Turkey-Stuffed Zucchini Boats

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The turkey stuffing served with pesto orzo is delicious - the zucchini boats are eh. I cooked up regular ground turkey because I hadn't made the turkey meatballs from the base recipe. All in all, super easy and tasty, but next time I will just make the turkey stuffing and stuff it (maybe with the pesto orzo mixed in into some other veggie like a bell pepper or tomato that has a bit more flavor.

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After leaving for a week, I returned to huge zucchinis in my garden and needed a new way to fix them. This recipe was defn. a winner though I did make some changes. I used diced tomatoes instead of sauce. I also used crumbled blue and gorgonzola cheese instead of parm. I didn't make it to the pesto, but next time I'll try it. This was a tasty suprise!

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Super Easy recipe and it was excellent. I didn't do the meatballs, just used ground turkey and it was fast and simple. I will definitely repeat this one...yummy!

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I love this recipe! I don't actually turn the ground turkey into meatballs, I just mix it in and load up the boats. It's great and then I don't have to mess with the meatball part!

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I doubled the number of zuccini and still had to make a second batch because my children gobbled it up! I also added mozzarella to the topping. The meatballs take a lot of time, and the cooking time does have to be increased. but a definite repeat recipe in the summer when my garden gives us 4-5 zucchini per day.

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Since I'm always an on-the-fly kinda of cook, I sauted the garlic and onion, browned the ground turkey and add the rest of the meatball ingredients to the skillet. After the chicken stock and other juices had cooked down, I prepared the recipe as written. I, too, had to use a knife to make the zucchini boats, and the cooking time wasn't long enough. Microwaving them ahead of time, as suggested in one of the other comments, is what I'll do next time. Over all it was a big success. My husband commented that it was like an Italian curry with all the blended flavors. This recipe will be a repeater.

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I used ground turkey for the recipe. It was kind of bland and tasteless. I added onions and garlic, as one reviewer suggested, when I browned the ground turkey but it was still bland. It was kind of difficult to get the middle out of the zucchini so I used a knife instead of a melon baller. I chopped up the middle and added it to the ground turkey - it seemed like a waste to throw it away. Also, I steamed the zucchini boats in the microwave because they weren't cooked in the time called for in the recipe. I think next time I will use ground chuck and a little rice for the stuffing.

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Be warned about the cook and prep time. They are no where near accurate if you don't already have the meatballs cooked before hand!

Instead of the sweet and sour sauce, I opted to pan fry the meatballs in a little olive oil just till the point where they were crispy and brown with a slight tinge of pink inside. I undercooked due to the fact that you're going to bake them an additional 15 minutes.

I apparently forgot to buy the sour cream and instead, replaced it with bacon ranch dressing I had on hand. Yeah, sounds weird but it did give the stuffing a nice smoky bacony flavor to the meatballs! Quite tasty!

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While I did not like the sweet and sour meatballs at all, this recipe has potential and I will definitely try making it again with a few changes. The texture of the dry meatballs chopped up definitely looked like cat food, like another reviewer said and made the meal not as enjoyable because it almost tasted like a paste. The flavor was good and the presentation was nice so next time I will skip the meatballs and just cook ground turkey with onions and then mix it with the other ingredients!

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This was much better than the turkeyballs but I still had to do a lot of doctoring to give the dish enough moisture.