Recipe - Sausage And Zucchini Casserole

2 tablespoon Olive oil; (up to 3)
1 One half pound Ground chuck
1 pound Hot or mild Italian sausage
3 Zucchini; (cut into 1/2inch
cubes)
4 Garlic cloves; (chopped)
1 Onion; ( cut or sliced up )
1 cup Longgrain rice
1 cn (14 1/2oz) whole tomatoes
(chopped)
2 teaspoon Fennel seed
One half teaspoon Red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon Finely chopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon Finely chopped fresh
rosemary
Salt black pepper to taste
3 cup Chicken broth or stock
1 cup Freshly grated Parmesan
cheese

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Heat the oil in a large 5quart Dutch oven.
Add the ground chuck and sausage. Brown. Drain and set aside. Saute the
zucchini, garlic, and onion in the dutch oven with hot oil until soft and
translucent. Add the rice and cook until opaque, about 2 minutes. Add the
tomatoes, fennel, red pepper flakes, basil, rosemary, salt, pepper, and
chicken broth. Heat thoroughly or until just to the boil. Stir in the meat.
Transfer to a rectangular baking dish. Top with some Parmesan cheese and
bake for 1 hour.
Posted to recipeludigest by molony molony@scsn.net on Mar 03, 1998