Looking to add more veggies to your meals? Look no further than zucchini boats! They’re easy to make (unlike, ahem, zoodles), individual-sized, and can help you get more greens into everything from pizza to macaroni & cheese. Bonus: they’re a great low-carb option too, and can be enjoyed by everyone in your family. Check out our list of 20 stuffed zucchini recipes—truly, it's what's on the inside that counts. 😉
Cauliflower baked “ziti”, pork rind-coated keto fried chicken, cashews as cheese in vegan queso… we love a good diet-friendly food hack. Zucchini are TOPS for low-carb replacements, and these stuffed zucchini recipes are particularly delicious. You can take all the flavors and ingredients of your favorite high-carb dishes, and stuff them into a zucchini boat. Check out our lasagna-stuffed zucchini, our pizza zucchini boats, our zucchini burrito boats, or our tuna melt stuffed zucchini for ideas. Sure, they’re not exactly the same as pizza or pasta, but we think they hit the spot.
A mix of breadcrumbs, Italian sausage, and fontina make this one of our absolute favorite zucchini recipes. They're a great low-carb dinner, appetizer, or lunch!
You won't miss the tortilla in these stuffed zucchinis. They've got everything you love about your favorite burrito—black beans, corn, CHEESE—minus the carbs!
Using cooked rotisserie chicken, frozen corn, and sweet cherry tomatoes, you can have a summer chowder in under an hour, served in a crispy-tender zucchini boat. While bacon isn’t totally crucial in this dish, rendering it provides a salty, flavorful fat you can use to make this stuffed zucchini extra delicious.
Lightening up lasagna with zucchini is one of our fave low-carb dinner hacks. Fill up the zucchini with everything you love about the Italian classic, and enjoy it carb-free.
Here’s one way to get more veggies into picky eaters’ mouths: score and scoop out zucchini pulp, chop and cook it down with spices into a cream sauce, then incorporate it into good ol’ kid-approved mac & cheese.
Studded with mini pepperoni, these zucchini boats are healthy and irresistibly adorable. Top with your favorite pizza toppings too, like olives, onions or even pineapple.
When you're craving pasta, these zucchini boats are a great option. Sweet, juicy shrimp bathed in a creamy tomato-Parmesan sauce, then baked with mozzarella until the umami skyrockets—the easy filling tastes almost like a creamy shrimp scampi.
Stuffed zucchini, as an appetizer! Topped with all the standard loaded potato skin fixings—bacon, sour cream, and green onions—you won't even miss the potato.
Jalapeño poppers are one of our favorite appetizers, so naturally, we turned them into an actual dinner. We skipped the frying and put them into zucchini boats for an easy, low-carb take on the favorite we can't get enough of.
Everything you love about an iconic Philly cheesesteak, minus the bread. Don't forget to put the scooped zucchini back in—the added crunch goes perfectly with the bell peppers and onions.
We took our favorite tuna melt and turned it into a low-carb staple. It still has everything you love, without the bread. We love the added slight crunch of the zucchini and with the dressing mixed right in, this is the easiest meal to make in a snap.
These zucchini boats are infinitely adaptable. Already have goat cheese in your fridge? Use it instead of feta. Not into dill? Swap in parsley. Greek chicken for the win!
We LOVE burritos, and zucchini boats let us skip the unnecessary tortilla and go straight for the good stuff. This version has spiced shrimp tossed in with beans and corn and plenty of melty cheese—all our favorite things!
Craving a meatball sub, but avoiding bread? Try these meatball zucchini boats instead! We made ours with ground beef, but feel free to swap in your own fave meatball recipes (and sauce!).
Just look at that bubbly mozzarella! This is cheesy zucchini at its finest. Plus, thanks to pre-breaded chicken and jarred marinara, this comes together in only about 35 minutes.
