Meatless Monday: Italian Stuffed Zucchini

Welcome back for another Meatless Monday post!  I am so glad I am doing "Meatless Monday".  This is a great way to force me to try new ideas, new ways of cooking...new ways of approaching food. 

It also helps that these Italian Stuffed Zucchinis were freaking awesome!

Speaking of trying new things...I am also signed up with Yummly to start sharing my posts and find great new recipes!

Speaking of great recipes...here is how this one went down!

For the stuffing I used a medium shallot, package of fresh mushrooms, feta cheese, Italian seasoned bread crumbs and a small jar of pimentos. 

Don't these veggies look great?

I put a tablespoon of butter into a cast iron skillet and let the pan heat up on my grill.  The shallots were cut into a fine dice, lightly salted and added to the butter

While the shallots were sweating down I chopped up the mushrooms and hit them with a little salt and black pepper. 

As soon as the shallots were soft and translucent the mushrooms joined the party!

The mushrooms cooked down for about 7-8 minutes and released a lot of liquid. 

Time for the diced pimentos!  I had meant to used roasted red peppers for this but the grocery was out and I was too dang lazy to roast my own.  Pimentos worked just fine.

I gave the pimentos a few minutes to introduce themselves to the mushrooms then added 1/3 cup of seasoned bread crumbs and 1/3 cup of feta cheese.

Mixed everything up and took it off the heat while I worked on the zucchini.

Making the zucchini boats was pretty simple and a little bit of fun.  Just cut the zucchini lengthwise and use a spoon to scoop out the middle.

Pile the stuffing into the boat....

Then top the zucchini boats with Parmesan cheese and place them on the grill.

I grilled these stuffed zucchinis with indirect medium heat until the zucchini was soft and the Parmesan cheese had browned.  On my grill this took about 20 minutes.

These were flat out spectacular.  Nobody noticed that this was a meatless dish.  My daughter tried some and thought it had been stuffed with sausage :)

Thanks for checking in on my grilling adventures and have a blessed day!