How to cook zucchini deliciously? What is the useful zucchini and who are harmful? What salads, snacks, first, second dishes, pastries, workpieces for the winter can be prepared from zucchini?

From this article you will learn what delicious and unusual dishes can be prepared from zucchini

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A delicious and, moreover, healthy salad, unusual - first and second dishes, ketchup, pizza, pineapple sweet dessert - all this can be prepared from ordinary zucchini. Let's start making goodies.

What is the useful zucchini and who are harmful?

What are the useful dishes from zucchini?

The zucchini are rich in vitamins, potassium and copper, which is important for anemia, they are boiled, fried and baked, and tasting tastes are used in raw forms.
Dishes from zucchini strengthen the nervous system, teeth, help better to grow up to bones after fractures.
Dishes of zucchini are useful for patients with asthma, with eye diseases.
It is useful to eat dishes from zucchini for inflammatory diseases in the body.
Rucchins improve the functioning of the heart, and accordingly reduce high pressure.
Help from zucchini and liver work help.
Eating every day at least one dish of zucchini, you help to work better to the stomach and intestines, especially with constipation.
If your diet is often in zucchini, then the probability of cancer will decrease.
Rucchins improve potency in men, and are generally useful for those who want to start offspring.
It is useful to consume dishes from zucchini and women with menopause - it is easier to tolerate.
Pregnant women help to maintain hemoglobin levels in the blood at the proper level, and get rid of edema, if any.

With caution, a dish of zucchini should be eaten in the following diseases:

With gastritis and ulcer in the stomach, during the period of exacerbation
With diarrhea or simply - diarrhea
With kidney disease, if urine does not leave badly

Zucchini dishes: salads and snacks

Such dishes from zucchini as salads can be prepared raw from young, unripe, with thin skin, zucchini.

Rucker salad, pickled cucumbers and apples

Take to the salad:

1 young small zucchini
1 large apple
1-2 pickled cucumbers
1 small onion bulb
1-2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise
5-6 twigs of dill

Cooking:

We turn the zucchini into straws with a coarse grater.
We clean the apple from the skin and seeds, and do the same with it as with the zucchini.
We clean the bulb, my, cut into 4 parts and chop.
Cucumbers just like zucchini and apple are chopped on a coarse grater.
Finely cut the greens.
We mix everything, season with mayonnaise, and immediately serve on the table.

Paste of zucchini

Let us take in a paste:

1 young zucchini, approximately 500 g
1 small carrots and onion
150 g of cream cheese (get in advance from the refrigerator to become softer)
1 Tooth of garlic
2 tbsp. l. Raises. oils
1 tbsp. l. crushed greens of dill
Salt with black ground pepper - to your liking

Cooking:

Finely cut off and washed onion and pour out in the pan with a grip. oil.
Carrots, having previously cleared and washed it, three on a coarse grater, and add to the onion.
At the end, add the zucchini peeled and cut into cubes. Fry the vegetables until cooked, and let cool a little.
We add to the fried vegetables the flooded cheese, salt, pepper, dill greens and beat with a blender.
The snack is ready. It can be spread on bread - cook homemade sandwiches.

Zucchini dishes: first dishes

The first dish of zucchini is a piquant taste, hearty (albeit without meat), mqual soup of mashed potatoes.

We take the puree soup:

1 liter of water
1 small zucchini
3-4 potatoes
1 Average onion
100 g of solid cheese
30-50 g butter
1 tsp. groomed fresh ginger root
Salt, coriander and black pepper (ground) - to your taste
Several twigs of parsley

Cooking:

In water, cook the potatoes cleaned and chopped by cubes until half-cooked, close to 10-15 minutes.
We add zucchini cut into boiling soup in boiling soup, and cook for another 10 minutes.
Let us cool a little vegetables in water, and chop the blender.
Finely cut the peeled onion and put it in a pan with melted butter.
We also add the ginger root on a fine grater here, and fry 2-3 minutes.
We add stewed vegetables to the soup, put it on fire, let it boil, pour salt and spices to taste.
In a boiled soup, lower the hard cheese grated on a fine grater, turn off the fire, let the soup brew for about 10 minutes.
We serve the soup of the puree to the table, sprinkling with the greens of parsley, and with freshly prepared crackers.

Zucchini dishes: second dishes

Dishes of zucchini (cutlets) are tasty in hot and cold, their taste does not change much.

Kobachka cutlets

For cutlets, let's take:

2 young unripe zucchini
1 egg
100 g of solid grades
3 tbsp. l. flour
2 Garlic tooths
Half of the pp. Salt
At the tip of h. L. Black ground pepper

Cooking:

Grind the zucchini on a coarse grater, add up and let it brew for 15 minutes.
Squeeze the zucchini chips from the juice, pour the juice, and add grated cheese, egg, chopped garlic, flour, pepper to the shavings.
We form cutlets from the resulting minced meat, roll them in flour, and fry both sides in hot oil of plant origin before browning.
If the minced meat for cutlets turned out to be liquid, spread it on a hot pan with an oil spoon.

Minced meat cutlets with the addition of zucchini

Take into cutlets:

500 g of any minced meat (pork, pig-hot, chicken)
1 small zucchini (200-300 g)
2 slices of white loaf
1 egg
1 Average onion
1-2 gear of garlic
Salt with black ground pepper - to taste
2 tea. l. sour cream
Corn flour for collapsing cutlets
Vegetable oil for frying cutlets

Cooking:

Half of the zucchini three on a fine grater, salt, add sour cream, we also lower the slices of bread to absorb the liquid and soften.
The second half of the zucchini is three on a coarse grater.
Separately three on a fine grater onion and garlic.
Mix meat and vegetable minced meat along with bread, add an egg, pepper, suppress, knead well for about 10 minutes.
We roll cutlets from the resulting minced meat, roll them in corn flour, and fry both sides of cutlets in vegetable oil.

Meat cutlets with the addition of zucchini

Zucchini dishes: baking

A very tasty and healthy such dish of zucchini as "Zucchini pizza".

For pizza test, let's take:

1 zucchini (400-500 g)
2-3 tbsp. l. Sleeping
2 tbsp. l. flour
1 egg
Salt with black ground pepper - to your taste

For the filling, take:

1-2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise and tomato ketchup
150-200 g of boiled sausage or fried meat
1 average tomato
100 g cheese of solid or semi -hard
2-3 branches of dill greene

Cooking:

Grind the zucchini on a coarse grater, suck them, and leave them to let the juice for 10-15 minutes.
When juice formed in the squash straw, we drain it, and squeeze the chips from the juice.
We add pepper, egg, flour and semolina in chips, mix, let stand for 10 minutes, and dump the dough on a greased grip. With oil, a metal sheet, leveled.
Mix mayonnaise with ketchup, and grease the dough with this mixture.
On a greased dough, lay out the sausage or meat cut by cubes.
Cut the tomato with small circles or semicircles, and spread it on meat.
We lay out the remains of the sauce on the tomato mugs.
Three cheese is on a fine grater and sprinkle pizza to them.
Put the pizza in a hot oven (average heating temperature) for 40-45 minutes.
We take out the finished pizza from the oven, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and serve hot to the table.

Pizza, in the dough which is added zucchini

Chocolate brownie with the addition of zucchini

The zucchini do not give any taste with finished baking, but they make the structure of the pie moist, therefore its name is brownie.

In the dough you need:

1 small young zucchini (500 g)
140 g of flour
125 g of butter
200 g of sugar, you can less
2 tbsp. l. cocoa
2 eggs
0.5 tsp. baking powder
On the tip of a salt knife
50 g of chocolate

Cooking:

Mix eggs with sugar together and beat with a mixer.
Add softened butter, and continue to mix with a mixer.
Grind young zucchini on a fine grater, and add to the egg-sajar mass.
Here we add cocoa, salt, baking powder and flour, stir with a spoon to a homogeneous mass.
Lubricated a round or rectangular deep shape, grows grows. With oil (you can cover the shape with parchment paper and grease the paper with any oil), lay out a liquid dough in the shape, level it. We bake in the oven at 180̊c for 30-35 minutes.
We cover the baked pie with melted chocolate, and cool in the form when it cools, cut into squares, and lay out the pieces on the dish. Serve for tea.

Zucchini dishes: workpieces for the winter

Dishes of zucchini can be cooked for the winter. Prepare delicious sweet the compote for the winter from the zucchini "pineapple".

For compote, let's take:

0.5-0.7 kg of cherry plum or apricots without bones
1 kg of young zucchini cut into large cubes
400 g of sugar
3-4 cloves
Water-how much is required for a 3-liter jar

Cooking:

We clean the young zucchini from the skin and seeds, cut into large cubes, put in a 3-liter jar, well washed and sterilized.
Here we add to the bank the washed and dried scarlet or apricots, cherry plum - a whole, apricots - halves.
We boil water in the kettle, and pour boiling into the prepared jar to the top. We cover the jar with a sterilized iron lid.
When the water in the jar cools down a little - we drain it into the pan and boil it again, fill it with the future “pineapples” with it.
We drain the slightly cooled water into the pan, add sugar, cloves, and cook the syrup. Pour boiling syrup with a can of cherry plum and zucchini cubes to the top, cover with a lid, twist, turn the cans, wrap it with something warm, and leave it so until it is cooling.
When you open such a jar in winter, zucchini from it will be very reminiscent of pineapple to taste, and compote will be pineapple syrup from cans that are sold in stores.

Ketchup from zucchini for the winter

In Ketchup we take:

1.5 kg of young zucchini
1 kg of sweet pepper and onions
1 bitter pepper
3-4 gear of garlic
400 g of tomato paste
100 ml 9% vinegar
2-3 tbsp. l. Sahara
2-3 branches of basil
Salt and black pepper - trying, to your liking

Cooking:

We cut young zucchini with cubes (if the zucchini is not young, and they have already formed seeds, we clean them of seeds-we throw the seeds), sprinkle with salt, and let them boil for 10-15 minutes.
Strain the cubes of zucchini in a deep thick -walled pan, in our juice for 10 minutes.
We add peppers chopped into a pan - sweet and bitter, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Then, in which vegetables are stewed on low heat, we add onion chopped with half rings, and simmer for another 5 minutes.
Remove the vegetables from the heat, let cool a little, pass through the meat grinder, and again load into the deep pan further stew.
We add tomato paste to vegetable puree and simmer for 10 minutes.
Finally, pouring vinegar, pour sugar and salt, add chopped garlic, and simmer for another 10 minutes.
We pour boiling sauce into sterilized jars with lids (also sterile), and immediately roll up.
We turn hot jars with ketchup on the lid, wrap it with warm things, and let it cool like that. From this set of products you will get 2.0-2.3 liters of finished ketchup.