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
Buffalo Chicken Zucchini Boats - a simple low carb stuffed zucchini recipe that only calls for four ingredients.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 42 minutes
Total Time 52 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 363kcal
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- 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.
Nutrition
Serving: 2stuffed boats | Calories: 363kcal | Carbohydrates: 8.2g | Protein: 37.9g | Fat: 18.9g | Saturated Fat: 7.2g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5.2g
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Melissa says
August 22, 2016 at 12:57 PMIs it super spicy? I love spice but my husband can only take so much. =)
Kassi B says
June 15, 2017 at 8:29 PMThis was really yummy! I used chopped up boneless skinless chicken thighs instead and it came out great!
JAKCIE L says
June 30, 2017 at 2:48 PMMu husbandi is not a zucchini fan. Could I mix the chicken mixture with brown rice for him? Thanks.
Michelle says
July 19, 2017 at 3:53 PMYou could always stuff a pepper instead!!
Sarah says
July 8, 2017 at 12:50 PMWe decided to cook the scooped out zucchini and add it to the buffalo chicken instead of tossing it out.
LB says
July 10, 2017 at 11:35 AMI think the 37g of protein for 2 boats is a bit high, especially with ground chicken. The other nutritional info seems about right.
Ali says
July 28, 2017 at 9:48 AM4oz 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…
Ali says
July 28, 2017 at 9:43 AMCould you do this with canned chicken? I don’t see why not! 🙂
christie says
August 5, 2017 at 6:56 PMYummy! 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!
Boyan Minchev says
November 8, 2017 at 2:09 AMReally, really delicious zucchini boat recipe looks amazing. Thank you for sharing this yummy chicken recipe with us.
Olivia says
January 3, 2018 at 12:07 PMCan you use ground turkey instead of ground chicken?
Stephanie Grider says
April 10, 2018 at 6:04 PMYes you can! 🙂
Patty says
February 7, 2018 at 10:51 AMAdded some blue cheese crumbles to the chicken mixture – yum!
Gina says
March 22, 2018 at 1:31 PMLoved 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!
Jenn says
April 22, 2018 at 4:26 PMI 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!
Faith says
June 26, 2018 at 7:31 PMMy kids and I enjoyed this quick and simple boats. Family favorite now. Thank you for sharing
Roma says
July 4, 2018 at 9:40 AMOne of the best recipe!!
Liz says
July 8, 2018 at 8:57 AMFirst 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.
Brandi says
July 16, 2018 at 6:15 PMThese were great!!
Stacey says
July 18, 2018 at 9:24 PMMade 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!
Stephanie says
July 21, 2018 at 8:03 PMI 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?
Jenny says
January 11, 2019 at 6:19 AMSo good and easy to make! I used ground turkey.
Tony says
February 22, 2019 at 6:36 PMI don’t like chicken so I used beef. My wife doesn’t like spicy so we used teriyaki sauce. Neither of us like zucchini so we used broccoli. We served it over rice it was delicious!🤨
Melissa says
March 25, 2019 at 7:35 AMCan you make this with yellow squash instead?
Pam says
April 13, 2019 at 4:25 PMLoved this.. so easy and so good!