Four cooked zucchini halves with granular couscous tomato filling and feta
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Air fryer stuffed courgettes with couscous

Small zucchini are cooked softly before filling. Couscous absorbs the water separately, so that the filling does not need to absorb liquid inside the vegetables.

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Total time 1 hr 9 min
Calories 316 kcal
Servings 2 servings
Difficulty Easy
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Why this recipe works

Let the couscous absorb its water first

Dry couscous would remove uncontrolled moisture from the vegetables. Here it is prepared beforehand and mixed with cooked courgette flesh. Two zucchini with about 300 g each make up four halves for two meals. Two halves are planned in each basket; the cooking time includes both pre- and both final baking batches. The length of the zucchini must fit the device.

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Recipe

Air fryer stuffed courgettes with couscous

Four courgette halves are filled with couscous, tomato and feta. Precooking and baking are done consciously in two batches.

Ingredients

2 servings

Method

  1. 1

    Prepare the courgette boats and couscous

    Halve zucchini lengthwise and scrape out some flesh, leaving a roughly 1 cm thick edge. Chop scraped pulp small and reserve all of it for the filling. Pour the couscous with the boiling water, let it absorb the water for 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork.

  2. 2

    Pre-cook the filling

    Heat 5 g of oil in a pan. Fry onion, garlic and chopped courgette flesh for about 5 minutes until excess liquid is evaporated. Mix with couscous, tomato and crumbled feta; salt and pepper.

  3. 3

    Pre-cook the halves in two batches

    Sprinkle with the remaining 5 g of oil. Preheat for 3 minutes to 180 °C if necessary. Add two halves side by side for about 8 minutes at 180 °C, then cook the second pair of halves in the same way. Cuts point upwards.

  4. 4

    Fill and bake

    Spread filling evenly into the four soft halves. Bake again in two batches with two halves each for about 10 minutes at 180 °C. The vegetables must be soft and the filling hot everywhere; if necessary extend. Serve two boats each.

Kitchen know-how

Tips for Air fryer stuffed courgettes with couscous

Check the halves fit first

Check the usable basket length before purchasing. Very long zucchini cannot be bent in a short basket.

Let excess moisture evaporate in the pan

Aqueous zucchini makes the filling thin. It should be visibly drier before mixing with couscous and feta.

Variations

How to adapt this recipe

Replace feta with the same amount of a white brined cheese with microbial rennet. Salinity and nutritional values may differ.

After baking, add 5 g of finely cut basil leaves. This extra garnish does not belong to the basic calculation.

Nutrition per serving

316kcal
31.7 gCarbohydrates
12.7 gProtein
13.7 gFat

Values are estimates per serving and may vary depending on the ingredients, brands, portion size and preparation method used.

Frequently asked questions

FAQ about Air fryer stuffed courgettes with couscous

It contains the five-minute pan phase, three minutes of possible preheating, two eight minutes of cooking and twice ten minutes of baking.

Not here. Let the couscous soak separately in the measured water before filling the courgettes; otherwise, the moisture distribution and cooking time will not match.

No. It is chopped small, cooked in the pan and completely incorporated into the filling.

Select a feta or white brined cheese with microbial instead of animal rennet. Consider the appropriate labelling of the specific product.

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