Vegetable zucchini meatballs

It turns out to be a very versatile dish for every taste. Zucchini meatballs can be prepared in various ways: fry in oil in a frying pan, bake on a baking sheet in the oven, steamed in a steamer, in a microwave oven, in a slow cooker.
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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 12 % 4 g
Fats 39 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 48 % 16 g
191 kcal
GI: 18 / 41 / 41

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    I prepare the necessary products for cooking vegetable meatballs.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the squash, cut off the tails and grate on a coarse grater.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add salt to the zucchini and let it stand for 5-10 minutes so that it will let the juice. The juice then needs to be drained, and the grated zucchini squeezed out.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    In a bowl with squeezed zucchini, add boiled rice, chicken egg.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add a little grated cheese (we leave part of the cheese to serve the finished dish), chopped onions and parsley. Add flour, spices and mix everything well.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    If the prepared mixture is liquid, you can add a spoonful of flour. I try it on spices. If there are not enough of them, I add them.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan. While the oil is heating up, take a portion of the finished mixture with a tablespoon, form a ball and roll it in breadcrumbs, then shape it into a cue ball.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Put the meatballs in the preheated oil.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Fry the squash balls in a frying pan on both sides until golden brown.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    I put ready-made zucchini meatballs on a dish, serve sour cream, vegetables, sprinkle with grated cheese. Enjoy your meal!

Zucchini meatballs are very easy to prepare. This recipe can be modified by adding new vegetables to zucchini.

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

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Zucchini - 23   kcal/100g
  • Raw wild rice - 353   kcal/100g
  • Brown raw rice - 360   kcal/100g
  • Boiled brown rice - 119   kcal/100g
  • White fortified raw rice - 363   kcal/100g
  • White fortified boiled rice - 109   kcal/100g
  • White rice, steamed, with long grains raw - 369   kcal/100g
  • Steamed white rice, boiled with long grains - 106   kcal/100g
  • Instant dry rice - 374   kcal/100g
  • Instant rice, ready to eat - 109   kcal/100g
  • Fig - 344   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Green onion - 19   kcal/100g
  • Spices dry - 240   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • Breadcrumbs - 347   kcal/100g

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