Delicious Zucchini Cake: Step By Step Recipes, Including With Zucchini And Tomatoes, Cheese

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Unusual from the usual: delicious zucchini cakes

The zucchini harvest is often incredibly large, and we don't even know what to do with these vegetables. In fact, there are a lot of recipes for zucchini dishes. And among them - snack squash cakes. They are easy to prepare and can be supplemented with many delicious ingredients. And everyone will be delighted with the result!

Content

• 1 squash cake with tomatoes

  1.1 Video recipe for zucchini cake with tomatoes

• 2 Zucchini cake with crab sticks

• 3 Squash-mushroom cake

  3.1 Video recipe for zucchini-mushroom cake

• 4 Zucchini roll with minced chicken

  4.1 Video recipe for zucchini roll with cheese and minced meat

• 5 Zucchini cake with feta cheese

Zucchini cake with tomatoes

Hearty, tasty and juicy zucchini cake will surely please everyone. And if you love tomatoes, then this recipe is what you need.

The combination of zucchini and tomatoes will appeal to everyone

You will need:

• 2 young zucchini (total weight about 1 kg);
• 4 eggs;
• 1 cup flour;
• salt pepper;
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• 4 tomatoes;
• a few feathers of green onions.

Let's start cooking.

1. Grate the courgettes with a coarse grater and squeeze out the flesh to remove excess liquid. Beat the eggs into the mass, gradually add flour with salt and pepper. Stir well until smooth so that the dough is like a pancake.

   

   The consistency for the cake should be like a pancake

2. Heat some vegetable oil in a frying pan, add 1-2 tbsp. l. dough and spread over the surface. Please note that the pancakes should not be thick. Fry on both sides until golden brown.

   

   Fry zucchini pancakes on both sides

3. Depending on the size of the pan, you should have 5 pancakes out of this amount of dough. When they are all ready, refrigerate them at room temperature.

   

   Ready pancakes need to be cooled

4. Combine the mayonnaise and garlic filling sauce. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices. Assemble the cake as follows: pancake, not very thick sauce, tomato slices, pancake again, and so on.

   

   Cake layers: pancake, sauce, tomatoes, pancake again, and so on

5. Brush the top pancake with mayonnaise, garnish with tomato slices and sprinkle with chopped green onions. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes, then serve.

   

   Hold the cake in the refrigerator for half an hour before serving.

Video recipe for zucchini cake with tomatoes

Zucchini cake with crab sticks

The taste of this cake is unusual and interesting thanks to the combination of zucchini and crab sticks. Try it!

The finished cake can be decorated with shrimps and salmon slices

You will need:

• 2 young zucchini;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• 4 eggs;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 200 g processed cheese;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• 100 g crab sticks;
• 5 g ground pepper;
• 50 ml vegetable fat;
• salt and spices to taste.

Cooking process.

1. Grind the peeled zucchini on a grater and leave for 20 minutes, then drain the resulting juice. Add 2 eggs and 3 tbsp. l. flour, salt. Mix thoroughly.

   

   Knead the cake dough

2. Dissolve the vegetable fat in a skillet and fry the pancakes in it. Refrigerate when ready.

   

   Fried cake cakes need to cool

3. Boil 2 eggs, chop and mix with pre-chopped crab sticks, adding 50 g of mayonnaise.

   

   Mix eggs, crab sticks and mayonnaise

4. Put the second part of mayonnaise in a bowl, add chopped garlic and finely grated cheese.

   

   Make the cake sauce

5. It remains to collect the cake. Put a layer of filling on each pancake, brush with cheese-mayonnaise sauce, cover with pancake, and so on in turn. On the top pancake, draw a mayonnaise mesh pattern and sprinkle with cheese.

Zucchini-mushroom cake

A snack cake with mushrooms will perfectly decorate a festive table. For it you will need:

• 1 kg of zucchini;
• 3 eggs;
• 5 tbsp. l. starch;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 3 tbsp. l. chopped parsley;
• 0.5 tsp ground pepper.

For the filling, take:

• 500 g of champignons;
• 300 g onions;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil for frying.

You also need to make a sauce from:

• 200 g mayonnaise;
• 3 cloves of garlic;

• 3 tbsp. l. dill.

  

  Zucchini and mushrooms go well in this snack cake

You can use flour instead of starch. But unlike flour, starch does not take away the flavor of the squash.

1. Rub the zucchini on a grater in a sieve so that excess moisture immediately drains off. Season with salt and let it brew for 15 minutes. After that, squeeze the resulting mass well, add eggs and chopped parsley to it, pepper. Mix thoroughly.

   

   It is convenient to grate the zucchini in a sieve so that excess water immediately drains

2. Add starch to the mixture, mix again. Set aside for a while, take care of the filling.

   

   Add eggs, herbs, starch and mix

3. Chop onion and mushrooms finely. First fry the onion until transparent, then add the mushrooms and fry until tender. Season with salt and pepper at the end. Remove skillet from heat and cool.

   

   Saute mushrooms and onions

4. Fry the cakes on both sides in a skillet in vegetable oil. Place them on separate plates to cool them down faster and make it easier for you to assemble the cake.

   

   Arrange ready-made pancakes on plates

5. Add chopped dill and garlic to mayonnaise and stir.

   

   Make a mayonnaise, dill and garlic sauce

6. Grease the cake with the sauce and spread the mushroom filling over it. So grease all the cakes, placing them on top of each other.

   

   Spread the sauce and mushroom filling on the cake

7. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator, let it stand for 2 hours. Then cut into portions and serve to guests.

   

   Squash-mushroom cake will decorate the table and will please all guests

Video recipe for zucchini-mushroom cake

Zucchini roll with minced chicken

A very interesting recipe for a roll, which when cold is suitable both as an appetizer on a festive table, and as a snack on a weekday.

You will need:

• 450-500 g zucchini;
• 100 g of cottage cheese;
• 3 medium eggs;
• 75-100 g of wheat flour;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• salt, pepper, spices;
• any greens;
• some vegetable oil;
• 250-400 g of minced chicken;
• 75-100 g of hard cheese.

1. Add cottage cheese whipped with a blender, salt and pepper to the grated zucchini. While stirring constantly, add the sifted flour with baking powder in parts. Knead a not very thick dough. At the end, stir in chopped greens.

   

   Mix zucchini, cottage cheese, flour and herbs for the dough

2. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a large baking sheet. Pour the dough, flatten it with a spoon and place in the oven at 170 ° C. Bake for 15-18 minutes so as not to dry out.

   

   Spread the dough on a baking sheet in an even layer.

3. Remove the crust from the oven, let it cool slightly, and turn it onto a greased sheet of foil. Peel off the parchment carefully. Mix the minced chicken with salt and seasoning and apply evenly over the crust. Leave one edge without filling.

   

   Spread the filling over the cake in an even layer.

4. Roll the roll carefully, trying to do it as tightly as possible. The edge you left without the filling will be the outside. Wrap the roll in foil on all sides. Place in the oven at 170 ° C for 45 minutes.

   

   Roll the roll gently and tightly

5. Remove, carefully unfold so as not to scald with steam, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake for another 15 minutes uncovered.

   

   Sprinkle cheese on the roll and bake until tender

Video recipe for zucchini roll with cheese and minced meat

Zucchini cake with feta cheese

Usually, mayonnaise is used in squash cakes, which makes the filling much heavier. I offer you a recipe in which mayonnaise is replaced with sour cream, and cheese is the filling. The cake is tender, light and airy.

Thanks to feta cheese, the squash cake will be light and tender.

You will need:

• 200 g feta cheese;
• 1 clove of young garlic;
• 3 large zucchini;
• 200 g sour cream;
• 1 bunch of fresh herbs (dill);
• 1 bunch of arugula;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process.

1. Slice zucchini lengthwise into thin slices and bake in the oven until soft.
2. Cut the greens with a knife very finely and mix with sour cream, adding squeezed garlic. Salt.
3. Grate the feta cheese on a fine grater, then start collecting the cake. The first layer is baked zucchini laid out tightly to each other, the second is the sauce, the third is feta cheese. Continue until the zucchini runs out. Garnish with cheese on top.

We have presented you just a few simple recipes for zucchini cakes. In fact, there are a lot of ways to prepare them. Perhaps you also love to cook such cakes, and share your recipes with us in the comments? Enjoy your meal!