Zucchini is an unpretentious culture and gives rich yields. But not only because of this, it is popular. This is an excellent raw material for preparations and everyday dishes that significantly diversify the diet. You can add melons to stews, mashed potatoes, process them separately and with vegetables. If you know how to cook zucchini quickly and tasty in the oven, a healthy and satisfying quick meal is provided for you.
Whip up zucchini in the oven
Set the oven to heat up to 180 ° C. In the meantime, rinse a couple of zucchini, remove the skin and seeds from the old ones, cut the pulp into pieces. Season with salt to taste and place on a greased baking sheet. Keep in the oven for only 7 minutes.
Wash and cut the tomatoes into thin circles. Place them on the zucchini and bake for another 5-6 minutes. After that, turn off the heat, sprinkle a glass of grated hard cheese on top and hold the dish in a closed oven until the sprinkles melt. Serve with fresh, finely chopped dill herbs.
Zucchini in the oven with eggplant and tomatoes
Wash, peel and cut into equal sized pieces a couple of eggplants, a courgette, 3-4 potatoes and a tomato. Place the eggplant slices separately in an enamel bowl, add salt and stir.
While the oven is heating to 180 ° C, melt a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan, stirring with two tablespoons of wheat flour, fry until golden brown and dilute with two glasses of milk while stirring. Stir the sauce a little over low heat, stirring constantly, then turn off the stove. After cooling, beat the beaten chicken egg into the resulting substance.
On a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, put a layer of eggplants washed under running cold water, as well as zucchini, tomatoes, potatoes, add a couple of heads of crushed garlic and pepper and table salt to taste. Pour the sauce over the top and sprinkle with half a glass of grated hard cheese. Cover everything with a piece of foil and keep in the oven for 30 minutes. Serve warm with fresh chopped herbs.
Zucchini in the oven with meat
You can cook zucchini quickly and tasty not only for every day, but also for the holiday. For example, try making a hearty minced meat appetizer. To do this, peel the courgette and cut it into circles of the same thickness. Remove the seeds from the core, making neat zucchini rings.
Peel the onion and chop very finely, then mix with two glasses of minced meat. Add pepper and salt to taste. On a baking sheet, having previously greased it with refined sunflower oil, put the zucchini and put the meat in the center of each mug.
Stir in a bowl a couple of tablespoons of 20% sour cream and mayonnaise, then brush the zucchini with the mixture. Bake the courgettes in the oven at 180 ° C.
Zucchini fast and tasty: culinary tricks
- If it is important to cook zucchini quickly, it is better to pick up young specimens no more than 20 cm in length. In a dairy melon culture, you do not need to peel and remove seeds, which means that cooking time will be reduced.
- Zucchini goes well with eggplants, but the latter need to be soaked in salt water beforehand. Otherwise, the vegetable can give bitterness and spoil the taste of the zucchini dish.
- If in a melon crop you see a dry yellowed leg and wrinkled skin, besides, raw zucchini when pressed is soft - you cannot cook a dish from it. It will not be tasty or healthy.
- A well-fried batter made from grated hard cheese will give an unusual taste to zucchini.
- A dish of zucchini will have a spicy, rich taste if you sprinkle the raw materials with freshly squeezed lemon juice or grape vinegar before heat treatment.
