.Light and gentle. Very tasty zucchini casserole. Changing the ingredients you can make the dish unique, dietary, satisfying. Give yourself a new taste and curd casseroles for a long time will fade into the background.
Zucchini with minced meat
Meat-vegetable dishes have always been a success. Note the recipe for zucchini casseroles with minced meat. In a matter of minutes you will be able to feast on a juicy dish with a creamy cheese flavor.
If desired, a layer of bell pepper can be put into the dish and sprinkled with greens generously.
From the products needed: 4 tomatoes, one zucchini and onion turnip, 0.3 kg of ground beef( can be replaced by any other), two eggs. For filling and coating the casseroles take: 30 g of tomato paste, 0.1 kg of sour cream and cheese, vegetable oil and spices.
Preparation steps:
- Clean the bulb, rinse with water and cut into cubes. Fry onion in butter until transparent. After putting the minced meat, spices, tomato paste, mix and simmer until tender.
- Zucchini peel, cut the seeds, if necessary. Young vegetables can be used with the skin. Largely grate the fruit, salt, mix and drain the resulting liquid. Apply a little oil to the walls and bottom of the mold and lay out half of the squash mass.
- From above, distribute all the stuffing and “cover” the remaining zucchini.
- Wash tomatoes, remove the white part, cut into slices and lay out on top.
- Beat eggs into a deep container, slightly salt and pepper, beat and pour evenly into the mold.
- Grate cheese and spread on the surface of vegetables.
Zucchini casserole is cooked with minced meat in the oven for half an hour at 200 degrees.
You can serve the casserole to the table immediately, but its consistency will be slightly watery. It is best to leave the finished dish in the oven off for another quarter of an hour so that it gets cold and “grabs”.
Zucchini and Potato Casserole
A somewhat satisfying option - Zucchini and Potato Casserole. Due to the addition of cream and cheese, the dish turns out to be fragrant, tender and juicy with an appetizing crust.
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It is necessary to prepare: 2 zucchini, 6 potato tubers, 0.1 kg of cheese, the same cream with a fat content of at least 33%, two garlic cloves, spices, vegetable oil.
The recipe assumes roasting zucchini. If you want a more dietary option - you can skip this step and use raw zucchini.
Cooking steps:
- Boil the potato tubers in the "uniform".
- Peel and cut into slices no more than 0.5 cm.
- Remove the skin from the zucchini( young ones need only to wash and remove the damaged parts) and cut into thin slices maximum 0.5 cm in thickness.
- Heat oil in a skillet and fry zucchini until golden brown. Do not pour a lot of oil, otherwise the casserole will be greasy.
- In parallel, enjoy the sauce: pour 2 tbsp into the bowl.vegetable oil, skip the garlic through a press, add a little salt and mix.
- Lay potatoes and fried zucchini in a baking dish. Spread the sauce evenly over the top.
- Add cream and send zucchini casserole to the oven for 20 minutes. Cook at 180ºС.
- Meanwhile, grate the cheese.
- Sprinkle cheese casserole for 5 minutes until cooked.
Put the finished dish on a plate and serve.
Zucchini Casserole in a Multicooker
For those who like to cook in a slow cooker another recipe for casserole - a family dish, suitable for breakfast or dinner.
For cooking zucchini casseroles in a slow cooker you will need: one zucchini, a couple of eggs and 0.2 kg of cheese. Additionally, you need to refuel: 0.15 kg of sour cream, spices, 3 tbsp.flour 1 tspsoda and a bunch of your favorite greens.
Preparation steps:
- Grate washed and peeled zucchini grated.
- Transfer the mass into a deep container, drive eggs, pre-grated cheese and mix to obtain a homogeneous mass.
- Finely chop the greens and put them to the squash mass with sour cream. Mix.
- Sift the flour, mix with soda and add portions to the “dough”, do not forget to mix. Watch the texture: it should be moderately thick. Pour the "dough" into the buttered bowl of the multicooker and cook for about an hour, setting the "Baking" mode.
Cool zucchini casserole to cool and serve with sour cream. You can decorate the top with chopped greens.
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Diet casserole
In the summer, heavy and fatty dishes fade into the background. I want something light and tasty at the same time. In addition, this is a period when you can enjoy plenty of vegetables. Just fit vegetable casserole with zucchini: diet, with a creamy taste.
Buy: 0.2 kg of young squash, one carrot and onion turnip, 0.3 kg of young white cabbage, two tomatoes, 0.1 l of milk, a bunch of greens, a piece of butter, two eggs. From spices fit turmeric, black, preferably freshly ground, pepper and salt.
Purchasing old squash - take them more with the calculation of the removed seeds.
Preparation steps:
- The first step is to prepare all the vegetables and cut them: cut the onion into cubes, and grate the carrots.
- Melt butter in a frying pan( it is thanks to him that zucchini casserole gets a creamy taste) and fry onion and carrot on it.
- Meanwhile, thinly chop the cabbage and grate the zucchini. When the carrots and onions are roasted until golden, lay out the cabbage with zucchini, cover and cook for 5-7 minutes.
- Prepare a dressing by beating eggs with milk and spices.
- Oil the form and fill with vegetable paste. Pour the egg mixture. Cut the tomatoes into rings and lay them on top.
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180ºС.
When serving, sprinkle with chopped greens. If desired, you can pour sour cream.
Zucchini with minced meat and cheese
The popularity of zucchini is huge: a cheap vegetable, goes well with other products. It can be fried, baked, boiled, getting delicious dishes. One of these - zucchini casserole with cheese.
For cooking, it is desirable to use a special pan with holes in the middle. But if this is not, you can use the usual without a pen or form.
You should have the following products: a pound of minced pork( or some other), 3 tbsp.rice, 0.3 kg of champignons, 1-2 zucchini, two tomatoes and bulb turnips, fresh dill to taste and two garlic cloves. For dressing: 50 g of mayonnaise, spices, salt, 2 tbsp.vegetable oil.
Cooking:
- Boil rice until cooked, mix with minced meat. Salt, pepper and mix well.
- Peel the onion, cut into half rings. Prepare the mushrooms, cut into slices. In hot oil, fry the onions with mushrooms until golden.
- Tomatoes cut into half rings.
- Remove peel from zucchini and cut along thin slices.
- Put the squash into slices in a frying pan or a greased baking pan so that their edges hang from the sides.
- Add a piece of minced meat.
- Then distribute all the mushrooms, cover with the remaining minced meat and arrange the tomatoes. All salt and pepper.
- Mix mayonnaise( 30 g) with garlic, squeezed through a press, chopped dill and smear all the stuffing with the obtained mass. After wrapping the casserole with hanging zucchini and grease with the remaining mayonnaise.
- Send bake for half an hour at 180 degrees.
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Cool slightly the prepared casserole, decorate it with tomatoes, greens and take a sample.
Zucchini, meat and vegetable casserole
Those who do not like zucchini, can use it in a shredded form in various dishes. Zucchini casserole in the oven - a great option for supporters of proper nutrition.
You will need the following products: half a kilo of minced meat, 1 kg of zucchini( this does not include seeds), 0.15 kg of onion turnips, 0.2 kg of carrots, two eggs, 50 g of cooked rice and 0.2 kg of cheese. From spices: Provencal herbs, salt, pepper. Additionally, you will need 50 grams of olive oil and 3 tbsp.sour cream( 20-25%).
Cooking:
- Carrot grate large, chop the onion into slices. All sent to the pan and fry in butter. After 5 minutes send the zucchini sliced into small cubes. After another 7 minutes, add the minced meat, salt and pepper, spices. Mix everything and stew under a lid for 5 minutes.
- Add boiled rice and half grated cheese. Stir, adjust the taste with salt and pepper, if necessary.
- Put the mass in the form and pour a mixture of sour cream and egg. Top with the rest of the cheese.
- Using special forms, make a zucchini decoration and spread it on a casserole surface.
- Cooking in an oven at 190ºС for half an hour.
Serve hot casserole.
How do you like a selection of recipes for zucchini casseroles in the oven? You will try to cook several options, and you will see that even from such a simple vegetable as a zucchini you can cook real culinary masterpieces.
