The aroma of casserole hovering in the house always indicates that peace, love and friendship reign in the family. Let's delight our households and prepare an amazing tasty zucchini and meat casserole.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Many people believe that delicious casseroles are only cottage cheese. However, you can cook an amazing similar dish from everyone's favorite zucchini, which, in company with meat, make the dish even festive. If you try this casserole, you will fall in love with it from the very first bite. She will give new taste sensations, while enriching the body with useful substances. And the calorie content of the dish can be controlled by the ingredients added, making it more dietary or satisfying.
This casserole does not require special preparation of products. Zucchini and meat are fried and then baked under sour cream gravy. Although there are many ways to prepare it. You can add tomatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, bell peppers and other ingredients to the recipe. Only imagination and taste preferences can limit the variety of products.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 76 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 30 minutes for preparatory work, 40 minutes for baking
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 1 pc.
- Meat - 300 g
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Hard cheese - 100 g
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Dill - bunch
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Refined vegetable oil - for frying
Cooking meat casserole with zucchini
1. Cut off the film and veins from the meat, remove excess fat, wash and pat dry with a paper towel. Then cut it into medium pieces. Do not cut it very finely, otherwise during frying, the meat will dry out too much and lose its juiciness. Any type of meat can be used. If you want to get a more dietary dish, then chicken, veal or rabbit meat is suitable. Eat a hearty meal, use pork or beef.
2. Heat the frying pan with vegetable oil well, set a high heat and send the meat to fry. The high temperature will allow the meat to quickly crust over and retain all the juiciness. Fry it for about 10 minutes, and 2-3 minutes before finishing, season with salt and pepper.
3. Wash the courgettes, wipe off with a napkin and cut into rings about 5 mm thick. If using overripe fruits, remove the rough skin from them and remove the seeds. But it is advisable to buy young zucchini, they are more juicy, soft and tender.
4. In another skillet, fry the zucchini on both sides until lightly golden in vegetable oil. After browning them on one side, flip them over and season with salt and pepper.
5. Prepare the dressing. Peel and chop the garlic. Wash and chop the dill. Cool the sour cream. Cheese grate on a fine grater. You can use any cheese according to your taste and allowing finances: feta, mozzarella, feta cheese, suluguni, Adyghe, tushinsky. Better use fat sour cream, you can replace it with 20% cream. Dill can also be replaced or supplemented with any other herb to taste: parsley, cilantro, basil.
6. Combine all sauce ingredients in a deep bowl.
7. Stir the sour cream dressing well.
8. When all the food is ready, start shaping the casserole. Find an ovenproof dish that can be used in the oven. There is no need to lubricate its walls, because both meat and zucchini are pre-fried and covered with oil, besides, the dressing itself is quite greasy. Place the fried meat in an even layer on the bottom of the mold.
nine. Place the fried zucchini rings in rows on top.
10. Pour the sour cream cheese sauce evenly over the casserole.
11. Cover the form with a lid or cling foil.
12. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send the casserole to bake for 35-40 minutes. It can be served both chilled and hot.
See also a video recipe on how to cook zucchini casserole with minced meat.
