Zucchini Recipes: Cheeseburger Zucchini Boats
ByYou’ve gotta try this fun zucchini recipe! Little boats that you can eat…how cool is that? What a perfect way to get your kids to eat zucchini!
Cheeseburger Zucchini Boats
3 small zucchini
1 pound ground beef
1 small onion, chopped tiny
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. chili powder
sea salt
1/2 cup cheddar cheese (I use raw white cheddar)
Cut off the ends of the zucchini and boil them for about 10 minutes. In the meantime brown hamburger meat, onion, garlic powder and chili powder. Salt to taste.
Slice cooked zucchini lengthwise.
Use a fork and spoon to scrape out the “zucchini guts” (sorry, I live with boys) and add it to cooked hamburger meat.
Scoop equal amounts of hamburger mixture into each “boat”. Top with shredded cheese.
Put in oven broiler for a couple of minutes until cheese is melted then serve right away.
Now you can eat them while singing, “Great green globs of slicky, slimy zucchini guts…”
Or…you can skip the sing-along and just eat them.
;)
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oh yum.
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My kids might actually eat that! Although they swear they’re not sick of zucchini bread yet. ;)
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What catchy, well-known tune is that little ditty sung to? I may serenade my family tonight. I could make up my own little melodic rendition.
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Laura Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Here’s a link to a you tube of this song…it will surely change your life forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m697QSmnye4
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Mary Reply:
April 7th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
The version I know goes like:
“Boys are made of greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, chopped up parakeet, french fried eyeballs, swimming in a pool of blood, eat it without a spoon, yum yum!”
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I love adding shredded zucchini to hamburger while it’s browning when I make tacos or taco lasagna. My non-veggie eating husband doesn’t complain at all, even though he knows it’s there because I shred mine whole with the skin on and everything. Sometimes I add shredded carrot too.
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I do the same thing except I add spag sauce or a can of tomatos to the hamburger as well- yum!!!
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My husband would NEVER eat this. I would love to try it though. Looks yummy! I also have been hiding veggies in my hubby’s meat. He never never eats veggies. Unless they are covered in a bottle of ranch dressing. (no exaggeration, a whole bottle)
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Emily Reply:
July 31st, 2009 at 10:36 am
Keli – I am so with you there! I sometimes ask if he wants any salad with his Ranch!
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I love these! I do the Italian version with a little tomato or tomato sauce and some Italian flavor seasonings. I’m the only on in my family that likes zucchini though, so I have learned they reheat well. :-)
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Made these for dinner tonight. I shouldn’t have been surprised at how easy these were to throw together, but I was. ;-) I figured I better put a bottle of ketchup and mustard on the table, yet no one touched them! Thumbs up all around (even the baby scarfed what I passed through the baby food mill)! Your blog has become my favorite blog being that I have 4 kiddos myself and will be starting up homeschooling again next year. I thank God that you find the time to bless the rest of us Moms! {HUG}
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I believe I’ll try these for lunch today! Thank you so much… I was needing some more zucchini recipes. Zucchini is sticking out our ears!!!
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Would these be good using yellow squash as well? Sounds great!
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Laura Reply:
August 17th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
I would imagine so but I’ve never tried. If you do try…let us know how they turn out!
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These are awesome! Everyone loved them so much the first night that I had to make them again the next night! I also loved at how little time it took to make them!
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Have you tried this with a little spaghetti sauce under the cheese? These sound yummy perfect for lunch
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Laura Reply:
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:35 pm
No, but what a good idea!
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Tituslady Reply:
January 14th, 2012 at 10:48 am
I tried this recipe with your spaghetti sauce tip and it was
wonderful! Next time I’m going to make my hubby’s side plain without
sauce, but my little one and I really enjoyed it with the sauce!
Thanks for a great recipe!
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I bought some zucchini the other day and have some sauce left over from the pizza pockets I made today so maybe I’ll try some
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I LOVE these! I have always added cooked brown rice to the ground beef and then sprinkle with cheese. Thanks for all your wonderful recipes. I just found your website and have been online constantly reading all the recipes. Tried the Creamy Mac and Cheese and the family LOVED it! Thanks! :)
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Dipped in sauce! Maybe even with a side of garlic breadsticks.
:) Mmmmm…
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I was just thinking I needed to get a new zucchini recipe. Now I have that song in my head…. :-)
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It has been a better than usual year here for zukes…And in western Washington that is saying something!
Here’s a time saver tip: I found using a grapefruit spoon with a serrated tip works great for “gutting” the zucchini.
..I stuff mine loosely with a mixture of the zucchini pulp; raw sausage;chopped onion and garlic; some fine bread crumbs;a sprinkle of italian herbs; a pinch of red pepper flakes and a little parmesan mixed with enough raw egg to hold it together…cover it all with italian sauce, and a sprinkle of crumbled cooked bacon… bake covered until the last 10 minutes when I add mozzarella and more paremesan cheeses to melt…
My family doesn’t even notice the zucchini for all the other flavors going on in their mouths….
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This might be a dumb question but how small is “small” zucchini? Can you give a pound amount or length like 8 inches etc?
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LindseyforLaura@HHM Reply:
August 28th, 2012 at 10:11 am
I am not sure on the lbs or inches on a small zucchini. I would just
compare to others in your garden or in a store. Find one that looks like
the runt of the group. :)
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