Whole Roasted Stuffed Marrow

Name: Whole Roasted Stuffed Marrow
Yield: Serves 4–6, depending on the size of your marrow
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon barbecue spice; ½ teaspoon chilli (hot pepper) flakes; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 75 g (2½ oz) almonds, blitzed; 1 large marrow (if you can’t find marrow use 2 large white courgettes/zucchinis); ½ red onion, finely chopped; salt and pepper, to taste; dill fronds, to garnish

Preparation info

Serves
4–6
, depending on the size of your marrow

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Celebrate

By Bettina Campolucci Bordi

Published 2021

About

The marrow is such an underestimated vegetable and not used or praised enough. It can be daunting because of its size and mysterious spongy texture. Cooking it low and slow is the key here! This turned out to be one of everyone’s favourite dishes when we were testing the recipes for the book – as I’m sure you will all agree!

Ingredients

1 large marrow (if you can’t find marrow use 2 large white courgettes/zucchinis)
½ red onion

Main course
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

If you are barbecuing the marrow, prepare and heat up the barbecue in advance or, alternatively, preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F/gas 6).

Prepare the marrow by slicing it in half and scooping out the insides with a spoon, then set aside the two halves. Chop the scooped insides