🍪 💈 👨‍✈️ Zucchini and eggplant stew 🎣 🦉 🌅

Having tried once a stew of zucchini, you will surely become a fan of this dish. A variety of assortment of products for the preparation of this dish will allow each person to find exactly their option. Nowadays, you do not need to wait until the ripening season of garden products begins. In stores all year round you can buy this unique dietary vegetable and other stew ingredients.

The best recipes

If you have never prepared this dish and have not tried it, do it today! Here is a selection of the most delicious and uncomplicated in the execution of recipes stew from zucchini. All these variations of the dish are worthy of the most generous praise!

Squash and eggplant season

Remember the time when vegetables ripen? Some collect them in their six hundredths, while others buy in the market. It is during this period that it will be great to do the cooking of stew from zucchini and eggplant. We will need these products:

2 medium young zucchini.
3 eggplants.
3 large bright carrots.
3 sweet peppers.
4 tomatoes.
1 head of onion.
About a glass of vegetable broth, which can be replaced with plain water. If you take the chicken stock, the zucchini stew will not lose in taste.
Vegetable oil - 3-5 tablespoons.
Juice of 1 lemon.
Sugar - about 2 teaspoons.
Salt is the most essential element of every dish.
Ground pepper - to give the dish a noble aroma.
1 leaf of laurel - also for flavor.

After selecting all the products, we begin to cook the stew from zucchini and eggplant:

All vegetables are pre-processed. After washing and removing the peel, cut into cubes of zucchini.
We chop the beam with the middle half rings.
Eggplant - medium cubes.
We pre-cleaned sweet pepper with stripes.
Three carrots on a coarse grater. You can use a grater for Korean carrots.
We pour tomatoes over with boiling water and after the procedure we remove the skin from them. Now you can cut them into pieces.
Pour oil into a deep pan and fry zucchini, eggplant with onions and carrots on it.
After 5 minutes, add slices of pepper with tomatoes.
Pour the vegetable mass with the broth and season with pepper, sugar, salt. It's time to add a bay leaf.
Now we cook our dish under the lid without adding heat. When the vegetables are stewed, you need to add greens to them.

Fragrant zucchini stew is ready!

Potato recipe

Potato is the most favorite vegetable for all people. It improves the taste of any dish. Let's make a zucchini and potato stew. A set of necessary vegetables and other products:

Potato - 4 pieces.
Big zucchini.
2 tomatoes.
1 not a small carrot.
Cabbage - about a pound.
Garlic - individually.
Tomato paste - in order to make the dish more beautiful. 2-3 tablespoons will be just right.
Salt.
Ground black pepper.
Aromatic herbs.

The process of making stew from zucchini and potatoes:

First you need to wash and prepare all the vegetables.
Carrots and zucchini are cut in medium slices.
Cabbage is thinly chopped.
The peel is removed from the tomato, after which they are crushed.
Potatoes are cut into slices. The size of the slices is determined according to your desire.
You need to take a pan with a thick bottom and walls. We pour in it the entire rate of oil and heat it. In a preheated container, lay the carrot with zucchini. We fry our vegetables at a moderate temperature. Do not overdo it with the duration of frying. Five minutes will be enough.
Now it's time for tomatoes and cabbage. Add them to the roasting vegetables. We send the potato there too. The pan with vegetables must be covered.
While they are stewing, prepare tomato juice from a glass of boiled warm water and tomato paste.
Pour the resulting solution to the vegetables and continue to simmer the stew until the potatoes are ready. This will take about half an hour.
When the zucchini stew is ready, the moment comes to add crushed garlic and aromatic herbs.
Remove the dishes from the stove. The dish is ready.

Meat recipe

The zucchini recipe can be more than just vegetarian. This vegetable is good because in the composition of meat dishes is able to well emphasize their taste. The meat component, framed by zucchini delicate taste, will not leave you indifferent. So that you can verify this personally, we present to your attention a recipe for vegetable stew with zucchini and meat.

Let's collect products:

The meat is about a pound. You can take whatever you like. With chicken, the dish will turn out to be more dietetic, and it will be prepared quickly. With beef stew, the most satisfying, but it should be stewed for more than 2 hours.
About 5 potatoes.
One zucchini and one eggplant.
Sweet pepper - 3 pieces of different colors.
1 onion and carrots.
A few cloves of garlic.
Cooking oil (vegetable).
Lemon juice and salt.
Different seasonings and green dill with onions.

The technology of cooking hearty zucchini stew:

First we prepare all the products - wash them and clean them.
We will pay special attention to the meat, clean it of films and other inedible elements, rinse and dry with a paper towel. Next, cut into small pieces and mix with salt. Now add lemon juice and ground pepper to the meat. Let’s leave it covered in a cool place, let it marinate for half an hour.
After some time, the meat is transferred to a thick-walled dish. It can be a goose-fry or a regular frying pan with high sides.
Pour oil and a little water there so that the meat does not stick to the walls and gives a tasty broth. At a moderate temperature, we heat the meat. Do not forget about salt and use it as needed.
At the stage of preparing vegetables for stews, we need an additional frying pan. In this dish in vegetable oil, we fry carrots, processed on a grater, and onions chopped in half rings. After light roasting, put these vegetables in a pan for meat, which is better for a while to remove from the stove.
Cut potatoes into small bars and fry them in vegetable oil. After five minutes of light frying, add this vegetable to the meat.
Again, heat the pan with meat and vegetables that are laid there, mix and cook for another five minutes
Cut the eggplant and zucchini into pieces, fry, add to the dishes with meat.
The turn of bell pepper came up. We cut it into half rings, send it to a roasting pan with meat. Pressed garlic is added to all ingredients.
Pour spices and green onions into the stew and cover with a lid, continue to simmer it. After 15 minutes, try the dish. If everything is prepared, turn off the fire. Now the stew is ready, it's time to start the tasting.

In a slow cooker you can also cook stew

With a minimum amount of oil, you can cook stew from zucchini in a slow cooker. Therefore, this option will be useful to those who follow their diet.

We start by collecting the necessary products:

2 zucchini.
5 tomatoes.
3-4 pieces of sweet pepper.
2 onions
A couple of pieces of carrots.
Vegetable oil - about 3 tablespoons.
Red beans - 100-200 grams. To save cooking time, you can use canned beans.
Fragrant spices, salt, pepper, laurel leaf.

You can add your favorite seasonings to this dish, both fresh and dried.

How to cook stew in a slow cooker

First, all vegetables should be washed and peeled.
Three carrots on any grater.
We chop the onion in half rings.
Cut sweet pepper into thin strips.
Press the "Frying" button at the multicooker. Having set the time (15-20 minutes), we pour the entire norm of oil.
Getting to frying vegetables. The onion enters the preheated apparatus first. When it softens slightly, you can add carrots to it. After 2 minutes, it was time for pepper.
Tomatoes are freed from the skin and cut into pieces. We load in a bowl to other vegetables and cook, not forgetting to stir.
Now add the cubes of zucchini. If you have zucchini, you can skip their peel. Continue frying vegetables until the program automatically turns off.
Turn on "Stew", prepare the dish for half an hour. About 5-7 minutes before the end of the program, add spices and beans from a jar to the vegetables.
When the dish is fully cooked, add crushed garlic and fresh chopped greens or dry seasonings to it.
After that, leave the dish under the lid for another five minutes. Now stew from zucchini and beans can be tasted.

Zucchini and eggplant stew