Zucchini is an unpretentious vegetable that is sold in supermarkets and on the market almost all the year round. Due to the fact that in itself it has almost no pronounced taste, it can be combined with everything: meat, other vegetables (for example, in stews or solyanka), and the vegetable can be fried in a batter or baked. Try to cook zucchini with cheese and tomatoes in the oven. You and your family will love this, albeit a vegetarian, but very satisfying dish - tender circles under a cheese crust will be a wonderful second course for lunch, or a full dinner. So, how to cook zucchini with cheese in the oven, read on in our article. This dish is also good because the main ingredient should not be fried, but baked. Due to this, it will not contain excess oil. After zucchini or eggplant soak up a very large amount of fat when frying, but when baking or extinguishing this effect can be avoided. As a result, it will be delicious, and quite useful.
Prepare zucchini with cheese and tomatoes in the oven
For a large portion of this dish you will need:
- 800 grams of zucchini (one large vegetable);
- 2 medium ripe tomatoes;
- 150 grams of any cheese, you can take "Gouda";
- 200 ml of milk of any fat content;
- 100 gr of wheat flour for breading;
- 2 eggs;
- spices - half a teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of extruded garlic, 1 teaspoon fresh or dry dill;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil.
First we prepare the zucchini: it needs to be washed, peeled (but if you have a young vegetable, then the skin can not be removed), cut into rings with a thickness of approximately 0.8 cm. For batter in a deep bowl, mix eggs, milk, garlic and ground pepper . It should be a liquid homogeneous mass. After pour the flour into parts. Again stir, you should not have lumps. Then each circle of zucchini should be lowered into the batter and fry in a frying pan with red-hot vegetable oil for a maximum of three minutes. A small secret - zucchini should be cooked on a very hot frying pan - do not be afraid if they burn. Thus, the cooking process will go faster, and the vegetable will absorb the minimum amount of oil. When all zucchini are browned, place them on a greased baking sheet, place a tomato on each side of the tomato, and then sprinkle with grated cheese (if desired, the cheese can be rubbed and cut into thin plates). At the end of the preparation, sprinkle each circle with ground black pepper. Courgettes with cheese and tomatoes in the oven, heated to 180-200 degrees, you need to bake for about 20 minutes. After that, the dish is ready. Put it on a nice plate and immediately serve it to the table. The whole cooking process will take you no more than 40 minutes, after that you can please the home with a delicious lunch or dinner.
Zucchini with cheese and tomatoes in the oven - cooking option
This recipe is slightly simpler than the previous one and does not require preliminary frying of the vegetable in battered vegetable oil. Therefore, it can be considered with full confidence a dietary variant of the dish. For preparation, take:
- several young zucchini;
2-3 ripe, fleshy tomatoes;
- 50 gr of hard cheese like "Parmesan";
- spices to taste - salt, pepper, herbs.
In this case zucchini with tomatoes and cheese in the oven are prepared even faster. Slice the vegetables in thin slices about 1 cm, add salt, sprinkle a little pepper and bake at 180-200 degrees for about 5-7 minutes. After taking it out of the oven, lay a tomato slice on top and sprinkle with grated cheese. Next, place the pan again in the oven and cook until the cheese melts. It will take about 5 more minutes. The dish is ready. On the whole process from the beginning to the end you will take no more than 20 minutes, and the result will be no worse than in the previous recipe. Given the lack of batter and fats, such zucchini with cheese and tomatoes in the oven can afford even those who sit on a diet or take care of the caloric content of their diet. Also, the dish will be useful for children, because vegetables without oil, but flavored with cheese - a great way to teach the child to a healthy and healthy diet. And you can just bake zucchini in the oven with tomatoes, and instead of cheese from above put a lot of fresh greens. The calorie content of such a dish will be extremely low, and the taste will exceed all your expectations. Take these recipes for a note, then for the next dinner you are guaranteed to enjoy a delicious vegetable dish of all members of your family.