With the onset of summer, each of us has the opportunity to enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits. Zucchini is considered one of the most delicious, healthy and easy to prepare vegetables. The vegetable itself contains a huge amount of microelements necessary for the proper functioning of muscles and organs, especially liver function, and is also an incredibly strong antioxidant.
In addition to all its advantages, it is also worth considering its versatility - there are a very large number of dishes with the addition of zucchini. They can be baked, fried, made into salads and purees, casseroles, soups, pancakes and pancakes, and even pizza with a zucchini crust. We will tell you about several options for preparing zucchini dishes in the oven.
Baked zucchini with cheese, bacon and tomatoes
Number of servings: 4
Ingredients:
- 2 zucchini
- 1 tomato
- Bacon
- Grated cheese
- 4 slices cheese
- Oregano
Recipe:
- First, cut the zucchini and place exactly half in a baking dish greased with vegetable oil.
2. Slice the tomato and place it on top of the zucchini..
3. Place slices of bacon on the tomatoes and sprinkle grated cheese on top.
4. Finally, place the second half of the zucchini on top of the grated cheese, cover the zucchini with 4 slices of cheese and sprinkle the remaining grated cheese and a little oregano on top.
5. Place in a preheated oven at 190°C for 40 minutes.
6. While baking, check the readiness of the dish from time to time. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
Zucchini in the oven: a quick and tasty recipe with tomatoes and cheese
For starters, the most popular baking method: with tomatoes. This popularity did not appear out of nowhere. This combination of products creates a wonderful taste and, due to its simplicity, is perfect for both the daily menu and as a snack on the holiday table.
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 400 g
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Parsley - a small bunch
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Cheese - 100 g
- Mayonnaise - 100 ml
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
1. Wash the zucchini, cut off the tails and cut into circles about 1 centimeter thick.
The recipe uses only young vegetables that have not yet had time to form hard seeds.
2. Then the zucchini needs to be salted (1 teaspoon of salt), stirred and left to release the juice for 15 minutes. This is necessary so that the final dish does not turn out “watery”.
In the meantime, you can prepare the rest of the products.
3. Prepare the sauce by combining chopped parsley with finely chopped garlic and cheese, grated on a fine grater. Add mayonnaise (or sour cream) to them and mix until smooth. If desired, the sauce can be peppered.
4. Slice the tomatoes as thinly as a kitchen knife will allow.
5. Before continuing, you need to place the standing zucchini on a paper towel and blot it on top, removing excess moisture.
6. Then place them on a baking sheet or in a baking dish, greased with a small amount of oil, lightly pepper and cover with tomato slices.
7. Place a teaspoon of cheese sauce on top.
8. Place the mold in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
Ready. Bon appetit!
Zucchini with cheese and ham
Servings: 1 Ingredients:
- Half a zucchini
- Ham
- Cheese
- 1 pinch oregano
Recipe:
- Cut the zucchini into round slices and fry them on the grill or frying pan. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Place fried zucchini slices in a baking dish. Place sliced ham on top of the zucchini and sprinkle grated cheese and oregano on top.
- Place in the preheated oven for 5 minutes. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
Zucchini with cheese, tomatoes and tuna
Ingredients:
- 1 tomato
- Cheese
- 1/4 zucchini
- Canned tuna in a jar
- Oregano
Recipe:
- Peel the zucchini and cut into round slices.
- Wash the tomato thoroughly and also cut into round slices.
- Place the zucchini in a baking dish and place the tomato slices on top. Place a teaspoon of tuna on each tomato and sprinkle grated cheese on top.
- Place the dish in a preheated oven at 200°C for 10 minutes. It is best to check the state of readiness of the dish. Don't forget to sprinkle some oregano at the end. Bon appetit!
Zucchini stuffed with cheese and tuna
Ingredients:
- 2 zucchini
- 2 cans canned tuna
- Half an onion
- Cheese
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
- Butter
Recipe:
- Wash the zucchini well and cut in half. Cut the zucchini halves into 3-4 pieces.
- Using a spoon, remove the pulp from the zucchini. Do not throw away the pulp!
- Finely chop the onion and fry in a frying pan in butter until golden brown, add the zucchini pulp to the onion. Once all the moisture has evaporated, add the chopped tuna.
- Reduce the heat to low and pour the grated cheese into the pan and mix well. Once the cheese has melted, remove the pan from the heat. Fill the zucchini “shells” with the prepared filling and bake them in a preheated oven (180-200 °C) until golden brown. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
Zucchini stuffed with feta cheese
Ingredients:
- 2 zucchini
- Chees Feta
- Onion, 1 head
- Half a red bell pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Caraway
Recipe:
- Wash the zucchini well and trim off each end. Cut the zucchini in half lengthwise. Using a spoon, scoop out the pulp, leaving the skin intact. Do not throw away the pulp!
- Finely chop the bell pepper and onion and fry in butter with the zucchini pulp that you have removed.
- Add ground cumin and seasonings to taste.
- Once the vegetables are fried, add the Feta cheese and stir. For convenience, we recommend crushing the cheese so that it is evenly distributed throughout the filling.
- Using a spoon, spoon the filling into the zucchini halves and bake in the oven for 35 minutes at 180°C. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
Zucchini with cheese and bacon
Ingredients:
- 1 large zucchini
- 120 grams bacon strips
- Grated cheese
- 25 grams butter
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
Recipe:
- We cut the zucchini into slices 1 cm thick, but not all the way so that it does not fall apart.
2. Melt the butter in the microwave, add salt, pepper and garlic powder. Lubricate each zucchini slice on both sides with this oil mixture.
3. Place the zucchini in the oven to bake for 45 minutes at 200°C. At this time, fry the bacon in a frying pan without oil.
4. As soon as the zucchini becomes soft, remove it from the oven and place bacon and grated cheese between the slices.
5. Place back in the oven until the cheese melts. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
Zucchini casserole with meat
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 700 gr.
- Zucchini - 2 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Any greens - a bunch
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Hard cheese - 100 gr.
- Sour cream 15% - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking method:
1. Chop the peeled onion and garlic to your liking. We wash, peel and chop the carrots on a coarse grater. Then fry all these vegetables in vegetable oil.
2. Salt and pepper the minced meat, add the roast and place it in the mold. Place tomatoes, cut into half rings, alternately with sliced zucchini along the edge. Let's add a little salt and pepper.
3. Set for 25 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. Then we take it out and sprinkle it with herbs and grated cheese, preferably generously. Place in the oven again for 20 minutes.
The delicious casserole is ready. Bon appetit.
Zucchini with goat cheese
Ingredients:
- 2 medium zucchini
- Goat cheese
- Jam (strawberry or apricot)
Recipe:
- Wash the zucchini well and cut them into round slices.
2. Fry the zucchini slices in a frying pan with butter.
3. Place goat cheese on the fried zucchini slice and jam on top of the cheese. You can make it like a sandwich, finishing with a second slice of zucchini on top.
4. Secure everything with toothpicks.
Zucchini with cheese and egg
Ingredients:
- Zucchini
- 2 tomatoes
- Cheese
- Grated cheese
- Cheese slices
- 4 chicken eggs
- Oregano
Recipe:
- Wash the zucchini and tomatoes and cut into slices. Peel the zucchini before slicing.
- Fry the zucchini slices in a frying pan. After they are ready, put the zucchini on a separate plate and fry the tomato slices in the same pan.
- Grease the baking dish with oil. Place 1 layer of zucchini slices.
- Place cheese slices on top of the zucchini and tomato slices on top of the cheese.
- Place a second layer of zucchini slices on top of the tomatoes, tomato slices on top of the zucchini, and finish with a layer of grated cheese.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Break the eggs over the grated cheese, sprinkle oregano on top and place the dish in the oven. As soon as we see that the egg is ready, take it out and enjoy. Bon appetit!
Zucchini in the oven with cheese and sour cream. How to bake zucchini in the oven with sour cream sauce
The most important thing in the recipe is to choose the right zucchini. The younger and fresher the vegetables are, the more tender and soft the finished dish will be in the end.
- We wash the zucchini well, remove the stalks and cut into rings, the thickness should be about 5 mm. If the vegetable is ripe, first remove the peel with a vegetable peeler, and then remove the hard seeds with a knife or spoon. After which we also cut the rest quite thinly.
- Peel the garlic, chop it finely or use a press for this. Focus on your taste: if you like it spicier, increase the number of cloves.
- Wash and finely chop the greens.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. While it is heating up, prepare the baking dish. We choose one that is not too wide, but with high sides, then the zucchini baked in sour cream will not lose its juiciness and will look like a beautiful pie. Grease the mold well with butter.
- Lightly overlap some of the zucchini as the first layer. Season with a little salt and pepper, sprinkle with a little chopped garlic and add herbs. Be careful with spices: we will add salt to each layer, so don’t overdo it.
- Lightly coat the zucchini with sour cream, the layer should be as thin as possible. It is not at all necessary to distribute it completely: when heated, it will happen by itself.
- We spread another layer of zucchini, repeat our steps with spices, herbs and sour cream. We do this until the zucchini runs out. The top layer should remain sour cream.
- Cover the zucchini with foil and place in the oven for 30 minutes.
- While the zucchini is baking, grate the cheese. The vegetables themselves have a fairly neutral taste, so the taste of the entire treat will also depend on the type of cheese.
- After about half an hour, take out the mold, lightly sprinkle the zucchini with grated cheese and put it in the oven for another 10 minutes. We won't need foil this time. If we want a crispy crust, the baking dish should be placed higher.
Zucchini stuffed with cheese and chicken
Ingredients:
- Zucchini
- Chicken breast
- Grated cheese
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Basil, ground
- Ground black pepper
- Salt
- Vegetable oil
Recipe:
- Wash the zucchini well, trim the ends and cut lengthwise into 4 long slices.
2. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces, add salt and pepper.
3. Grate the cheese and place it in a separate bowl.
4. In a frying pan with a little oil, fry the chicken until golden brown.
5. Place the finished chicken pieces into the grated cheese and mix.
6. Salt the zucchini slices and season with garlic powder and ground basil on top.
7. Fry the zucchini slices on both sides.
8. Place 2 slices of zucchini on a plate and distribute the cheese and chicken filling on top.
9. Place the remaining 2 slices of zucchini on top of the filling.
10. The dish is ready! It is recommended to consume immediately while the cheese dries. Bon appetit!
Zucchini with cheese, ham and egg
Number of servings: 4
- 2 zucchini
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Ham
- 2-3 slices soft cheese
- 4 eggs
- Olive oil
Recipe:
- Cut the zucchini into small pieces.
- Add 4 tablespoons of olive oil to a heated frying pan and fry the chopped garlic.
- As soon as the garlic is browned, add the zucchini pieces and fry, stirring constantly.
4. Next, finely chopped ham goes into the pan. Stir and leave for a few minutes.
5. Then add slices of soft cheese, reduce heat to low and leave without stirring.
6. In a separate bowl, beat 4 eggs and pour into the pan. Cook over low heat until the eggs are completely curdled.
7. The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
