Zucchini Pizza Boats
Yummy pizza on a vegetable base, the best way to eat zucchini.
Servings: 8 boats
Calories: 108kcal
Ingredients
Zucchini Boats
- 4 zucchini
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- salt and pepper
Pizza Toppings
- ¾ cup pizza sauce / marinara sauce
- ½ small red onion finely diced
- 40 grams salami sliced
- ¾ cup grated/shredded mozzarella cheese
- basil leaves
Instructions
Zucchini Boats
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees celsius (400 F).
- Slice your zucchini in half lengthwise. Then remove a small slice from the bottom of each half so that the zucchini boats will sit stably on a baking tray.
- Use a spoon to remove approximately half a centimetre of flesh from each zucchini boat. Sit the zucchini boats on a lined baking tray
- In a small bowl combine the olive oil, paprika and garlic powder. Brush this oil mixture over the zucchini boats, then season with salt and pepper.
- Bake the zucchini in the hot oven for 5-10 minutes.
Pizza Toppings
- Remove the zucchini boats from the oven, top each boat with pizza sauce, red onion, salami and mozzarella.
- Bake in your hot oven for 10 minutes until the zucchini are tender and the cheese is golden brown.
- Garnish with basil leaves
- Enjoy!
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Notes
- I use a twice-baked method when I make my zucchini pizzas. I find this gets you the best final result. I season and oil the zucchini and bake them, before adding the topping and baking them again.
- If your zucchini are large and more like marrows they may have quite large seeds. Be sure to scoop as many of them out before baking them.
- Top your pizza boats with your favorite pizza toppings! I have lots of ideas on my Tortilla Pizza recipe.
- Serve as a light meal or as a side to steak, grilled fish, or grilled chicken.
- Store leftovers in the fridge, I enjoy the leftovers cold over the next 2-3 days.
- Zucchini: If you don't have zucchini or courgette this recipe will also work with eggplant/aubergine
- Garlic powder, paprika: I like to season my zucchini before adding the pizza toppings. I use a combination of paprika and garlic powder but you could use other spices, including onion powder or celery salt.
- Pizza sauce/marinara sauce: This can be homemade pizza sauce or store-bought.
- Salami/Red Onion: I like to use salami sticks to make cute little salami rounds and red onion to top my zucchini pizzas, but you can of course use other pizza toppings including; pepperoni, bacon, ham, olives, mushrooms, capsicum, pineapple, onion, bell peppers, and tomatoes.
- Mozzarella cheese: Any shredded or grated cheese that melts well will work, including; colby and cheddar cheese.
- Basil leaves: after cooking I like to add fresh basil leaves, this can be skipped, another herb used (parsley, thyme) or a pesto can be used as an alternative.
Nutrition
Serving: 1boat | Calories: 108kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 296mg | Potassium: 364mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 376IU | Vitamin C: 20mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 1mg