Who said the squash is empty? He never cooked a vegetable with meat!
This is a well-known combination that is often used in casseroles, stews, and solyanka.
Zucchini with meat is fried, stewed, baked and all this can be done in a slow cooker. Trust the kitchen assistant?
Zucchini with meat in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
The most valuable are young zucchini, weighing up to 0.5 kg. They have a delicate skin, the seeds are small and soft. Such fruits do not require cleaning. It is enough to rinse them thoroughly, remove the tips and cut them into the necessary pieces.
Meat processing, its type and method of cutting depends on the dish. But most often the product is thrown into the slow cooker to the zucchini. It is stewed or fried in butter. Then add other ingredients.
What makes zucchini and meat:
• potatoes;
• bow;
• carrot;
• cabbage;
• eggplants;
• tomatoes.
Sometimes different cereals, legumes, mushrooms are added to the dishes. They can go cheese, various spices and ready-made sauces. The exact composition of the dish, as well as the technology of preparation, is determined by the recipe. In a slow cooker, three modes are usually used: baking, frying, stewing.
Recipe 1: Stewed courgettes with meat in a slow cooker
Option of easy preparation and for the stomach of zucchini dishes with meat in a slow cooker. Ideally, lean veal is used. But you can take any other kind of meat.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of meat;
• 0.8 kg zucchini;
• 0.2 kg of carrots;
• 0.2 kg of onions;
• some oil;
• garlic, spices.
Cooking
1. Install the “Baking” program, pour a thin layer of any oil into the bowl of the device, just a few spoons and heat it.
2. We wash the veal, cut it into small pieces, throw in the roast for about twenty minutes.
3. Cut the onion in half rings, throw in veal. We chop carrots into strips and also send them to the dish. Fry with veal for about ten minutes.
4. While vegetables are being cooked, cut the zucchini into pieces, add to the bowl, stir and close. 5. We put the extinguishing program for an hour. No need to add any liquid, enough juice from zucchini. But if the vegetable is not very juicy, then you can pour 100 ml of boiling water or hot broth.
6. At the end, about ten minutes, put the garlic, salt, mix and bring to full readiness.
Recipe 2: Fried zucchini with meat in a slow cooker
The option of a very fragrant dish of fried zucchini with meat in a slow cooker. Get two full servings. Immediately turn on the “Frying” program, pour in some oil and heat it up.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg of meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 medium zucchini;
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• spices;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Cut a piece of meat into several plates and beat off with a hammer. Then shred each slice into thin straws.
2. Sprinkle the meat with salt and pepper. Put in a slow cooker, which should already warm up a little. Fry the pieces to ruddy color.
3. Add the onion, also cut into strips, continue to fry.
4. Squash cut into cubes or cubes, slightly larger than meat. Sprinkle with flour and lay the rest of the ingredients.
5. Fry the meat with a vegetable for about fifteen minutes, add salt, season with other spices and bring to readiness. About the same amount of time.
Recipe 3: Stewed zucchini with meat in a slow cooker with tomato sauce
Recipe for an amazing dish of stewed zucchini with meat in a slow cooker. Great idea for a wholesome and satisfying dinner.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of meat;
• 0.7 kg zucchini;
• 4 tomatoes;
• 2 bulbs;
• 2 Bulgarian peppers;
• 40 ml of oil;
• various spices.
Cooking
1. Cut meat into cubes, add to the slow cooker, pour in a couple of tablespoons of oil, simmer under a lid on the appropriate program for half an hour. Nothing more is added, we cook in our juice.
2. Open, pour in the remaining oil, set the frying program and add the chopped onion, cook another quarter of an hour.
3. Throw chopped peppers and grated tomatoes, stir and heat the sauce.
4. Add sliced zucchini, add some salt, quite a bit, close it and prepare an hour on the “Quenching” program. 5. Open, add the right amount of salt, here already to taste. We throw black pepper, any seasoning, you can add a little garlic.
6. Close and simmer another 20 minutes.
Recipe 4: Ragout of potatoes and zucchini with meat in a slow cooker
A variant of the amazing stew with potatoes and zucchini with meat in a slow cooker. Many people know a similar recipe, but vegetables turn out steamed and not very tasty. To not succeed, it is important to fry them correctly.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of meat;
• 1 onion;
• 7 potatoes;
• 0.7 kg zucchini;
• 1 carrot;
• 60 ml of oil;
• 2 spoons of tomato paste (2-3 tomatoes are possible);
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into cubes of 1.5 centimeters, throw in the slow cooker and cook on the “Frying” program under the lid for about 15 minutes, add half the oil.
2. We throw onion sticks to meat and also chopped carrots. Fry another ten minutes.
3. Add the potatoes, cut into any pieces. Pour the remaining oil and continue to fry for another ten minutes.
4. Add the sliced zucchini and pour in a glass of boiled water with pasta diluted in it. Those who like more liquid dishes can add more water.
5. Cover and simmer for an hour, rearranging to the appropriate program.
6. Open, fill the dish with spices, salt, mix thoroughly with a spatula and simmer for about twenty minutes.
Recipe 5: Squashes with meat and eggplants in a slow cooker
Another version of vegetable ragout of zucchini with meat in a slow cooker, but this time without potatoes. The dish turns out less calorie, but also tasty and nutritious.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of meat;
• 2 eggplants;
• 2 small zucchini;
• 2 tomatoes;
• onion head;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 40 ml of oil;
• 1 carrot.
Cooking
1. Immediately engaged in eggplant. We cut the blue vegetable into large pieces, soak it in salted water.
2. Cut into any pieces of meat, throw in a slow cooker, pour the oil and fry until half cooked, including the program "Baking" or "Frying".
3. While the meat is being cooked, the remaining vegetables should be cut. Onions with carrots are better than straws, zucchini with the same slices as eggplants. 4. Tomatoes need to pour over boiling water and remove the skin. Then the tomatoes are cut into cubes or simply rubbed.
5. Add to the meat onions, trace and carrots, give brown.
6. We throw tomatoes and cook until the color develops. Tomato mass should become darker.
7. It's time to remove the eggplant from salted water and squeeze. We send to the main products.
8. Next throw zucchini and mix well.
9. Cover and cook on “Quenching” forty minutes.
10. Add spices, salt, throw chopped garlic cloves and mix everything.
11. Close our assistant again and bring the dish to full readiness.
Recipe 6: Zucchini with meat and cabbage multicooker
Option summer solyanka cabbage with zucchini and meat in a slow cooker. You can add potatoes to this dish, it will be more satisfying.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg zucchini;
• 0.5 kg of cabbage;
• 0.5 kg of meat;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into strips, throw in a slow cooker, add three spoons of butter and fry until ruddy color.
2. Three carrots, cut onions and shift these vegetables to the meat. Fry another five minutes
3. Shred cabbage, lay in the bowl to the fried ingredient. Cook together.
4. While cabbage is roasted, chop the zucchini into small cubes or cubes, shift it to the vegetables.
5. Cut the tomatoes in half, rub the flesh, discard the skins. Pour tomato into a hodgepodge.
6. Dish salt, pepper, stir well. You can throw a little garlic.
7. Close and prepare the hodgepodge in the “Quenching” mode for about an hour.
Recipe 7: Stuffed courgettes with meat in a slow cooker
Option dishes that can be festive. For such zucchini with meat is used any stuffing, home or purchased. We take zucchini of small size, and zucchini will do.
Ingredients
• 2 zucchini;
• 0.24 kg minced meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 tomato;
• some oil;
• 50 grams of cheese;
• spices.
You will also need a small piece of foil.
Cooking
1. Immediately chop the onion and fry with butter, you can throw a clove of garlic. Leave to cool. 2. We wash the courgettes and cut across 5-7 centimeters into pieces. The size depends on the length of the vegetable. We make it so that there are fewer scraps.
3. Take out all the insides with a spoon. Hole do pass-through, the hole does not hurt.
4. Mix the browned onions and twisted meat, finely chop the tomato and add to them. Fill the filling with any spices, you can throw a little green.
5. Fill the tubules of zucchini, the hole should be perpendicular to the plane. That is, we do not lay on its side.
6. We put a piece of foil in a crock-pot, grease it with plenty of oil.
7. Put the stuffed zucchini pieces, put grated cheese on top.
8. Close the slow cooker and cook for half an hour. Mode "Baking". If necessary, time can be added, it depends on the meat used and the richness of the main vegetable.
Zucchini with meat in a slow cooker - tips and tricks
• Zucchini very quickly lets the juice, so it is undesirable to salt it at the very beginning of cooking. All spices are best added at the very end, when the dish is only 10 minutes.
• If the zucchini is not very young, it is better to remove the skin and seeds, they are poorly prepared and remain hard for a long time. It is most convenient to remove a skin with a peeler. And the seeds are easiest to remove with a regular spoon, the fruit is cut into two boats.
• If tomatoes are added to the dish, the zucchini will cook longer. Acid inhibits fiber softening. If you need to reduce the cooking time, the tomatoes are better to throw in the almost ready dish.
