Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats – a simple stuffed zucchini recipe that only calls for four ingredients.
Hollowed out zucchini squash is stuffed with cooked ground chicken mixed with buffalo wing sauce; topped with cheese; and baked.
This recipe is a great way to use up all that summer zucchini! And, it’s great for those people who are looking for high protein, low carbohydrate dinners.
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Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats Recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
42 mins
Total Time
52 mins
Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats - a simple low carb stuffed zucchini recipe that only calls for four ingredients.
Course: Dinner, Entree, Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: buffalo chicken stuffed zucchini, buffalo chicken zucchini boats, healthy buffalo chicken, stuffed zucchini recipe, zucchini boats recipe
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 363 kcal
Ingredients
- 4 small-medium zucchini about 1¾ pounds
- 1 lb. ground chicken
- 1/2 cup Buffalo Wing Sauce not regular hot sauce
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- Place a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and break it apart with a wooden spoon. Cook for 7-9 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through, stirring occasionally.
- Remove the skillet from the heat. Stir in the buffalo wing sauce.
- As the chicken cooks, cut the zucchini in half, lengthwise. Use a spoon to scoop the seeds and center out of each zucchini half, leaving a ¼ inch thick zucchini boat. Place the zucchini in the baking dish cut-side up.
- Spoon the chicken mixture into the zucchini boats. Sprinkle the zucchini evenly with the cheese.
- Cover the baking dish with foil. Bake for 35 minutes.
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Nutrition Facts
Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats Recipe
Amount Per Serving (2 stuffed boats)
Calories 363 Calories from Fat 170
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 18.9g 29%
Saturated Fat 7.2g 36%
Total Carbohydrates 8.2g 3%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars 5.2g
Protein 37.9g 76%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
This was really yummy! I used chopped up boneless skinless chicken thighs instead and it came out great!
Mu husbandi is not a zucchini fan. Could I mix the chicken mixture with brown rice for him? Thanks.
You could always stuff a pepper instead!!
We decided to cook the scooped out zucchini and add it to the buffalo chicken instead of tossing it out.
I think the 37g of protein for 2 boats is a bit high, especially with ground chicken. The other nutritional info seems about right.
4oz ground chicken is 22-30 g protein, depending on different brands I’ve seen, and 1/4 cup cheese is 5-10 g depending on brand. It’s feasible there could be 37 g of protein in this…
Could you do this with canned chicken? I don’t see why not! 🙂
Yummy! I don’t like anything spicy so I made my husband like the recipe but made mine with bruschetta mixed in instead of wing sauce. It was a hit!
Really, really delicious zucchini boat recipe looks amazing. Thank you for sharing this yummy chicken recipe with us.
Can you use ground turkey instead of ground chicken?
Yes you can! 🙂
Added some blue cheese crumbles to the chicken mixture – yum!
Loved these!! I did ground turkey and added 2 TBSP of coconut milk (thicker canned variety) mainly because I had it already opened and I e to pair it with hot sauce to cut the heat just a smidge. Very tasty! We doubled the recipe (family of 5) so I have leftover meat I will totally use to stuff more boats this weekend!
I find if you cut the zucchini and put it in the oven while you brown the meat, it cuts down on the cooking time needed after you stuff them. Love this recipe, my family and I use it all the time!
My kids and I enjoyed this quick and simple boats. Family favorite now. Thank you for sharing
One of the best recipe!!
First zucchini boat I ever made and it was DELICIOUS. I addrd three Italian sweet sausage links (deskinned and crumbled) to the ground chicken and added extra wing sauce to compensate fir extrs meat. I was bringing this dish to s friends house for dinner and my friend told me her husband doesnt like griund chicken. It worked snd heclived it too.
These were great!!
Made these last night as written except used an Italian cheese blend mix I had on hand. Delicious and rave reviews from my husband. Light and super easy! Thanks for a great simple recipe!
I used the buffalo hot sauce, just because I had three bottles in my cabinet lol. If I wouldve used wing sauce instead, would there have been more flavor? It tastes like it’s missing something.. or maybe I’m used to ground Turkey not ground chicken. thoughts?