Zucchini belong to the group of starchy vegetables,which are well combined with meat products. This feature makes it much easier to choose a dish when drafting a daily diet. Take, for example, braised zucchini with minced meat. It can be prepared in different ways using one or another kitchen appliances.
Stuffed vegetables
The easiest way to make braised zucchini with minced meat,using vegetable as molds. Meat in this case will play the role of filling. Cooking this dish is better on the stove in a deep pan. For work you will need: 4 medium zucchini, 1 onion, salt, 150 grams of ready minced meat, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 tomato, pepper and any spices.
Preparing braised zucchini with minced meat is not at all difficult:
- First you need to do the manufacture of molds. To do this, squash should be washed, cleaned of hard peel, and then cut each of them in half and remove with a teaspoon of the core.
- Now you should proceed to the preparation of the filling.To do this, finely chop the onion, garlic and squash removed the flesh. Combine these products with the finished meat, they need a little salt and add a little pepper. Of the spices for this mixture is suitable thyme and nutmeg.
- Fill the squash cups with cooked mass and gently put them into the pan so that the filling is at the top.
- Grind the tomato on a coarse grater and pour the saucers with the resulting sauce. It must completely cover the products. Otherwise, you can take another tomato.
- Cover the pot and put on medium heat.
Preparing braised zucchini with minced meat for about half an hour. The time will depend on the size of the molds and the degree of grinding of minced meat. The finished dish is considered when the vegetable cups are soft.
Vegetable pie
Very interesting you can cook stewed zucchiniwith minced meat in the slow cooker. The dish will turn out original if to make it in the form of pie. This recipe requires: 3 young zucchini, 400 grams of minced meat, salt, ½ cup of rice, 200 grams of mushrooms, 1 onion, a little sour cream and vegetable oil, 100 grams of hard cheese, as well as pepper, spices and seasonings.
Stewed zucchini with minced meat in a slow cooker should be made in stages:
- The first step is to prepare the vegetables.To make the zucchini softer, they must first be cut into thin slices, then folded in a wide dish, sprinkled with sugar and salt, and left in that position for 15 minutes.
- At this time, onions with carrots can be arbitrarily crumbled and slightly fried. Then add the mushrooms cut in advance and fry the products together for another 10 minutes.
- Rice slightly podvarit and mix with minced meat.
- Combine the prepared products together to make the filling for the cake.
- Bowl multicookers put zucchini plates.
- Fill the free space with the filling.
- Top cover all the remaining zucchini and sprinkle with cheese (grated).
- Set the mode "baking" and stew with the lid closed for 60 minutes.
After that, the dish should be given a little more (30 minutes) to stand, so that the finished cake does not fall apart.
Dish from the oven
For beginner hostesses can be advisedA simplified recipe for stewed zucchini with minced meat. To work in this case, you will need a shallow pan, an oven and a minimum set of components: 6 young zucchini, 800 grams of minced meat for meatballs, 1 pack of butter, salt, 60 grams of flour, a glass of sour cream and ground pepper.
Making such a dish is very simple:
- First, squash should be cut into thin circles. Then sprinkle them with flour and lightly fry in butter. Vegetables are better to take young, so that their skin was thin.
- Inside the pan to grease and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
- Put a piece of minced meat and cover it with fried zucchini. Continue until the food runs out.
- Add salt, pepper and pour all the sour cream mixed with melted butter.
- Stew in the oven until ready.
If desired, the products can be sprinkled with cheese, grinding it on a grater. This will add flavor and special piquancy to the dish. Serve this culinary invention better hot.
Stewing in a pan
No less tasty are stewed zucchini withminced meat in a pan. And to make them even easier than in the oven or the slow cooker. There is one interesting recipe that allows you to save the nutritional properties of all the original components. The fact is that, contrary to the generally accepted opinion, the products in the pan in this case are not fried, but stewed.
Everything happens very quickly.The following set of ingredients is needed: 2 zucchini, salt, 300 grams of minced meat, 2 cloves of garlic, a pinch of ground black pepper, 4 feathers of green onions, 50 milliliters of sunflower oil and a third of a glass of cream.
The cooking process begins with meat:
- Mincemeat must be slightly heated in a pan in the pan.
- Washed and peeled zucchini cut into small cubes, and just chop the garlic finely.
- Add the prepared products to the pan, salt and pour the cream. After that, the components need to be mixed.
- Cover the pan with the lid and simmer for 25 minutes.
The finished dish will only sprinkle with pepper and serve to the table hot.
