Zook Shooters Challenge

Quick tip here: We were goofing around this week with some hollowed out zucchini and stumbled upon what we think is a kick-ass appetizer.Take a medium to large sized zuch, wash it and cut into four pieces about the length of a shot glass. Then take a small spoon and carve out the middle starting from one side. Be gentle so you don’t compromise the structural integrity of the walls and don’t dig all the way to the other side. You’ll end up with a cute little cup.
In a pot of boiling and salted water, dunk the zucchini for about 2 minutes to blanch them bright green. Then immediately dunk ’em in ice water to cool.
For fillings we tried a couple things. We stewed some bite-sized potatoes in New Mexican green chile then popped a potato each into a zucchini shooter. We also made a curried barley risotto with finely chopped green beans and used that as a filling. Then we baked ’em for about 10 minutes.
Thing is, you can fill these party-perfect, no-goo-on-the-hands appetizer holders with just about anything.
So, here’s a Hot Knives Challenge you veggie freaks: Play with a filling recipe, try it out and post it on our blog as a comment to this Zook Shooters post. Or just drop us an email with it.