The current option for a zucchini snack is fried zucchini with tomatoes, sausage and cheese in a pan. The recipe is very simple and delicious. The dish resembles a casserole, scrambled eggs, vegetable sandwiches. This snack is especially good in summer when you don't want to eat heavy food.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
When mentioning the expression "dishes from zucchini", the first thing that comes to mind is fried zucchini or zucchini caviar, and then there is a pause. Although, many beautiful and delicious dishes can be made from this vegetable. For example, stuff, bake, preserve, boil jam, etc. And if you take into account that zucchini is a useful, easily digestible and low-calorie product that contains minerals, fiber, iron, potassium, then there will be no price at all for it. And all these positive qualities at a symbolic low cost. I suggest not to offend such a respected root vegetable and diversify your menu by preparing a new delicious dish from zucchini - fry with tomatoes, sausage and cheese.
If you are not afraid to show imagination, then this recipe is for you. Golden and slightly stretching cheese crust, light texture and delicate taste of the snack … All these qualities can safely turn an everyday dish into a festive one. This appetizer can be served both hot and chilled. It looks interesting on the table and will definitely arouse the interest of everyone present at the table. Everything here is just getting ready, the main thing is to have a frying pan available. And if desired, the food can be baked in the oven.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 52 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 1-2 pcs. depending on the size
- Sausage (any) - 100 g
- Cheese - 100 g
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step cooking of fried courgettes with tomatoes, sausage and cheese:
1. Wash the tomatoes, dry them and cut them into rings or half rings. Remove the film from the sausage and cut it into thin half rings as well as the tomatoes. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. You can cut the sausage thinner by 2 mm, and the larger tomatoes - 5 mm.
2. Wash the zucchini, dry with a towel and cut into rings of 5-7 mm.
3. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and add zucchini rings. Over medium heat, fry them on one side until blush, then turn them over to the other side and cook until the same degree. Do not forget to season them with salt and ground pepper. Fry all the zucchini in this way.
4. Pick up a heavy-bottomed cast iron skillet and lay out all the fried zucchini. Put cheese shavings between the rings, it will hold the layers of food together.
5. Place tomatoes on top of the zucchini and sprinkle with cheese. You do not need to salt them, otherwise they will give a lot of juice. And the tomatoes will be salted thanks to the sausage laid out on top.
6. Put the sausage half rings in the last layer and sprinkle generously with cheese shavings. Place a lid on the pan and place it on the stovetop on a fire divider. Turn on low heat and cook food for half an hour. During this time, the sausage will melt and saturate the vegetables with its juice and fat, and the cheese will melt and turn into a stretching crust.
See also a video recipe on how to cook zucchini baked with tomatoes and cheese.
