Cheese is a universal product in cooking. His 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, more nutritious, more aromatic and tastier.
Squash with cheese - general principles and methods of cooking
So, what can be cooked from zucchini with cheese? There are many variations, and even more than you can imagine. The very first thought that creeps into your head is to bake zucchini in the oven. Perhaps this is the right decision. But just think how you can diversify this kind of dish! For example, mix the 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 of zucchini with cheese, which will certainly delight you not only with its lightness, but also with amazing taste.
Squash with cheese can also be used as a base for home baking and cooking. Pies, pancakes, rolls - all this and much more can be prepared thanks to healthy zucchini and cheese. Any dish of this vegetable will be great, and most importantly, useful and easy. Indeed, despite the neighboring ingredients, fiber, which is a part of zucchini, helps to digest and utilize even the heaviest food.
Squash with cheese - food preparation
Squash, depending on the selected dish, you can use both young and old. For the cake, for example, the recipe of which we will describe below, old vegetables, previously peeled from the skin, seeds and grated on a coarse grater, will fit perfectly. For cooking pancakes are also used any zucchini. It does not matter, as we grate vegetables. As for such dishes from zucchini with cheese like roll or casserole, here it is advisable to use only young fruits without coarse seeds, otherwise the dish will not succeed. Squash with cheese - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Zucchini Pie with Cheese
Open type cake with zucchini and cheese, made on the basis of shortcrust dough, will appeal to all lovers of homemade savory pastries. The original cake will delight with its uncomplicated, 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. flour a / c
- 200 gr. drain oil
- one tsp Sahara
- salt - pinch (in dough)
- one chicken egg (in dough)
- 400 gr. courgettes
- 100-150 gr. hard cheese (any)
- 100 ml heavy cream
- one egg (per filling)
- salt (in stuffing)
- to taste ground pepper
Method of preparation:
1. Making the dough. Mix sifted flour with fine sugar, salt, add chilled butter, chopped into pieces. Knead the dough to crumbs. Then add an egg to 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. Making the stuffing. Rub cheese on a medium grater, and mix it with egg and cream. Zucchini also rub, only on a coarse grater, put in a bowl and remember his hands. Excess juice is drained, salt and pepper.
3. We take out the dough, turn on the oven. Roll out the dough and distribute it on a removable form (bottom and sides). We send it in the oven (at 200C) for 5 minutes. Next, we take out, put the grated zucchini on the dough, and pour the egg-cream mixture on top and then send it to the oven for 30-40 minutes and bake at 180C.
Recipe 2: Zucchini Fritters with Cheese
What not only do these wonderful Russian pancakes do! In the course are a variety of products. Squashes and cheese are no exception. Let's try to make tender and airy pancakes for the whole family from these ingredients.
Ingredients:
- one medium zucchini
- two eggs
- 500 ml of kefir
- flour
- salt to taste
- 100 gr. hard cheese
- oil for frying
Method of preparation:
1. Squash zucchini grated, squeeze out excess juice and serve. Stir together kefir, egg and flour. We get a thin dough (like traditional pancakes). Grate three cheese and mix the dough with cheese and grated zucchini. For pomp you can add a little soda. 2. We 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 zucchini appetizer with cheese in the form of small rolls will perfectly fit into the menu of any holiday. Rolls are prepared very quickly and fly away also instantly. Therefore, we recommend that you immediately prepare them very, very much. As a main ingredient, we will use smoked sausage cheese with a taste (it is more viscous and will allow rolls to stick together better), although you have the full right to choose your own cheese.
Ingredients: (for two medium-sized squash without coarse seeds)
- 200 gr. sausage cheese
- two or three cloves of garlic
- mayonnaise
- salt to taste
- vegetable oil
- any greens
Method of preparation:
1. Squash if necessary, peeled, cut along 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. Rub sausage cheese, add garlic, crushed with a squash, and a few spoons of mayonnaise (so that it is not too liquid). All mix.
3. We coat the zucchini with the filling all over its surface and fold the plastic with a roll. You can also put a little filling on the edge and roll the zucchini plastic. Perform the manipulation of all layers.
4. Grease the baking sheet, lay out the formed rolls and send them to a well heated oven (up to 2500C) for five to seven minutes. The snack is ready! Cool and serve.
Recipe 4: Zucchini Casserole with Cheese and Potatoes
We offer you a recipe for a great hearty zucchini casserole with cheese with the addition of potatoes and chicken mince. In principle, the stuffing can be used any at your discretion. If desired, it can be completely removed from the recipe, if the lifestyle requires.
Ingredients:
- 500 gr. courgettes
- 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
Method of preparation:
1. Peel the potatoes, wash the young squash. Chop the potatoes into strips and zucchini with rings. Form grease drain. butter, chop the garlic with a knife and lay it rovnenko along the bottom of the form.
2. Next, lay out the zucchini on the bottom of the form, season the circles with salt and pepper. Top with an even layer lay the potatoes. 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 is formed. Three cheese and add it to the resulting mass. Stir. Pour zucchini sauce with potatoes and send the dish to the oven. We bake at 180-200C for about an hour. Then we get and we help. Enjoy your meal!
Zucchini with cheese - tips from experienced chefs
There is nothing difficult in baking zucchini with cheese in the oven. However, many housewives often face a problem: the cheese dries from above, hardens and loses its taste properties. To avoid such trouble, 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 squash must be pressed before this so that the dish does not turn out too watery;
- If you use cheese exclusively for the top layer, then it should be added to the dish a few minutes before being ready, so that it does not dry or burn during the roasting process. As a top layer, you can also use not the traditional grated grated, and chopped cheese slices.
