If you are looking for a recipe for a delicious second course for dinner or want to cook a vegetable dinner, a tomato and zucchini casserole will be a great choice for you. These vegetables are available year round. The recipe itself is quite simple and does not require much time. Choose one of the proposed options and delight the family with a new and tasty dish.
Tomato and zucchini casserole with minced meat
To prepare, take the following ingredients:
- 400 g of chicken or any minced meat;
- kilogram of squash;
- 6 ripe tomatoes;
- 3 medium onions;
- 2 tbsp. l natural tomato paste;
- 100 g of hard cheese, grated;
- for filling - 3 chicken eggs and 150 g sour cream, salt and spices.
Chop the onion finely, put in a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry until transparent, then add the minced meat, salt, pour the tomato paste and cook for no more than 5-7 minutes. Wash the zucchini, peel and seeds, and then grate on a coarse grater. Vegetable mass needs to be salted and allowed to stand for 10-15 minutes, after juice is secreted, drain it. Cut the tomatoes into circles. Now put in a prepared
baking dish a layer of zucchini, minced meat on top, after again zucchini. Finish the dish with a layer of tomatoes, pour a mixture of sour cream and eggs, and then generously sprinkle with cheese. Casserole of tomatoes and zucchini with minced meat is cooked for half an hour at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. A dish with a golden cheese crust should be served hot, best with sour cream. Also, it will be perfectly combined with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Vegetarian Tomato and Zucchini Casserole
To prepare a delicious dinner, take:
- 3 small zucchini squash;
- 4 tomatoes;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- 8 eggs and 5-6 tbsp. l sour cream for pouring;
- 20 g butter (cream), spices and salt.
Wash the zucchini, cut into circles. If the vegetable is young, then the peel can not be removed. Peel the tomatoes. To do this, scald them with boiling water and hold in hot water for a minute, then the peel can be removed very easily. Cut vegetables into slices or slices. Smear the baking dish with butter and then grated garlic. Put in it in dense layers, first zucchini, and then - tomatoes. Put in a very hot (220-250 degrees) oven for 5 minutes. Pour at the same time: mix 8 eggs, sour cream, cheese and a little garlic with each other, add spices. Remove the baking tray with vegetables from the oven, pour the resulting sauce and return to the oven. Casserole of tomatoes and zucchini will be ready in 20 minutes. The dish will turn out with a delicious crust and few will be able to leave anyone indifferent. Serve also with sour cream, fresh vegetables or herbs. By the way, the recipe can be improved a bit by adding any suitable ingredients, for example, carrots, a little onion, bell pepper or eggplant. It will turn out just as tasty and completely summer-like.
Squash casserole with tomatoes and sausages
For such a hearty meal, remove from your inventory:
- several sausages, depending on their size (from 3 to 5);
- 2 hard boiled eggs;
- 150 g of grated hard cheese;
- 1 large zucchini;
- 2 tomatoes, salt and spices.
Sausages cut into cubes and fry in vegetable oil, peel the zucchini from seeds and peel, also crumble into cubes and add to sausages, salt, if desired, add a little squeezed garlic and black pepper. Stir and simmer for no more than 10 minutes. Grease a baking tray with oil, first put the mixture from the pan, then top the tomatoes, then sprinkle with chopped boiled eggs and cheese. A simple casserole of zucchini and tomatoes is cooked very quickly - after 15 minutes, the pan can already be removed from the oven and after the dish is served. Try to cook a delicious vegetable dish according to our recipes, you should definitely like it.