We are used to potato pancakes.
However, potatoes are quite a high-calorie vegetable, so not everyone can afford this pleasure.
We suggest you prepare a lighter version of this dish - potato pancakes from zucchini.
Zucchini pancakes - the basic principles of cooking
Zucchini potato pancakes are juicy and light. To prepare a traditional dish, you will need zucchini, spices, flour and eggs. It is better to use a young vegetable with seeds that have not yet formed.
Zucchini is crushed into large chips, slightly squeezed out the resulting mass. Spices and other ingredients are added to it. Knead the dough with a spoon until smooth. Zucchini pancakes are fried in vegetable oil, but if you want to get a lower-calorie dish, you can cook them in the oven.
For those who love hearty dishes, potato pancakes are prepared with the addition of potatoes or minced meat.
The ideal sauce for zucchini pancakes is garlic, based on sour cream, yogurt or mayonnaise. But you can serve them with ketchup, tomato sauce, tkemali or a mixture of hot and bell pepper.
Recipe 1. Zucchini pancakes
Ingredients
egg;
sunflower oil;
zucchini - half a kilogram;
bulb;
sea salt and ground pepper;
75 g of flour.
Cooking method
1. Wash the zucchini, wipe with a kitchen towel and chop on a medium grater. Drain the stand out juice. Squeeze the resulting mass from excess fluid.
2. Finely chop the onion peeled off the husk. Add to the grated zucchini.
3. Break the egg into the grated squash, add the flour and season with freshly ground pepper and salt. Pour in 80 ml of sunflower oil. Mix well.
4. Pour oil into a preheated pan. Spread small pancakes with a tablespoon and fry until golden brown. Then turn the potato pancakes over and fry on the other side.
5. Cover the dish with paper towels. Put ready-made potato pancakes in it to get rid of excess oil. Serve with sour cream or tomato sauce.
Recipe 2. Zucchini dumplings with cheese in the oven
Ingredients
one zucchini;
common salt;
cheese - 150 g;
ground pepper;
sunflower oil;
egg;
a glass of flour or semolina;
parsley - a small bunch;
garlic - two cloves;
sour cream - 200 g.
Cooking method
1. My zucchini under a stream of water, wipe with napkins and three in large chips.
2. Grind the cheese in the same way.
3. Drain the resulting juice, carefully squeeze the grated zucchini. We put it in a bowl, add eggs, flour and season everything with pepper and salt. Mix.
4. Deco grease with oil. We spread on it zucchini mass in the form of meatballs. Sprinkle with cheese.
5. Preheat the oven to 190 C. Put the deco in the oven and bake for half an hour.
6. Peeled garlic cloves squeeze through a garlic squeezer into sour cream. Rinse and slightly dry the parsley. Finely chopped. Spread in sour cream. Beat well with a fork.
7. Take the pancakes out of the oven. We shift to a plate and pour garlic sauce.
Recipe 3. Zucchini pancakes with minced meat
Ingredients
10 g ground paprika;
egg;
young zucchini;
sunflower oil;
onion head;
125 g flour;
150 g minced meat;
sea salt and black pepper.
Cooking method
1. Wash the young zucchini, rub and grind on a medium grater. Squash well squeeze. Add the egg to it, season with black pepper and salt. Stir well with a fork.
2. Pour in flour and knead a slightly liquid dough. Leave it for ten minutes to flour well.
3. Season the minced meat with spices and salt. Pour a little water into it, add finely chopped onions and ground paprika. Knead with hands until smooth.
4. Place a third of the zucchini dough on a hot skillet, oiled. Smooth the spatula along the bottom of the pan to make a thin pancake. Fry until light brown and gently turn over so that it does not tear.
5. Fill a third of the squash pancake with a third of the mincemeat and smooth. Cover the minced meat with the second half of the pancake so that the meat is inside the potato pancake. Cook another five minutes.
6. Cover the plate with sheets of green lettuce and put on it a finished potato pancake. Serve with greens and sour cream.
Recipe 4. Zucchini pancakes with butter in the oven
Ingredients
sea salt and spices;
two onions;
olive oil;
a kilogram of young zucchini;
flour - 150 g;
butter - 50 g;
egg;
milk - 100 ml;
lemon juice - 5 ml.
Cooking method
1. Wash the squash with a brush. Wipe with a towel and grind into large chips. We discard the squash mass on a sieve and leave it to drain the juice. Then squeeze and transfer to a bowl. Pepper, salt and add lemon juice. We beat in the egg, pour in the milk and pour in the flour.
2. Peel and chop the onion in a blender until gruel. Add it to the squash. Mix until smooth with a spoon.
3. Grease a baking sheet with olive oil. We form small pancakes from zucchini dough and spread on a baking sheet.
4. Bake in the oven, preheated to 190 C, for 20 minutes.
5. Cut the butter into small pieces. Three minutes before the end of baking we take out a baking sheet and put a piece of butter on each pancake.
Recipe 5. Zucchini pancakes with herbs and carrots
Ingredients
one zucchini;
cheese;
carrot;
vegetable oil;
egg;
ground black pepper;
flour - 50 g;
salt;
dried herbs - 25 g.
Cooking method
1. Wash the carrots and zucchini. Remove the peel from the vegetables and chop them into large chips. Combine the carrots with the zucchini and leave for a while. Then wring out. Season with salt, dried herbs and black pepper. Add the egg and flour. Stir well until smooth.
2. Put the pan on the fire, heat vegetable oil in it. Spoon the vegetable dough with a spoon. Fry until golden brown, then turn over with a spatula, cover, twist the fire and cook another ten minutes.
3. Put the finished potato pancakes on a plate, sprinkle with grated cheese and decorate with chopped herbs.
Recipe 6. Oatmeal pancakes with oatmeal in the oven
Ingredients
bulb;
table salt and black pepper;
a few feathers of green onions;
two zucchini;
egg;
oat flour - 80 g;
milk - 50 ml;
30% cream - 30 ml.
Cooking method
1. Peel washed zucchini. Grind them on a coarse grater. We recline on a sieve and leave the glass to excess liquid. Then squeeze the squash mass and place in a bowl. Pour cream and milk to the zucchini. We drive in the egg and mix everything thoroughly.
2. Rinse the green onion and chop it with rings. Spread in a bowl. Onions are cleaned and chopped on a coarse grater. Add to the zucchini. Pepper and salt. Add the oatmeal and mix again.
3. Cover the baking sheet with parchment. We spread potato pancakes on it with a spoon. Preheat the oven to 200 C. Bake for 20 minutes. Then put it on a plate and serve hot with sour cream or ketchup.
Recipe 7. Zucchini pancakes with potatoes
Ingredients
a pound of squash;
salt;
a pound of potatoes;
a glass of flour;
egg.
Cooking method
1. Peel potatoes and zucchini. Rinse vegetables under running water and pat dry with napkins.
2. Grind zucchini and potatoes into large chips. Discard the vegetable mass on a sieve and leave for half an hour to drain the juice. Then wring it out and place in a suitable dish.
3. Add the egg and flour to the vegetable mass, salt and knead a uniform dough with a spoon. Consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
4. Heat the oil pan over high heat. Put the vegetable dough in oil in a spoon and fry, not twisting the fire until golden brown. Then turn over and fry on the other side. Serve potato pancakes with sour cream or ketchup.
Recipe 8. Zucchini dumplings with an apple in the oven
Ingredients
carrot;
table salt;
young zucchini;
sugar - 25 g;
an Apple;
olive oil;
egg;
flour - 125 g.
Cooking method
1. Peel the zucchini and rinse under the tap. Peel and rinse the carrots and apples. Remove the core from the apple. Grind vegetables and fruit into large chips.
2. Combine everything in a bowl and leave for a while. Then squeeze the fruit and vegetable mass, season with salt and sugar. Add the egg and flour. Knead the dough thoroughly with a spoon.
3. Lubricate the pan with olive oil. Form small cakes from the dough and place on a baking sheet. Bake at 190 ° C for 20 minutes. Put potato pancakes on a plate and serve with mayonnaise or sour cream sauce.
Zucchini Draniki - Tips and Tricks
Grated squash must be squeezed, otherwise the dough will turn out too liquid.
For piquancy, you can add hot pepper to the dough or squeeze the garlic.
Both dried and chopped greens are added to the dough.
Serve pancakes with mayonnaise sauce. If you are on a diet, you can replace mayonnaise with natural yogurt or low-fat sour cream.
You can use flour, semolina or eggs as a binder in the dough.
