Hello dear readers. The question of what to cook from zucchini or how to cook zucchini will no longer be so pressing for you. Because I have prepared an excellent selection of quick zucchini recipes for you.
This selection contains main zucchini dishes that are popular not only because they are easy and simple to prepare, but also because the dishes are very tasty.
Zucchini itself is very healthy. And if cooked correctly it is also delicious. Zucchini is also an excellent substitute for those who would like to try to lose weight.
Since it is not rich in calories, there is still a feeling of satiety. So look at our selection and choose a great zucchini-based dish for yourself.
Zucchini stew
The principle of making zucchini stew is simple. You need to chop all the ingredients, fry and simmer.
INGREDIENTS:
- 3-4 young zucchini.
- 2 ripe bell peppers.
- 2-3 tomatoes.
- 5-6 medium potatoes.
- 1 carrot.
- 1 onion.
- Garlic 3-4 cloves.
- Bay leaf.
- 60 grams of tomato paste or 100 grams of tomato.
- Greens to taste.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Vegetable oil.
COOKING PROCESS:
☑ Peel the onion and carrots, chop and fry in a cauldron until almost ready.
☑ Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Fry with chopped garlic in a frying pan for literally 3-4 minutes.
☑ Cut zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers into cubes and add salt.
☑ Place the fried potatoes into the cauldron.
☑ We also send the remaining ingredients to the cauldron with the potatoes.
☑ Add tomato paste or salt to taste, mix well and leave to simmer over low heat under the lid until the potatoes and zucchini are ready.
☑ A few minutes before it’s ready, add finely chopped herbs and a bay leaf. Ready time is about 30-40 minutes. You can add meat to this recipe. It needs to be thoroughly fried before adding the rest of the ingredients.
Bon appetit.
Zucchini and potato pancakes, potato pancakes
Who doesn't like potato pancakes? Draniki are a tasty, satisfying and very appetizing dish of Belarusian cuisine. Let's look at the classic recipe for making potato and zucchini pancakes. A dish prepared according to this recipe turns out tasty, satisfying and aromatic.
To prepare potato pancakes, you need to use older potatoes, since young potatoes have very little starch, and during frying they can burn or fall apart when turned over. It is desirable that the zucchini be young, without large seeds.
Ingredients
- zucchini – 1 small, or half a large one;
- potatoes – 1 kg;
- onion – 1 head;
- Wheat flour;
- egg;
- pepper, salt, seasonings;
- olive or vegetable oil for frying.
Preparation:
We prepare the vegetables, peel and peel them. If the zucchini is young, there is no need to peel it.
Grate the zucchini and place in a colander to drain off excess liquid. If there is a lot of juice, you can squeeze it out manually.
Also three potatoes on a grater.
Finely chop the onion.
We put everything in one bowl.
Add flour with egg, salt and pepper, add seasonings.
Mix everything.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, add it and use a spatula to form the shape of future potato pancakes.
Fry until golden brown on both sides over medium heat for 2-3 minutes.
Place the finished pancakes on parchment paper or a paper towel to remove excess fat.
Add sour cream and garnish with herbs if desired.
Draniki are ready! Bon appetit!
How to fry zucchini in a frying pan
For frying, only the youngest zucchini, no more than 6-8 centimeters in diameter, are taken. At this age, the zucchini has no rough seeds and the peel is still very soft and tender that there is no need to remove it.
INGREDIENTS:
- 3-4 young zucchini.
- Garlic quantity as desired.
- Flour - glass.
- Mayonnaise.
- A bunch of dill.
- Vegetable oil.
- Salt to taste.
COOKING PROCESS:
☑ Cut young zucchini into half-centimeter circles. There is no point in cutting them thinner as they can simply burn. Thick ones won't cook through.
☑ And so we cut the zucchini, put it in one large bowl and salt it well and pepper it a little. Mix the heels so that each piece gets salt. Leave the zucchini in the salt for a couple of minutes.
☑ Pour oil into a frying pan and put it on fire.
☑ Pour the flour onto a plate.
☑ When the oil is hot, take a circle of zucchini, roll it in flour on both sides and place it in a frying pan. And we do this until there is no room left in the pan.
☑ Fry the zucchini on both sides until characteristic blush and remove to a separate plate.
☑ Finely chop the greens and sprinkle on the first layer of fried zucchini. We will place the second batch of zucchini on top.
☑ Fried zucchini can be served with mayonnaise or sour cream.
Bon appetit!!!
Fresh zucchini salad with marinade
To prepare this salad, you don’t need to fry anything; the zucchini is added fresh. The marinade completely changes their taste, and if you don’t know that there are zucchini in the salad, no one will guess that the salad is made from them.
You will need: 3 medium young zucchini, pickles (adjust the quantity to taste), 1-2 eggs, lemon juice to taste, 2 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise, 1 tbsp. spoon of finely chopped dill and parsley.
For the marinade: 1 glass of water, 2 tbsp. spoons of apple cider vinegar, salt and bay leaf, a few peas of allspice.
Wash the zucchini well, do not cut off the skin. Cut into medium sized cubes. Bring water to a boil in a saucepan, pour in vinegar, salt to taste, add bay leaf and pepper. Add the zucchini and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, remove the zucchini from the marinade and let cool completely.
While the zucchini is cooling, hard-boil the eggs and chop them finely. Mix with herbs, cooled zucchini, add pickled cucumbers cut into small cubes. Add salt to taste, pour in lemon juice, season with mayonnaise and mix everything. Serve the salad with lemon slices and tomato wedges.
Recipe for stewed zucchini with rice and vegetables
The dish is simply deliciously simple and delicious to prepare without much effort. And the number of useful properties is simply off the charts. Because there are a lot of vegetables in this dish.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1-2 zucchini.
- Half a glass of rice.
- 2 eggplants.
- 2 tomatoes.
- 1 bell pepper.
- 1 onion.
- 1 carrot.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Fresh herbs to taste.
- Vegetable oil.
COOKING PROCESS:
☑Rinse the rice until the water becomes clear. By washing the rice, we wash off the rice starch from it, which really interferes with cooking rice.
Place the rice in a small saucepan and pour water exactly one centimeter above the rice. This amount of water will allow you to cook the rice until half cooked. Place the rice on the stove and after the water boils, turn the heat down by half. Cook for exactly 10 minutes and remove the pan from heat. The rice is half ready. Now you can proceed to the rest of the products.
☑ Chop the onions and carrots and fry them in a deep frying pan.
☑ Cut the eggplants and zucchini into cubes, add a little salt and leave to salt for a while.
☑ Also cut the remaining ingredients into cubes. Just finely chop the greens.
☑ After frying the onion, add the zucchini and fry it.
☑ After 3-4 minutes, add eggplants and bell peppers to the zucchini. Fry the vegetables, stirring occasionally.
☑ After 4-5 minutes, add the tomatoes, mix and add rice. Fill all the ingredients with water, close the lid, reduce the heat by about 40% and simmer the vegetables for about 20 minutes.
☑ 3-4 minutes before readiness, add finely chopped greens, bay leaves, allspice and mix. Cover again and cook until done.
Bon appetit!!!
How to cook zucchini with chicken and cheese in a frying pan
Do you dream of spending a minimum of time and at the same time preparing a real culinary bomb? Then watch the video until the end! Even those who don’t like zucchini will give in after this recipe, proven!
Everyone will be full and happy! Isn't this happiness for any housewife?
In the recipe:
- Zucchini - 400 gr.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Flour - 70-100 gr.
- Sour cream - 2 tbsp.
- Garlic - 2-3 teeth.
- Salt - 1/2 tsp.
For filling:
- Chicken breast - 300-400 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 60 gr.
- Sour cream - 1 tbsp.
- Mustard - 1/2 tsp.
- Salt - to taste
By the way, instead of chicken breast, you can use minced chicken or turkey.
Bon appetit!
During zucchini season, we try many different recipes using fresh and juicy vegetables. You always want to make your summer menu even more varied and tastier.
I hope today I gave you an idea and my article was useful to you. So now you know what to cook with zucchini and minced meat for dinner, delicious and most importantly - fast! After all, we cooked them in a frying pan, not in the oven. And it doesn't take a lot of time.
I wish that zucchini pasties with minced meat or some other filling become one of the favorite dishes in your family - just like in mine!
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Zucchini in batter
The dish can be served either hot or cold. Can be served as a separate dish or used as a side dish. You can prepare some mayonnaise-based sauce for the zucchini in batter; it will be very tasty. Mix mustard, mayonnaise, and vegetable oil in equal proportions. Add some allspice. It will be very tasty.
Almost any batter can be prepared. You can choose the recipe for zucchini batter in the article that was written a little earlier. How to prepare batter.
INGREDIENTS:
- 2-3 young zucchini.
- 2 raw eggs.
- Half a glass of flour.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Vegetable oil.
- Greens to taste.
COOKING PROCESS:
☑ Cut the young zucchini into half-centimeter slices. Add some salt and let it sit in the salt for a little while.
☑ Now you can start preparing the batter. Break the eggs into a bowl, then gradually add flour and mix so that no lumps form. The batter should have the consistency of liquid sour cream. If you added too much flour. Then you can easily dilute the batter with water.
☑ Pour a little vegetable oil into the frying pan and when it warms up, you can start preparing the zucchini dish.
☑ Dip the zucchini in batter and place it in a frying pan. Fry on both sides until golden brown. It’s better to undercook a little than to wait for the dish to burn.
☑ Sprinkle the finished zucchini with finely chopped herbs.
Bon appetit!!!
How to deliciously cook zucchini in a frying pan with minced meat
During the season of young vegetables, this very satisfying dish will be a godsend for zucchini lovers. It will allow you to diversify your daily menu, because you can put not only minced meat in the filling...
Various cheeses (hard, mozzarella, processed), pickled cucumbers or olives, fresh tomatoes and herbs, herbs and various spices will also do an excellent job with this task.
I am sure that lovers of homemade pasties will appreciate this recipe. Perhaps this is not new to you and you have been preparing such a dish for a long time, but someone still doesn’t even know about its existence. As was the case in my case, until recently.
When I first learned about this recipe, I was skeptical about it. However, I tried it and never regretted that I met him. Now I cook it regularly and recommend it to you! Be sure to try it, please your family and friends, because these are not even zucchini pancakes, but an independent hearty dish with meat for dinner.
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 2 pcs. (500 gr.)
- Minced meat - 250 gr.
- Cheese - 100 gr.
- Sour cream - 3 tbsp.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Flour - 100 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Dill or parsley
- Salt, pepper and spices - to taste
- vegetable oil - for frying
If desired, you can add a couple of cloves of garlic.
I forgot to put flour here for the photo.
