We are used to making potato pancakes.
However, potatoes are high-calorie vegetables, so not everyone can afford this pleasure.
We suggest you cook a lighter version of this dish - zucchini pancakes.
Squash pancakes - the basic principles of cooking
Squash pancakes are juicy and light. For the preparation of traditional dishes you need zucchini, spices, flour and eggs. It is better to use a young vegetable, with not yet formed seeds.
Zucchini crushed into large chips, squeeze the resulting mass slightly. Add spices and other ingredients to it. Dough knead with a spoon until smooth. Zucchini pancakes are fried in vegetable oil, but if you want to get a less-calorie meal, you can cook them in the oven.
For those who love hearty meals, pancakes are prepared with the addition of potatoes or minced meat.
The ideal sauce for squash pancakes is garlic, based on sour cream, yogurt or mayonnaise. But you can serve them with ketchup, tomato sauce, tkemali, or a mixture of hot and sweet peppers.
Recipe 1. Squash pancakes
Ingredients
- an egg;
- sunflower oil;
- zucchini - half a kilogram;
- onion;
- sea salt and ground pepper;
- 75 g flour.
Method of preparation
1. Wash zucchini, wipe with a kitchen towel and chop on a medium grater. Released juice drain. Squeeze out the resulting mass from excess fluid.
2. Shred the onion bulb finely chop. Add to grated zucchini.
3. Break egg into grated zucchini, add flour and season with freshly ground pepper and salt. Pour in 80 ml of sunflower oil. Mix thoroughly.
4. Pour the oil into the preheated pan. Spread a tablespoon of small pancakes and fry until ruddy. Then turn the pancakes and fry on the other side.
5. Cover the dish with paper towels. Put in it ready pancakes to get rid of excess oil. Serve with sour cream or tomato sauce.
Recipe 2. Squash pancakes with cheese in the oven
Ingredients
- one zucchini;
- salt;
- cheese - 150 g;
- ground pepper;
- sunflower oil;
- an egg;
- a glass of flour or semolina;
- parsley - a small bunch;
- garlic - two cloves;
- sour cream - 200 g.
Method of preparation
1. Squash my under a stream of water, wipe with napkins and three in large chips.
2. We grind cheese similarly.
3. Drain the formed juice, thoroughly squeeze the grated zucchini. Put in a bowl, add eggs, flour and season with pepper and salt. Stir.
4. Deco oil. Putting squash mass on it in the form of meatballs. Sprinkle with cheese.
5. Heat the oven to 190C. Put the deco in the oven and bake for half an hour.
6. Peeled chives garlic squeezed through the garlic press into sour cream. Rinse and lightly dry parsley. Finely crumbled. Spread in sour cream. Beat well with a fork.
7. Take out the pancakes from the oven. We shift on a plate and pour garlic sauce.
Recipe 3. Squash pancakes with minced meat
Ingredients
- 10 g ground paprika;
- an egg;
- young zucchini;
- sunflower oil;
- onion head;
- 125 g of flour;
- 150 g ground beef;
- sea salt and black pepper.
Method of preparation
1. Wash young squash, rub and chop on a medium grater. Squash weight well squeeze. Add an egg to it, season with black pepper and salt. Stir well with a fork.
2. Sprinkle flour and knead slightly watery dough. Insist on it for ten minutes to flour flour well.
3. Season with minced meat with spices and salt. Pour some water into it, add finely chopped onion and ground paprika. Knead until smooth.
4. Put a third of the zucchini pastry on a hot frying pan greased with oil. Smooth the spatula across the bottom of the pan to make a thin pancake. Fry until light brown and gently turn over so that it does not break. 5. Put a third of the minced meat in half of the squash pancake and smooth it. Cover the stuffing with the second half of the pancake so that the meat is inside the pancake. Cook for another five minutes.
6. Cover the plate with sheets of green lettuce and place the ready pancake on it. Serve with greens and sour cream.
Recipe 4. Zucchini pancakes with butter dressing in the oven
Ingredients
- sea salt and spices;
- two onions;
- olive oil;
- kilogram of young zucchini;
- flour - 150 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- an egg;
- milk - 100 ml;
- lemon juice - 5 ml.
Method of preparation
1. Brush my zucchini. We wipe with a towel and grind into large chips. We turn back the squash mass on a sieve and leave it to the juice stack. Then squeeze and shift to the bowl. Pepper, salt and add lemon juice. We drive in an egg, pour in milk and pour in flour.
2. Clean and chop the onion in a blender to a slurry. Add it to the squash mass. Stir until smooth with a spoon.
3. Lubricate the pan with olive oil. We form small pancakes out of zucchini pastry and spread it on a baking sheet.
4. Bake in the oven, preheated to 190C, 20 minutes.
5. Slice butter into small pieces. Three minutes before the end of baking, we take out a baking sheet and put on each pancake a piece of butter.
Recipe 5. Squash pancakes with greens and carrots
Ingredients
- one zucchini;
- cheese;
- carrot;
- vegetable oil;
- an egg;
- ground black pepper;
- flour - 50 g;
- table salt;
- dried herbs - 25 g.
Method of preparation
1. Wash carrots and zucchini. Peel the vegetables and chop them into large chips. Connect carrots with zucchini and leave for a while. Then wring out. Season with salt, dried herbs and black pepper. Add egg and flour. Stir well to a smooth consistency.
2. Put the pan on the fire, heat the vegetable oil in it. Spoon spread vegetable dough. Fry until ruddy, then turn over with a spatula, cover with a lid, twist the fire and cook another ten minutes. 3. Put the prepared pancakes on a plate, sprinkle with grated cheese and garnish with chopped herbs.
Recipe 6. Zucchini dumplings with oatmeal in the oven
Ingredients
- onion;
- salt and black pepper;
- a few feathers of green onions;
- two zucchini;
- an egg;
- oatmeal - 80 g;
- milk - 50 ml;
- 30% cream - 30 ml.
Method of preparation
1. We clean the washed squash from the skin. Grind them on a coarse grater. We lean back on the sieve and leave the excess liquid to the glass. Then squeeze the squash mass and place in a bowl. Pour cream and milk into zucchini. We drive in the egg and mix everything thoroughly.
2. Green onions rinsed and crumbled with its rings. Put it in a bowl. Onions clean and grind on a coarse grater. Add to the zucchini. Pepper and salt. Add the oatmeal and mix again.
3. Cover the baking sheet with parchment. Spoon spread on him pancakes. The oven is heated to 200C. We bake 20 minutes. Then lay out on a plate and serve hot with sour cream or ketchup.
Recipe 7. Squash pancakes with potatoes
Ingredients
- half a kilo of zucchini;
- table salt;
- half a kilo of potatoes;
- a glass of flour;
- an egg.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the potatoes and zucchini. Rinse the vegetables under running water and pat dry.
2. Grill squash and potatoes into large chips. Throw the vegetable mass on a sieve and leave for half an hour to stack the juice. Then squeeze it and place in a suitable dish.
3. Add egg and flour to the vegetable mass, salt and knead homogeneous dough with a spoon. The consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
4. Heat the oil pan over high heat. Spoon the vegetable dough into butter and fry, not twisting the fire until golden brown. Then turn and fry on the other side. Serve the pancakes with sour cream or ketchup.
Recipe 8. Zucchini dumplings with apple in the oven
Ingredients
- carrots;
- kitchen salt;
- young zucchini;
- sugar - 25 g;
- apple;
- olive oil;
- an egg;
- flour - 125 g.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the zucchini and rinse under the tap. Peel and rinse carrots and apples. Remove the core from the apple. Vegetables and fruit chop into large chips.
2. Combine everything in a bowl and leave for some time. Then squeeze the fruit and vegetable mass, season with salt and sugar. Add egg and flour. Knead dough well with a spoon.
3. Grease a baking sheet with olive oil. Make small cakes out of dough and place on a baking sheet. Bake at 190C for 20 minutes. Put the pancakes on the plate and serve with mayonnaise or sour cream sauce.
Zucchini fritters - tips and tricks
- Grated zucchini must be pressed, otherwise the dough will turn out too thin.
- For piquancy, you can add hot pepper to the dough or squeeze garlic.
- Add both dried and chopped greens to the dough.
- Serve the pancakes with mayonnaise sauce. If you are on a diet, you can substitute mayonnaise with natural yogurt or low-fat sour cream.
- You can use flour, semolina or eggs as a binder in the dough.
