In the zucchini season, many housewives find it difficult to come up with delicious dishes from this vegetable, besides the popular garlic pancakes. In fact, there are a lot of options for original treats with such an ingredient. One of the most interesting and delicious is the zucchini casserole in the oven, which can be prepared with a variety of meat and vegetable additives.

Oven zucchini casserole - classic recipe

The classic recipe for such a casserole was the simplest and most understandable. Certainly even a novice hostess can cope with it. To prepare the dish you will need to take: 600 g of fresh vegetables, 2 eggs, a large handful of breadcrumbs, 120 g of hard cheese, a pinch of Provence herbs and granulated garlic, salt, oil.

  1. If young zucchini is used for casserole, then they can not even be peeled, because it is very soft and delicate. It is enough to wash the vegetables thoroughly and remove dark spots from their sides with a sharp knife. After that, the squash is rubbed on a coarse grater.
  2. When the vegetables start juice (after about 10-15 minutes), they need to be squeezed slightly, and then add eggs and cheese to the mass. The latter is also rubbed on a coarse grater.
  3. All ingredients are salted, sprinkled with dry herbs and garlic, and then thoroughly mixed.
  4. The resulting mixture is laid out in a baking dish, greased with butter or vegetable oil.
  5. The top of the future casserole is sprinkled with breadcrumbs. This is the main secret of the recipe. Such an additive not only absorbs excess moisture released from vegetables, but also creates a delicious crisp on the surface.
  6. The casserole is cooked in a preheated oven at approximately 175 degrees.If the dish is easily shaped in a thin layer, then 25-30 minutes is enough.

Served hot treats with sour cream or garlic sauce.

Recipe with minced meat and rice

More nutritious zucchini casserole will make minced meat and rice.

A dish prepared according to this recipe will become a full lunch or dinner. For it you need to use the following ingredients: 2 zucchini, 1 white onion, 280 g of any minced meat, 130 g of rice, 50 g of flour, 1 egg, salt, spices, oil.

  1. Zucchini rub on a coarse grater with the skin and the middle. After 5-7 minutes, excess fluid is squeezed out.
  2. Onions are chopped in any convenient way and fried with minced meat in vegetable oil.
  3. Rice is boiled until half cooked, after which it is mixed with pressed vegetables.
  4. Egg, flour and meat with onions are added to the rice-squash mass.
  5. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed, laid out in a greased form, leveled and baked for approximately 35 minutes.

If it is necessary to reduce the calorie content of the finished dish, onions and minced meat can be sent to the casserole raw - without prior frying.

With potatoes and cheese

There are other options for making squash casserole more delicious and satisfying. You can add potatoes (800 g) and hard cheese (450 g) to it. And, in addition, you will need to use: 400 g of zucchini, 2 white onions, 2 eggs, 0.6 l. milk, a slice of butter.

  1. Zucchini are washed, peeled and cut into small slices. Potatoes are first boiled until tender, and then chopped in similar slices.
  2. Both vegetables are laid in layers on the bottom of a greased form. It’s best to have potatoes first.
  3. Onions are cut as finely as possible and fried in vegetable oil until transparent. Then, together with the liquid, it is transferred to a separate bowl. Milk is poured into the vegetable, and eggs are driven in. Then the ingredients are again thoroughly mixed with a whisk.
  4. The resulting mixture is poured potatoes with zucchini. Any hard cheese is rubbed on top. There should be a lot of the latter so that it completely covers the entire form.
  5. In a well-heated oven, the dish is baked for 45 minutes.

To avoid burning cheese, you can sprinkle them with treats about 10 minutes before being cooked. In this case, the casserole will be covered with a tender, viscous appetizing mass.

With minced chicken or chicken breast

 

Such a casserole has the additional name “Sissy”, it fully conveys its main feature. The dish really turns out surprisingly tender. To prepare it, you need to take: 450 g of chicken breast, 2 large young zucchini, 2 eggs, 1 white onion, 50 g of hard cheese, 120 ml. heavy cream, a couple of cloves of garlic, salt, any seasonings, oil.

  1. Zucchini are washed, peeled, rubbed on a coarse grater and salted to taste. After about 20 minutes, they need to be squeezed from the released juice.
  2. Chicken meat is separated from the skin and bones, and then passed together with coarsely chopped onions and cloves of garlic through a meat grinder. The hostess can also use ready-made meat or just finely chop the meat pieces with a sharp knife. Salt to taste is added to the chicken, selected spices and eggs.
  3. Minced meat or meat slices are mixed with squeezed squash and laid out in a greased form of a suitable diameter.
  4. The future casserole is poured with cream and sprinkled with cheese.

There is a tasty dish with tartar sauce cooked with finely chopped pickled cucumbers and garlic.

With sour cream and cheese

If you want to serve squash casserole as a side dish for meat, it is best to cook vegetables with fat sour cream and hard cheese. Perfect for such a dish is a round shape with a diameter of 24 cm. You will also need to use the following ingredients: 2 medium zucchini, a small onion, 80 g of thick sour cream, 130 g of any hard cheese, 2 eggs, a couple of garlic cloves, salt, spices, butter, greens to taste.

  1. Zucchini with the skin is cut into small cubes.
  2. Onions, herbs and garlic are chopped as much as possible.The ingredients are mixed with zucchini, salted, sprinkled with seasonings and mixed.
  3. Eggs are beaten separately, and the cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater. The ingredients are mixed together (1/3 of the cheese must be left to sprinkle with casseroles), sour cream and salt are added to them.
  4. First of all, squash is transferred to the mold, and then the resulting egg-sour cream mixture is poured.
  5. The remaining cheese is poured on top.
  6. The dish is cooked in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes until a delicious brownish crust appears.

To add piquancy to the treat, you can use sharp cheese or add a pinch of granulated garlic to the filling.

Caserol - an original recipe for squash casseroles

 

This interesting dish came to us from the USA. Its main secret is to use processed cheese (550 g) instead of the usual one. Also, for such a treat you will need to take: 5 eggs, 900 g of zucchini, 3 white onions, salt, seasonings, vegetable oil.

  1. Zucchini and onions are cut into thin slices. Salt and any spices are added to the vegetables, after which they are gently mixed.
  2. The baking dish is greased with oil, after which onions with zucchini, cream cheese are laid out in it and the eggs are whipped until the foam appears.
  3. The dish is baked in a well-heated oven for 30 to 40 minutes. The exact time depends on the depth of the mold.

Read also: zucchini jam

Serve casserole with sour cream, mayonnaise or any other sauce.

Vegetable casserole with mushrooms

In the autumn, a vegetable casserole recipe with zucchini and wild mushrooms becomes especially popular. At other times, champignons (230 g) can be safely used for such a dish. In addition to mushrooms, you need to take: 5 zucchini, 3 tomatoes, 1 pc. onion and sweet pepper, 3-4 cloves of garlic, a pinch of dry basil, 220 g of mozzarella and 80 g of parmesan, salt, oil.

  1. To make the appearance of the dish more original, it is worth rubbing the zucchini with a grater for Korean carrots. The resulting straw is placed in a colander, sprinkled with salt and left until the remaining vegetables are prepared.
  2. Mushrooms are cut into large pieces and fried with carrots, onions and bell peppers chopped in any way.
  3. Last of all, garlic and slices of tomatoes along with juice are added to the pan, sliced ​​into thin slices. Ingredients are simmering for 7-10 minutes.
  4. Zucchini is carefully squeezed and sent to the remaining vegetables along with dried basil.
  5. The mass is thoroughly mixed and evenly distributed in a greased form. It remains to sprinkle the workpiece with two types of cheese and send it to the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
  6. Casserole can be served as a side dish for meat.

If you want to add even more cheese flavor to the dish, you should use 100 g of ricotta. Clots of the product are distributed on the surface of the vegetable mass and are slightly pressed inward.

Eggplant and Tomato Recipe

 

Zucchini goes well with other vegetables. For example, with eggplant. For juiciness, tomatoes (3 pcs.) Should be added to this dish, and for meat, any minced meat (450 g). In addition to these ingredients, you need to take: 2 large young zucchini, 3 eggplant, 2 eggs, 170 g of cheese, 1 onion, salt, spices, a bunch of fresh herbs, butter, flour. The following describes how to cook a casserole from zucchini with minced meat and vegetables.

  1. Eggplant is peeled and cut into slices about 0.5 cm thick. Next, the vegetable is left for half an hour in a bowl of cold water to leave bitterness from it.
  2. Chopped onions with minced meat are salted, seasoned with selected spices and fried in vegetable oil or fat until tender.
  3. Eggplants are laid out from the water on paper towels, after which they are salted, crumbled in flour and fried until golden brown. Then they are sent back to napkins so that the paper absorbs excess oil.
  4. Eggs are driven into the minced meat with onions, after which the mass is thoroughly kneaded.
  5. Zucchini peeled and cut into thin circles.
  6. Eggplant, zucchini, minced meat are alternately laid out in a greased form.Then the layers are repeated again.
  7. From above, the future casserole is covered with slices of tomatoes, chopped herbs and grated cheese.
  8. Bake for 25 minutes in a well-heated oven.

For such a dish, you can also use minced chicken or poultry fillet cut in small pieces.

Zucchini casserole in the oven with cottage cheese

At first glance, zucchini and cottage cheese seem to be completely incompatible products, but together they can easily be turned into the most tender juicy casserole. To prepare such a dish, you need to take the following products: 2 zucchini, 270 g of cottage cheese, 120 g of hard cheese, 2 eggs, 60 ml. milk, granulated garlic, black pepper, salt, butter.

  1. Milk, eggs, salt and pepper are thoroughly beaten with a whisk until smooth.
  2. The curd is rubbed through a sieve, the cheese is crushed with a coarse grater. The ingredients combine together, garlic is added to them.
  3. It remains to connect both workpieces, mix and put in a greased form.
  4. Squash, sliced ​​in circles, is laid out on top of the curd and cheese mass. You can alternate the layers of cottage cheese and vegetable.
  5. The casserole is sprinkled with cheese and cooked in the oven for 45 minutes.

This recipe for squash casseroles will add cottage cheese to the diet of the smallest family members who refuse to eat the dairy product separately.

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