My husband and I are unashamed Disney fanatics. We don’t collect figurines, we don’t pin trade, we just go. And we go as often as we can. I am typing this as we reluctantly drive back from our latest excursion with the mouse and drag our feet back to our real jobs. Not that we don’t love and enjoy our employment, it’s just so much more fun not having to adult for a few days. But high ho, high ho, it’s back to work we go.
Before we left out for our little camping excursion I took the opportunity to purge the fridge of anything perishable. I got down to a handful of things that didn’t really seem to go together including a yellow squash and half of a zucchini the size of your head. No kidding this thing was huge. The little old women at my mom’s apartment couldn’t reach them in their garden spot so when I found them they made me keep them. Hooray for huge zucchini boats.
So after about 11 batches of zucchini muffins, zucchini cornbread and zucchini pancakes I had to make something different. And get rid of this half a jolly green giant squash in the process.
Sqoodle Mozzarella Nests: 2 Smart Points per serving (2 Points Plus) – 6 servings
Ingredients:
- 3 cups spiralized or coarsely shredded Zucchini and/ yellow squash
- 6 Cigliene Fresh Mozzarella Balls (approximately 2 ounces total)
- 6 tsp diced tomatoes
- 3 tsp minced garlic (I cheat and keep already minced in a jar in the fridge)
- 6 Tbsp egg whites
- 6 Tbsp Japanese Style Panko
- Olive Oil non stick cooking spray
- Fresh ground bread dipping seasoning or dried italian seasoning
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray 6 regular size muffin cups with non stick spray. Using a spiralizer and the squash/zucchini make “noodles” or as I like to call this combo sqoodles. Put approximately 1/2 cup of sqoodles in each muffin cup to make the nest. If you don’t have a spiralizer you can coarsely shred…but it’s not nearly as much fun. Add diced tomatoes and garlic to each one. Cover each one with 1 Tbsp egg whites and then one little mozzarella ball (or 1/6 of the 2 ounces if you didn’t find the cigliene). Top each one with 1 Tbsp panko, spray again with non stick spray and then sprinkle on bread dipping seasoning.
Bake for 15 minutes and then switch to broil for 3-5 minutes or until cheese gets bubbly and starts to brown. Remove from oven and let set for a couple of minutes. Lift each one gently with a spoon and serve immediately. I took a couple of them to work the next day and even reheated they got the Bobbie thumbs up…which is not an easy award to win!
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