Today I want to share a simple seasonal recipe for cooking zucchini or zucchini with cheese in the oven. But this time, it will not be a main dish, but an appetizer.
Oven-baked zucchini and cheese are light and not too calorie-dense, and they cook up in no time. It is best to bake them before serving, but they do not lose much in flavor when they are cold. Such a dish is nutritious, delicious and healthy. The zucchini are tender on the inside and appetizing, ruddy and cheesy on the outside.
The perfect accompaniment to zucchini with cheese would be a whipped feta or dzajiki sauce, but if you are too lazy to make the sauce, take any sauce you like – ketchup, mayonnaise, horseradish, mustard, etc.
⏱ Cooking time — 40 minutes overall. Includes 10 minutes of preparation and cooking + 30 minutes unattended.
🥣 Ingredients
🍽 For 4 servings:
- 2 zucchini
- 100 g (3,5 oz) cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. oregano
- 1 tsp. onion powder
- pinch of salt
Equipment:
- grater
🔪Step by step Directions
Preheat the oven to 200 °C / 400 °F, top+down mode.
Take 2 zucchini, cut off the ends of the tails.
Grate the zucchini on a coarse grater.
The resulting straw of grated zucchini transfer to a colander.
Salt with a pinch of salt, mix well and leave for about 15 minutes to let it run dry.
Meanwhile, grate 100 g (3,5 oz) of cheese on a coarse grater. You can use any cheese you like or that you have in the fridge.
Transfer the cheese to a bowl.
After 15 minutes, squeeze the zucchini with your hands of excess juice and add to the bowl with grated cheese.
In a bowl add 1 tsp oregano and 1 tsp dried garlic to the zucchini and cheese. Mix all the ingredients well.
Into the mixture beat 1 egg. Mix everything until homogeneous.
Form the mixture into small oval cutlets in your hands.
To do this, take about 1 tbsp. of the mixture and squeeze out the excess juice again. In your hands, form a neat cutlet and place it on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Place the zucchini cakes with cheese in a preheated 200°C / 400°F oven for about 25 minutes, until nicely golden and crusty on top.
Serve the finished zucchini cheese appetizer with your favorite sauce, mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, or zajiki.
Roasted zucchini s cheese patties
Equipment
- Grater
Ingredients
- 2 zucchini
- 100 g cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. oregano
- 1 tsp. onion powder
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C / 400 °F.
- Grate 2 zucchini on a grater. Salt with a pinch of salt and leave in a colander for 15 minutes to drain.
- Grate cheese on a coarse grater.
- Add grated squeezed zucchini to the cheese, oregano, dried garlic, beat 1 egg. Mix well.
- Form oval cutlets from the obtained mixture and put them on a tray with parchment paper for baking.Bake in oven for about 25 minutes until golden brown.Serve ready zucchini and cheese with your favorite sauce, sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup or zajiki.
