Veggie cooking with Jonny69: Stuffed courgettes

[Jonny69]

Goats cheese is a trendy veggie favourite, normally spotted with caramelised red onions or dumped hot onto a bed of salad. There are loads of different goats cheeses from strong to creamy, hard and soft, some look like brains, some are covered in ash and I hate all of them. But if you do like it they make a nice filling for stuffed vegetables and make an interesting change from cheddar.

Here I am going to stuff a courgette which will serve as a substitute for the meat in a vegetarian meal. Take two courgettes and cut almost all the way through them along the length:



You'll be able to prise them open like so:



I've used a particularly pungent old buché de chevre that I picked up in France, disgusting (imo):



It stinks and tastes like licking your hands after you've been stroking a goat for too long in the petting zoo. I hate the stuff. Crumble it up and fill the middle of the courgettes:



You'll see I've made a boat out of foil for them to sit in. This will reduce the washing up and catch any juices. Sprinkle over a small amount of dried herbs:



Give them a generous slug of olive oil and bake in the oven for about half an hour or until they are soft and succulent:



They work very well on the barbeque like this and the foil stops them being contaminated from the meat, important stuff if you're a veggie