Keto Jalapeño Popper Stuffed Zucchini

Shared by DeniseM

Don't make this! Ha! It’s OK to make this because it is delicious, just don’t make it the way the recipe says to do it! The recipe says to slice the zucchini crossways then put the jalapeño popper stuffing between the slices. Don’t do this, save yourself! I regretted trying to do this on the very first slice I tried to stuff! I just thought why oh why didn’t I just make zucchini boats? 😱 I had already sliced all of the zucchini so I was committed to stuffing the slices. Making zucchini boats will be much, much easier and be just as delicious. But the Hasselback way of slicing and then stuffing things is very pretty. Makes it look very fancy. 😊 I’ll show below how I FINALLY got the zucchini stuffed, so it can be done, I just don’t think it’s worth all the effort 😳

First, slice the ends off each zucchini and then cut in half. You have to make sure not to slice too far down or they will fall apart easily. So good luck with this! Ha! The recipe shows using two chopsticks as a way of keeping the nice from slicing completely through so I did do this.

After you’ve made the jalapeño popper filling it’s now time to stuff the zucchini!😳 This was extremely difficult. The stuffing would not stuff! You have to separate the slices just enough to put the stuffing in, but you can’t pull apart the slices too much or they will split and that definitely won’t help things at all. The stuffing just crumbled. I had made it the day before so it was very cold. I thought that would make it easier to stuff. I don’t think if it were less cold that would have helped either! So I got the idea to mold the stuffing into small coin shapes that I could just insert in between each of the slices. My brilliance overwhelmed me until I started to try to implement my plan. This was STILL not that easy, but I finally managed to get these zucchini stuffed! Hallelujah! 🙏

Here are all the little coins of stuffing stuffed between the slices. UGH! 🙄

I placed the zucchini in the oven and when they were baked long enough, I removed them from the oven and garnished them with more bacon and parsley. 👍🏼 Doesn’t this look good? Can I have a round of applause for all this effort, please? 😂

The finished meal was BBQ Country Style Ribs (just season and bake covered low and slow with sugarfree BBQ sauce), Garlic Roasted Mashed Cauliflower (frozen with some added cream cheese and seasoning salt and pepper), and the star of the show the infamous jalapeño popper stuffed zucchini. It was very delicious, I hope I haven’t scared you into trying it.😊

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