Kitchen appliances and utensils
- plate;
- pan with a lid;
- a bowl;
- spoon;
- metal nozzle for extrusion;
- tray;
- plate for serving dishes.
Ingredients
- Zucchini - 2 pcs.
- Stuffing - 400 g
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- Breadcrumbs - 100 g
- Wheat flour - 100 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Parsley - 20 g
Step cooking
- Wash the squash well, wipe with a towel. Cut into circles of 7-8 mm in thickness.
- Using a confectionery nozzle or cork from a bottle, squeeze out the middle in each piece and put it on a tray. You need to remove only the soft part - where the seeds are.
- Salt the rings from the zucchini and set aside.
- Wash the parsley and finely chop.
- Peel the onion and chop finely with a knife. Add onion and parsley to the minced meat, salt and pepper to taste, mix everything well.
- We form balls of minced meat with our hands and fill the middle of the rings from the zucchini, distribute with our fingers, remove the excess amount of minced meat.
- Break the eggs into the plate. Beat well with a fork. Pour the flour into another plate. Pour breadcrumbs into the third plate.
- Take each ring stuffed with minced zucchini, dip in flour, then in the egg and then in breadcrumbs. So do with every piece.
- After that, put the frying pan on the fire and pour the vegetable oil.
- We spread the rings stuffed with minced meat on a heated frying pan and fry for 5 minutes. Then we turn over to the other side and fry for another 5 minutes under the closed lid.
- Put the prepared zucchini with minced meat on a plate, decorate with herbs and serve. Enjoy your meal!
Cooking options
There are also other options for cooking zucchini with minced meat in a pan:
- For breadcrumbs, you can grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
- Minced rice is sometimes added a little rice or semolina.
- You can stew such zucchini with tomatoes, carrots, salad peppers and other vegetables to taste.
- Some hostesses add a little chopped garlic.
- You can fry such zucchini with minced meat in a special batter of flour and eggs.
- Fried zucchini with minced meat is sometimes fried in a sauce of sour cream, tomato paste or cream.
- Instead of minced meat, you can use mushroom or vegetable.
- In addition to black pepper, you can add paprika, chili, a mixture of Italian herbs.
You can fry zucchini with minced meat in a pan, adding other foods, experimenting with spices and sauces.
Video recipe
We offer you to watch a very interesting video recipe for cooking zucchini with minced meat in a pan. You will be able to see all the stages of cooking, as well as evaluate the appetite of the finished dish.