Cooking a cake of courgettes: 4 recipes

In the season of zucchini, each hostess begins to experiment with this product. Some close salads, others prepare unusual jams, others extinguish them with various additives and so on. We want to offer you a cake of courgettes. The dish turns out very delicate and tasty, while it can be either lean or meaty. They serve it in hot, warm and cold form and in any variant it is able to decorate any table, including festive.

to your menu. What can be a zucchini cake?

When preparing a cake from courgettes, the main thing is not to overdo it. If there are too many layers, it will simply fall apart when cutting. It is enough to limit ourselves to four or five pancakes, which will alternate with the filling.

Note! Some mistresses, trying to simplify the recipe, bake from a zucchini dough not pancakes, but small flat cakes, and collect multilayered structures from them. However, the result is not the best - the cake quickly loses its shape and turns into an incomprehensible mass!

The cake from zucchini should be made by all means from thin wide pancakes, which are quite simple to fry and after picking. And in order for them to keep the shape and it was easy to turn them in a frying pan, it is enough to add flour, mango, eggs and some hard cheese to the dough.

Filling

As a rule, in the role of the basis for the filling in most cases mayonnaise. But this should not be stopped. The easiest way to diversify it is to combine the base with fried onions and carrots. In this case, instead of mayonnaise, it is possible( and better) to use sour cream or mix it with kefir.

To make the filling more fragrant and spicy, garlic, herbs, spices are added to it. In addition, it can put hard or melted cheese, fresh herbs, mushrooms or minced meat. Alternatively, shift the squash pancakes with circles of tomatoes, Bulgarian pepper, marinated or fresh cucumbers.

Cake from zucchini vegetable

To prepare this dish you will need the following products:

• half a kilo of zucchini;
• carrot root;
• bulb;
• 125 ml of sour cream;
• 125 g of flour;
• a pair of eggs;
• 25 g of mango;
• 30-45 ml of the plant.oil;
• several parsley sprigs;
• 4-5 g of salt.

Squash is thoroughly washed under running water and rubbed on a medium grater.

Note! If you use young zucchini, you do not need to peel them from the peel and seeds!

In the zucchini mass, drive in eggs, sift flour, add salt, mango and mix well, breaking all the lumps.

In a frying pan, we warm up the vegetable oil and bake pancakes. Fry them preferably on medium heat until golden brown on each side. Turn them will be convenient with a wide shovel - so pancakes will not break and the cake will turn out even. Of the indicated number of ingredients, you should get 3-4 pancakes.

The bulb is released from the husks and finely shredded. Carrots are cleaned and rubbed. Fry prepared vegetables, salted, a little pepper, let cool and combine with the specified amount of sour cream. We interlace the squash pancakes with the stuffing. Top with sprinkled finished cake chopped greens.

With cream cheese and tomatoes

The recipe for zucchini cake with melted cheese is also quite simple. Thanks to a special impregnation the dish turns out to be very satisfying and incredibly tasty. At the same time, you can regulate his piquancy yourself, putting more or less garlic and spices.

So, the ingredients you need:

• kilo squashes;
• 160 g of flour;
• 65 ml of sunflower oil;
• 3 eggs;
• 5-6 g of salt;
• 1/3 part of cheddar.spoons of ground pepper;
• 150 g of mayonnaise;
• 200 g of processed cheese;
• 5-6 tomatoes;
• several branches of dill;
• 3 clove of garlic.

First we are preparing a juicy impregnation. Fused cheese is rubbed on a fine grater and mixed with mayonnaise. With garlic, we peel off the husks and cut them small and finely with a knife. Greens thoroughly washed, shake off water and finely shred. Add garlic mass and chopped greens to mayonnaise with cheese. We knead to a homogeneous state.

Zucchini well mine, if necessary, peel and extract the seeds. We rub on a large grater. To the vegetable mass, add eggs, the specified amount of flour. Prisalivayem, pepper to taste and mix.

Let's stir on medium heat a frying pan, pour a little vegetable oil and bake pancakes. One cake will need about 4 tablespoons of zucchini dough. We level each pancake and fry it from two sides until it forms an appetizing crust. We form the cake, promazyvaya each of its layer stuffing and laying ringlets of tomatoes.

With minced meat

Summer diet is difficult to imagine without zucchini. And if you are tired of ordinary pancakes, you can quite prepare a more interesting dish - a cake of zucchini with minced meat. Thanks to a rich filling it becomes a full-fledged nutritious dinner, which is prepared quite simply and quickly.

You will need the following ingredients:

• 650 grams of squash;
• 90-100 g of flour;
• 5-6 g of salt;
• 75 ml of vegetable oil;
• 1/3 part of cheddar.spoons of black pepper;
• 3 eggs;
• bulb;
• 400 g minced meat;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• 130-140 g of mayonnaise.

We release the onion head from the husks and shred a small cube. Fry to transparency in two tables.spoons of vegetable oil. Add the specified amount of ground beef, salted, sprinkled with pepper and continue to fry with constant stirring for about twenty minutes. Remove the filling from the plate, let it cool down. With garlic peel, skip through the press and put into a warm stuffing. We mix everything thoroughly.

We are engaged in zucchini pancakes. Vegetables are washed under running water and rubbed on a grater. Pour salt in, mix and leave for ten minutes. After the specified time, drain the liquid, add eggs, 4 tables.spoons of sifted flour, pepper and knead the dough. If necessary, add salt.



Well we will scorch a frying pan, pour in butter and bake squash pancakes. As the dough turns out to be rather dense, it will not spread out in the frying pan - in order for each cake to turn smooth, they need to be leveled with a spatula. Fry the squash pancakes on each side until the golden crust appears, put it on the dish and let it cool.

The filling is divided into three parts and we sandwich our cake. Fold the cakes exactly one on top of the other, decorate with greens and send it to the refrigerator for about an hour.

With mushrooms

You can cook this cake from zucchini with any mushrooms.

Recommendation! The easiest way to work, of course, with mushrooms, and get them much easier, but if there is such an opportunity, it is better to use forest mushrooms. They will give the dish a special flavor and surprisingly bright taste.

To prepare the dish, you must prepare the following products:

• half a kilo of zucchini;
• 90-100 g of flour;
• 4 eggs;
• 80 ml of vegetable oil;
• a couple of pinch of black pepper;
• 5-6 g of salt;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• 450-550 g of mushrooms;
• bulb;
• 85 g of cheese;
• 90 ml of sour cream.

Rinse courgettes and grate. Sdabrivaem salt, stir and let stand for about ten minutes. Merge the resulting liquid, squash the mass slightly. We add eggs, 100 g of flour, pepper and crushed garlic. We mix it well. The dough should have a consistency of thick sour cream.

In a small frying pan heated oil and bake squash pancakes. It should turn out 5-6 golden roasted cakes. Bake until ready and lay out on a wide dish. Let's cool down a little.

Mushrooms are cleaned and cut into thin slices. We fry in two tables.spoons of vegetable oil. The bulb is peeled from the husks, shredded with a small cube and added to the mushrooms. We continue to fry the filling with constant stirring for 8-9 minutes.

Finished mushrooms with onions are transferred to a blender and grinded until the pâté is obtained. We return it to the frying pan, add sour cream, salted, pepper and stew for several minutes. Remove from the plate and immediately add grated cheese on a fine grater. Fast stir to make the cheese melt.

Form the cake, promazyvaya each cake stuffing. Top spread the remaining amount of mushroom mass.

Bon appetit!