Baked Chayotes

9 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 3 bigger sized chayotes
  • 1 tablespoon finely diced onion
  • 1/4 cup grated mild flavored cheese (your favorite meltable)
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 3 tablespoons breadcrumbs
  • 1 dash ground cinnamon
  • 1 dash granulated sugar
  • salt, to taste,about a teaspoon
  • butter, for greasing baking pan

Directions

  1. 1
    Cook chayotes in water with salt.
  2. 2
    Drain.
  3. 3
    Halve chayotes horizontally carefully so as not to tear outer peel at this stage.
  4. 4
    Scoop out the pulp, discard pit and keep the hollowed out halves.
  5. 5
    Dice the scooped out chayote pulp and mix with onion, cheese and salt to taste if needed.
  6. 6
    Fill in the chayote halves with previous mixture.
  7. 7
    (Optional-- if scooping out pulp and watching out for not tearing outer peel sounds like much bother, just scoop out, discard peel, mash, and proceed with rest of recipe).
  8. 8
    Place in a previoulsy greased pan.
  9. 9
    Sprinkle with bread crumbs, cinnamon, and sugar.
  10. 10
    Bake on high temperature until bread crumbs are browned.

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