How do you sometimes want to cook something like that without spending half a day in the kitchen, while the food was not only tasty, but also healthy, beautiful in appearance and with an appetizing aroma. The task seems impossible, but still there is a solution: a quick whip from zucchini is an excellent solution that meets all the above wishes. Fast, inexpensive, tasty, and even healthy - why not give it a try?
What are good vegetable pies?
To people who have never tried dishes of this type, it seems that such food cannot be hearty, that it is not for men who definitely need a large piece of meat and a side dish for it. This is a misconception, because you can add anything to a whip for dough for zucchini pies: from various cheese and potatoes to fish, pieces of meat and sausage. The main thing is a flight of imagination and the absence of stereotypes.
Such pies are quite satisfying, despite the misconception, and if you combine them with cereals or potatoes, then even a notorious meat-eater will say: "But it's not bad!"
Zucchini in its composition is saturated with magnesium and potassium, which makes them extremely useful for cardiovascular diseases, and important fiber stimulates the digestive tract, eliminating toxins and bloating. Zucchini is recommended to be taken by pregnant women, as they remarkably relieve swelling.
Cakes in a hurry: options
There are some interesting ideas for using zucchini as the main ingredient for the dish. Each of them is special in cooking and in taste, as well as in appearance.
- In a pan, bake zucchini fritters and coat with sour cream sauce with garlic and herbs. Moreover, the sauce can be used different in taste, and the composition of the pancakes can be replenished not only with zucchini, but also with potatoes and carrots. This is a great budget option in a hurry.
- Pie with zucchini in the oven, in which the dough is taken as a basis. A very good option for vegetarians and vegans: when cooking, not a single animal will suffer.
- Vegetable casserole is essentially a pie, only without flour, which means that you can safely take into service such an option of a pie in a whip from zucchini and carrots.
- A pie in which vegetables grated or ground with a blender are included in the dough. Pretty interesting thing with a unique taste. When tasting, it does not immediately become clear what is the main ingredient of the pie.
In a slow cooker or oven
From zucchini in a hurry, you can cook a casserole pie with the addition of tomatoes. Essential Ingredients:
- two zucchini and tomatoes;
- one medium-sized carrot;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 2-3 eggs;
- 300 grams of flour;
- 100 grams of kefir;
- 0.5 teaspoon of soda and salt, black pepper - optional;
- 1 tbsp. a spoon of granulated sugar.
Zucchini grate with large holes and squeeze out excess liquid, add spices, kefir and mix. Add lightly beaten eggs and flour. Stir to a uniform state. The mass should not drain quickly from the spoon, otherwise you need to add a little more flour.
Grate the carrots and add to the dough. Grease the cake pan with olive oil, put the bottom and walls into sliced circles of tomatoes (preferably in two layers) and sprinkle them with grated cheese. Parmesan is ideal for such purposes. Pour the zucchini dough on top and send the pie from the zucchini to the oven.
Quickly boil something from the side dish: young potatoes or asparagus beans - and a full dinner is ready! The cake will be cooked for about an hour, it can be served warm and cold, topple over before serving, so that the tomatoes and cheese are on top. You can sprinkle with fresh herbs chopped in a hurry.
In the pan
Pie with zucchini can also be prepared in a pan, it is also called pancake cake made of vegetables. Grate two medium zucchini on a grater with medium-sized holes, squeeze out excess water and add two eggs, salt to taste and black ground pepper, three to four tablespoons of flour and knead the dough: it should look like a dough for fritters - thick but mobile. From this mass, bake 5-6 wide fritters according to the size of the pan.
For the “cream”, you can use thick sour cream or mayonnaise mixed with crushed garlic and allspice, smear it with cooled layers for vegetable cake, you can also put fresh tomatoes sliced in circles between the layers - it will be even tastier. You can sprinkle the top with chopped herbs or decorate fresh vegetables at your discretion.
Simple whip cake
Cut mugs from zucchini, cut medium-sized tomatoes in the same way, put a layer of vegetables in a greased pie dish, arranging them vertically and alternately: a slice of zucchini, a slice of tomato. Some lovers add sliced potatoes. If you are not a fan of an elegant figure, feel free to take it, it will be more satisfying, which means that men will like such a quick whip. Zucchini can also mix a little eggplant, if available.
Next, prepare the fill: beat three eggs with half a glass of cream or sour cream and 200 grams of cheese grated on a coarse grater. Pour the cake with this mass and send it to the oven for half an hour. Serve still warm, lightly pouring sour cream.
Quiche with cheese
Quiche is an open pie with a shortcrust pastry base that can be made at home, or frozen at a supermarket. It is widely used in vegetarian cuisine, being a versatile dish that can be different in taste each time due to the variety of vegetable and fruit fillings that can be used for all pies of this type.
For cooking, put grated squash (2 pcs.) In a quiche, pour with whipped five eggs and sprinkle with 150 grams of hard cheese grated. The oven temperature is 180 degrees, the baking time is about thirty minutes. What could be simpler and faster?
Zucchini Pie Recipe
Whip up for dinner or afternoon snack, you can prepare a delicious cake, which includes salmon. This is a spicy dish that is not a shame to serve even at a party. Required Products:
- 150 grams of smoked salmon;
- 80 grams of cheese;
- three eggs;
- 130 grams of flour;
- 1 zucchini of medium size;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of fresh milk;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil (preferably olive);
- salt, pepper to taste, a pinch of soda.
In a deep bowl, beat eggs with milk and butter, add spices and flour. Mix. Add zucchini grated on a coarse grater and pitted fish, cut into small pieces. Pour grated cheese and mix thoroughly. Move the dough into a silicone mold: oblong narrow or round, with a hole in the middle, is ideal. Bake for an average of forty minutes, cool slightly and cut into slices - that’s the whole recipe.
The pie with zucchini in a whip looks perfect in the photo, but it tastes even better. Serve with tomato juice, fresh vegetable juice or herbal tea. This is not just tasty, but also satisfying: a full meal with vegetables, fish, bread and all in one dish. Such a pie can be cooked in a slow cooker in the "baking" mode and in the oven whip up.
Pie with zucchini and carrots
Such a dish is a masterpiece from nothing! His photo was probably seen, but few decided to cook, believing that it would take a lot of time, judging by the picture. And in vain! A pie is being prepared with zucchini and carrots in a hurry, despite its unusual appearance: the layers of vegetables on the dough in it are arranged vertically, and it seems that you need to spend half a day on such splendor.
Of 100 grams of butter, 200 grams of flour and 5 tbsp. tablespoons of cold water knead the usual dough on the principle of sand: grated butter and flour, and then water is added. You can also add egg yolk - optional. Then smear it with your fingers in a baking dish, with a layer of 3-4 mm and send the mold to the refrigerator to freeze the dough.
We quickly cook the filling for the zucchini pie by slicing the vegetables with plates using a vegetable cutter: carrots and zucchini (you can replace zucchini). These strips are laid on top of the dough in a mold, starting from the edge and moving towards the middle, alternately laying a layer of one and the other.
We are preparing the filling: three eggs, 200 grams of cream, a little nutmeg, salt, 150 grams of grated cheese, lightly beat the three garlic cloves crushed in a mortar with a mixer and pour the mass onto the laid vegetables, trying to distribute evenly. The temperature of the oven is 180 degrees, such a cake is baked for about an hour. Such a simple recipe for a pie with zucchini in a hurry - a find for lovers of vegetable dishes without frills.
Bulgarian cake
Required Products:
- three eggs;
- 250 grams of hard cheese;
- five small zucchini (no more than 15 cm in length);
- 5 tbsp. spoons of semolina;
- 3 cloves of garlic, salt and pepper to taste;
- a large bunch of prefabricated greens: parsley, cilantro, dill, etc.
Zucchini is rubbed on a large grater, excess liquid must be squeezed out, the cheese should also be grated and mixed with the vegetable, add eggs, beaten with garlic and spices, semolina and mix thoroughly until smooth. If desired, you can replace the zucchini with zucchini. Put the workpiece in a wide form, trying to have a height of no more than three centimeters, then the pie from the zucchini, whipped up quickly, will be more tasty and quickly baked. We are waiting for the top to brown well, and then take it out of the oven.
Bulgarian cake is served both warm and cold - it is equally tasty, especially with spicy garlic cream or yogurt sauce (as they do in Bulgaria). No more than an hour is spent on cooking, of which the lion's share is occupied by baking, during which you can do other household chores.
Calorie pies from zucchini
The energy value of such dishes ranges from 130 to 280 calories per 100 g, depending on the ingredients: where there is fish and cream, the calorie content is higher, but just vegetables with a small piece of dough are much lower. In any case, whipping pies from zucchini and other vegetables are low-calorie diets, so they are safely taken into account by people who follow the figure and proper nutrition. Such dishes are very loved by lacto-vegetarians.
What to file?
A quick zucchini pie can be served as a separate dish for lunch or dinner, as well as in combination with a side dish of vegetables, boiled potatoes or fresh green salad. The sauce will be useful: sour cream, spicy or spicy tomato - to your taste preferences, because the range of sauces is extremely diverse among lovers of vegetable dishes. By the way, you will have to sprinkle with chopped fresh greens of parsley, dill or cilantro, fresh cucumbers and fragrant rye bread.