The season will begin very soon when the zucchini will ripen in the garden. Lovers of this vegetable will be able to cook zucchini pancakes every day - this is both tasty and healthy summer dish.
The high fiber content in pancakes provides the body with good support, they are excellent saturation, depending on the additives, they can act as an independent dish or a light snack. Zucchini helps to lose weight, improves metabolism. By tweaking the basic recipe slightly, you can make the pancakes sweet, filling, or mildly spicy.
Zucchini pancakes in a skillet
Ingredients for cooking:
- Young zucchini - 1 piece, or 300 g.
- Flour or semolina - 150 g.
- Chicken egg - 2 pieces.
- Vegetable oil, salt to taste.
- For the sweet version - honey or sugar, berries, raisins.
- For a vegetable dish - dill, garlic, carrots, cheese.
Wash young zucchini, peel if necessary. You can grate them or grind them with a blender. Then add eggs, mix until smooth, add flour and repeat the procedure. In conclusion, add honey and raisins or chopped dill with grated onions to the resulting dough. The dough should be creamy. You can add a little baking soda if you want lush pancakes.
Warm up the pan, pour oil on it and wait until it becomes hot. Apply the dough with a tablespoon. Fry until golden brown on both sides. Serve on the table with sour cream, honey, garlic - with mayonnaise.
Zucchini pancakes in the oven
For the test you will need:
- 2 young zucchini.
- 3 tablespoons flour.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- A couple of garlic cloves.
- Oil, dill and salt to taste.
First you need to turn on the oven - it should have time to warm up to 180 degrees. Vegetables can be prepared at this time. The skin is removed from the zucchini, the seeds are cleaned. After grinding in a blender, squeeze out excess moisture. Add chopped garlic to the squash mass.
Combine the resulting vegetable puree with flour. Put the dough on a pre-greased baking sheet with a tablespoon. Small pancakes will cook faster. For baking, 15 minutes is enough, but it is better to check how the dish is preparing by opening the oven every 5 minutes. You can serve the pancakes hot, sour cream sauce or a mixture of mayonnaise, dill and garlic will suit them.
Test preparation tips
If you don't feel like peeling vegetables, choose young, thin-skinned zucchini. It contains many useful substances, and you do not need to cut it off for cooking.
Salting the pancake dough is not recommended. This will make them dry - the salt will take up moisture. Better to salt immediately after frying.
To make sweet pancakes, add sugar, honey to the dough, cottage cheese and raisins are also suitable. Flour can be replaced with semolina.
A good appetizer for anything is zucchini pancakes with grated cheese and garlic.
