it is an excellent cerebral oxygenant by its content in phosphorus. For having a lot of calcium helps us keep our bones healthy. It has vitamin B9 that is indispensable for the development of all children. Due to its high water content it works as a natural diuretic that can eliminate a large amount of toxins from the body. Vitamin C to prevent the possibility of contracting a respiratory disease. It also has large amounts of Vitamin E, Selenium and magnesium.