Zucchini is a close relative of zucchini and cucumber. It is used for making soups, salads, meat products, main dishes and much more. You can eat even the flowers of this interesting vegetable. It is worth noting that the most suitable for cooking are young zucchini, about 20 cm in size. The older ones lose their taste, and even requires more attention during cleaning and processing. Recipes for making zucchini are very diverse. There are so many of them that one could write a whole book devoted only to dishes from this vegetable. By the way, this young vegetable can be eaten just like that, without frying or boiling. For example, sprinkled with salt or sugar. Well, our discussion will go further on some dishes, which include this product.
Zucchini Recipes
Stuffed Zucchini
Ingredients: 4 medium-sized zucchini, 500 g minced meat (preferably beef), one head of onion, 2 garlic cloves, 100 g hard cheese, 3 tomatoes, parsley, salt, pepper.
Preparation: Zucchini wash, dry and cut into two halves. Remove the pulp and spread the halves on a baking sheet. Bake for about 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 1800C. We make the filling: finely chop the garlic and onions, zucchini pulp into cubes. Stew minced meat, zucchini pulp, garlic and onions until cooked. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater. Stuffing mix with herbs and cheese. Halve the zucchini and fill with minced meat. We spread on a baking sheet, having previously put half a tomato on the minced meat . Bake for 20 minutes at the same temperature. A minute before cooking is finished, sprinkle the boats with a little cheese and herbs.
Salad "Nut"
Ingredients: 1 zucchini, 50 g lettuce, 50 g hazelnuts, 50 g olives, 1 clove of garlic, pepper, olive oil, salt.
Preparation: cut the zucchini into 4 parts and fry in vegetable oil, nuts are also slightly browned in a pan. Mix the fried and sliced vegetable with hazelnuts, olives, lettuce, finely chopped garlic cloves and season with olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Fried zucchini
Ingredients: 2 zucchini, 1 egg, 300 ml of milk, flour, salt, sugar, soda.
Preparation: peel the zucchini and cut into rings with a thickness of 5-8 mm. Beat the egg, pour in the milk, add salt, sugar and 0.5 tsp of slaked vinegar to taste. Pour the flour to make the dough, like on pancakes. Zucchini lightly add salt and pepper. We heat the pan with vegetable oil, pour the dough in small portions, spread the vegetable on top and fill it with a layer of dough. Fry on both sides until golden brown.
You can also fry zucchini like this: salt them, lightly roll them in flour, dip them in an egg and fry them in hot vegetable oil.
Record yourself in the cookbook and the following recipes for making zucchini.
Fish cakes
Ingredients: 1 medium-sized zucchini, 800 fish fillets, 1 bell pepper, 100 g cheese, 1 egg, 3 tbsp flour, salt.
Preparation: Fillet fish, zucchini and pepper through a meat grinder, squeeze slightly. Add beaten egg, grated cheese and salt to the minced meat. Pour in the flour. The less we add it, the more tender the cutlets will be, and the more difficult it will be to fry them. Accordingly, more flour, worse taste and better fry. Put the patties in a preheated pan.
Italian soup
A lot of zucchini recipes are soups. One of them is Italian, the taste of which the whole family will appreciate.
Ingredients: 200 g of zucchini, ½ cup white rice, 1 liter of meat broth, 0.5 liter of milk 1.5%, 75 ml of 10% cream, parsley, green onion.
Preparation: Peel the zucchini and simmer over low heat in milk. Fry the onion in sunflower oil. Pour vegetables and rice with meat broth and simmer over medium heat for about 20 minutes. Before serving, add salt to taste, pour cream and sprinkle with herbs.