It's amazing how many different dishes you can make with tomatoes - sauces, salads, sautés, stuffed and baked tomatoes. And if you haven't made a tomato casserole yet, it's time to experiment.
Recipe content:
- Basic principles
- Casserole with tomatoes and zucchini
- Casserole with tomatoes and cheese
- Casserole with tomatoes and minced meat
- Casserole with tomatoes and potatoes
- Video recipe
A casserole is always a satisfying meal with minimal cost. It is enough to open a cookbook, and there you can find hundreds, if not thousands of the most unimaginable casserole recipes. This dish exists in many national cuisines in a variety of interpretations. Casseroles are prepared with potatoes, meat, fish, cottage cheese, carrots, eggs, mushrooms, seafood, nuts, cheese, herbs and many other products. And this is far from a complete list of acceptable combinations and ingredients used. This review will focus on variations of cooking tomato casseroles. This is a delicious cake for any gourmet, capricious eater and thin waist.
Basic principles
- The main secret of puff casserole is vegetables, cut into thin slices.
- For the sauce, use sour cream, mayonnaise, kefir or natural yogurt.
- Tomatoes are used in fleshy varieties. They do not turn into porridge when baked.
- Minced meat for tomato casserole can be any: beef, chicken, pork or mixed meat.
- For satiety, add potatoes or rice to the dish.
- Sprinkle cheese chips on top of the casserole.
Casserole with tomatoes and zucchini
This casserole is perfect for a light summer late dinner. Juicy zucchini go well with soft tomatoes and cheese shavings.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 61 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- Zucchini - 1 pc.
- Basil - 3 sprigs
- Heavy cream - 50 ml
- Hard cheese - 230 g
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Oil - 1 tablespoon
Preparation:
- Wash the zucchini, dry it, peel and seed (if old) and cut into slices about 1 cm thick.
- Wash the tomatoes and also cut into slices.
- Grate hard cheese.
- Grease the form with oil and lay out in layers, alternating products: zucchini, tomatoes, etc.
- Sprinkle the tomato layer with basil and cheese, and the zucchini layer with salt and pepper. The last layer should be tomato and sprinkled with plenty of cheese.
- Place the casserole in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 30 minutes. Bake it until golden brown.
Tip: This casserole can be supplemented with a layer of carrots, bell peppers, bacon, corn, etc.
Casserole with tomatoes and cheese
If you need to quickly make a delicious, healthy, beautiful, and at the same time hearty and light dinner, then, without hesitation, choose this casserole option.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3 pcs.
- Milk - 5 tablespoons
- Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- Sour cream - 150 ml
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Mozzarella - 150 g
- Salt with pepper - to taste
- Parmesan - 100 g
Preparation:
- Boil the potatoes in a peel, chill, skin and cut into slices.
- Wash and chop the tomatoes.
- Chop the garlic finely.
- Cut the mozzarella into cubes.
- Grate Parmesan.
- Put the food in a greased form in layers in the following sequence: potatoes, tomato, salt and pepper, chopped garlic.
- Combine milk with sour cream and pour the food.
- Spread mozzarella on top and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Send the casserole to an oven heated to 220 ° C for 25 minutes. Bake it until golden yellow and cheese melted.
Tip: do not cut the potatoes too thin, otherwise they will fall apart when baked.
Casserole with tomatoes and minced meat
The minced meat and tomato casserole is a classic win-win combination of products. In addition, the food is completely easy to prepare, and the ingredients are generally available.
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 500 g
- Butter - 2 tablespoons
- Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- Hard cheese - 220 g
- Salt with pepper - to taste
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Tomato paste - 1, 5 tablespoons
Preparation:
- Peel the onion, chop and fry in a skillet in oil.
- Fry the minced meat in another skillet in oil. Season with salt, pepper, tomato paste, transfer to the fried onions and simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Cut the tomatoes into 1 cm slices.
- Grate the cheese.
- Grease a baking sheet with oil, put a layer of minced meat, and on top of a plate of tomatoes.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese and place in a roasting pan at 180 ° C for 25 minutes.
Tip: Use only minced meat, not meat cut into pieces, so the casserole will be softer.
Casserole with tomatoes and potatoes
A great opportunity to please your family with a delicious delicacy - potato casserole with tomatoes. Hearty, fast and tasty - what else do you need for a family dinner?
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- Dill - a few twigs
- Cheese - 150 g
- Sour cream - 100 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Salt with pepper - to taste
- Any oil - 1 tablespoon
Preparation:
- Boil the potatoes in their uniforms, peel and cut into 5 mm slices.
- Rinse the tomatoes and cut into 1 cm slices.
- Grate the cheese, add a raw egg, sour cream, salt, pepper. Stir the sauce until smooth.
- Grease a mold with oil, put half a serving of potatoes and pour over the dressing.
- Then add the tomatoes and pour over the sauce as well. Repeat layers.
- Send the casserole to the oven for half an hour and bake at 180 ° C.
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