Zucchini is a popular and favorite vegetable, perhaps it is in every garden. And not in vain, because of it you can make the main dish and side dish. Moreover, zucchini is being prepared very quickly.
General principles of cooking
This vegetable does not have a pronounced taste. But it is in perfect harmony with many products and spices. Zucchini will fit perfectly into the company of eggplant, carrots, peppers, potatoes in vegetable stew, it will be an excellent side dish for chicken, beef, pork. It can be fried, stewed, baked, stuffed, made into pancakes or pancakes. The zucchini is friendly with garlic and aromatic herbs; they give this vegetable a more interesting taste.
Young zucchini is especially tasty, they can be consumed with delicate skin. In large zucchini, it becomes quite rigid, it is better to clean it. But it is a large-sized vegetable that is perfect for stuffing. After removing the seeds, you can fill the zucchini with minced meat or a mixture of other vegetables, and then bake in the oven, in foil or sleeve, or stew.
Quickly and deliciously cook fried zucchini
The simplest and fastest recipe, but the result from this is no less spectacular. Breading in flour gives zucchini tenderness, and spicy herbs - piquancy. Vegetables are better to choose young, medium-sized, with a thin skin.
Ingredients
2 small zucchini;
3-4 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
vegetable oil;
salt, basil, thyme, ground pepper.
Cooking method
1. Zucchini wash and cut into rings about half a centimeter thick.
2. Pour the flour onto a plate, add salt and seasonings to it, mix well.
3. Roll the zucchini slices in a mixture of flour and aromatic herbs, and then fry in a pan in vegetable oil. It is better to make the fire moderate, otherwise the zucchini will burn, not having time to brown. As soon as the rings have turned golden on one side, turn over and fry on the other side until soft.
4. Serve the dish hot with sour cream.
Quickly and deliciously cook stuffed zucchini in a sleeve
Roasting in a sleeve is a very easy way to prepare dishes, because it does not require special attention: products are quickly cooked with steam, do not burn, nothing flows out onto a baking sheet. Zucchini according to this recipe can be a full dinner for the family.
Ingredients
1 large zucchini;
a pound of ground beef or pork;
1 onion;
200 grams of cabbage;
1 tomato
70 grams of grated cheese;
olive oil;
salt, spices.
Cooking method
1. All the vegetables are mine. Shred the cabbage, peel and finely chop the onion, cut the tomato into cubes.
2. Zucchini cut in half lengthwise, remove the seeds. Spray the resulting boats a little with olive oil.
3. In a pan, quickly fry the onions and minced meat until half cooked, add slaw and chopped tomato. Season with salt and spices. Stew for about 10 minutes. Cool a bit.
4. In the squash boats we spread the filling. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
5. Place the stuffed zucchini in the sleeve, tie on both sides, put on a baking sheet. We pierce a couple of holes to exit the excess steam.
6. We bake for about half an hour in the oven at a temperature of no higher than 200 degrees (for most types of baking hoses, this is the maximum permissible temperature). To determine readiness is simple - with a wooden spatula directly through the sleeve, slightly press on the barrel of the squash boat. Has become soft - it means it's time to get it.
7. Carefully cut the sleeve so as not to burn yourself with hot steam. Divide the stuffed zucchini into portions, serve.
Quickly and deliciously cook stewed stuffed zucchini
Unlike the previous recipe, it is rather a dietary option. The dish turns out to be non-greasy, and if you need to make it also not spicy, just exclude spices from the list of ingredients.
Ingredients
1 large zucchini;
400 grams of minced meat from lean beef;
half a glass of rice;
bay leaf - 2 things;
pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. Zucchini wash and cut in half across. We take out the seeds, be sure to leave the bottom below.
2. Mix rice and minced meat, start the zucchini.
3. We take a rather deep thick-walled pan, place the zucchini halves with the bottoms down in it. Fill with water so that it almost completely covers the stuffed vegetable, put on fire.
4. After boiling, season the broth with salt, pepper, add bay leaf. We simmer on low heat for about 45 minutes, as soon as the rice and zucchini have become soft, the dish is ready.
Quickly and deliciously prepare pancakes from zucchini
Fritters can be not only sweet. From zucchini mixed with cheese and spices, they turn out to be very tender and aromatic.
Ingredients
1 squash of medium size;
half a glass of flour;
1 egg
50 grams of grated cheese;
salt, black pepper, basil, thyme.
Cooking method
1. Wash the zucchini, peel it and peel it on a coarse grater.
2. Add flour, egg, grated cheese, salt, pepper, herbs to the zucchini. Mix all the ingredients. You should get a dough by consistency like thick sour cream. If liquid, add more flour.
3. Spoon the dough into a pan with preheated vegetable oil. As soon as the pancakes are seized and browned, turn over, fry until golden.
Quickly and deliciously prepare squash cream soup
It is eaten both hot and cold. Garlic and fresh greens add spice to the dish, and creamy cream gives a pleasant texture.
Ingredients
1 zucchini;
a glass of cream of 20% fat;
2 cloves of garlic;
1 onion;
fresh dill or parsley;
butter;
pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. Clean the washed zucchini, remove the seeds, cut into cubes. Shred onion and garlic. Finely chop the dill or parsley.
2. Put the stewpan on fire, put a piece of butter in it, let it disperse over a small fire. Fry the onion until transparent. Spread slices of zucchini and garlic, fry together for about five minutes. Solim.
3. Fill the contents of the stewpan with hot water, you will need about 2 cups. Let it boil, cover with a lid and cook over low heat for a quarter of an hour.
4. Once the zucchini has become soft, add the greens, boil together just a minute. Now the stewpan can be removed from the stove and grind the contents with a blender.
5. Pour the cream until the desired consistency is obtained, pepper our soup and whisk it again with a blender.
Quickly and deliciously cook vegetable stew with zucchini garnished
This stew will perfectly complement any meat dish, be it pork escalope or chicken breast. It is easy to prepare, vegetables can be selected as desired.
Ingredients
1 zucchini;
3-4 potatoes;
1 onion;
3 small eggplants;
3 medium carrots;
olive oil;
fresh greens;
pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. My vegetables. We clean onions, carrots, potatoes. If the zucchini is young, leave the skin, remove the seeds.
2. Finely chop the onion and fry it in olive oil in a deep frying pan.
3. Three carrots on a coarse grater, add to the onion, fry together for about five minutes.
4. Zucchini, potatoes, eggplant cut into cubes. Pour into a pan, mix. Season with pepper and salt. Add some water and simmer for about half an hour under the lid.
5. Five minutes before cooking, add finely chopped fresh herbs. Once all the vegetables are soft, the stew is ready to serve.
Quickly and deliciously prepare snack rolls from zucchini
This appetizer is best prepared from small tender zucchini. And for the filling, you can choose the cheese to taste: soft salted feta cheese, cream cheese with herbs or ordinary cream cheese, grated and mixed with garlic and herbs.
Ingredients
2-3 small zucchini;
200-250 grams of cheese;
olive oil;
greens - to taste (basil, dill);
spices to taste (thyme, mint, pepper).
Cooking method
1. We wash the washed zucchini into thin (no more than half a centimeter thick) long strips.
2. Fry in olive oil on both sides until golden and soft. You can do without oil, if you use a special grill pan.
3. Grate the processed cheese on a grater, soft cheese just knead with a fork. Add selected herbs and spices. Mix the filling.
4. On each strip we put a little cheese mass, twist the neat rolls. If necessary, you can chop the finished rolls with a toothpick. Serving on the table, decorate the appetizer with finely chopped greens.
Quickly and deliciously cook zucchini casserole
This dish can be used as a main dish or served as a side dish.
Ingredients
2 medium-sized zucchini;
3 eggs;
half a glass of sour cream;
2 cloves of garlic;
150 grams of cheese;
greens (parsley, dill);
ground pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. Set the oven 180 degrees.
2. Washed zucchini cut into small cubes. Finely chop the greens and garlic. Three cheese on a grater.
3. Mix the eggs with sour cream.
4. Add garlic and herbs to the zucchini, mix. We shift in a form suitable for baking.
5. Pour with sour cream and egg mixture, grated cheese on top.
6. Send to the oven for 40 minutes.
Quick and tasty dishes from zucchini - secrets and tricks
1. The shorter the heat treatment - the more benefit remains in the zucchini. Five to seven minutes on each side are enough to fry until cooked in circles of this vegetable, large pieces are cooked for a quarter of an hour, and small cubes - 10 minutes.
2. If you add vegetable oil to the squash pancakes dough, you can fry them in a dry non-stick pan.
3. Keep zucchini for the whole winter will help freezing. Cut vegetables into cubes, put in bags, place in the freezer. Frozen zucchini can be used for vegetable stew. To taste, they will be no worse than fresh.
4. Stuffing zucchini with a mixture of vegetables and minced meat, it is better to first bring the filling to half-preparedness in a pan. Otherwise, when baking zucchini, vegetables can give too much excess juice, and the filling will spill over.
