Not everyone knows that you can make zucchini muffins with sausage, minced meat, mushrooms, cottage cheese and even sweet ones. Simple recipes will allow the hostess to save time and quickly feed homemade healthy muffins.
Zucchini can be used to make not only caviar, pancakes, soup, but also to make exquisite pastries. Having tasted it, even those who previously did not want to eat this vegetable will certainly love it. Zucchini muffins look amazing and easy to make.
Sausage recipe
Such pastries can be served not only for breakfast, afternoon tea or dinner, but also to take with you to work, to give your child to school for a hearty and healthy snack.
Take:
- 1 medium zucchini;
- 3 eggs;
- 160 g flour;
- 80 g sour cream;
- 1 bag of baking powder;
- 200 g sausage;
- black pepper and salt to taste;
- parsley and dill.
- Peel the zucchini if it is rough. Remove the soft inside along with the seeds. Cut the vegetable into several large pieces. Grate the pulp with a medium grater. Salt, and after a quarter of an hour, squeeze out the juice. You will not need it for this dish.
- Cut the sausage into small cubes. Chop the herbs finely.
- Add some salt to the eggs and beat them. Add pepper, sour cream and eggs to the sifted flour, mix. Put sausage, zucchini and herbs in this mass.
- Divide the prepared dough into muffin tins and bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 20 minutes.
Minced baked goods
These muffins are no less hearty and healthy. Take:
- 1 zucchini;
- 100 g flour;
- 70 g minced meat;
- 2 eggs;
- 25 g grated cheese;
- salt to taste;
- 0.5 tsp each baking powder and sugar.
- Peel the zucchini and chop it through a meat grinder or with a medium grater teeth. Sprinkle with salt, soak for 10 minutes, then squeeze out the juice.
- Beat eggs and salt a little, add prepared zucchini, flour and cheese, mix. Season the minced meat. Add pepper and chopped onion if desired.
- To further make a delicious zucchini dish, grease the muffin tins with butter, fill each half with the zucchini dough. Put some minced meat on top, cover it with a little dough.
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Bake until tender. To keep the cupcakes in shape, after cooking, turn off the oven, open the door a little for 10 minutes. After this time, get them out.
Zucchini muffins with chicken fillet
The combination of these two products has already been appreciated by many. This vegetable and chicken fillet are low in calories, so baking according to the following recipe is suitable even for those who are on a diet. Take:
- 1 zucchini;
- a small onion;
- small carrots;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 1 egg;
- 120 g chicken fillet;
- 2 tbsp. l. sour cream;
- 1 tbsp. l. semolina;
- 1 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
- 40 g grated cheese;
- dill;
- 3 g baking powder;
- salt and black pepper.
- With the zucchini, do the same as in the previous cases: wash, remove the peel and seeds, and rub the pulp on a grater. Sprinkle it with salt, drain the juice after 15 minutes.
- Chop the onion, grate the clean carrots coarsely. Chicken fillet can be finely chopped or minced. If someone at home doesn't like onions, chop them with a food processor or meat grinder.
- Mix the minced meat with onions and carrots, add sour cream, egg, flour, semolina, salt, a little black pepper, chopped zucchini, stir.
- Put the muffin dough in the prepared tins, but not to the top. Sprinkle each with grated cheese. Bake in a preheated oven.
Muffins with mushrooms
Another interesting recipe that will help you cook a simple but original dish from zucchini. The photo shows how it looks. Take:
- 200 g of grated zucchini pulp;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 150 g of champignons or any other mushrooms;
- 100 ml of kefir;
- 1 tsp. sugar and salt;
- 30 Art. l. vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp baking powder for dough;
- 1, 5 cups wheat flour;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- greens;
- vegetable oil for frying.
- Pre-grate the pulp of the zucchini on a coarse grater, chop the cheese in the same way. Chop mushrooms finely and fry in vegetable oil.
- Mix kefir, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, baking powder and egg separately.
- Pour flour here and mix the mass. Add cooled mushrooms to these ingredients. Knead the mass. Place it halfway into the muffin tins as the dough rises well.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Bake the muffins for about half an hour. When finished, a golden crust forms on the surface.
For those who like it more sharply, you can offer a slightly different step-by-step recipe. Garlic and pepper are present here, and mushrooms make up the filling.
Take:
- 3 small courgettes:
- 1 tbsp. l. starch;
- 4 tbsp. l. flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 0.5 tsp soda;
- 70 g of vegetable oil;
- to taste - ground black pepper and salt;
- 1 tsp finely chopped dill.
To prepare the filling, you will need to take:
- 3 mushrooms;
- 50 g sour cream and hard cheese;
- 4 cloves of garlic.
- Grate the pulp of zucchini on a fine or medium grater, salt, drain the juice. Add eggs, pepper, salt, dill, soda, vegetable oil to this vegetable. Stir. Add flour and mix well.
- To make the filling, mix finely grated cheese with sour cream and garlic passed through a press.
- Fill the molds greased with vegetable oil two-thirds with the zucchini dough, put the filling in the center and place a piece of mushroom. Bake in an oven heated to 190 ° C for half an hour.
For lovers of fermented milk products, the following easy recipe is useful.
How to make zucchini muffins with cottage cheese
Take:
- 500 g of zucchini pulp;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 140 g fat-free cottage cheese;
- 100 g wheat flour;
- ground black pepper and salt;
- 1 tsp baking powder for the dough.
- Salt finely chopped zucchini pulp, squeeze out excess moisture. Add lightly beaten eggs, minced garlic and cottage cheese to this prepared vegetable product.
- Pour salt, pepper, baking powder and flour here, stir.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for about 30 minutes. Zucchini muffins like this go well with yogurt, so you can serve it as a sauce.
This step-by-step recipe is perfect for those looking to lose a few extra pounds, as this dish is low in calories and low in carbohydrates. If you do not have a problem of excess weight, then you can also use butter for cooking, and take ordinary cottage cheese, not fat-free.
Then the list of ingredients will look like this:
- 1 small vegetable marrow;
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 3 eggs;
- 200 g flour;
- 90 g butter;
- 1 tsp baking powder;
- dill;
- salt.
Melt the butter. Add cottage cheese to it and stir. Put here the zucchini pulp squeezed from the juice, eggs, chopped dill and salt, mix. Add baking powder and sifted flour. Stir the mass. Pour the courgette dough into the molds, filling two thirds full. Bake muffins in a preheated oven for half an hour. Do not open the oven door while they are cooking to prevent the muffins from scorching.
And for dessert, you can make sweet muffins. Zucchini will also help to create them.
Recipe for a sweet tooth
Take:
1 zucchini;
- 120 ml of milk;
- 5 g vanilla sugar;
- 40 g coconut flakes;
- 7 g baking powder for dough;
- 200 g granulated sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 40 g of unrefined vegetable oil;
- 2 cups of flour;
- a pinch of salt.
- Finely grate the zucchini pulp, squeeze out excess juice. Beat eggs with sugar separately, add milk, grated zucchini, butter and mix.
- Now you can pour the baking powder and flour into the dough and mix well.
- Divide this mixture into greased tins and bake for about 35 minutes at 180 ° C.
- When serving, you can sprinkle the muffins with powdered sugar.
Try these recipes for zucchini muffins and this vegetable is sure to become one of your family's favorites.
