Many in the garden during the summer season ripen such useful and tasty vegetables as zucchini. The variety of dishes from them is striking in its multiplicity - from sweet fritters to delicious vegetable casseroles.
An inconspicuous vegetable contains a lot of useful vitamin and trace elements, it is considered dietary even when frying, does not harm when it is consumed up to one and a half kilogram per day! Consider a few variations on how to prepare zucchini stuffed with minced meat, baked in the oven with cheese.
Classic recipe
After a day of work, when there is little time for cooking dinner, you can cook a wonderful, hearty dish of zucchini, stuffed with minced meat and baked in the oven with cheese. For this you will need:
- Large squash - 3 pcs .;
- Stuffing (chicken, or any other, but juicy and not fat) - 0.4 kg;
- Egg - 1 pc .;
- Tomato (or tomato sauce) - 3 tbsp. L .;
- Cheese (hard) - 0.2 kg;
- Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons l .;
- Greens (green onion, dill);
- Spices (salt, paprika, allspice).
It takes about 45 minutes to cook, and the caloric content is only 130 kcal.
To start zucchini need to wash and wipe dry with a towel. Cut them into pieces of seven centimeters in length. With each part of the spoon to extract the inside - the pulp with seeds - leaving an improvised bottom on one side to make cups.
In the stuffing to drive an egg, add spices, a little pulp from zucchini, chopped finely greens, tomato and mix thoroughly. Glasses made from courgettes should be filled with minced meat and put on a baking sheet, pre-anointed with sunflower oil.
The oven must be heated to 180 degrees, and then put filled zucchini in it for half an hour. While the dish is baking grated grated cheese. 5 minutes before the end, remove the baking sheet from the oven and sprinkle each zucchini with cheese.
The prepared dish can be eaten hot and cold, with sour cream sauce, garlic, ketchup, a side dish of their potatoes. You can also make vegetable sauce for cabbage rolls from carrots, onions, tomato paste and sour cream, sliced and fried in a pan.
Squash boats stuffed with minced meat and mushrooms, baked in the oven with cheese
Unusual and fragrant taste stuffed zucchini, baked in the oven, give mushrooms. The stuffing for this vegetable may be different, but the stuffing gives the stuffiness to the dish. You will need the following ingredients for cooking:
- Zucchini (medium) - 4 pcs .;
- Onions - 3 pcs .;
- Tomatoes - 4 pcs .;
- Stuffing - 0.4 kg;
- Mushrooms - 0.4 kg;
- Butter - 150 g;
- Cheese (hard) - 0.3 kg;
- Spices (pepper, salt);
- Greenery.
The dish is cooked on average forty minutes, and its nutritional value is 165 kcal. With the unexpected appearance of guests, zucchini filled with minced meat and mushrooms will save time in cooking, as well as delight with its soft and delicate taste.
First you need to cook zucchini - cut across and gently remove the middle with a spoon - forming "boats", put them in a saucepan with salted water and boil for 5 minutes. At this time, grease the baking sheet of zucchini with butter, and then put zucchini on it.
Mushrooms should be chopped and fry in butter with chopped onion. Then add minced meat to the roast and fry a little so that it darkens. Salt and pepper this mass with minced meat.
Tomatoes cut into thin rings of half a centimeter, tightly put on the bottom of the squash boats. Then you should put the mass with mushrooms and minced meat, cover with the remaining tomatoes and put on a small piece of butter on top of them.
In a preheated oven, at a temperature of 180º, put a pan with stuffed zucchini and bake for 20 minutes. 2-3 minutes before the end sprinkle with zucchini grated cheese.
Culinary tips
When cooking any dish, there are a number of proven tips from culinary experts to prepare products for creating and improving its taste. For stuffing zucchini and further baking, you must consider the following points:
- Any vegetable is cooked faster young than fully ripe, so zucchini should choose a light green color - they have a soft skin, which quickly cooked;
- Extra moisture from this vegetable is removed with the help of salt - cutting the zucchini into necessary parts, sprinkle with a small amount of salt;
- The stuffing for the filling should be taken juicy, which quickly cooks - it can be chicken, rabbit, lamb;
- To save all the vitamin and trace elements do not fry minced meat and vegetables, but do not overdo zucchini in the oven.
The stuffing of zucchini makes the most delicious and appetizing stuffing itself, so when choosing it you have to be most attentive to your preferences. Now you know how to cook delicious zucchini stuffed with minced meat, with cheese in the oven, it remains only to put the knowledge into practice. Enjoy your meal!
And in addition to the article - another video recipe of baked zucchini.
