Roasted zucchini’s and cheese patties

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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.