The zucchini season can be considered open. And now you have fried this vegetable with mayonnaise sauce more than once, stewed caviar, and made all the preparations for the winter. And in the garden, he continues to ripen. It's time to bake a zucchini pie in the oven. Sweet, meat or vegetable - choose any.

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Zucchini is a versatile vegetable. You can make sweet pastries from it, which will pleasantly surprise even the most fastidious gourmet. How to cook a zucchini pie in the oven? Very simple. Surely you fried zucchini pancakes. The principle of making a pie is almost the same. Traditionally, it is customary to add sifted flour, baking powder and eggs to it.

Zucchini pie-casserole in the oven is a real masterpiece. Let's quickly reveal the main secrets of its preparation:

• pay attention to the age of the vegetable;
• a young zucchini can be chopped along with the peel, but an aged vegetable needs to be peeled, and even get rid of the seeds;
• grater - a universal device for chopping zucchini, advanced housewives use a blender or food processor;
• if you want to savor zucchini pastries, cut the vegetable into pieces and fry it almost until cooked;
• no baking powder - baking soda quenched with vinegar will come to the rescue;
• zucchini - very juicy vegetables, excess juice must be drained;
• hard cheese will give baked goods an exquisite aroma and a golden crust;
• you can combine zucchini dough with meat, minced meat, fish;
• sweet cake can be made with chocolate or cocoa powder.

Hedgehogs in the cheese field

Of course, minced meat or meat fillet can be used as a filling. But if you're after culinary perfection, make an out-of-the-ordinary zucchini pie with minced meat. We will make meatballs from meat, which will look beautiful and appetizing in the bosom of a cheese meadow.

Compound:

• 1 kg of zucchini;
• 0.2 kg of hard cheese;
• 0.2 kg of sifted flour;
• 1 egg;
• spices, salt and spices - to taste;
• 0.5 kg of minced meat;
• 1 tsp baking powder.

Cooking:

Compound:

• zucchini - 1 pc.;
• 1 st. granulated sugar;
• 1 tsp baking soda;
• 2 eggs;
• 4 tbsp. l. refined vegetable oil;
• 2 tsp cocoa powder;
• cinnamon - to taste;
• 1 st. sifted flour.

Cooking:

1. Dessert should be tasty and uniform. And how pleasing to the eye is the sight of beautiful and fragrant homemade pastries!
2. Let's start with the base: chop the zucchini.
3. It is better to choose a young fruit, but an old horse, as they say, will not spoil the furrow.
4. In older zucchini, remove the seeds and skin.
5. Grind zucchini: you can grate or in a blender.
6. Before the formation of foam, we need to beat the eggs with granulated sugar well.
7. If you do it manually, then you will have to work hard and even suffer a little.
8. Mix the resulting mass with zucchini.
9. Immediately add 3 tbsp. l. refined butter and cocoa powder.
10. To give the dessert sophistication and fragrant notes, add a little cinnamon.
11. Now mix again and add soda.
12. To neutralize the taste of soda, extinguish it with table vinegar or lemon juice.
13. Lastly, add the sifted flour.
14. Lubricate the heat-resistant form with refined oil and put the dough into it.
15. It must be perfectly uniform. Lumps are taboo.
16. Let's send our dessert to the oven for 40 minutes.
17. The optimal temperature threshold for baking zucchini dessert varies from 140 to 160 °.
18. Do you feel the aroma coming from the kitchen? Hurry up to get the cake out of the oven.
19. Tip: remove the cake from the mold after cooling.
20. Before serving, the zucchini pie can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.