Stuffed Italian Squash (Zucchini)

Name: Stuffed Italian Squash (Zucchini) (A Chinese Dish)
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: Stuff the marrow and tie it up well, covering it with bacon and sprigs of parsley. Bake until bacon and parsley are crisp, basting often.; Fry half-cooked rice in butter with chopped meat for a few minutes and mix with chopped basil and onions.; Blanch a very large Italian squash. Cut off the top and scrape out interior.; Shrimps or prawns are added in the Chinese style: Shell the shrimps or prawns and put in earthenware dish. Cover with 1 large spoon honey and 1 large spoon sherry (or Suchow spice wine). Then add 2 spoon soya sauce. Let the dish stand for several hours, then put in oven for 25 minutes. Remove, add a covering of chopped spring onions and put back in oven for 5 minutes.

A Chinese Dish

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Alice B Toklas Cookbook

By Alice B. Toklas

Published 1954

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Method

Blanch a very large Italian squash. Cut off the top and scrape out interior.
Fry half-cooked rice in butter with chopped meat for a few minutes and mix with chopped