Zucchini cake can be classified as second courses and snacks. This is a nutritious, satisfying and colorful in taste saturation delicacy. The ingredient composition may be different. It is to demonstrate a large number of fillings that the material will be directed.

Zucchini Cake - Basic Recipe

The classic recipe for zucchini cake can be called a version with tomatoes.

Zucchini cake - what to take for cooking:

  • five young zucchini;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 6 tomato;
  • 150 g of flour;
  • 200 ml of mayonnaise;
  • 4 cloves of garlic;
  • to taste we take greens (dill, parsley), spices (salt, pepper);
  • oil for frying squash cakes.

On how to make a simple cake of zucchini, read on:

  1. Zucchini, preferably young, washed, peeled, and chopped with a coarse grater. Slightly add and wait 15 minutes. The last manipulation will remove excess fluid from the squash.
  2. In order not to waste time in vain, we spend it on the preparation of tomato and garlic dressing. Cut tomatoes into thin, neat circles. We make garlic dressing on the basis of mayonnaise and garlic passed through a press.
  3. Next, we fold the squash into a colander and, squeezing the mass with your hands, we remove the excess liquid.
  4. After completing the spin, we break the eggs into the squash mass, add chopped greens, spices. And, having mixed well, we proceed to the next stage: adding an adhesive base - flour.
  5. Do not worry, if after adding the whole mass of flour, the dough you still have not reached the ideal consistency, like on pancakes. Remember that we cook in zucchini, and they may require more flour depending on moisture.In order not to worry about the possibility of destruction of squash cakes, add a little starch.He will fasten the dough and allow you to easily turn the pancakes.
  6. The dough is ready. It remains to spread it on a greased and hot pan, distributing it on the surface with an ordinary tablespoon.
  7. Zucchini pancakes are prepared in the same way as ordinary pancakes - until cooked and on both sides. At the same time, the cooking time will be slightly longer, since our pancakes should be more dense and thick.
  8. Frying all the shortcakes, put them on a paper towel and wait for cooling.
  9. The cakes have cooled, the tomatoes are sliced, and the garlic dressing has long been waiting in the wings, so we proceed to the assembly of the cake from the squash pancakes:
  • Each zucchini pancake is first smeared with garlic dressing. For an ideal taste, we recommend taking a sample from the cakes - by cutting a small piece. If the amount of spices is not enough, then supplement it with a cream.
  • Put tomatoes at the gas station.

If desired, slightly sprinkle with chopped herbs, give the cake a little soak, and we can safely enjoy its amazing taste.

Zucchini cake: cook with tomatoes and cheese

The option of making a cake from zucchini with cheese has a small feature - it must be baked in the oven until ready.

Zucchini cake with tomatoes and cheese - what to take for cooking:

  • 3 medium-sized squash;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 2 tomatoes;
  • 200 g of cheese;
  • 200 g of flour;
  • 200 ml of mayonnaise;
  • 3 cloves of garlic;
  • herbs, spices to taste.

Let's start cooking squash cake:

  1. Grind clean and dried zucchini into a coarse grater.
  2. This recipe does not require reclining in a colander, so immediately break the eggs to the zucchini.
  3. We add spices together with flour. Knead everything and check the dough: it should be like good fat sour cream
  4. Warm the pan well and, having smeared it with oil, spread a small amount of dough, smoothing the surface well. The thickness of each pancake is about 0.5 cm.
  5. After laying out the pancakes on a paper base, we wait for cooling, at this time we cut the tomatoes into circles and prepare a cream of chopped garlic, mayonnaise and herbs.
  6. Cheese: it is necessary to grind it into a coarse grater.
  7. We start to collect the cake. We do this on parchment laid on a baking sheet. Korzh - cream - tomatoes - cheese. This sequence should be followed until the ingredients are completely finished. An exception may be the top cake: it is enough just to smear it with cream and sprinkle with cheese.
  8. We bake a cake from zucchini pancakes with tomatoes and cheese in the oven for half an hour, subject to a temperature of 200 ° C.

Despite baking in the oven, this cake is traditionally served as a cold snack.

Zucchini cake with carrots and onions

The recipe for making a cake with carrots is a more laborious, but no less tasty variation on the performance of squash delicacies.

What we need:

  • 2 large carrots;
  • 3 onions;
  • 2 tomatoes;
  • 5 cloves of garlic;
  • 150 g of cheese;
  • 4 zucchini;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 200 g mayonnaise;
  • flour.

Let's start the process of making a cake:

  1. For cooking zucchini pancakes, you can use one of the two previously described options.
  2. A feature of the recipe is that you do not need to wait for the cakes to cool. You can collect the cake on the basis of hot pancakes.
  3. Getting to the filling. Grated carrots and chopped onions are passaged in vegetable oil.
  4. Combine garlic with mayonnaise and herbs.
  5. Cut tomatoes into circles.
  6. Grind the cheese.
  7. Now we collect the cake: cake - cream - passivated vegetables - tomatoes - cheese.

The zucchini cake with carrots and onions turns out to be very tasty: it can be served both hot and chilled.

Mushroom recipe

Snack cake from zucchini with mushrooms is delicious and nutritious.

For cooking, we need:

  • 2 large zucchini;
  • 400 g of champignons;
  • 1 onion;
  • 3 cloves of garlic;
  • 200 ml of mayonnaise;
  • dill, spices, oil to taste if necessary.

Let's start cooking squash cake:

  1. The process of making zucchini pancakes is described in the first two recipes: you can use any option.
  2. A cream based on mayonnaise and garlic is also prepared according to basic recipes.

Since the process will differ in the filling, we will focus on the preparation in it:

  1. Onions cut into half rings. We are sent to be passaged in vegetable oil.
  2. At this time, we cut the mushrooms, send them to the mushrooms and fry until cooked.

We collect the cake: cake, cream, fried onions with mushrooms.

We give the cake a little soak and enjoy its incredible taste.

Ground Beef Cake with Zucchini

The recipe differs from the previously presented: for a change, we will move away from the base in the form of zucchini pancakes, and we will make from the zucchini something like a cocoon in which the meat filling will be baked.

We will prepare the following ingredients:

  • 4 medium squash;
  • 400 g of ground beef, tomato and mushrooms;
  • 2 large onions;
  • 3 tbsp. l rice;
  • 200 ml of sour cream.

And do not forget about spices and herbs.

We proceed to the process of preparing a delicious ground beef cake with zucchini:

  1. Prepare the filling. To do this, fry chopped mushrooms, onions in vegetable oil. Salt and pepper, focusing on your taste.
  2. To avoid the appearance of an unpleasant film, sauté the minced meat a little, and then combine it with rice already boiled until half-cooked. Slightly salt, pepper - remember that other components will be seasoned, so do not overdo it.
  3. Cut the tomatoes into circles.
  4. Now attention! Zucchini according to this recipe must be cut into slices - thin strips. For this, it is convenient to use a peeler. The thickness of each slice is about 2-3 mm. Leaflets should bend well.
  5. In a baking dish we spread with an overlap of zucchini. We leave one edge free - we will close our dish with it from above. Salt and pepper so that the zucchini does not turn out fresh.
  6. In the middle we spread the minced meat with rice.
  7. Now again the zucchini. For the middle layer, slices can be halved in length.
  8. On zucchini spread the frying of onions and mushrooms.
  9. Following are the tomatoes.
  10. Smear everything with sour cream. If desired, you can supplement the recipe with cheese.
  11. We connect the free edges of the lower zucchini so that we get a cocoon with the internal filling of minced meat, mushrooms with onions and a tomato. If a gap forms in the middle: close it with tomatoes.
  12. We coat the squash with sour cream and set to bake for 40 minutes.

We observe the temperature regime of 190 ° C.

Ground beef cake with zucchini, prepared in this way, turns out to be very tasty and, just as important, hearty and nutritious.

Vegetable cake: zucchini version with cottage cheese

The process of making a cake of zucchini is not much different from a cake of zucchini. But there is one filling that maximally reveals the taste of zucchini - cottage cheese.

 

Read more about how to make zucchini cake with cottage cheese.

What you need to take from the products - for the test:

  • 2 zucchini;
  • 5 eggs;
  • 130 g of flour;
  • spices and butter.

For the filling and cream:

  • 200 g of cottage cheese;
  • 150 g sour cream;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • 1 fresh cucumber and tomato.

Let's start cooking:

  1. We will prepare the dough based on the claimed set of products using proven technology. Fry thin, delicious pancakes.
  2. Cream: we make it on the basis of cottage cheese, garlic, crushed through a grater of cucumber and sour cream. The last ingredient can be replaced with yogurt or mayonnaise.
  3. We coat the finished cakes with cream, supplement with tomato circles and repeat the layers until the ingredients are completely consumed.

Let us brew for a couple of hours in the cold and enjoy.

Cake made of squash pancakes and bacon

The recipe can be called an ideal alternative for a lazy or busy housewife, the only thing that you need to cook pancakes using the previously announced options for kneading and frying, and smear them with cream, shifting everything with strips of bacon and tomato.

Ingredients for the dough:

  • 900 g squash;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 160 g of flour;
  • greenery.

Ingredients for cream and toppings:

  • 2 tomatoes;
  • 3 cloves of garlic;
  • 250 g mayonnaise;
  • 5 strips of bacon.

How to make zucchini cake with bacon?

  1. By hand, and to be honest, using the first recipes, we turn zucchini, eggs and flour into pancakes.
  2. We coat them with crushed garlic and mayonnaise cream.
  3. Spread tomatoes and bacon on top.
  4. Repeat the layers until the ingredients are available.
  5. We coat the top layer with cream and put the cake in the refrigerator.

After a couple of hours, you can already eat the snack.

Zucchini cake: crab stick snack recipe

To prepare the filling based on crab meat, take:

  • packaging of crab sticks;
  • 150 g of cheese;
  • a few cloves of garlic;
  • mayonnaise.

Cooking process:

  1. Finely grind crab sticks and cheese into a coarse grater.
  2. But chop the garlic into a fine grater.
  3. Mix cheese, garlic and mayonnaise. At the same time, we leave a little cheese to decorate the top layer.
  4. We coat the shortcakes with the finished cream, sprinkle them with crab sticks for the cream.

We complete the cooking process with the final touch: sprinkle in the form of cheese.

Cake requires impregnation in the refrigerator, so you have to wait a bit.

Zucchini cake is a diverse dish. He will be pleased, as meat-eaters, and hard vegetarians. The main thing is to cook it correctly.

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