The combination of products when cooking chicken and zucchini in the oven has been verified and tested in practice. All recipes contain healthy protein and a lot of fiber. Ready-made dishes are characterized by the absence of cholesterol, as they slowly simmer in their own juices.
The range of cooking dishes is quite extensive. They are stewed (under foil), baked under a cheese crust, and cooked in a sleeve. If you want to make your food more satisfying and healthy, you can supplement it with other ingredients (vegetables, fruits, cereals).
I have already told you how you can cook chicken with zucchini in a frying pan. All dishes turn out surprisingly tasty and easy to digest. It is no coincidence that they are classified as dietary. And here, see recipes for minced chicken cutlets.
Any part of the bird is suitable for cooking, such as breast (fillet), thighs, wings. They are cut into small pieces. Vegetables add richness to food.
For lovers of golden-brown baking in the oven, open the dish a few minutes before it’s ready to allow the pieces to brown on top.
Chicken with zucchini - a delicious recipe in the oven
When baking zucchini in the oven, you always save a lot of time. After all, not only the meat is prepared, but also the side dish for it at the same time. When cooked on a bed of vegetables, poultry meat turns out juicy and tasty.
What you will need:
- 4 chicken thighs (800 g);
- 500 g zucchini;
- 1 onion;
- 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- 0.5 tbsp. l breadcrumbs;
- dry herbs for seasoning;
- salt, ground pepper;
How to cook:
If the zucchini has thick skin, peel it. Remove seeds and cut into medium-sized pieces. Place the pieces in a bowl. Add onion cut into half rings.
Pepper, salt, don’t forget about dry herbs. Pour in sunflower oil, add crackers to absorb excess juice. Mix everything and place in a layer in a baking dish. Place thighs, previously peppered and salted, on top of the vegetables.
Bake the dish in a preheated oven (180 degrees) for about 50 minutes. Serve hot.
Zucchini boats with chicken
Stuffed zucchini is an unusual dish. To make them more filling, fill them with chicken and mushrooms. You will get a delicious appetizer or a full-fledged main course, which can be served without a side dish.
Ingredients:
- 4 small zucchini;
- 200 gr. chicken fillet;
- 200 gr. champignons;
- 100 gr. hard cheese;
- 1 onion;
- turmeric;
- coriander;
- paprika;
- garlic;
- mayonnaise;
- salt.
Bake chicken with zucchini, tomatoes and cheese
Chicken with tomatoes and zucchini baked under a delicious cheese crust is a light, aromatic and tender dish. It can be classified as a dietary dish.
It is especially often prepared in the summer, when there are a lot of fresh vegetables and herbs. See photos and read the technological description of preparing this delicious dish.
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What is necessary:
- 350 g chicken fillet;
- 2 young zucchini;
- 5-6 pcs. potatoes;
- 3 pcs. tomatoes;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 1 onion;
- 100 g cheese;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- salt, pepper;
- green onions, dill.
Preparation:
Cut vegetables into slices. Chop the onion and simmer in a frying pan with butter until transparent.
To prevent the potatoes from darkening, you can lightly salt them and stir them.
Also chop the tomatoes and peppers. Cut the chicken fillet into pieces. Salt, pepper and mix the meat.
Prepare the dressing: To do this, mix 4 tablespoons of sour cream with 2 cloves of chopped garlic. All products have been prepared.
Now cover the baking sheet with foil. Grease it with vegetable oil and lay out the first layer of potatoes. Cover the potato slices with sautéed onions. Arrange the fillet pieces in the next layer. And in turn, cover them with round zucchini slices.
Place a little sour cream on each circle of zucchini and spread it over the surface of the vegetable. Arrange the pepper rings and tomato slices. Coat the top of the tomatoes with sour cream.
Place the baking sheet in a heated cabinet for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, chop the greens and onion. Grate the cheese with a fine mesh grater.
Take the semi-finished dish out of the oven, sprinkle cheese on top and put it back in for 7-10 minutes. Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs.
How to Prepare Zucchini for Cooking
Selecting a suitable vegetable and washing it is the very first thing we do. But here everything is clear. But then there is less clarity - how to cut it, whether it needs to be fried or not.
We cut, of course, to length, trying to get tongues of the same thickness over the entire plane. The peel can be cut off if the vegetable is a little old.
A very important point is how thick the zucchini slices should be:
- if you need a bright taste of zucchini, then the thickness of the piece is 0.5-0.6 cm. Thicker ones, even after frying, will not roll up well;
- When we focus on the filling, we can use a vegetable cutter to make almost transparent slices. These don’t even need pre-heat treatment;
- the best option is 2-3 mm.
The heat treatment of zucchini slices can be anything that fits the principles of proper nutrition - frying in a dry frying pan with an AP coating, baking in the oven, you can simply pour boiling water over it for 3-4 minutes to make the slices softer. Well, very thin ones can be rolled up like that.
The most delicious recipe for chicken with cauliflower and zucchini
A very healthy dish and also incredibly tasty. It turns out tender, aromatic, satisfying. A casserole with vegetables and mushrooms can easily replace breakfast or dinner.
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Compound:
- 1 kg chicken breast;
- 600 g potatoes;
- 100 g green asparagus;
- 300 g champignons;
- 2 sweet peppers (green and red);
- 1/2 zucchini;
- 1 head of cauliflower;
- 1 PC. broccoli;
- 5 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
- salt pepper;
- olive oil.
How to cook:
Separate cauliflower and broccoli into florets and boil in salted water. Peel the potatoes and cut into slices. Trim the bottom tough part of the asparagus and cut the shoots themselves into slices. Divide the pepper into halves, remove seeds and cut into half rings. Cut the fillet and champignons into pieces.
Place potatoes, zucchini slices, and asparagus stalks in a deep baking dish. Sprinkle with seasoning and add mayonnaise. Add champignons, peppers and chicken pieces here. Mix all the products on the baking sheet. Distribute boiled cabbage inflorescences on top.
Place the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes. 5 minutes before complete cooking, remove the dish, sprinkle generously with grated cheese and put it back in the cupboard.
Video recipe on the topic
Also a delicious pp recipe for zucchini.
In this video, similar zucchini rolls are also prepared, but the cooking principle itself is slightly different. The result is quite appetizing.
Irina Polyanitsa My name is Irina, I am the owner and admin of the site, as well as the author of most of the recipes and articles. I love to cook simple and healthy delicacies. Certified gym instructor, personal trainer. She completed a course on nutrition and health at Stanford University, Stanford Introduction to Food and Health, as well as a course at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy (about nutrition and lifestyle during pregnancy).
How to cook chicken with zucchini and potatoes in the oven
Incredibly juicy, satisfying chicken with potatoes. A dish baked in the oven will please all family members. Vegetables with fleshy pulp - zucchini and tomatoes - add juiciness to the food.
Products:
- chicken loin (can be replaced with legs);
- 600 g potatoes;
- 1 tomato;
- 1 zucchini (medium size);
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
- 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- seasoning for chicken and potatoes;
- salt.
Preparation:
Wash the meat and dry it. Rub with seasonings, salt, grease with mayonnaise.
To prevent food from sticking to the bottom of the pan, place a piece of foil on the bottom.
Place the meat on it. Cut carrots into slices, onions into half rings. Distribute vegetables among chicken pieces.
Next, cut the tomato and zucchini. Place them in a baking dish. Sprinkle with seasonings for potatoes and chicken, lightly salt. Sprinkle vegetable oil on top. Place the form in the preheated oven. Bake the dish at 180 degrees for 40 minutes, periodically checking readiness.
Recipe for chicken with eggplant and zucchini
The dish prepared according to this recipe turns out incredibly juicy. It is suitable as a dinner at any time of the year. Because it contains garden vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, carrots). Traditional vegetables that are indispensable in almost all dishes: potatoes and onions.
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What you will need:
- chicken;
- 1 zucchini;
- 2 eggplants;
- 5-6 potato tubers;
- 4 carrots;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- bulb;
- 300 g champignons;
- seasoning, salt, pepper;
Preparation:
Cut the carcass into pieces. Sprinkle the pieces with pepper, salt and seasoning. Add finely chopped garlic. Mix the pieces of meat with the seasonings and set aside. Cut all the vegetables, peel the mushrooms. If they are small, you don’t have to cut them, put them whole.
Cover a baking sheet with foil. Arrange the prepared foods randomly. Add some salt and cover with foil. Seal the edges of the foil to prevent moisture from evaporating. Make two punctures on top to allow steam to escape.
Send the prepared workpiece to a heated cabinet (180 degrees). Bake for 40 minutes. After time has passed, remove the dish. Remove the foil.
Brush the food on top with melted butter and place it in the oven again to brown for another 30 minutes (at the same temperature). Determine the readiness of the dish by the softness of the vegetables by piercing them with a fork.
Cooking dietary chicken in the oven (for proper nutrition)
A tasty dietary dish, prepared from fillet with zucchini and carrots. It contains no mayonnaise or oil. The food is cooked in its own juices. For convenience, you can immediately lay it out in portions using paper muffin tins. The dish is called Diet Muffins.
What you will need:
- 1 chicken breast;
- 1 zucchini;
- 2 carrots;
- 2 onions;
- fresh herbs (dill, parsley);
- salt pepper.
Pass the poultry meat through a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion with a knife, chop the carrots and lightly fry in a frying pan, adding a spoonful of olive oil. Mix the roast with the minced meat.
Grate the zucchini with a large mesh grater, squeeze a little and add to the meat. Add chopped herbs and chopped tomatoes. Season with spices and salt. Stir.
With wet hands, form the mixture into balls and place them in the molds. Bake in a hot oven at 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
In sour cream sauce
The third method, but it is far from the last. This dish is for lovers of the delicate taste that sour cream sauce gives.
The set of ingredients this time looks like this:
- two chicken breasts;
- four young zucchini;
- 250 grams of sour cream;
- two onions;
- two cloves of garlic;
- to taste - vegetable oil, ground pepper, salt and chicken seasoning.
- Wash the chicken fillet thoroughly, cut off the membranes, dry it, cut into small pieces.
- Pickling. Let us immediately note that this step can be skipped. If you still decide that it is necessary, then the marinade is as follows: grease each piece of breast with vegetable oil, sprinkle with seasoning and pepper, but do not add salt.
- When the meat is marinated, place it in a frying pan and fry until golden brown, then transfer to a pot.
- Peel the zucchini, cut into cubes, place in the pan where the meat was just, and lightly fry, then place on the chicken. You can also skip the stage of frying the zucchini and use fresh ones.
- After the zucchini, in the same frying pan, fry the onion until golden brown, add salt and pepper and add to the meat and onion.
- Pour a third of a glass of water into the pot and add sour cream.
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees and place a pot of zucchini and chicken breast in it for forty minutes.
- When the time is up, turn off the oven and let the pot sit for a little longer.
The chicken fillet turned out very juicy and tender, thanks to the sour cream sauce and zucchini.
How to cook chicken with mushrooms and sour cream
A delicious dish with chicken and zucchini, cooked in the oven. It is simmered in sour cream under foil, soaked in the juice of vegetables (tomatoes and onions). Champignons give it a unique aroma. The dish is multi-layered and contains many components. Potatoes make it more filling.
Ingredients:
- 1 chicken breast;
- 2 zucchini;
- 500 g champignons;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 1 tsp mustard;
- 100 g sour cream;
- 50 g mayonnaise;
- 200 g cheese;
Mix sour cream, mayonnaise and mustard. Cut the poultry meat into pieces, beat lightly. Place in a bowl with sour cream and mustard sauce. Leave some of the sauce. Stir and place in the refrigerator to marinate (for 50 minutes), covering with a lid.
Peel the vegetables and cut into slices. Onions - in half rings, tomatoes - in slices. Cut the champignons.
Place the first layer of potatoes on a greased baking sheet. The second layer is pieces of meat. Next come zucchini and mushrooms. Final layers: onion and tomato. All products are packed. Now draw a mesh on top with sour cream sauce.
Cover the pan with foil and place in a hot oven. Bake the dish at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. Then remove the foil from the pan, sprinkle cheese shavings on top and put it in the oven again. Now for 15-20 minutes. When the cheese is browned, the dish can be taken out.
Delicious chicken with zucchini and cheese, baked in the oven
This is an exquisite dish. Prepared in the oven from poultry breast, with young zucchini and cheese, it can be called festive. Indeed, the rolls look very beautiful. But they are also very tasty.
To prepare you will need:
- 2 young zucchini;
- chicken breast (400-500 g);
- 150 g cheese (feta or feta cheese;)
- 1 egg;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- several sprigs of dill;
- salt pepper;
- olive oil.
Cut the zucchini into slices (along the vegetable), 0.5 cm thick. Salt and pepper the slices on both sides. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Sprinkle olive oil and bake in the oven (5-7 minutes) at 180 degrees.
Cut the chicken fillet into longitudinal strips. Beat with a hammer, salt and pepper. Prepare the cheese mass: grate the cheese with a grater. Beat in one raw egg, add chopped herbs.
Place plates of beaten fillet on the zucchini strips. Place 1 tsp on the meat from one edge. cheese mass and roll into rolls. Secure the edges with toothpicks to prevent them from unwinding, or string them 3 pieces at a time. on wooden skewers.
Bake on a baking sheet at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Option 1: Classic chicken breasts with zucchini and cheese
Baked chicken breast with zucchini is a great dinner dish that doesn't require much time.
The oven will do the main process; we just need to prepare everything and place it on a baking sheet. Grated cheese is used for topping. The zucchini will be lubricated with sour cream; you can use mayonnaise instead. In this case, the dish will be more tender, but its calorie content will also change. We choose young zucchini that can be cut into thin and neat circles of small diameter. Ingredients
- 500 g zucchini;
- 600 g chicken;
- 2 onions;
- 200 g cheese;
- 150 g sour cream;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- salt pepper;
- 20 ml vegetable oil.
Step-by-step recipe for classic chicken breasts with zucchini
Wash the fillet, remove the films from it, cut crosswise with a sharp knife, making pieces no thinner than a centimeter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, add 50 grams of sour cream and stir. Grease a small baking tray or mold, you can line it with foil, and place a layer of chicken.
Peel and cut the onions into strips, sprinkle on the chicken; there is no need to season this layer with spices.
We wash the young zucchini, cut off the ends, and make circles. The thickness is about half a centimeter. Place all these circles on top of the fillet, sprinkle with pepper and salt.
Grate the cheese, cover the zucchini layer with shavings, and then grease it all with the remaining sour cream. It will not allow the top layer to dry out, and together with the cheese it will form a very tasty and golden-brown crust.
Place the baking sheet with the zucchini and chicken fillet in the oven. The dish will take approximately 40 minutes to prepare. We set the temperature to about 180 degrees. After cooking, remove from the oven, divide into portions with a spatula, carefully transfer so that all layers get into each plate.
Food also sticks to the foil. If you plan to cover a baking sheet (mold), then the coating still needs to be lightly greased with vegetable oil.
How to bake chicken with zucchini in the sleeve
The simple preparation of a delicious dish with chicken and zucchini, baked in a sleeve, leaves no one indifferent. It cooks very quickly, so all housewives like it. After all, you always want to free up time for other, equally important things.
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Compound:
- 600 g chicken wings;
- 300 g potatoes;
- 2 zucchini;
- 2 sweet peppers;
- 2 onions;
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- salt, pepper, garlic, seasonings.
Chop the potatoes into a baking bag. Cut young zucchini here. Next, successively chop the onion, then cut the pepper into slices. Load the poultry carcass or wings cut into pieces into the bag.
Add 2 tablespoons of adjika, salt and pepper to the top of the bag. Pour in 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Tie the sleeve (not tightly), lay it on its side and mix well. Leave the sleeve on the table for 10 minutes while the oven preheats. Meanwhile, vegetables and meat will be saturated with the smells of spices.
Bake the dish at 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
Don't forget to pierce the bag in several places before putting it in the oven. Otherwise, it will swell like a balloon.
Carefully, so as not to burn yourself, cut the sleeve with scissors. All the flavor, the juice of the vegetables - everything is inside the dish. Appetizing and tasty.
Useful properties of zucchini
The vegetable contains almost no calories and carbohydrates - 20 kcal per 100 g. , it is rich in magnesium, iron, potassium, vitamins B1, B3, C, as well as substances that actively remove toxins and break down fat deposits.
With regular consumption of zucchini diet dishes, water-salt metabolism improves, excess water is removed, swelling and the appearance of cellulite quickly go away.
The impact on the body is difficult to overestimate:
- the presence of vitamin A activates the production of collagen, which is responsible for the condition of hair and skin;
- used to increase hemoglobin levels in the blood;
- the body easily absorbs the soft fibers of the vegetable, therefore peristalsis is stimulated during digestion;
- choleretic effect promotes the digestion of fatty foods;
- accumulates cholesterol and toxins in dietary fiber, slows down the development of atherosclerosis, cleanses the body's cells of harmful substances;
- stops the onset of arthritis.
Video on how to make chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker
An easy recipe for making chicken and zucchini stew in a Redmond multicooker. A healthy, tasty dish with a pleasant taste and seductive aroma. In addition to zucchini, the recipe includes tomatoes, carrots, and peppers. And an unexpected ingredient: rice.
Chicken with zucchini in the oven has a wide range of preparations. The dish is so multifaceted that by adding additional ingredients in the form of vegetables, you can get food with a completely different taste. Each housewife can choose the optimal recipe for herself and often delight her loved ones with various delicious dishes.
Cook with pleasure, dear readers!
Chicken fillet baked with zucchini - step-by-step kebab recipe
A tasty, original and healthy dish worthy of a festive table. If you want to surprise your guests, then prepare zucchini rolls with chicken in the form of a kebab. Serving the dish will only emphasize its merits.
The following products are needed for cooking:
- chicken fillet – 2 small breasts
- young zucchini - 1 small
- “Grilled Vegetables” seasoning – to taste
- salt - to taste
Chicken marinade:
- soy sauce – 2 tablespoons
- olive oil – 2 tablespoons
- seasonings “Herbs of Sicily” and “Dried garlic” - to taste
For the sauce:
- Greek yogurt – 200 grams
- parmesan – 50 grams
- Lemon pepper seasoning
- sea salt
- herbs (basil and thyme)
For garnish:
- frozen broccoli – 400 grams
- olive oil – 1 tablespoon
- sea salt, “Grilled Vegetables” seasoning – to taste
Let's start cooking
Step 1. Using a vegetable peeler, cut the young zucchini lengthwise into slices and marinate them to get a richer taste. It's easy to do. Lay the strips in layers, grease with olive oil, sprinkle with spices (grilled vegetables) and salt and set aside.
Step 2. Cut the chicken fillet into very thin strips, which we beat with a hammer or the flat side of a knife.
We try to make chicken strips the same size as zucchini slices.
Marinate the chicken in soy sauce, adding dried garlic, Sicilian herbs, and if desired, you can add your favorite spices.
Step 3. While the zucchini and chicken are marinating, let’s prepare the side dish, although kebabs with chicken and zucchini can also be a separate dish. Let's prepare broccoli for a side dish. To do this, pour boiling water over the frozen cabbage, place it in a dish, pour in olive oil, sprinkle with spices: sea salt and “Grilled Vegetables” seasoning and leave while we make kebabs.
Step 4. Place wooden skewers in water for a couple of minutes so that they do not burn in the oven. Place a slice of zucchini on the table with chicken fillet on it, carefully roll it up and put it on a skewer.
Make 5 rolls for one serving. This is quite enough.
Step 5. Cover the pan with baking paper. We lay out the broccoli, spreading it over the entire surface and place the kebabs on top of the sides as if on a grill. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes at a temperature of 160-170 degrees.
With this baking time, the zucchini does not turn into porridge, the taste of young, fresh zucchini is felt and the chicken is also baked.
Step 6. While the chicken and zucchini are cooking, make the sauce. To do this, grate Parmesan or other hard cheese on a fine grater, add salt, lemon pepper, Parmesan, herbs: thyme and basil to Greek yogurt. Stir and the sauce is ready.
Step 7. Take out the zucchini with chicken baked in the oven, put it on a plate, sprinkle with Parmesan and serve.
The kebabs turn out very tender and tasty. Cook with pleasure.
