Casseroles - an extensive range of dishes, suitable for breakfast or snacking on the road, as well as desserts. Cooked versions of vegetables and meat are quite nourishing and simple, and do not require special ingredients.
Cauliflower Egg Casserole
A kind of baked scrambled eggs with cabbage is an excellent breakfast dish, as it is both nutritious and light at the same time. At the very beginning, it is necessary to turn on the oven and warm it to 200 degrees, in order not to lose time and put the baking dish right into the working temperature.
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower - 500 g;
- Sour cream - 100 g;
- Egg - 3 pcs .;
- Hard cheese (any) - 150 g;
- Salt - to taste.
The whole process takes about 1 hour, and the calorie content of the dish is 95 kcal.
In order to prepare the cabbage, it must be boiled in salted water, but it should not eventually fall apart. After it cools down a little, put it in a baking dish.
Pouring is prepared from eggs and sour cream by whipping these ingredients. Also, do not forget to salt the mixture. Then the cabbage is poured, the cheese is rubbed on top and everything is put in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
Curly cabbage casserole with minced meat and cheese
More dense dish than the previous one, which will be a good second at lunch. The cooking technique is similar, but has some differences. For cooking you will need:
- Cauliflower - 0.5 kg;
- Stuffing from any meat - 0.5 kg;
- Onions - 3 pieces;
- Hard cheese (any) - 200 g;
- Vegetable oil - to taste;
- Egg - 3 pcs;
- Breading - 3 tsp;
- Salt, pepper - to taste.
This recipe is somewhat longer than the previous one and takes about 1.5 hours. Calorie - 100-120 kcal, depending on the type of meat.
First boil cabbage in salted water until semi-solid state, that is, 5 minutes. After that, it must be disassembled into separate small pieces and put off at this stage.
Next, prepare the onion: just chop it finely and fry until golden brown in vegetable oil. The second and last of the main elements of the casserole - fill. It consists of eggs and grated cheese, whipped together with a whisk or a mixer.
Cabbage mixed with minced meat and fried onions, all this is seasoned with pepper and salted. Oven, as usual, it is better to warm up to 200 degrees in advance. The stuffing is laid out in the form with cauliflower, poured with an egg mixed with cheese, and baked for half an hour. Served in its pure form, you can combine well with sour cream.
Broccoli and cauliflower casserole
For those who are on a diet or just like vegetable snacks, there is such a light casserole. For the preparation of the use of frozen vegetables allowed - it does not spoil the dish. Ingredients:
- Broccoli - 400 g;
- Cauliflower - 400 g;
- Carrots - 1 pc .;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- Celery (stem) - 4 pcs .;
- Milk - 300 ml;
- Chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- Cheese - 200 g;
- Salt and spices - to taste.
Cooking time - 1 hour 20 minutes. Calorie dishes - 90-95 kcal per 100 g.
Cauliflower and broccoli put in boiling salted water and boil for three minutes. Pepper and celery cut into small slices, grate carrots on a coarse grater. At this point, the preparation of the vegetable base is completed and you can start preparing the pot. Just before that, turn on the oven and warm it to 180 degrees.
In a blender, beat the eggs with milk and cheese. Pouring can also be salted and pepper to taste, but you can also do without it, leaving the seasoning until serving. Vegetables are put in a baking dish and filled with the mixture, after which it is sent to bake for 45 minutes. Done, you can serve.
Recipe for Cashew and Cauliflower Casserole
Cauliflower and zucchini casserole is an interesting dish, having tried that, many will want to repeat it. A good breakfast and even dinner, because its calorie content is not so great, because the main composition is vegetables and cheese.
Products:
- Squash - 2 pieces (young);
- Onions - 1 pc .;
- Cauliflower - 1 pc .;
- Potatoes - 1 pc .;
- Hard cheese - 50 g;
- Spices and vegetable oil - to taste.
Cooking time - 40-50 minutes. Calories - 96 kcal per 100 g.
Squash in this recipe must be cut into thin slices. Half of the resulting number of plates laid out in a baking sheet, then put chopped onions.
In the middle of the puff casserole, cauliflower should be placed, disassembled into small pieces by hand or sliced. You can salt and add seasonings, after which form a layer of thinly chopped potatoes and half of the total amount of cheese.
At the very end laid slices of zucchini and rubbed cheese. For twenty minutes at 200 degrees, the vegetables will be baked and the cheese will melt - the output will be a tasty casserole, which can be served.
Crispy cabbage casserole with chicken in a slow cooker
Not everyone has the opportunity to surprise himself or his family with an oven-baked casserole in the middle of a week, so it is possible to effectively use the slow cooker for this purpose. A qualitatively prepared dish will not yield to anything cooked in the oven, you don’t have to make sure that it does not burn down, and in the morning you will have to wait for a warm ready-made dish for breakfast.
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower - 0.6 kg;
- Onion - 1 pc .;
- Chicken fillet (boiled) - 0.4 kg;
- Sour cream - 1 cup;
- Parsley (greens) - 1 bunch;
- Chicken Egg - 2 pcs .;
- Breadcrumbs - 50 g;
- Vegetable or butter - 50 g;
- Salt and pepper - to taste.
Such a casserole, taking into account the preparation of all the ingredients, can be prepared in 1.5 hours, but from the moment of setting the mode, we can assume that the time spent on cooking is over if the finished product is not expected for dinner. Calories about 100 kcal.
As in the case of conventional cooking, boil cabbage for 5 minutes first in salted water. This can be done in the bowl of the multicooker in the appropriate mode. Boiled cabbage should be set aside, and in the meantime, chop the onion and parsley finely.
Beat eggs with a whisk or a mixer, then add sour cream and beat again, seasoning with salt and pepper. Smear the bottom of the multicooker bowl with vegetable oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and lay out a portion of the cabbage, previously disassembled into small pieces.
Put chopped chicken meat on it, then greens and onion. From above, a layer of cabbage is made again, and at the end everything is poured with a sauce of eggs and sour cream.
In the "Quenching" mode, the casserole is left for 60 minutes, after which you have to let it cool and stand for a while under the lid. However, serve it best warm.
Culinary tips
In any case, you need to lubricate the form of oil, otherwise everything will stick. The oven should be preheated in advance so as not to wait too much time and immediately put the prepared baking sheet or pan at the right temperature.
Filling can be done completely according to different recipes - there is nothing to limit, except for the chef's imagination.
Cheese can be used any of the hard. Parmesan is often used because it is ideal for this purpose and quite tasty.
Boiling cabbage before baking is especially necessary if this process is supposed to be no more than half an hour. If it bakes longer, then during this time it will have time to become soft, however, this is already a matter of taste.
Regarding seasonings there are no restrictions - you can use any favorite spices.
Cauliflower is well combined with spiciness - for lovers of such food, you can safely add chili peppers to the casserole and the final product will not disappoint.
In the next video - the recipe for another casserole.
