Baked zucchini with minced meat in the oven - simple and tasty dish

Baked zucchini with minced meat in the oven are so delicious and juicy that they can be cooked even for big holidays, which are celebrated together with the family at home. It is also worth noting that such a beautiful and fragrant dish does not require too much cost, since it is prepared from inexpensive and simple ingredients.

Step-by-step recipe for stuffed zucchini with minced meat

Required products:

• Fresh calf meat - 400 g;
• Large sweet bulbs - 2 pcs .;
• Black pepper fragrant - a few pinch;
• Zucchini young big - 2-3 pcs. (Depends on the number of guests);
• Common salt - 1 dessert spoon ;
• Refined vegetable oil - 35 ml (for roasting meat);
• Tomato ripe - red and yellow - 4 pcs .;
• Mayonnaise fatty - 200 g;
• Hard cheese - 150 g;
• Fresh greens - to decorate dishes.

Process of preparation of a stuffing

Baked zucchini with minced meat in the oven can be made from any kind of meat (pork, lamb, chicken, etc.). We decided to buy fresh veal without bones and a lot of fat. It must be washed, cut into pieces and chopped into a blender. To make the filling turned more fragrant, it is recommended to add 2 onions to the stuffing. It can be finely chopped, but it is better to turn into gruel with the help of a meat grinder. After that, the ingredients must be combined, salt and pepper.

Toasting minced meat

Before cooking baked zucchini with minced meat in the oven, grind meat with onions is recommended to fry a little in a frying pan. This treatment will significantly shorten the baking time of the dish in the oven, and also make the mince more tasty and fragrant. Thus, it is necessary to pour in vegetable oil in the sauté pan, lay out the meat and fry for 15 minutes, stirring regularly.

Vegetable processing

The recipe for zucchini with minced meat uses only fresh and young products. The main vegetable should be thoroughly washed, peeled (if it is too hard), and then cut across into 4-5 pieces (7-8 centimeters thick). After that, you need to remove the core from the zucchini, so that in the end you get a kind of "cups". Also, you should wash the tomatoes and cut them into circles.

Forming a dish

Slightly roasted minced meat should be placed in zucchini-cups, which should preferably be sprinkled with salt and pepper. After that, on the surface of the meat, you need to distribute 2 dessert spoons of mayonnaise, 1 cup of ripe tomato and a little grated cheese. All the finished semi-finished products should be placed on a baking tray and put in a preheated oven. Baked zucchini with minced meat in the oven will be completely ready after 30-38 minutes.

Correct feed to the table

When the courgettes become soft, and the cheese melts and splashes nicely over the "glasses", the dish should be taken out of the oven, gently placed on a large flat plate and sprinkled with fresh herbs. It is desirable to present such a dinner in hot form, along with wheat bread and fresh vegetables.