2 cups of meat sauce (I make mine with organic marinara from the store, I check the sugar and sodium content, add cooked ground turkey or chicken, onions, garlic and some italian spices!)
5 zucchini
2 cups of Ricotta cheese
1 blue of grated Parmesan cheese
2 blues of grated mozzarella cheese
1 egg
Dash of Oregano
Ok, So y'all know I love me some Italian food. But sometimes I use all my yellows up by dinner! Or I wanna save it for a glass of VINO! So this is perfect for me! And BONUS, my kids liked it. Well two out of three. And the other one ate the meat sauce with whole wheat pasta, so I didn't have to be a short order cook. The only part that was slightly annoying was slicing up all the zucchini. But if you have a fancy gadget or a mandolin it wouldn't be too bad. I just used a veggie slicer.
Basically make your favorite meat sauce. If you don't know how to make meat sauce, You PROLLY wouldn't like this recipe anyway because of the slicing of the zucchini and I am automatically assuming if you don't know how to make meat sauce you would never go to the trouble of slicing up your zucchini. Is that a bad assumption? Maybe so... But whatevs... telling it like it is sista!
So make you favorite meat sauce, and slice up 5 zucchinis as thing as you can! Almost translucent! I washed them and cut the four sides off so it was almost like a large squared off zucchini... what is that a cube or a cylinder... ugh, I wish my 8 year old was home, he'd know! Anyway, then slice it up. In a bowl mix 2 cups of Ricotta Cheese and 1 egg and 1 blue of Parmesan cheese. Then a dash of Oregano. Set aside. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Take four thin slices of zucchini and lay them two horizontal right next to each other touching and 2 vertical like in a t shape. Then put a tablespoon of the ricotta mixture in the middle and fold up, place in a casserole dish seam down. If you are like me it will look pretty initially but then fall apart immediately when you serve it. But don't worry, it will taste AMAZING so no one will care. Repeat until you are out of zucchini or ricotta! Top with meat sauce, then top with 2 blues of mozzerella cheese! Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is starting to brown! ENJOY!
I ate 4 raviolis and counted as 1 red, 1 blue, 1 green! And I paired it with a salad!
