How to cook braised zucchini with tomatoes
For a large portion, take:
- 1 large or 2 small young zucchini;
- 2 ripe tomatoes;
- 1 pc. Bulgarian pepper, carrots and onions;
- a pair of cloves of garlic;
- greens, salt, olive oil and other spices to taste.
Wash zucchini, peel and peel the seeds.If the vegetable is young, then you can not remove the delicate skin. Cut the pulp into cubes. Onions and pepper finely chopped, the tomatoes must be peeled (for this, pour over the vegetable with boiling water, the peel is easily removed) and chop finely, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. On a heated pan with a small amount of olive oil, put all the vegetables, fry first over medium heat, then turn it down. Stewed zucchini with tomatoes and peppers will be ready in 15, maximum 20 minutes. If the vegetables burn, pour a little water into the pan. At the end of cooking, the dish should be salted and sprinkled with spices and pepper, and before serving, chopped greens. By the way, 100 g of such a stew contains only 40 Kcal, so even the one who is on a diet can afford a stewed zucchini with tomatoes and peppers. Of course, there are many options to cook this dish, to make it more rich. To it, you can add meat (chicken breast is best combined with vegetables) or make it with a delicious sauce. How exactly - see below.
Recipe for stewed courgettes with tomatoes and sour cream sauce
For a couple of servings you will need:
- 1 young squash;
- 3 tomatoes;
- 200 g fat sour cream;
- a little flour for breading;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- roasting oil and salt.
Zucchini wash, peel and cut into circles1 cm thick. Then roll them in flour and fry in vegetable oil until half cooked. It is very important that the frying pan where you cook the vegetable is red-hot to the limit - then the zucchini will be fried very quickly and will absorb the minimum amount of vegetable oil. Also, after cooking, you can put them on a plate covered with a paper towel - this will remove the excess fat that we don’t need at all. Then put the prepared circles into a deep frying pan, add the chopped tomatoes, salt, sprinkle with spices, pepper and squeezed garlic, and then pour with sour cream. Vegetables can be laid out in several layers. After that, put the pan on a slow fire: in 30 minutes the zucchini stewed with tomatoes in sour cream sauce will be ready. Dish in hot form must be served at the table, sprinkled with fresh herbs if desired. Such an appetizing second, even if without meat, will surely be appreciated by all members of your family.
