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Turkey Meat Sauce
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5 from 2 votes

Turkey Meat Sauce w. Ricotta Zucchini Roll Ups

Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Servings: 5 servings

Equipment

  • 1 Large Oven Safe Skillet

Ingredients

Turkey Meat Sauce

  • 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 large yellow onion chopped
  • 3 large cloves garlic
  • 1.5 tbs tomato paste
  • 1 tbs dried oregano
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 28 oz whole peeled tomatoes
  • 14 oz crushed tomatoes
  • salt & pepper

Ricotta Zucchini Roll Ups

  • 2 equal sized zucchini
  • 15 oz whole milk ricotta cheese
  • fresh basil
  • 1/4 cup grated parmesan
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions

  • Start Meat Sauce: Heat 1tbs extra virgin olive oil in a large oven safe skillet on medium heat.* Once heated, add onion & pinch salt. Saute until onion softens and begins to brown and become more translucent (5-8 minutes). Add garlic & tomato paste. Stir until fragrant (about a minute).
  • Add Ground Turkey: add ground turkey, 1tbs dried oregano, 1tsp each of garlic & onion powder. Stir & cook until turkey is almost completely brown and cooked through. Add entire can san marzano tomatoes & crushed tomatoes. Stir, turn heat to low and let simmer while you make zucchini.
  • Peel Zucchini & Preheat Oveni: Preheat oven to 350°.
    Trim zucchini edges. Lay one zucchini vertically facing you & peel with a vegetable peeler. Peel 1-2 strips until the zucchini can lay flat without rolling. Turn it over, repeat. Finally, with vegetable peeler, peel as many flat strips as possible. Repeat with other zucchini. Lay zucchini strips (you can pile some on top of each other) on a double lined paper towel, sprinkle with salt and set aside.
  • Make Zucchini Roll Ups: In a small bowl, add ricotta, about ¼ cup fresh basil or 1tsp dried, ¼ cup grated parmesan, ½ tsp garlic powder & salt & pepper to taste. Pat zucchini strips dry. Lay 2 zucchini strips slightly overlapping. Place a small tablespoon ricotta mixture to one edge of zucchini strips. Roll up and set aside. Repeat until ricotta mixture is gone (you may have some left over) This should make about 12-15 roll ups.
    Nestle zucchini rollups into meat sauce. Place in oven for 20 minutes or until zucchini is cooked, soft and beginning to get wrinkly on the edges. 
  • Remove from oven, sprinkle with parmesan, basil or red pepper flakes & serve. 

Notes

* If you do not have a large oven safe skillet, make the sauce in a large saucepan. Once sauce is made & your zucchini rollups are ready, pour sauce into a 9×13 oven safe baking dish and nestle the rollups into that. Bake.