As a cold or hot snack, you can cook zucchini-cheese cake with meat. This hearty and high-calorie dish will become a table decoration both during an ordinary family dinner, and when you want to surprise guests. Zucchini cake can be made and lean. Let's first prepare the minced meat option.
Squash and cheese cake with meat
You will need simple products that, regardless of the season, can be bought at every supermarket. Squash and cheese cake with meat from the specified set of ingredients will turn out to weigh about a kilogram. This amount is enough for ten people. Take three hundred grams of zucchini or zucchini, one hundred grams of hard cheese, an egg, two hundred grams of minced meat, two tablespoons of flour, a large onion, two cloves of garlic, mayonnaise and tomato (for decoration). Instead of minced meat, you can take finely chopped chicken or turkey breast. Start cooking zucchini-cheese cake with meat by grating vegetables and cheese. Beat in an egg and wheat flour. Salt and stir until it reaches the consistency of the dough. Bake some pancakes from it. Their number depends on the desired height of the cake.
Mix the meat component with chopped onion and crushed garlic, add mayonnaise and spices. Fry over low heat, being careful not to overdry the minced meat. Cool the zucchini pancakes and start assembling the cake. Lubricate each pancake with meat filling, form a layer cake. Bake in the oven for ten minutes. Garnish with chopped tomato, mayonnaise, fresh herbs.
Stuffed zucchini with meat and cheese
The dense flesh of this vegetable allows you to form portioned boats out of it that look very attractive on the festive table. This stuffed dish is hearty, inexpensive and unusual. It can serve as a side dish or appetizer.
For four servings, you will need two medium zucchini, two hundred grams of minced meat and the same amount of hard cheese, as well as a tomato, onion and two eggs. Peel the vegetables. From the zucchini, remove the pulp with seeds, cutting each in half. Try not to damage the walls. Chop the pulp of the zucchini together with onions and tomatoes (you need to remove the skin from them, scalding). Stew vegetables in a pan with vegetable oil. Add minced meat there and sauté. Cool the mixture, beat the eggs into it. Put the minced meat in zucchini boats and place them on a baking sheet, sprinkle with grated cheese, bake for twenty minutes in a very hot oven.
Italian Zucchini Pudding
It will take half a kilogram of zucchini, carrots, onions, two handfuls of chopped parsley, forty grams of butter and parmesan, three eggs, salt, black pepper, a glass of ready-made Bechamel sauce. Stew sliced zucchini in vegetable oil with onions, carrots and parsley until soft. Add the grated cheese, Bechamel and beaten eggs to the vegetables, gently move into the form and bake at medium temperature in a water bath. This dish is best eaten hot. You can sprinkle with dried tarragon before baking.