Delicious and healthy grilled zucchini: cooking recipes

Who would have thought that a boring and watery vegetable can be used to make delicious snacks and side dishes, and all this can be done simply and easily.

You just need to master the essence and feel free to experiment!

Grilled zucchini - general cooking principles

For baking, you should use small zucchini with a thin skin. There is no need to clean the dish, but it can be pre-cut, marinated, supplemented with any ingredients, sauces, there are actually a lot of recipes, the most interesting options are collected here.

The grill is different:

• Brazier. Grilling over coals is popular, but the weather or time of year does not always allow cooking zucchini outdoors. But the essence is simple and clear: the product is laid out on a grill or pieces are strung on a skewer and cooked over hot coals.

• Electric grill. An alternative to barbecue. Powered by mains power, it has a shade and a grate on which food is laid out. The temperature and cooking time directly depend on the model of the device.

• Grill pan. Convenient kitchen utensils with a textured bottom, simple and easy to use, allow you to quickly and easily cook not only zucchini. An additional stove is required.

• Grill in the oven or microwave. Can also be used for roasting vegetables, including zucchini. Time and temperature also vary by model and recipe.

Grilled zucchini can be served as an independent dish, an addition to meat or poultry, or used for various salads and appetizers. They are usually supplemented with sour cream and cheese sauces, but there are interesting recipes with meat, fish, and other vegetables.

Zucchini in foil: cooking on the grill

You can bake zucchini on the grill not in halves, but whole in foil. It will take a little longer, but such zucchini always has a special taste.

For those who have doubts about foil, we suggest reading a detailed article about the rules for using this unique device.

So, for baking in foil you will need:

1. Wash the zucchini (if they are young, there is no need to peel and seed them), wrap in a double layer of foil. Be sure to curl the edges. When the vegetables are baking, juice will begin to release from them; it is important for us that the juice does not leak out, but lingers directly next to the zucchini.
2. Place the wrapped vegetables directly on the coals, cover them with an additional portion of coals on top and bake the dish until cooked. When the zucchini has softened well, take them out of the foil and serve them warm to the barbecue.

If desired, already baked vegetables can be sprinkled with finely chopped herbs, spices, chopped garlic, etc. You can also pour garlic sauce, mayonnaise, sour cream or ketchup over them.

Grilled eggplants, loved by many, are prepared using the same principle. They taste somewhat like grilled zucchini.

Ingredients

• — 1 kg + —
• - 1 tbsp. + —
• — 2 cloves + —
• - 1.5 tbsp. + —
• - 1/2 tsp. or to taste + -
• - to taste + -
• - to taste + -
• Allspice - 3-4 peas or to taste + -
• Dry white wine - 1 tbsp. + —

Step-by-step cooking recipe

Pickled vegetables baked with white wine are very piquant. Despite the variety of components in this recipe, the dish is prepared quite simply and quickly.

In just half an hour you can get your first portion of rosy, aromatic zucchini on the grill.

1. Prepare the marinade for zucchini on the grill:

• In a bowl, mix wine, soy sauce, olive oil;
• add chopped herbs and grated garlic to the mixture;
• Salt and pepper the marinade to taste.

1. Cut the zucchini into thin circles (the thickness of each circle is no more than 1-1.5 mm).
2. Brush the cut circles with a little olive oil, then bake them on the grill. Just don’t fry the vegetables too much, give them a light blush and pleasant softness.
3. Grilled zucchini, while hot, dip into the marinade one by one.

Make sure that some of the marinade (along with the herbs and garlic pieces) remains on the vegetables. Place the vegetable mugs in the marinade one by one, then let them sit for 15 minutes.

After a quarter of an hour, when the zucchini has marinated, the dish is ready to eat.

As you can see, cooking zucchini on the grill is as easy as shelling pears. By choosing the shape of the cut, the composition of the marinade and seasonings to enhance the taste at your discretion, you create your own dish.

Prepare a healthy vegetable delicacy with pleasure and relax, enjoying the aroma and unforgettable taste of your favorite product.

Bon appetit!

The nutritional value of zucchini is determined by its high digestibility, as well as its ability to stimulate the digestive tract. Zucchini contains a significant amount of vitamins and minerals necessary for the normal functioning of the heart, brain, and liver. This is not just a tasty product, but also a guarantee of excellent muscle tone and skin. By regularly eating zucchini dishes, you can increase visual acuity and improve the condition of your teeth, hair and skin.

Grilled zucchini contains virtually no additional ingredients, so it retains the original beneficial properties of the product as much as possible:

• Antiallergic.
• Antianemic.
• Choleretic.
• Stimulating peristalsis.
• Diuretics.
• Adsorbent.

For cooking, you can use a professional grill or a regular grill on which to cook shish kebab. This is an excellent appetizer for any type of meat; grilled zucchini on the grill can be complemented with bell peppers and eggplants; this is the best combination for an outdoor picnic.

Zucchini has a delicate taste, which can be skillfully emphasized with your favorite spices, but it is important not to overdo it. The recipe for zucchini on a charcoal grill is quite simple; it can be supplemented at will with ingredients such as mayonnaise, aromatic herbs, olives, etc.

Grilled stuffed zucchini

A recipe for garlic zucchini, which is marinated and then stuffed. Everything is prepared simply and it turns out delicious.

Ingredients

• 3 small zucchini;

• 5 cloves of garlic;

• 1 spoon of oil;

• 1 tbsp. l. salt.

Preparation

1. Cut the zucchini into two halves. Sprinkle the zucchini generously with salt and leave to marinate.

2. Squeeze out the salt and water.

3. Cut the garlic into long pieces.

4. Make punctures in the zucchini with a thin knife, insert pieces of garlic.

5. Rub the vegetables with oil and place on the grill.

6. Bake the zucchini halves until cooked on both sides.

7. Serve the dish with sour cream, herbs, or sprinkle with lemon juice or balsamic vinegar.

Popular marinades for zucchini

Spicy marinade based on butter

You will need:

• butter in the amount of 250 g;
• zest of half a lemon;
• five branches of lemon balm;
• ten branches of femur;
• four sprigs of thyme;
• two sprigs of rosemary.

Wash all herbs and dry with a paper towel. Chop it somehow, then grind it in a mortar and add lemon zest. Mix with butter, salt to taste.

Store the prepared oil in a sealed container, frozen, for up to three months. Use when cooking zucchini and other vegetables on the grill or grill.

Sour cream marinade

You will need:

• sour cream;
• two cloves of garlic;
• dill;
• salt.

For 200 g of sour cream, take two cloves of garlic and crush through a press. Mix sour cream with garlic, finely chopped dill, and salt.

Use when baking zucchini. Marinate the vegetables cut in half, brush with marinade, and leave for half an hour. Then bake on a wire rack until done.

Marinade with white wine

You will need:

• 50 ml white wine;
• 25 ml soy sauce;
• 25 ml olive oil;
• dill, parsley to taste;
• one clove of garlic;
• salt;
• ground black pepper.

Mix all ingredients in a glass bowl. Salt and pepper. Apply the marinade to not raw, but already baked zucchini circles. Stack them on top of each other so that the marinade from the upper circles flows onto the lower ones. After 15 minutes, the pickled zucchini can be served.

Other popular ingredients for quick pickling of zucchini are soy sauce, grape juice, spirits (vermouth, Madeira, cognac). The following spices are used in practice: turmeric, Indian spice mixture garam masala, mustard, basil, marjoram.

For the recipe with photos, see below.

An easy to prepare and very tasty dish for a summer house or picnic is zucchini cooked on a grill. Even some convinced meat-eaters, having tried grilled zucchini, say that it is much tastier than meat. You can fry zucchini on the grill as an independent dish or make them in addition. It's up to you to decide, it turns out delicious anyway!

Grilled zucchini - useful tips and tricks

• If there is a lot of vegetable oil in the marinade, it will drip and smoke as it drips, making the cooking process difficult.

• For vegetables, you can use not only balsamic bite, but also apple, wine, and regular table vinegar, taking into account the concentration of the product.

• If zucchini is grilled along with other vegetables, you need to read the size of the pieces so that everything is baked at the same time. Or arrange the food so that it is easy to remove the finished items from the grill and leave those that are still raw.

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Summer menu

In the warm season, more often than ever, you want to organize forays into nature. It's nice to barbecue in the fresh air and chat with good friends. A great appetizer for this occasion is grilled zucchini. To prepare them you will need: 4 young zucchini, 2 cloves of garlic, 3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, salt, half a glass of vegetable oil (unflavored) and, of course, ground pepper.

The cooking process is very simple:

1. Carefully cut the zucchini into longitudinal slices no more than 1 centimeter thick.
2. Prepare a sauce from vinegar, oil and garlic.
3. Dip each piece of zucchini into the aromatic mixture, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and then carefully place on the grill grate.
4. The frying process will take 5-6 minutes. The sauce will partially drip off as it cooks, so you can baste the vegetables again to give them a better taste and aroma.
5. Place the finished product on a wide dish and let it cool slightly (15 minutes).

Grilled zucchini can be served at the table, generously sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs.

Chicken wings with zucchini and eggplant at home

You can bake not only vegetables, but also meat on the grill. And if you combine these products, you get a real delicious meal! It is advisable to bake only the zucchini mugs separately from the blue ones, since their cooking times are different.

Ingredients

• Chicken wings – 0.5 kg;
• Zucchini and eggplant fruits - 0.5 kg each;
• Champignon mushrooms – 200 g;
• Mayonnaise – 400 g;
• Garlic cloves – 4-5 pcs.;
• Black pepper and salt - to taste.

How to bake wings with zucchini and eggplant on the grill at home

1. We wash the meat, vegetables and mushrooms and leave to dry.
2. Let's make the marinade for now. It is made simply: you need to combine mayonnaise, chopped garlic, spices (you can add not only pepper, but also other favorite seasonings).
3. Place vegetables and mushrooms cut into slices (1 cm thick) into a container with marinade, mix so that each piece is coated with mayonnaise-spicy sauce on all sides and leave for half an hour.
4. Separately prepare the marinade for the wings and marinate them separately.
5. While the semi-finished products are soaking in the aromatic gravy, let's start the fire - we will need a lot of heat. As soon as there are enough hot coals, put the vegetables, wings and mushrooms together and bake on the coals until browned.

You can serve the treat with mayonnaise, sauces or homemade tomato juice.

At home

Life sometimes makes its own adjustments, and not everyone has the opportunity to go outdoors on weekends. But this doesn't mean you should give up on your dreams. You can equally well cook zucchini on a grill pan. This unique cookware can solve the problem in a matter of minutes. In addition to the main product, the only thing useful for work is any vegetable oil.

Cooking sequence:

1. For such a dish, it is better to take zucchini or very young zucchini. Vegetables should be thoroughly washed and cut into even circles 1 centimeter thick.
2. Wipe the pieces dry with a napkin. After that, each of them, lightly coated with oil on one side, is spread over the entire ribbed surface of the frying pan.
3. After 1-2 minutes, turn the slices over and grease the other side.

Place the finished products on a plate and let them cool slightly. It is best to serve striped vegetables with sour cream or sprinkle them with grated cheese while still hot.

Zucchini with mustard and lemon in the oven

For this process, the oven must have a “grill” option.

Very tasty grilled zucchini in the oven is obtained with the addition of an ingredient such as mustard, especially if it is mixed with lemon juice.

The zucchini must first be marinated. This vegetable is juicy and contains a large amount of moisture, so a liquid marinade is undesirable in this case. The most suitable filling would be a filling based on oil and spices. An ideal marinade would be one with mustard dressing and freshly squeezed lemon juice.

• dry mustard - in the amount of tbsp. l.;
• soy sauce - 4 tbsp;
• ground pepper - third 1 tsp;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp;
• honey (can be replaced with an appropriate amount of sugar) - 0.5 tsp;
• a couple of cloves of garlic and a bunch of herbs - finely chopped.
• lemon juice – 2-3 tablespoons.

The most delicious and rosy zucchini on an electric grill

Among the many recipes for picnic dishes, electric grilled zucchini cooked at home deserves special attention. To fry them deliciously, you don’t need expensive products or even firewood.

If you have an electric grill on your household, you can enjoy a summer dish even in winter by taking the vegetable stock out of the freezer.

Ingredients

• Young zucchini – 1 pc.;
• Olive oil -2-3 tbsp;
• Dried thyme – 0.5 tsp;
• Balsamic vinegar – 0.5 tsp;
• Coarse salt - a pinch;
• Freshly ground pepper - to taste.