Zucchini is prepared in various ways, one of them is stewing. Stewed zucchini is good in the form of hot and cold appetizers, as part of main dishes and as a side dish. Extinguishing recipes there are a huge number, try a few, diversify to your taste and delight your loved ones with delicious dishes.
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You will need
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- For stewed zucchini garnish:
- zucchini 1 kg;
- onions 2 pcs;
- tomatoes 2 pcs;
- salt;
- pepper.
- For stewed zucchini with minced meat:
- zucchini 800 g;
- minced meat 400 g;
- onions 2 pcs;
- garlic 2 cloves;
- salt;
- pepper.
Instruction manual
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Stewed zucchini, which is perfect as a side dish for meat and poultry, is prepared quite simply, it takes only 20-25 minutes to cook them. Prepare all the ingredients. Wash the zucchini, if its peel is rough and thick, then peel the zucchini from it. Cut the zucchini into small cubes. Peel the onions and finely chop the onions. Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the peel, chop finely.
2
Put a deep frying pan over high heat, add vegetable oil. Fry the onion until golden and soft, then add chopped tomatoes to the onion and fry for about 4-5 minutes until the juice is extracted from the tomatoes.
3
Add zucchini to the pan, season with salt and pepper to taste, mix and let simmer under a closed lid. Stewing zucchini will be finished when they become soft and tender. Time depends on the size of the cubes of zucchini (once every five minutes mix the dish, after about 15-20 minutes it will be ready).
4
Stewed zucchini with minced meat is a wonderful, rather light and tender dish. Prepare the products - wash and chop the zucchini with large strips, peel and chop the onions, peel and pass through a garlic clove a couple of cloves of garlic.
5
Heat a deep frying pan with vegetable oil, put onions in it and fry for several minutes until golden brown. Then add minced meat to the onion, fry it until half cooked for 5-7 minutes.
6
Add zucchini to the minced meat, salt, pepper, add garlic, mix. Next, you need to stew the dish under a closed lid on a minimum fire for 20-25 minutes. In case the minced meat and the zucchini themselves have allocated little juice, add a little hot water to the pan.
note
Young zucchini has a delicate and juicy peel, do not get rid of it - it contains many vitamins. Over time, the peel of the zucchini coarsens and gains bitterness, so in old it must be cut off, and you can also remove the seeds.
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