In the middle of summer, recipes for cooking zucchini in the oven are especially popular. It is always delicious, light and beautiful dishes that are not a sin and guests to regale. Although fried zucchini in the pan is not inferior in taste, but still, baked dishes are considered more dietary.
Zucchini baked in the oven
An amazing feature of this vegetable combined with a very large mass of other products makes it even more valuable, in culinary terms. If you add this feature to all the useful properties of the zucchini, its taste in the blanks and the possibility of long-term fresh storage in the winter. Yes, some varieties of zucchini I keep quietly until spring. And what tasty zucchini caviar can be cooked at home? But now let's talk about what kind of zucchini is needed for roasting and what can be done with them.
As for all other dishes or zucchini blanks, we choose as young as possible. Check the market for young zucchini easily, just press down on the skin with your fingernail and a dent will remain. No, I do not mean that it is absolutely impossible to use already fully ripened zucchini, but still it is better to choose them for long-term storage. The skin on them is already very dense and tough, and the seeds inside take up quite a lot of space inside, you have to get rid of them.
How to cook zucchini in the oven
For this type of cooking vegetables are used as additives tomatoes, peppers, garlic, herbs, cheese, cream, sour cream, mayonnaise, potatoes. Zucchini stuffed with minced meat or baked with meat can be very tasty, you can combine them with seafood, even with cottage cheese. A variety of casseroles of zucchini with the addition of cereals - it's just a little yummy fingers. For roasting, you can use small zucchini whole, if stuffed, in cutting with long ribbons or circles, cubes, as for stews. In general, it is necessary to connect your imagination and find a suitable recipe.
Zucchini Casserole
One of the most delicious dishes that are popular in summer, when there is a mass of vegetables at hand and in the heat you want something that is not burdensome to the stomach. Variations for squash casseroles are many, I want to present my favorite one.
You must take the following products:
- Three very young zucchini, you can zucchini
- A glass of cream
- One hundred grams of any hard cheese
- A leaf of laurel
- Three cloves of garlic
- To taste Provence herbs, salt and pepper
- Vegetable oil for roasting
How to cook casserole from zucchini in the oven:
Pour some odorless oil into a deep skillet, heat it well, pour olive oil, laurel leaves, I take half to avoid a strong odor, squeeze garlic into oil and fry everything quickly, then pour it into the same fragrant oil Zucchini circles and fry them too.
From the frying pan zucchini we pull out with a skimmer and lay out on a paper napkin or towel so that the oil is absorbed. While it flows we make pouring, in cream three cheese, mix, salt and pepper.
Prepare a baking dish, I usually grease with butter and sprinkle with croutons. Pour zucchini there and fill it with pouring. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees and place to bake our dish for twenty minutes. Then you can sprinkle top with any greens.
Zucchini baked with tomatoes and cheese
A win-win dish suitable for any occasion. Preparing is very simple, you can adjust a little, based on personal culinary inclinations.
You will need to take:
- Half a kilo of young zucchini
- Half a kilo of strong, fleshy tomatoes
- Three cloves of garlic
- One hundred grams of Dutch cheese
- Three tablespoons of vegetable oil
- To taste salt, pepper, greens
How to cook such a dish:
Squash for such a dish, I choose smaller, so that they are about the same diameter with tomatoes, then it turns out beautifully. Rinse all vegetables and herbs, dry them. Pour some butter into a frying pan and heat, season with salted zucchini, pepper and fry from all sides.
Grease a baking sheet with fat and lay out mugs of roasted zucchini, squeeze garlic on them, spread them evenly so that everything is enough, then put the tomato circles on top, add some salt, sprinkle with pepper and top with grated cheese. Sent for twenty minutes in the oven when heated at 180 degrees.
Zucchini baked in the oven with mushrooms
For the execution of the recipe, we take:
- Two zucchini
- Two hundred-three hundred grams of any mushrooms
- Onion Head
- One hundred grams of hard cheese
- Three Tomatoes
- Vegetable oil for frying
- To taste pepper with salt
How to bake zucchini with mushrooms:
First of all, we need to prepare the filling, since we’ll stuff the squash. We cut a thin onion and fry it in butter, then send the chopped mushrooms and tomatoes, from which we remove the skin and cut into cubes. Together we fry and stew for fifteen minutes. Rinse the squash, cut the tails and cut them in half lengthwise, take out the seeds, make boats into which we put the stuffing and sprinkle with the grated cheese beforehand. In this form we send to the oven for fifteen to twenty minutes.
Baked zucchini with meat
Take the following products:
- Kilo of zucchini
- Half a kilo of pig and ground beef
- One hundred grams of any hard cheese
- Two medium carrots
- Two small bulbs
- A pair of tablespoons of vegetable oil
- Salt
How to cook such a recipe:
Shred diced onion into small cubes and fry for about three minutes, then lay out the mince and fry too.
Zucchini cut into cubes, and three carrots and fry first one, then add zucchini.
In the baking dish, combine the mince with zucchini, rub the cheese on top and set to bake for twenty minutes.
Zucchini baked in sour cream
- Kilo of young zucchini
- Three eggs
- A glass of sour cream
- 50 grams of butter
- To taste greens, salt and pepper
How to bake a dish:
My squash and cut into rings. Fry a little and pour sour cream, lightly stew, so they gave the juice to the sour cream. Zucchini pull out, and the resulting juice is poured into a separate bowl and cool, we drive in there eggs, chop greens, salt.
Squash we spread in our form where we will bake and pour sour cream with greens. Oven heat to 180 degrees and bake the dish for twenty minutes.
Zucchini with cheese in the oven
The recipe requires the following products:
- Two zucchini
- One hundred fifty grams of hard cheese
- Three tablespoons of sour cream
- A bunch of greens for your taste
- A teaspoon of finished mustard
- Three cloves of garlic
- Salt and pepper
How we cook:
Squash and greens wash and dry. Zucchini cut small-finely, there we squeeze the garlic to them, cut small greens.
Separately prepare the sauce. Rub two thirds of the whole cheese and mix with sour cream, salt, pepper and beat the eggs.
Squash with greens spread in a form that we pre-lubricate with oil. Fill the fill and rub the top with the remaining piece of cheese. Put in the oven to bake until done.
Zucchini baked in the oven
From the products we take:
- Three medium zucchini
- Two Tomatoes
- A glass of sour cream
- A bunch of dill
- Two tablespoons of flour
- For a teaspoon of salt, mustard, pepper, turmeric and curry
How we cook:
Rinse zucchini and cut into slices not thicker than a centimeter, tomatoes cut a little thinner, and the greens finely chopped.
Cut the slices of zucchini sprinkled with spices and flour, mix. We fill the baking dish with parchment, lay out a layer of zucchini, top with a layer of tomatoes, grease with sour cream, sprinkle with greens and send to bake.
Zucchini baked with potatoes and cheese
What we will need:
- Two small young zucchini
- Four medium potatoes
- A couple of tablespoons of sour cream
- Three cloves of garlic
- One hundred grams of cheese
- A quarter cup of vegetable oil
- To taste pepper, paprika, salt
How to bake:
All vegetables are washed, cleaned and cut into identical cubes. Grease the form with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Sprinkle the vegetables in a bowl with salt and seasonings, add the sour cream and mix, then just put it in the form. Sent in the oven to bake until the vegetables are soft, then the shape should be pulled out and sprinkled with grated cheese, baked until crusted.
