We peel the zucchini and three on a regular coarse grater. Peeled zucchini is more tender and pancakes will come out just melting in your mouth. It is better to squeeze the grated zucchini with clean hands from the liquid, then the pancakes will not float and will keep their shape during frying.
Onion cut into medium-sized cubes. After frying, the onion will remain slightly crispy and it will be delicious.
On a fine grater, three cloves of garlic and cheese. A small amount of garlic will make the pancakes savory, and the cheese will add a creamy taste to the finished products.
Add finely chopped greens to the vegetable mass. We used both parsley and dill, which will give the pancakes a fresh aroma and unique taste.
We drive in the chicken egg and mix so that the workpiece is more or less homogeneous in consistency. Lightly salt and pepper.
Add flour and knead the dough, it should come out not too thick, and not liquid.
We heat the vegetable oil (about a couple of tablespoons) and spread the pancakes with a spoon, forming a rounded shape.
Fry on both sides over medium heat for 5 minutes, so that the pancakes are well cooked inside.
We serve ready-made hot pancakes to the table, they look very attractive, but they taste just magical. You will feel both cheese and subtle notes of garlic, so bon appetit everyone.
Cooking fragrant master with zucchini and sour cream:
First, prepare the zucchini and garlic. Cut off the skin from the zucchini if it is not young. We cut the vegetable itself in any convenient way for further “grinding” in a blender, meat grinder, grater. We just peel the garlic.
We throw the peeled vegetables into a blender (or another method convenient for you) and chop until a mushy state.
Pour the resulting mass into a deep bowl. Whisk the eggs in a separate bowl.
Garlic-zucchini base is flavored with salt and seasonings to your taste. Pour in the beaten egg mixture. Mix well.
Now add sour cream here. By the way, in the absence of this ingredient, you can use cream (but not fat-free). We mix the whole mass.
It's time for the pain. Pour it in portions, mixing thoroughly at the same time. Heat up a frying pan with a little oil. With a spoon, spread the future squash cakes on the bottom of the dishes.
When the edges of the pancakes are browned, turn them over. Now fry on the other side. Remember, they cook quickly! Ready-made cakes do not stick to each other, so they can be folded into one large flat plate during cooking.
It can be served with butter, herbs, as well as sour cream and various sauces. Fragrant zucchini cakes are good as an addition - a side dish for fish or meat.
In summer and autumn, every home has a variety of vegetables and herbs in abundance. We propose to put these products into action. And make zucchini cakes. According to the recipe, cooking is very easy and suitable even for a novice hostess. In addition, the concept of cooking is universal. You can vary or slightly change the composition of the ingredients according to your preferences.
For piquancy, you can add a dessert spoon of table white wine, apple cider vinegar, soy or Worcester sauce to the list of products to taste.
Ingredients
- Zucchini or zucchini - 400 g;
- Semolina - 2.5 tbsp. l.;
- Wheat flour - 2.5 tbsp. l.;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Dill - 1-2 branches;
- Salt - to taste;
- Sunflower oil - for frying.
Cooking
It is better to take young zucchini for the recipe. They are softer and cook quickly. Rinse vegetables from dirt. Cleanse the skin. In fact, peeling is not necessary if you have young fruits. But this way the cakes will be more tender. Grind the zucchini through a grater. If there is a lot of vegetable juice, it is better to squeeze it out with your hands or put the mass on a fine sieve so that the liquid itself is glass.
Pour the semolina into a bowl. It will provide the desired density to the dough.
Break the egg. It can be shaken beforehand for uniformity.
Sprinkle salt. Cut the dill, send to the rest of the ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Leave on for 10-15 minutes. This time must be waited for so that the dry semolina swells well.
Add flour. The best option is to take a premium product.
Stir the dough. If you wish, now it is permissible to add a little grated hard cheese - just a couple of pinches.
Cook zucchini tortillas in a pan. Heat sunflower oil on it. If you add a little butter or ghee to it, the baking will end up with a light creamy aroma. Scoop out the batter in batches with a tablespoon. If the pan is wide, you can fry 4-5 cakes at the same time. When the bottom half is browned, flip to the other side. Cook for a couple more minutes over moderate heat.
Prepare paper napkins or towels in advance. Put fried cakes on them. From above also get wet from fat.
Here is the quick meal. You can serve zucchini cakes for lunch for a second or light late dinner. Such an appetizer is also suitable for a children's afternoon snack or picnic. As an option for baby food, make the pastry smaller - form the dough with a teaspoon instead of a tablespoon. Bon Appetit!
Cooking Tips
- In this recipe, the main and only vegetable ingredient is zucchini. But other vegetables can be added to it. For example, some grated carrots, sweet peppers, celery root or potatoes.
- To make the cakes more individual, add spices to the dough for them. It can be sweet paprika, hot ground pepper or something else.
- Another option for making squash cakes is to add chopped walnuts to the dough. They are pre-cleaned of dark skin. It turns out quite interesting and tasty.
Zucchini tortillas are a simple and very tasty dish. You can cook it in different ways. We offer some of them.
Flatbread from zucchini
For 4 servings you will need:
- about 2 cups flour (almost 400 grams);
- crushed dry rosemary, salt;
- a bag (or a teaspoon) of baking powder;
- 100 ml of plain water;
- a third of a glass (75 ml) of oil (sunflower / olive);
- large zucchini (or several pieces of small ones);
- onion - one head;
- cherry tomatoes (several pieces with a total weight of 150 grams);
- a tablespoon of honey and balsamic vinegar.
Technology
How to bake cakes from despite the large list of ingredients, simple. First, pour flour into a container, add chopped rosemary, baking powder and salt to it. Stir. Make a small well in the center and pour in the oil and water. Knead the dough. It must be divided into 3 parts and roll out cakes. They must be thin. Heat oil in a frying pan. Put onions, zucchini, cherry tomatoes cut into half rings, add vinegar and rosemary. Cook for 12 minutes on a medium heat with the lid closed. Lubricate the prepared cakes with oil and put the stewed vegetable mixture on them. Spread the dough on a baking sheet, put in the oven for 10 minutes. The temperature is 200 degrees. Serve hot with sour cream.
Traditional zucchini bread
Compound:
- zucchini weighing 1 kg;
- wheat flour - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- a couple of fresh chicken eggs;
- a pinch of sugar, salt and a little oil for frying.
Cooking technology
Grate the zucchini (if it is not young, then remove the skin). Mix with flour, eggs, sugar, salt. Knead the dough properly. Heat the oil, spoon the mixture into the pan and fry the cakes until a soft golden color is formed. Serve hot with sour cream mayonnaise sauce.
Zucchini and cheese patty
This recipe includes:
- a small zucchini (it is best to take young fruits);
- fresh chicken egg 1 piece;
- 3-4 st. spoons of flour;
- a piece (70 grams) of any cheese;
- salt, oil.
Cooking technology
Peel the skin off the zucchini. Grate it on a coarse grater. Salt and stir to extract the juice. Grate a piece of cheese. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Drain excess liquid from the zucchini, you can crush it a little with a spoon. Break the egg, add the indicated amount of flour and half of the grated amount of cheese. Mix everything. Put the mixture into molds greased with oil, sprinkle with the rest of the cheese. Put in the oven for half an hour. The cheese should brown. The recipe is simple and well suited for those who follow proper nutrition. After all, frying is not provided for in it, which means there are no extra fats and calories. From the specified amount of ingredients, about 10 pieces of cakes are obtained. To serve, you can prepare sour cream sauce with garlic and (grind the garlic, finely chop the cucumber, mix with sour cream, salt to taste, you can add a little mayonnaise to the sauce). It remains only to sprinkle the dish with herbs, pour over the sauce and enjoy the meal! Zucchini bread is delicious and easy.
During the ripening of zucchini, this vegetable is used for many seasonal dishes. Among others - zucchini cakes. Hearty pancakes are associated with summer. They can be cooked fatter, in a pan, or in a low-calorie version - in the oven.
The first summer zucchini with tender skin and soft seeds is a great dish to welcome the season. Pick up one instance of medium size and prepare other components of the zucchini cakes:
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- wheat flour - 2 tbsp. l.;
- dill - a bunch;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- sunflower oil - for frying;
- sour cream - for serving.
Advice. Dill in tortillas can be replaced with parsley or cilantro.
Step by step cooking:
Advice. Line a plate for ready-made cakes with paper napkins. So you will collect excess fat.
You can salt the chopped vegetable mass in advance. Just before mixing, pour out the drained juice, squeeze out the liquid remaining in the fibers. The cakes will be drier and denser. Classic pancakes from a later crop are fried in much the same way. Only previously the hard peel is removed from the fruit.
Zucchini pancakes in the oven
Oven-baked zucchini tortillas will give odds to fried ones in softness and tenderness. They are much more useful. There are more recipe variations for this dish. Classic low-calorie cakes are made from the following ingredients:
- zucchini - 2 pcs.;
- flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
- egg white - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- milk - 2 tbsp. l.;
- pepper, salt - to your taste.
Advice. Flat cakes will turn out more useful if wheat flour is replaced with oatmeal.
- Process all vegetables into large chips. Mix in one bowl. Leave for a while, and then squeeze out the formed liquid. You may have to do this several times. To speed up the process, the mixture can be slightly salted.
- Sift the flour. Add it to chopped vegetables.
- Send protein and milk there too. Sprinkle in pepper and the main portion of salt. Mix the contents of the bowl thoroughly.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Lay out the raw tortillas. Bake for about 20 minutes. Then turn each on the other side and send to the heat for another 7 minutes.
- Serve hot with sour cream.
Oven pancakes with additional ingredients
Add other ingredients to classic cakes and they will acquire new flavors. For tortillas with assorted vegetables, add to the main set of ingredients from the previous recipe:
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- greens - to taste.
Onions are not needed in this recipe. All new vegetables should be chopped in any way and mixed with the squash mass. Bake the cakes in the same way. For serving in this case, a juicy sauce of unsweetened yogurt, chopped cucumber and dill, as well as salt is suitable.
A variant of zucchini cakes with cheese has a spicy taste. In the list of products for cooking (except for the main ingredient) - only salt, pepper, egg. Cheese - at least 100 g. Pass it through a grater. Replace wheat flour with semolina in the same amount. Mix everything and bake.
Mushrooms harmonize with grated zucchini. For 1 kg of vegetables, they need 300 g. Mushrooms are used raw, all the rest - only after boiling. Finely chop the mushrooms and mix with the main mass. Onion is optional. These cakes taste great with sour cream.
By analogy, pancakes are prepared with an admixture of minced meat. For 1 kg of zucchini, about a pound of meat is required. Use pork (lean), chicken, or a mixture of both. The recipe contains onions, garlic and spices for meat at the chef's choice. Such cakes are a full-fledged second course. Especially if you prepare a high-calorie sauce for them: mix 200 g of whipped heavy cream with cheese chips (100 g) and salt.
Zucchini pancakes are prepared according to different recipes. Depending on this, you get a light snack or a hearty meal for lunch.
What is your favorite zucchini dish?
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