Cheese is a versatile cooking product. Its presence can improve and brighten up any dish. Cheese is ideally combined with almost any vegetables, including zucchini. Thanks to cheese, zucchini becomes much more satisfying, nutritious, aromatic and tastier.
Zucchini with cheese - general principles and methods of preparation
So, what can you cook from zucchini with cheese? There are a lot of variations, and even more than you can imagine. The very first thought that creeps into the head is to bake zucchini in the oven. Perhaps this is the right decision. But just think how much you can diversify this kind of dish! For example, mix cheese with mayonnaise, cream, sour cream or egg, and add garlic, basil, ginger and other spices. In addition, zucchini can be mixed with other ingredients: vegetables, mushrooms, seafood or meat. Try to cook a light soup from zucchini with cheese, which will certainly please you not only with its lightness, but also with its amazing taste.
Zucchini with cheese can also be used as the basis for homemade baking and cooking. Pies, pancakes, rolls - all this and much more can be prepared thanks to healthy zucchini and cheese. Any dish from this vegetable will turn out great, and most importantly healthy and light. Indeed, despite the neighboring ingredients, fiber, which is part of zucchini, helps to easily digest and utilize even the heaviest food.
Zucchini with cheese - preparation of products
Zucchini, depending on the chosen dish, can be consumed both young and old. For a pie, for example, the recipe of which we will describe below, old vegetables, previously peeled, peeled and grated on a coarse grater, will fit perfectly. For cooking fritters, any zucchini is also used. This is not significant, since we will rub the vegetables on a grater. As for such dishes from zucchini with cheese as a roll or casserole, it is advisable to use only young fruits without coarse seeds, otherwise the dish will fail.
Zucchini with cheese - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Zucchini Pie with Cheese
An open-type pie with zucchini and cheese, prepared on the basis of shortcrust pastry, will appeal to all lovers of homemade savory pastries. The original cake will delight you with its straightforward, but at the same time excellent taste. Try to cook it, and hardly any of the guests will guess what the pie consists of. Let it be your little secret.
Ingredients:
- 300 gr. premium flour
- 200 gr. drain oil
- one tsp Sahara
- salt - a pinch (in the dough)
- one chicken egg (per dough)
- 400 gr. zucchini
- 100-150 gr. hard cheese (any)
- 100 ml of heavy cream
- one egg (to the filling)
- salt (to the filling)
- ground pepper to taste
Cooking method:
1. Making the dough. Mix the sifted flour with small sugar, salt, add chilled butter, chopped into pieces. Knead the dough until crumbs are obtained. Then add the egg into it and start a soft dough. We roll it into a ball, envelop it with a film and remove it in the cold for 20-40 minutes.
2. Make the filling. Grate the cheese on a medium grater, and mix it with egg and cream. We also rub the zucchini, only on a coarse grater, put it in a bowl and remember it with our hands. Drain excess juice, salt, pepper.
3. We take out the dough, turn on the oven. Roll out the dough and distribute it in a removable form (bottom and sides). We send it in the oven (at 200 C) for 5 minutes. Then we take it out, put the grated squash on the dough, and pour the egg-cream mixture on top and put it back into the oven for 30-40 minutes and bake at 180 C.
Recipe 2: Zucchini Fritters with Cheese
What these wonderful Russian pancakes do not do! A wide variety of products are used. Zucchini and cheese are no exception. Let's try to prepare tender and airy pancakes for the whole family from these ingredients.
Ingredients:
- one medium squash
- two eggs
- 500 ml of kefir
- flour
- salt to taste
- 100 gr. hard cheese
- frying oil
Cooking method:
1. Zucchini grate, squeeze out excess juice and salt. Stir together kefir, egg and flour. We start a thin dough (as on traditional pancakes). Grate three cheese and mix the dough with cheese and grated zucchini. For splendor, you can add a little soda.
2. Heat the pan, heat the vegetable oil, fry the pancakes in the usual way until cooked. Serve hot with fresh sour cream or melted butter. Real jam!
Recipe 3: Zucchini Rolls with Cheese
The original cold appetizer of zucchini with cheese in the form of small rolls fits perfectly into the menu of any holiday. Rolls are prepared very quickly and also fly instantly. Therefore, we recommend that you immediately cook them very, very much. As the main ingredient, we will use sausage cheese with smoked taste (it is more viscous and will allow rolls to stick together better), although you have every right to choose your cheese.
Ingredients: (on two medium squash without coarse seeds)
- 200 gr. sausage cheese
- two to three cloves of garlic
- mayonnaise
- pa to the taste of salt
- vegetable oil
- any greens
Cooking method:
1. Zucchini, if necessary, peeled, cut lengthwise into several plastics - the basis for rolls. Salt them on both sides, dip in flour and fry on high heat for 1-2 minutes on each side.
2. We rub the sausage cheese, add the garlic crushed with a crush and a few tablespoons of mayonnaise (so that it is not too liquid). We mix everything.
3. Smear the zucchini with filling on its entire surface and turn the plastic roll. You can also put a little filling on the edge and roll the zucchini with plastic. We are doing the manipulation with all the layers.
4. Grease a baking sheet with fat, spread the formed rolls and send them to a well-heated oven (up to 2500 C) for five to seven minutes. The appetizer is ready! Cool and serve.
Recipe 4: Zucchini Casserole with Cheese and Potato
We offer you a recipe for a delicious hearty zucchini casserole with cheese with the addition of potatoes and minced meat. In principle, mincemeat can be used at your discretion. If desired, it can be completely removed from the recipe, if the lifestyle obliges.
Ingredients:
- 500 gr. zucchini
- 700-800 gr. potato
- three eggs
- two cloves of garlic
- 300 gr. cream
- 200 gr. hard cheese
- nutmeg to taste
- 500 gr. minced chicken
- to taste salt and pepper
Cooking method:
1. Peel potatoes, rinse young zucchini. Cut the potatoes into strips, and the zucchini in rings. Lubricate the mold drain. butter, chop the garlic with a knife and spread it evenly on the bottom of the mold.
2. Next, spread the zucchini to the bottom of the mold, season the circles with salt and pepper. Lay the potatoes in an even layer on top. Do not forget to pepper, salt or add seasonings to choose from. On top of the potatoes again lay out a layer of zucchini.
3. Mix the cream, eggs, nutmeg and beat everything with a mixer until an air mass forms. Three cheese and add it to the resulting mass. Mix. Pour zucchini sauce with potatoes and send the dish to the oven. Bake at 180-200 C for about an hour. Then we get it and treat ourselves. Bon appetit to all!
Zucchini with cheese - tips from experienced chefs
There is nothing complicated in baking zucchini with cheese in the oven. However, many housewives often encounter a problem: the cheese dries from above, hardens and loses its taste. To avoid such a nuisance, experienced chefs give us some useful recommendations:
- If you use cheese in the context of a dish, shifting it, for example, between layers, you can pre-mix it with sour cream or cream, but you must squeeze the zucchini before, so that the dish does not turn out to be too watery;
- If you use cheese exclusively for the top layer, then it should be added to the dish a few minutes before cooking, so that during the baking process it does not dry out and does not burn. As a top layer, you can also use not traditional grated on a grater, but cheese sliced into thin slices.
