Lenten dishes from zucchini become especially popular with the fair sex, when they need to get rid of a couple of extra pounds. It should be noted that such low-fat vegetable dinners really help to lose weight. After all, they contain a minimum of calories, and also perfectly cleanse the body of toxins and toxins.
Preparing zucchini dishes with tomatoes and herbs
Essential Ingredients:
- ripe red tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- fresh garlic - 2 small cloves;
- young zucchini with soft skin - 2 pcs.;
- fresh parsley - a bunch;
- fresh dill - a bunch;
- dried basil - a couple of pinches;
- olive oil - 2-3 small spoons.
Cooking process
Lenten dishes from zucchini are much more healthy and tasty if you do not heat them. To do this, take young zucchini, wash them thoroughly, clean the stalks and navels, and then cut into thin and long strips using a carrot grater. Next, you need to start cooking the sauce.
Ripe red tomatoes need to be rinsed with fresh herbs and garlic, peeled, and then placed in a blender with sharp knife heads. Beating all the ingredients in the pulp, pour the dried basil to them and mix well with a large spoon. After that, the prepared sauce needs to be combined with “spaghetti” from zucchini and flavored with a small amount of olive oil.
2. Lenten dishes from zucchini, round grain rice and carrots
Essential Ingredients:
- round grain rice - 2/3 cup;
- ripe red tomato - 1 pc.;
- young zucchini with soft skin - 2 pcs.;
- fresh parsley - a bunch;
- fresh dill - a bunch;
- ground allspice - a couple of pinches;
- medium-sized carrots - 1 pc.;
- table salt - 1/3 tablespoon;
- olive oil - 2-3 large spoons;
- leek - medium bunch.
Cooking process
Lenten dishes from zucchini can be consumed not only in raw form, but also in baked in the oven. To do this, you need to wash the young zucchini well, remove the navels and stalks, and then cut them in half and take out part of the core, so that you end up with “boats”.
To make the filling for such a dish, you should peel the carrots, lightly fry it in olive oil along with leek, fresh dill and parsley. Next, you need to boil round-grain rice in salt water, deprive it of liquid, put it on sautéed vegetables and herbs, season with pepper, salt, add chopped fresh tomato and stir well. After that, the prepared filling must be distributed over the squash “boats”, and then moved to the baking dish and cook in the oven for about 20-28 minutes.
How to serve to the table
Lenten dishes from zucchini, the recipes of which we examined above, should be served without wheat bread, mayonnaise, sour cream, sauce and other ingredients that can contribute to the collection of extra pounds. It is also worth noting that such meals should be consumed in the morning in small quantities.