Zucchini Fritters for vegetarians and gourmets

Contents:

• Ingredients for zucchini fritters
• Preparation and cooking process
• Alternatives

Meatless fritters of zucchini - is tender and juicy dish, favorite not only adults but also children. They are low in calories, tasty and nutritious, they are easy and quick to cook.
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Ingredients for zucchini fritters

For their preparation need zucchini, flour, salt, sugar, spices, seasonings, sunflower oil or olive.

Their composition can also include: onions, garlic, carrots, dill, parsley, celery. All these ingredients are added to taste, and, depending on preference. In the absence of fresh herbs, you can use a mixture of dried herbs: basil, parsley, dill.

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Preparation and cooking process

Courgettes need to wash with warm water and thoroughly cleaned with a knife to separate the solid layer of the skin zucchini. Cut it lengthwise into two halves and remove the seeds. After rub it on a grater or cut into small pieces and grind in a blender. Basis zucchini, cooked on a grater, to be more juicy and tender -more blender. To it is added to salt, spices or pre-cooked seasoning.

All these ingredients are added in small amounts to give a unique flavor and taste. For the sweet tooth, you can cook sweet pancakes option, adding the sugar. You also need to add a little flour to cakes do not fall apart. On average, 1 kg of courgettes need from 5 tablespoons to 1 cup of flour. All the ingredients needed mix thoroughly whisk or blender.

In a heated pan add oil, sunflower oil or olive oil, quite a bit to cover them bedplate. Depending on type of pans can be added as the oil and do not use it at all. Fried in vegetable oil cakes acquire a beautiful golden brown. After a heated pan greased with oil, can be spread on the prepared mixture of zucchini.

Pancakes poured into the pan special scoop or a tablespoon, so that the gaps between them were up to 5 mm. This will allow the frying easier to flip them on the other side of a wooden or plastic spatula. When the mixture of zucchini in the form of bubbles poured into the pan, you can make a fire in the 30-40 seconds more to pancakes browned and covered with a crust, and then they turn over, cover pan with a lid, make a fire and cook less to complete the preparation of a few minutes.

After zucchini pancakes are ready, spread them neatly on a platter pyramid, ie fill the bottom of a dish, first and gradually spread out up several layers. Then the previously prepared shredded greens, it may be dill, parsley, chives, basil, cilantro, and sprinkle it fritters of zucchini. After this meal is considered to be ready, and it is served on the table. The perfect complement to the dish will sour cream or yogurt. Now you can enjoy the results of their work and to please loved ones a wonderful meatless dishes.

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Alternatives

To have a ready mix of zucchini added:

1. The ground using a blender or grater carrots, pre-washing and purifying it. Carrot pancakes give an orange color and sweetness.
2. mashed pumpkin in small proportions, it will add good pancakes;
3. pulverized using a blender eggplant, add originality and satiety dish;
4. grated on a fine grated raw potatoes, the starch contained in it for frying fritters give fragrant golden crust

These meatless vegetable fritters like not only vegetarians but also gourmets.