Dishes from eggplant and zucchini can be very different: diet and lean, spicy and with meat fillings. In addition, they are so versatile that they are suitable for almost any festive table. These vegetables can be baked, fried, stuffed and served as snacks.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- For the first recipe:
- zucchini;
- cottage cheese;
- Dutch cheese;
- garlic;
- dill;
- parsley;
- tarragon;
- salt;
- pepper;
- vegetable oil.
- For the second recipe:
- eggplant;
- salt;
- eggs
- milk;
- garlic;
- basil;
- flour;
- soda;
- vegetable oil.
- For the third recipe:
- Swiss cheese;
- pine nuts;
- basil;
- cream;
- salt;
- pepper;
- zucchini;
- vegetable oil.
- For the fourth recipe:
- eggplant;
- salt;
- mayonnaise;
- olive oil;
- red onions;
- a tomato;
- hard cheese.
Instruction manual
1
To prepare zucchini with fragrant cottage cheese, wash and peel 3 zucchini of milk maturity. At each zucchini cut along 1.5 centimeters from one side. Remove the core from the main body using a teaspoon. Rub 500 grams of cottage cheese through a sieve and grate 100 grams of Dutch cheese on a fine grater. Chop as small as possible two peeled cloves of garlic.
2
Wash and dry a few twigs of dill and parsley, one sprig of tarragon. Grind greens. Transfer cheese, cottage cheese, herbs and garlic into a bowl, season with pepper, salt and mix. Stuff the zucchini with the cooked filling and cover with the cut tops, fix them with toothpicks. Smear the baking sheet with vegetable oil, put the squash on it and put it in the oven for half an hour, heated to 180 ° C.
3
Fry the eggplant in garlic batter. To do this, wash thoroughly, wipe with a napkin and cut into circles one eggplant. Prepare very salty water and soak the eggplant in it for 3 hours. Make a batter. Beat 2 chicken eggs with a pinch of salt and 2 tablespoons of milk.
4
Add a pinch of soda, 2 cloves of garlic, passed through a garlic press, two teaspoons of dry basil. Pour 200 grams of flour and mix well. Remove the eggplant mugs from the water and pat dry. Dip in batter and fry over medium heat, in vegetable oil, until a beautiful golden crust.
5
In order to bake zucchini in peanut sauce, grate 100 grams of Swiss cheese on a coarse grater. Using a mill, chop 100 grams of pine nuts into small crumbs. Rinse and dry 4 branches of basil, chop greens. Combine basil, cheese, nuts and 4 tablespoons of cream in a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
6
Each of the 4 young zucchini cut in half lengthwise. Place them in a greased baking dish. Spread the surface of zucchini with cooked peanut sauce, cover the dish with foil and bake for 20 minutes at 180 ° C.
7
Bake eggplant in the oven. To do this, cut into pieces 2 medium eggplant. It is necessary to cut along the whole vegetable so that the slices are no more than 1 centimeter thick. Salt a little and grease the surface of each slice with mayonnaise. Cut as small as possible and fry 2 large red onions in olive oil.
8
Dice one large tomato. Place the eggplant slices on a baking sheet, place the onion and tomato on them. Rub about 120 grams of hard cheese on top. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.