Zucchini is a delicious and healthy gourd. They can be eaten raw, finely chopped into a salad of cucumbers with tomatoes. They can be pickled, as young cucumbers pickle, they make wonderful caviar and even bake in a stuffed or other form.
Puff zucchini
This recipe is suitable for those gourmets who like spicy vegetables, tasty and fragrant, but not very keen on getting stuck in the kitchen. Therefore, we bake zucchini in the oven on the principle of "cheap and cheerful." We need: 3-4 zucchini (the more there are, the greater the number of layers), 5-6 tomatoes, garlic (from 5 cloves to several heads, if you like more sharply), a bag or jar of mayonnaise (small), salt, pepper, 1-2 onions, 100 grams of hard cheese. So, grease the cooking dish well with oil. We bake young zucchini in the oven with seeds. Peel and cut the vegetables in half a centimeter thick circles. Circles or half rings - tomatoes and onions. Chop the garlic. Now spread a layer of zucchini, lightly add salt, pepper, sprinkle with garlic. On them are tomatoes, a little hot pepper. Salt lightly too. Top layer of onions, then again zucchini. Squeeze with mayonnaise and then lay out the prepared foods in the same order. Finally, grate the cheese and sprinkle the top layer over it. Now bake the zucchini in the oven at a temperature within 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes. The main landmark - the dish should be covered with a golden brown crust. And a dizzying smell will also let you know about readiness. A small clarification: in such a vegetable “pie” you can add a layer of carrots and bell pepper. The dish will become even tastier. So bake zucchini in the oven with imagination!
Simple but tasteful
Everyone who likes quality food with a minimum of time spent will no doubt like this recipe: “Zucchini slices baked in the oven”. The photo shows you what the final product looks like. Take a few zucchini, for example, zucchini. Even overripe, yellow ones will do. They need to be peeled, pulled out the seeds with pulp, cut into slices 2-3 cm thick. The baking sheet is greased well with butter. Zucchini are laid out, they can also be greased with butter. Sprinkle with sugar and bake until tender. Slices of zucchini are caramelized and resemble marmalade. To make it tastier, sprinkle slices with lemon juice before baking. Here's a nice dessert you can make yourself from the most ordinary zucchini!
Where the boat is sailing
What else, undoubtedly, will please vegetable gourmets is zucchini-boats, baked in the oven. Of course, stuffed! To prepare them, take a kilogram of the main vegetable, a pound of minced meat, 60-70 g of cheese, onion, sour cream, vegetable and butter, a little flour, herbs, hot pepper and garlic. Let's start with zucchini: they need to be peeled, cut lengthwise, pulp removed. Minced meat (with onions, garlic, pepper) fry in a pan in a small amount of oil. We start the “boats”, put on a baking tray greased with butter (butter), coat with mayonnaise and grated cheese on top.
The workpiece goes to the oven, where it comes to condition. When the zucchini is ready, they need to be sprinkled with herbs and serve. Ketchup or sour cream sauce will do.
Here they are wonderful - zucchini!