Stuffed Zucchini with Onion and Cottage Cheese
Delicious zucchini for healthy eating! You might think there's only so much you can do with zucchini — fry it, turn it into a spread, or stew it with vegetables. But no. Here's one more recipe I think you'll love: stuffed zucchini with onion and cottage cheese.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
The ingredients.
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Step 2:
Take a zucchini, preferably a small one. Peel it, then lower it into boiling salted water. Cool it down, cut it in half, and carefully scoop out the middle — don't throw it away, we'll use it later.
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Step 3:
Now for the filling. Sauté the onion in butter, then add the scooped-out zucchini flesh — just squeeze it well first to remove excess liquid.
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Step 4:
Add the flour, then pour in the milk, stirring constantly so no lumps form.
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Step 5:
Once the mixture has thickened, take it off the heat and stir in the eggs, cottage cheese, salt, and pepper.
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Step 6:
Fill the zucchini halves. Set them gently in a greased baking dish and bake for half an hour.
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Step 7:
Serve it as a side dish or as a meal on its own.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- 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
- Cottage cheese of 40% fat content - 466 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 20% fat content - 233 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 18% fat content - 226 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 10% fat content - 156 kcal/100g
- Low-fat cottage cheese - 75 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese with sour cream - 260 kcal/100g
- Fruit cottage cheese - 147 kcal/100g
- Soft dietary cottage cheese - 170 kcal/100g
- Vitalinia cottage cheese - 64 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese 'morning' ( 'danone') without sugar - 91 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese - 156 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364 kcal/100g
- Flour krupchatka - 348 kcal/100g
- Flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
