This article contains three recipes with a photozucchini cake, step by step telling about the preparation of this unusual, but very tasty and even healthy dish. According to users, these recipes were the best in all categories: available, understandable and tasty, and as an additional stimulus - nourishing. A separate point worth mentioning is the belonging of these dishes to vegetarian cuisine, which every year becomes more popular in all corners of the globe.
Traditional recipe with tomatoes
The most common cooking optionzucchini cake - with tomatoes, as the recipe is based on a classic snack of these two vegetables, in which the circles of vegetables are combined with mayonnaise and sprinkled with herbs.
Resourceful and creative men have come up with a newThe version, which looks more elegantly on the festive table, is convenient for portion feeding, and it is also very tasty, in spite of simple components. Necessary ingredients for cooking squash cake:
- 4 medium zucchini (preferably without seeds), chicken eggs and tomatoes;
- 150 grams of mayonnaise;
- 4-5 cloves of garlic;
- 200 grams of flour;
- a bunch of parsley;
- 0.5 teaspoons of black pepper, coriander and salt.
How to prepare the basis?
Peppercorn cake is prepared according to the recipe as follows:on a grater with the big apertures to grate zucchini and slightly to wring out an excess liquid by hands. Next to them add salt and spices, eggs and mix until the spices are evenly distributed. Then add the flour and mix the dough thoroughly.
In a frying pan with a thick bottom (better cast iron)warm up 1/2 tbsp. spoon lean oil and pour a little dough on it, leveling it evenly over the whole plane with a spatula or spoon. The thickness of the layer should not be more than 8 mm, but not too thin, otherwise it will not be possible to turn the pancake when it is fried on one side. Fire plates should be medium, and the degree of heat treatment - to light blush. You do not need to bring pancakes from zucchini to brown - they will not be so tasty, and there will be less useful vitamins in them.
In the process of frying carefully turn over, and ready pancakes from zucchini spread on paper to remove unnecessary residue of oil.
Cake assembly and decoration
Tomatoes cut into long thin brusochki, withthis is better to choose a fleshy variety of tomatoes - then the juice will be less, which means that the dish itself will get tastier. Parsley shred well finely, and chopped garlic mixed with mayonnaise, there you can add a pinch of sweet pepper.
When all the pancakes are ready and a littlecool down, following the recipe of the squash cake step by step, begin to collect the cake: on the bottom of a flat dish of the appropriate diameter, put the first pancake of zucchini and spread it with mayonnaise sauce, on top of which we place a layer of tomatoes and parsley. From above - a small mesh of mayonnaise and the next pancake and so on. Top and sides of the whole cake should be coated with the remains of mayonnaise and sprinkled with parsley. Put in the refrigerator for three to four hours, so that the layers are soaked with the aroma of the sauce.
Cake recipe with cheese and mushroom filling
There is a similar recipe for a squash cake, which looks no worse in the photo, and even tastes like it tastes better, since it includes the constant companions of many appetizers with mayonnaise: mushrooms and cheese.
For preparation it is necessary to prepare:
- 1 kg of young zucchini without seed;
- 300 grams of hard cheese;
- 450 grams of champignons;
- 4 eggs;
- two onions;
- 5-6 cloves of garlic;
- 5 tbsp. spoons with a hill of flour;
- 60 grams of mayonnaise;
- a bunch of fresh parsley and dill.
How to cook cake?
Preparation of the basis for a zucchini cakestep by step is not very different from the previous recipe, except that zucchini should be grated on a fine grater to make the dough more homogeneous. Squeeze grated zucchini from excess juice and mix with eggs, you should also add salt and spices to taste: nutmeg, coriander or oregano. Then pour in the flour and knead the dough until smooth, you can walk a bit on it blender.
Next, bake pancakes, as described in the previousrecipe, and cool on paper. In total, about six layers should be obtained, which are interlaid with a mushroom filling and stacked in a split baking dish. Put the squash cake in the oven, heated to a temperature of 180 degrees, and bake for 12-15 minutes. Then another hot cake abundantly sprinkled with grated cheese and sprinkled with finely chopped dill. Serve it can still warm or cold - it is equally tasty and quite hearty, so the male part of the tasters will be delighted, despite the fact that the dish does not contain any meat.
Mushroom filling for cake
To make a filling for a zucchini cakeaccording to the recipe, the onion should be chopped as small as possible in cubes and fried in a pan in 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil until golden, send mushrooms cut into small slices, and continue heat treatment until the liquid completely evaporates. In a separate bowl, mix crushed garlic, 1/3 tsp black pepper and a little salt to taste with mayonnaise. There also send grated cheese on a large grater, leaving a little for the final sprinkling of the cake (not more than 80 grams). Next, mix the mushrooms and mayonnaise dressing to a uniform state and use it for the intended purpose.
Cake with crab sticks
Another recipe for a squash of cucumbers with tomatoes as decoration will not leave indifferent fans of crab sticks.
The list of necessary products is quite simple:
- Two squash.
- One hundred grams of crab sticks.
- 200 grams of processed cheese of good quality.
- Four eggs.
- A few cloves of garlic for flavor.
- 100 grams of mayonnaise + 40 grams for the top.
- 3-4 Art. spoons of flour.
- Two small tomatoes + a pair of twigs of greenery to decorate the finished dish.
Grate zucchini, squeeze juice and mix withTwo eggs, flour and salt for taste reasons, you can also add any spice, based on your taste. Then bake three pancakes from the resulting dough in the pan and cool them slightly.
Сыр натереть на терке и смешать с чесноком и half a dose of mayonnaise. Crab sticks cut into small pieces, add to them two boiled eggs and the remainder of the mayonnaise. We collect the cake in a pile in this order: first, a squash dough pancake, spread a crab sticks stuffed with an even layer on it, then the next squash dash, on top of which is a cheese and garlic filling. Lightly press the cake on top so that the layers stick together a bit, then on top of it we draw a mayonnaise net on which we sprinkle finely chopped greens. Cut fresh roses out of fresh tomatoes with a sharp knife and place them in the center of the finished cake. Put the cake for a couple of hours in the fridge so that its layers exchange flavors and aroma.
