Zucchini in sour cream with garlic

A simple, budget-friendly, healthy and delicious dish! During the harvest season, zucchini on the site grow in huge quantities. And housewives come up with a lot of dishes in which you can use zucchini. This simple and light vegetable can be called a universal product. Zucchini has a neutral taste and is combined with almost all products. And a simple dish of zucchini cooked with sour cream and garlic is prepared, literally, in half an hour, but it turns out very tasty, healthy and satisfying.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 14 % 3 g
Fats 38 % 8 g
Carbohydrates 48 % 10 g
119 kcal
GI: 50 / 0 / 50

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make zucchini in sour cream with garlic? Prepare the ingredients. Zucchini for such a dish is better to take young, they are more tender, juicier and tastier, and they also contain more vitamins. In addition, they can not be cleaned and the core with seeds can not be removed, which simplifies the cooking process. But more mature vegetables are also suitable, they will need to be washed, skinned and seeds removed.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the zucchini into circles no more than one centimeter thick. If you make the pieces thicker, you will have to cook the dish longer, and it is possible that the squash will be a little hard. The best cooking option is to bake zucchini, it turns out to be more useful, but frying is easier, faster and tastier.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the garlic from the film and finely chop it or pass it through a press. Garlic will give an edge and a pleasant taste to zucchini.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    To make the squash tastier and juicier, you can cook it with batter. To do this, beat a chicken egg into a bowl, beat it with a fork or whisk with a pinch of salt, until a homogeneous mass is obtained, not necessarily until foam forms. Dip the pieces of zucchini into the beaten egg.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Pour a little wheat flour into a plate. Then roll them on both sides in flour.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put the zucchini circles on it. Add salt and pepper to taste. Fry on both sides until golden brown.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    In a separate bowl, mix sour cream with crushed garlic cloves. Pour the sour cream sauce. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the squash under the lid over medium heat for about 7-10 minutes. Remove the lid. Let the sauce thicken a little.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Put the squash on a plate. Sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve with fresh bread. Enjoy your meal!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Secrets, life hacks and all the most useful tips read in the article: "Cream and sour cream in cream sauce: what should I do so that they don't curl up?" 

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Zucchini - 23   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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