Zucchini casserole with minced meat in the oven

A delicious, hearty meal for lunch or dinner for the whole family! This is a great opportunity to diversify the menu, the dish is prepared simply and quickly, it turns out not very high-calorie and light thanks to this combination of ingredients and cooking method, but tasty and flavorful.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 32 % 6 g
Fats 47 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 21 % 4 g
114 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 45 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a casserole of zucchini with minced meat in the oven? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Zucchini for the preparation of this dish can be used even mature, it will still turn out delicious. Minced meat can be taken mixed from pork and beef to obtain a more fatty and nutritious dish, or from poultry meat, for example, turkey, which is dietary.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the zucchini, if they are milky ripe, then they can be grated together with the skin. Peel the ripe fruits, remove the skin, remove the core with the seeds, rub the pulp on a coarse grater. When the zucchini stand for a while, they will give juice, you need to squeeze the excess juice from the zucchini mass.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the onion and finely chop it with a knife. Pour vegetable oil into the pan, turn on the heat. Fry the onion until transparent over medium heat, stirring with a spatula.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Send the minced meat to the pan. You can wind it yourself from fresh meat in a meat grinder or buy it ready-made in a store. Minced meat can be used any to taste. Fry the minced meat over medium heat, stirring constantly and breaking it with a spatula so that it does not remain in large pieces. Fry the minced meat until half cooked, about 10-15 minutes, depending on what kind of meat it is, it should change color to dark, dull.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Wash the tomatoes and cut them into thin circles. Grate the hard cheese on a grater. Peel the garlic from the husk and grate it on a fine grater or pass it through a press.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Beat the chicken eggs into a deep bowl, add sour cream, salt, ground black pepper to taste. Whisk the ingredients thoroughly until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    In a greased form, put two-thirds of the zucchini minced meat.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Top all the minced meat with onions and garlic passed through the press. Put the tomato slices on the minced meat.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Next, sprinkle the remaining zucchini with grated cheese and pour the egg-sour cream mixture. Send the form with zucchini and minced meat to the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 30 minutes. Remove the casserole, allow to cool slightly, sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve. Bon appetit!

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 one is better not to use at all, read here .

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

How to check if the casserole is ready? As soon as a light golden crust forms on the surface, take a skewer and pierce the casserole in several places. If the skewer is dry, then the casserole is ready.

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

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 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
  • 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
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Turkey stuffing - 161   kcal/100g

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