Stuffed zucchini in the oven is not often found on our tables. But this is a very healthy and satisfying dish. And preparing it is very simple. You can choose almost any filling. The main thing is that its combination with a vegetable “shell” should be liked.
Zucchini has not been used for food for a long time, because it does not have a characteristic, pronounced taste. However, Italians were able to consider the great culinary possibilities of this vegetable and began to place various fillings inside the zucchini, giving the dish characteristic flavor. Thanks to modern technology, cooking zucchini in the oven is very easy. But first you need to decide on the filling.
There are no clear restrictions on what to cook stuffed zucchini with. They are combined with almost any product:
At the same time, zucchini can take a different shape depending on the wishes of the cook. They can be prepared in the form of boats, cutting the vegetable in half lengthwise, or in the form of rings, if you first place the filling inside, and cut into pieces after cooking. If a large vegetable is taken, it can be cut into 4 parts.
For cooking, it is better to choose medium-sized zucchini. The peel does not need to be removed, otherwise the vegetables will disintegrate during baking. After cutting the fruit, it is necessary to remove the seeds and pulp with a spoon, and then put the filling inside. You can bake a vegetable by simply laying it on a baking sheet, which must be greased first with oil, or in foil. In both cases, you get a delicious diet dish.
Consider a few recipes on how to cook stuffed zucchini in the oven.
Stuffed zucchini in the oven is a light meal, dietary and nutritious. Each housewife should have a recipe for such a treat in her notebook. With it, you can quickly feed a large company, while everyone will certainly be satisfied with non-standard treats from the usual vegetable.
This vegetable is one of the most affordable, tasty and healthy, and in addition, there is a huge number of dishes that can be prepared from zucchini. Stuffed fruits with different fillings - vegetable, meat, rice, fish, cheese, are especially popular.
The process of stuffing vegetables is very simple - you just need to decide on the shape that you can give the zucchini, and choose the filling. So, if desired, it will turn out to fill the squash boats with meat, rice or mushrooms, cutting the fruits in half along and taking out the flesh from each part. In addition, you can make stuffed zucchini in the oven by cutting the vegetable across into several parts. If you remove from each core, you get cups that are also great for filling with filling.
The duration of the preparation of the dish will vary depending on the size of the fruit, the chosen filling (meat needs to be cooked longer), pre-processing of the products. How long to bake:
This dish has a lot of advantages, one of the main ones is its benefit, since baking is considered a gentle method, which preserves the maximum of vitamins and other valuable substances. Recipes for cooking stuffed zucchini suggest the possibility of using different types of fillers. In addition to the traditional meat and rice fillings, you can stuff them with buckwheat, cottage cheese, chicken, mashed potatoes, cheese, offal, and seafood.
In autumn, it is often worth pampering your relatives with tasty and healthy dishes. Zucchini stuffed with minced meat in the oven can be cooked in different ways. Below is a recipe with vegetables and Parmesan cheese. If you wish, you can supplement the list with other products, your favorite spices. Serve the dish hot, sprinkled with chopped fresh herbs.
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A hearty and tasty meal will serve as an excellent complement to a family dinner. It can be served as a main dish even without a side dish. Using cheese makes the treat more interesting, festive, mouth-watering. Minced meat for filling vegetables can be used any - from beef, pork, lamb, poultry or mixed.
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A light, satisfying and healthy snack is prepared from available products, which is its charm. Zucchini stuffed with rice is a low-calorie dish, therefore suitable for those who follow a diet. In addition, vegetarians and fasting people can eat baked vegetables.
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The proposed recipe is very simple and does not require a lot of free time. You can use any meat for stuffing, but a chicken and chicken dish comes out lighter and more tender. The vegetables used should not be too large, it is better to choose young fruits that have a soft, juicy structure. How to cook zucchini-boats stuffed with minced meat, baked in the oven?
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Ideally, you need to eat raw vegetables, since vitamins and fiber in their composition remain unharmed, but not all fruits are equally tasty without heat treatment. For example, potatoes, pumpkin, eggplant and zucchini are not eaten raw. The latter can be prepared in different ways, but baked fruits are considered more tasty and healthy, while it is better to choose young and without seeds. How to cook zucchini stuffed with vegetables, baked in the oven?
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Since the calorie content of the vegetable is only 20 kcal, it is attributed to dietary products. Due to their lightness and benefits, zucchini / zucchini often include slimming people in their diet. Since the vegetable has a neutral taste and is combined with most other products, it is used to prepare various dishes - casseroles, snack cakes, pancakes, stews, caviar, soufflé, etc. One of the most successful and low-calorie snacks is zucchini stuffed with mushrooms.
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To diversify your diet, you should add stuffed zucchini in the oven to the usual list of dishes. There are many recipes for this appetizer, involving the use of vegetables, seafood, mushrooms, cottage cheese as a filler. A more traditional cooking option is described below - with minced meat and rice porridge. Optionally, you can give zucchini the shape of boats or barrels. How to cook zucchini with meat and rice in the oven?
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A low-calorie vegetable in combination with mushrooms and rice can saturate for a long time, while not leaving a feeling of heaviness in the stomach. This dish is great for summer lunches and dinners, as it is very light and fresh. Due to the lack of meat, zucchini stuffed with mushrooms and rice are suitable for men who are fasting or losing weight. Details and photos below describe how to cook zucchini stuffed with rice in the oven.
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When choosing large, ripe fruits, they must first be freed from the skin and all seeds carefully removed, since even after baking they will remain very hard. Young vegetables are not necessary to peel, and the remaining pulp can be used for the filling, finely chopped. Stuffed zucchini with slices are very tasty and do not need preliminary preparation of the vegetable. Since the middle can not be removed in this case, exclusively young fruits are suitable.
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You can fill vegetables with different fillings: mushrooms, cereals, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, other vegetables, but the most nutritious are stuffed zucchini with minced meat and rice. Young zucchini with tender flesh and peel are best suited for cooking. They do not require serious preliminary preparation, so a minimum of time is spent on baking.
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Such an original snack perfectly complements any feast. The dish is easy to prepare, it turns out delicious and beautiful. At the same time, zucchini stuffed with rice and vegetables in the oven have a low calorie content and are suitable for diet food (if you do not use minced meat). The following describes the step-by-step cooking of this healthy, lean and nutritious dish.
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Good afternoon.
With this article, I am starting a new blog section: recipes for diet foods. They often ask me: “If I decided to switch to, then what should I cook?” I will answer this question. I will try to convey to you the idea that if a dish is called a diet, it does not mean that it is not tasty.
The principle of selection of dishes will be based on the possibility of using them as breakfast or lunch. That is, if observed, these recipes will come in handy for preparing a carbohydrate meal, in which these carbohydrates will be minimized there.
Well, since now is the high season of the vegetable season, we will begin with them.
I don’t know about you, but now we are in the midst of zucchini. The most interesting thing, in my opinion, is to make caviar out of them, but about this I will write the next article, and now we will stuff and bake them in the oven.
I will try to give recipes with photos and step by step so as not to miss anything important.
I offer you one of the simplest and quickest recipes so as not to spend all day in the kitchen.
First, prepare the filling. To do this, put the minced meat in a deep bowl, break the egg into it, add the chopped onion and mix all the ingredients thoroughly, not forgetting to salt and pepper.
If you are not afraid of excess calories, then in order to get a more tender filling, you can add a piece of bread, one hundred grams soaked in milk.
After that, cover the dish with a plate or cling film and send it to the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes, and at that time take care of the vegetables.
Cut the tomatoes into small cubes. It is better to remove the pulp from tomatoes so that the dish does not turn out to be excessively “watery”. Leave only the "walls".
Take the zucchini and cut into rings. The size does not matter here, the larger the vegetable, the more the fillings will fit.
The rings should be 1.5 - 2 cm thick. If the vegetable is already very mature, then you can cut off the peel from it. If young, then not necessarily
And then just cut out the middle
If desired, you can pre-fry the resulting rings in a pan, soaking them in the dough. But, because we have a diet recipe, we won’t do this. But salt is necessary.
Getting to the filling. We put the rings on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and spread the filler into the rings with a spoon.
Try to spread the minced meat as tight as possible, as when baked, the meat will “sit down” and may fall out of the nest
Having finished with meat, we make tomato caps for our little rings
And having finished with tomatoes, we fall asleep on top with cheese
We put our creation in a preheated oven to 180 degrees.
Ready time is about 20 minutes. During this time, the zucchini should be browned, the cheese should melt, and the meat should be baked.
For credibility, you can check readiness by piercing it with a fork. It should be soft throughout its thickness.
Bon Appetit!
This recipe is very similar to the previous one. The difference is that we give the vegetables a different shape. They will be cut lengthwise in the form of boats.
This change slightly changes the cooking order. This time you need to fry the filling before sending it to the oven. This is due to the fact that the meat mass will be larger and the zucchini can be baked until cooked sooner than the minced meat.
Wash and cut the vegetables along.
Cut the middle with a knife.
And remove the core with a spoon, forming a recess.
We achieve such a form here.
Now we take the hearts of zucchini (I hope you did not throw them out) and cut into small pieces.
Fry finely chopped onion and minced meat for 5 to 7 minutes.
Then add the hearts of zucchini to them and simmer for another 15 minutes.
At the end, add salt and pepper.
In the meantime, the whole thing is being stewed, chop the tomato.
Grate garlic and cheese.
After the minced meat has cooled a little, add tomatoes and garlic to it.
Stir and pour the sour cream and stir again.
We fill the resulting filling in pre-salted boats.
And sprinkle cheese on top.
We spread on a greased baking sheet and put it in the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
After 30 minutes, we get out the boats and make out greens.
Done. Bon Appetit!
Well, the fastest recipe is lazy. They chopped, mixed everything in a heap and sent to the oven.
Dice the zucchini.
Pour them into a deep bowl and add finely chopped tomatoes, onions and garlic. We send pre-washed rice and greens there.
Put finely chopped breast, sprinkle with spices (optional) and mix everything thoroughly.
We spread in the form and crush.
In a separate bowl, beat the milk with the egg.
Pour the mixture into a mold and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
We send the form to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
That's all. Bon Appetit!
Today I want to offer you a summer day dish. It will be very juicy and tender stuffed zucchini with minced meat and cheese. We will bake them in the oven. To save preparation time, use ready-made minced meat for stuffing, otherwise just make it yourself by twisting the meat in a meat grinder. The presence of fried vegetables and cheese in the meat filling gives zucchini a special piquant flavor.
Zucchini can be stuffed in two ways. The first method involves cutting the zucchini lengthwise into two parts and removing the middle from it. It turns out boats, which are then stuffed with filling and baked in the oven. The second way is that we will make small stuffed stumps of zucchini. We offer this option in our master class with step-by-step photographs.
Taste Info Second: zucchini and eggplant
For stuffing, you can use zucchini of various shapes and ripeness. Young zucchini for stuffing must be rinsed and cut into bars. For example, one middle zucchini can be cut into five parts. If you have zucchini with a thick, ripened peel, just remove it with a peeler.
With a teaspoon, carefully remove the inside to make cups. If these are young zucchini, then finely chop this inside and set aside for the filling. Of mature zucchini, do not use the inside for the dish, it is stiff because of the seeds.
For the filling, finely chop the onions, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
Grind pork-ground beef in a meat grinder in advance. If you wish, you can use chicken or plain minced pork for this recipe.
In vegetable oil, pass the onions with carrots and zucchini (cut minced portion) over medium heat. Add salt to taste to vegetables and squeeze a clove of garlic, sprinkle with ground pepper. From the pan, send the vegetable mixture to the minced meat.
Stir the minced meat and add finely chopped parsley into it.
Grate all the hard cheese and add one handful to the minced meat.
Place billets from squash cups on parchment in a baking sheet. Fill the zucchini with minced meat. In a hot oven, send stuffed zucchini at a temperature of 180 degrees. Bake zucchini for 20 minutes.
To get stuffed zucchini with a piquant and tasty top, I propose to prepare a cream and cheese dressing. To do this, mix sour cream with grated cheese. If you have a slice of blue cheese or parmesan, add it. Aged cheeses very well reveal their aroma when baked, and give the dish an excellent taste.
Fill top with stuffed zucchini and bake for another 15 -20 minutes.
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Ready stuffed zucchini can be served immediately after cooking or already in the cooled form.
Inside the stuffed zucchini, a very juicy and tasty filling is obtained.
When serving this dish, garnish it with a sprig of parsley and optionally pour sour cream on top of the zucchini.
The most delicious summer recipe for our family is considered zucchini stuffed with meat and baked in the oven. With many variations, such recipes are always win-win for a holiday and for everyday lunch.
You can add cheese, herbs, various vegetables, not only fresh, but also in canned form to meat for stuffed zucchini. And you can bake zucchini with meat both in the microwave and, necessarily, in the slow cooker. It always turns out tasty and easy. And already for the winter we will cook these vegetables
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Cut tomatoes with pepper into small cubes. chop one hundred grams of zucchini. Grind the carrots, finely chop the onion.
Fry the onion with carrot in a pan with vegetable oil. Mix with minced meat and add all the other chopped vegetables, salt and sprinkle with spices if you want.
We choose young zucchini, so you don’t need to peel the skin. We cut them into circles, each with a thickness of three to four centimeters, take out the middle with a spoon. We put it on a greased baking sheet or mold and fill it with minced meat, put mayonnaise and a little mashed cheese on top. determined in the oven, it needs to be warmed up to 180 degrees in advance and bake for an hour. Top you can still pour sour cream and sprinkle with fresh herbs.
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We clean and chop the garlic as you like, mix with minced meat. Rinse the greens, finely chop and put them into the minced meat, add the rice, and remember to add salt and pepper.
We cut tomatoes in thin circles, and zucchini with plastics, five centimeters wide. We take out the core, as in the first recipe, start with minced meat, cover with a slice of tomatoes on top and put it in a convenient dish. At the bottom you need to pour a little bit of water and sprinkle the top with grated cheese, bake until fully cooked.
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Rinse the zucchini with water and cut into ringlets two to three centimeters thick. Rub the onion on a grater or as it suits you, chop, add to the minced meat, break the egg there, add salt and add spices. Mix well.
Prepare a baking dish or sheet, grease with fat or oil. spread the zucchini with the center out, and instead of the middle put the minced meat. Bake until it starts to brown, pull out of the oven, sprinkle with cheese and put on top again to make a crust of cheese.
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I take young zucchini for boats, 25 centimeters long. Their skin is still tender and there are almost no seeds, but we still will not need a middle. We wash them under the tap, remove the tails and cut them in half lengthwise. From two zucchini four blanks for boats are obtained. We take out the middle with a spoon, and place the zucchini on a greased sheet, on a slice and bake for fifteen minutes in the oven.
To make the filling, we chop the onions and garlic and fry them together in a frying pan with butter, when they become soft, pour half of the pulp of zucchini that we pulled out into the pan, before we cut it into cubes. It is enough to fry for seven minutes. Now we shift everything from the pan so that there is oil left on it, it is on it that we will fry our minced meat, until tender, it's about ten minutes.
We mix minced meat with fried garlic and onions, salt and pepper, add chopped greens, mix everything and fill our squash boats. We put the boats on a baking sheet, now "to the bottom." Lay out the tomato slices nicely and put them in the oven for twenty minutes. Then pull it out, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake until the cheese is melted.
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We rinse the zucchini and cut it into rings of about seven centimeters thick, pull out the middle with a spoon. We lay them out on a sheet and bake them for about ten minutes ourselves, so that they are softer.
We can leave them on the same baking sheet or shift into another form and do the minced meat. I grind the washed mushrooms with a blender and fry them in a pan with butter, then add a finely chopped onion to them. Fry until the onion is clear.
Only then add the minced meat to the pan and quickly fry it so that it only “grabs”, just do not forget to salt everything and season with spices.
Now let's move on to the zucchini. We’ll make the “bottoms” of the tomato slices, put the minced meat on top, add a spoonful of sour cream directly on the minced meat so that it is not so dry. Top again from tomato and a piece of butter. Bake for twenty minutes, then you will need to pull them out and sprinkle with cheese, previously shabby and bake until it is melted.
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How to make a recipe:
We make cups of zucchini, cut into a thickness of five centimeters and take out the core. Dip them in hot slightly salted water and boil for seven minutes.
Rice is also boiled in slightly salted water and, while it is hot, add a piece of oil, stir.
Chop the onions and carrots and fry them a little, add the minced meat there, also fry them for about fifteen minutes and season them with spices and salt.
On the form we spread the circles of zucchini, inside we put the minced meat, add sour cream on top and send it to bake. Fifteen minutes later, pour cheese and wait for it to melt.
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To start, we’ll make minced meat. Cut the chicken breast into thin strips, mix with rice, which is boiled in advance, add mayonnaise. The melted cheese is slightly frozen and chopped on a grater, add to the minced meat.
We’ll make boats out of the zucchini and fill with minced meat, bake for about half an hour. And then just decorate with sprigs of greenery.