page_title: Stuffed squash
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Stuffed squash / Variants
caption_attribution_description: English: Stuffed acorn squash topped with gruyère, made according to Melinda's recipe
context_page_description: Stuffed squash, courgette, marrow, mahshi, or zucchini is a dish of the region of the former Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to the Levant and Egypt, a kind of dolma. It consists of various kinds of squash or zucchini stuffed with rice and sometimes meat and cooked on the stovetop or in the oven. The meat version is served hot, as a main course. The meatless version is considered an "olive-oil dish" and is often eaten at room temperature or warm.
context_section_description: In the Levant, this dish is flavoured with mint and garlic. In Cyprus, the flowers of the marrow are also stuffed.
  The cultivar is called 'Cousa' in Robinson and Decker-Walters (1997) p. 77: "Some summer squash cultivars, e.g. the vegetable marrows (Cucurbita pepo) are consumed when almost mature. In the Middle East, nearly mature fruits of 'Cousa' are stuffed with meat and other ingredients, then baked".
caption: An acorn squash stuffed with pilaf and topped with cheese
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