Cucumber cake, squash pancake: a quick-on recipe

Pancakes from courgettes are a wonderful dish, light, dietary, self-sufficient, but can also be used as a side dish.

So, what do you need to cook zucchini pancakes? The recipe for this dish is simple, and cooking is easier. For zucchini pancakes, we need a zucchini (you can have a patisson), an egg, flour, salt and greens (to taste). Marrows are crushed on a large grater, the eggs are lightly beaten with salt, a grated zucchini and flour are added to them - everything is mixed until homogeneous. Zucchini very quickly let the juice, so the frying should not proceed slowly. Spoon the mass is spread out in the hot oil and fried 3-5 minutes on one side, then pancakes turn over and fry until golden brown. Zucchini pancakes are perfectly combined with sour cream. There are also some variations. For example, in the dough you can add a little garlic - pancakes will turn piquant, sharp, fragrant. If you do not want to add garlic to the dough, you can make a wonderful seasoning, which is easy to prepare and taste. Finely cut greens, squeezed garlic, salted and seasoned with mayonnaise (you can sour cream). Everything is mixed, and this seasoning is poured into a pancake. Tasty and beautiful.

Well, did you already want to cook zucchini pancakes? The recipe can be slightly improved. To the above ingredients, we add grated potatoes, onion, a spoonful of starch and 50 grams of hard cheese (also grated). All the ingredients are thoroughly mixed into a thick mass and spooned into a frying pan. Fry and almost full readiness, and then transferred to a pan and "reach" in the oven for another 10 minutes. Serve them with sour cream or seasoning, indicated above.

As you can see, the recipe for zucchini pancakes is quite simple, but it allows you to fully enjoy the wonderful vine of this vegetable, and also to replenish the vitamin supply in the body: after all, the cabbage is not only a tasty but also a useful food. The nutritional value of zucchini is comparable to the nutritional value of cucumbers, leaf lettuce, lettuce. Zucchini is rich in mineral salts, which play a key role in metabolism in the human body. It contains a large number of salts of potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium. Somewhat less is iron, sulfur, sodium. In addition to the above, in the zucchini there is molybdenum, arsen, zinc. In addition, the zucchini contains vitamin C, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, as well as nicotinic acid. As you can see, this humble vegetable is a storehouse of vitamins, minerals and trace elements, and sometimes it is undeservedly forgotten and not used in the daily diet.

If you do not go far from the original idea to cook zucchini pancakes, the recipe can not be changed. A simple dough made from zucchini, eggs and flour is made, but not pancakes are fried, but rather pancakes - thinner and bigger. Thus, we open a recipe for cake from courgettes. On the cake you need pancakes 8-10; In addition to zucchini, you need mayonnaise (or better dressing from mayonnaise with herbs and garlic) and tomatoes. On a flat plate lay out a pancake, smear with dressing, then - a layer of tomatoes, cut into thin circles, then again a layer of dressing and a pancake - and so several times. What will be crowned a "cake" - a pancake made from zucchini or an originally cut tomato is a cook's business. Such a cake from zucchini before serving should be kept for one and a half to two hours, so that the layers are impregnated with the seasoning, and the product became homogeneous. This cake can act as an independent dish, but also serves as a garnish to any boiled fish or meat. It is sliced like a normal cake, slices, and, spreading on portions plates, sprinkle with greens from above.

Dishes from courgettes are various and useful. Take a cake from this vegetable, fry it with a beaten egg, braise it with tomatoes, cook ragout or zucchini pancakes out of it. The recipe of all these dishes is simple, but the result will exceed your expectations if you cook zucchini, seasoning it with your imagination and the desire to tasty and useful to feed your loved ones.