Zucchini during the summer season cook almost everything. These vegetables are nourishing, but not calorie. They are well combined with other vegetables, as well as with chicken, mushrooms, meat. Zucchini stewed with minced meat is one of the easiest dishes to prepare, which can be made on weekdays and for the festive table. You can cook it in different ways: in the pan, in the oven, in the slow cooker. No outstanding culinary skills are required.
Cooking Features
The technology of cooking zucchini stewed with minced meat differs depending on the recipe. But there are a few rules, the observance of which guarantees a flawless option.
- Zucchini for cooking dishes are more suitable for young people. They can not clean, rather well washed and dried. If the zucchini are large, they must be cleaned of seeds and skins. Mature zucchini is not suitable for all dish options.
- The dish will be tastier if you use home-made minced meat from high-quality meat to make it. Well suited mixed version of beef and pork. Chicken mince can also be used. When purchasing at a store, give preference to a fresh or chilled, but not frozen product. Pay attention to its appearance and production time, shelf life.
- You can stew zucchini with minced meat in water or in sauce. In the latter case, the dish will be more delicious. Well suited tomatoes, sour cream, their mixture.
- The courgettes themselves have an almost neutral taste, so the addition of spicy herbs and spices to the organoleptic qualities of the finished dish is well affected. When choosing them, you need to consider how well they combine with the meat from which the stuffing is made.
Zucchini stewed with minced meat, can be supplemented with other vegetables, it will also affect the taste of the finished dish.
Zucchini stewed with minced meat in a pan
Composition:
- zucchini - 0.5 kg;
- beef or pig-beef mince - 0, 3 kg;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- green onions - 50 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- cream - 100 ml;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the courgettes by washing, drying, and, if necessary, freeing them from seeds and peel.
- Cut the zucchini into medium-sized bars.
- Finely chop the garlic with a knife.
- Heat the oil in a pan, put the minced meat in it, seasoned with pepper. Fry until it acquires a gray-brown tint and begins to crust.
- Add zucchini and garlic. Pickle. Pour the cream.
- Simmer over low heat under the lid for 20-25 minutes, until the squash is soft.
- Add the finely chopped green onions, mix, stew for another 5 minutes and serve to the table.
Zucchini stewed with minced meat in cream, turn out to be tender and fragrant. The dish can be served not only for dinner, but also for the festive table.
Zucchini stewed with minced meat in a slow cooker
Composition:
- young zucchini - 0.6 kg;
- ground beef - 0, 4 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- salt, seasoning for meat - to taste;
- fresh coriander - 25 g;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- tomato paste - 50 ml;
- water - 180 ml;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 20 ml;
- sugar - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash young zucchini thoroughly using a brush. Pat dry with a kitchen towel. Cut into circles about 5 mm thick.
- Wash tomatoes and blot with a napkin. Cut into circles of approximately the same thickness as the zucchini, or slightly smaller. For slicing tomatoes, use a special or just a sharp knife, so as not to squeeze the juice out of them when cutting dense skin.
- Pour oil into the bowl of the multicooker, put zucchini in one layer, sprinkle it with seasoning.
- Squash cover with a thin layer of minced meat, season it, cover with a thin layer of tomatoes.
- Continue to lay out products until they run out.
- Put tomato paste in a separate container, dilute it with water.
- Add finely chopped cilantro, sugar, vinegar and salt to the sauce. Whisk with a whisk.
- Pour the vegetables and mince with the cooked sauce.
- Turn on the multicooker by activating the “Quenching” program. Set the timer for an hour.
Arrange the dishes prepared according to this recipe, preferably without stirring, so it looks much more appetizing. If you offer it to guests, they will be satisfied with its taste. If there is no multicooker in the house, you can put out zucchini with this recipe in a pan with a non-stick coating.
Zucchini with minced meat stewed in the oven
Composition:
- young zucchini - 0.5 kg;
- meat or chicken mince - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- rice - 80 g;
- sour cream - 50 ml;
- tomato paste - 20 ml;
- water - how much will leave;
- vegetable oil - to lubricate the form;
- salt, pepper, fresh herbs - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash zucchini, dry with a napkin, cut into 4-5 cm columns.
- Cut out the middle of the squash bars.
- Onions, freed from the husk, cut as small as possible.
- Rinse well, rinse, fill with clean water, boil until ready. Wash again, dry a little, mix with minced meat.
- Add chopped onion, pepper and salt to the minced meat.
- Stuff zucchini with minced meat, put in a greased baking dish.
- Mix sour cream with tomato paste, adding salt, spices, chopped greens. Dilute with water.
- Pour zucchini sauce so that the sauce reaches approximately the middle of the squash columns (if the height of the sides of the mold allows, then it can be higher).
- Put the form in the oven, turn it on.
- Stew zucchini with minced meat at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for about 40 minutes. By the end of cooking zucchini should be soft, but keep the shape.
Zucchini stewed with minced meat according to the above recipe, served with sauce. Suit creamy tomato, garlic, cheese, mushroom. Can be served simply with sour cream. Stew zucchini with minced meat according to this recipe can be on the stove, using a saucepan.
Zucchini stewed with minced meat is a self-sufficient dish that can be prepared for a family dinner or for a dinner party. Appearance and taste of snacks largely depend on the selected recipe.
