Recipe for originals: squash cake

Zucchini is an American pumpkin companion. Having come to Europe together with the ships of the conquistadors returning from Mexico, this vegetable did not immediately become popular. But already from the XVII century, these cucumber-like overseas guests begin to appear on the tables first with the nobility, then with the common people. The attitude to the zucchini in people is different: someone can not live without them, and someone does not tolerate their sweetish smell and taste. Therefore, the hostesses learned how to cook this vegetable in such a way as to please all members of the family. Below is a recipe for a dish that will gladly eat (and be sure to ask for supplements), even the person who does not tolerate zucchini. And he does not even guess what this food is made of. So, the squash cake.

It can be sweet, with lemon and cream sauce, and from zucchini you can even make cakes! But now we will look at how a normal vegetable pie is made, which can be served as a snack or as an independent dish. We will have to make cakes, for this purpose it is necessary to stock up a good frying pan of small diameter. To bake a cake of zucchini, you need a few small or two large vegetables, so that the total mass is 900 grams - 1 kilogram. Wash them and clean them. Do not discard the skin - it will come in handy for us at the last stage of cooking. If the fruits are ripe, remove the seeds. Rub vegetables on a small grater or crush in a blender. Allow to stand for half an hour and drain off the liquid.

In the resulting puree, drive two eggs and add a little wheat flour. We pour it on the eye, but passing through a sieve to avoid lumps. Cucumbers cake will turn out to be gentle, if its dough for consistency will resemble thick sour cream. Now left to pour two tablespoons of any vegetable oil, salt to taste and bake. Reheat the frying pan with vegetable oil and try to bake the first test pancake. If it does not turn upside down, it sticks to the bottom, we add a little flour to the dough.

When all the pancakes - and they should go 5-6 pieces - will be baked, cook "cream": in 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise squeeze 1-2 cloves of garlic, stir actively. This mass is smeared our cucumber cake. Now it should be decorated with "roses". For this, 2-3 tomatoes cut into neat circles and fry them to a crimson color or bake in the oven. As we remember, we still had skin. Cut it in the form of thick noodles and boil in slightly salted water about 6-7 minutes after the start of the boil.

When the vegetable peel is cooked, pull it out and lay it on the board to keep the shape. When this "noodles" cool down, decorate it crosswise over a squash of pie, along the perimeter adding circles of tomatoes. Can be different To stir up the original recipe, resorting to the help of its exuberant culinary fantasy. For example, to make another "cream" - with cheese, olives, basil, marinated cucumbers.

To make a squash cake with a curd filling, you need to bake the cakes, as in the previous recipe. You can add a little spice to the dough - black pepper, zira, cumin and turmeric. But for the cream it is suggested to take 300 g of good cottage cheese, one Bulgarian pepper, a dozen olives without pits, pickled cucumber and 2-3 cloves of garlic. Vegetables and a sprig of basil is finely chopped, mixed with cottage cheese and whisk a little bit. A little let stand in the cold and serve to the table!