Zucchini Pizza Boats

This recipe completes a week of zucchini recipes. For my last recipe I decided that it had to be a savory one. I have been canning homemade spaghetti sauce this week so I thought a zucchini pizza recipe would be a great way to end the week; plus Friday night is pizza night at our house. I used some of my homemade sauce to make this recipe, along with fresh tomatoes and basil from the garden.

This is the first time that I have made a zucchini pizza style recipe and I have to admit that it was quite tasty. I have a feeling that this will be on the menu again before we run out of zucchini in the garden. The nice thing about this is you can change it up and use the ingredients that you have in your refrigerator. Such as I thought I had pepperoni in the freezer and when I went to check it was gone, so I used salami that was in the fridge instead… a great substitute.

Zucchini Pizza Boats
Ingredients:
1 medium size zucchini
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/4 cup pizza sauce
4 slices salami or more (or your favorite pizza)
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1 medium tomato, thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoon to 1 teaspoon fresh basil, sliced
A few dashes of onion powder
A few dashes of garlic powder
Directions:
1. Slice zucchini in half and remove the seeds, giving the zucchini a boat shape.
2. Drizzle zucchini with a the olive oil.
3. Spread the pizza sauce over the bottom of the zucchini.
4. Place the salami over the pizza sauce.
5. Sprinkle the mozzarella over the meat.
6. Top with sliced tomatoes.
7. Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese over top of everything.
8. Top with the fresh basil and sprinkle the onion and garlic powder over top of everything to taste.
9. Place zucchini pizza boats on a prepared baking dish. Place in an oven that has been preheated to
350 degrees F, bake for 25 to 35 minutes or until the zucchine is tender.