Zucchini casserole with tomatoes and minced meat
A casserole with zucchini, minced meat and tomatoes looks like a big meat pie. But, unlike pies, where you have to mess around with the dough, making such a casserole is as easy as shelling pears.
Ingredients
Servings 4-6- 450 g minced meat (beef, pork or turkey)
- 300 g mozzarella
- 4 medium zucchini
- 600 g finely chopped tomatoes
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 medium onion
- 1 sweet green pepper
- 4 slices white bread
- 2 tsp. dried oregano
- 5 sprigs of basil
- 5 sprigs of parsley
- chili pepper flakes
- olive oil
- salt, freshly ground black pepper
Cooking
Step 1
Preheat oven to 175˚C. Cut the zucchini lengthwise into plates 7-8 mm thick, put on a baking sheet covered with parchment, salt a little. Put the baking sheet in the oven and bake the zucchini for 15-20 minutes.
Step 2
Peel the onion and garlic. Remove seeds and membranes from peppers. Cut the onion and pepper into small cubes, chop the garlic.
Step 3
Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic, onion and pepper and sauté 7-10 minutes until soft. Add the minced meat to the pan and continue to fry, breaking up any lumps of minced meat with a spatula, 5 minutes. Pour in the crushed tomatoes, add the chili flakes, oregano, basil and parsley and simmer for 30 minutes over low heat. Salt, pepper and remove from heat.
Step 4
Cut the crusts off the bread and crumble the crumb. Toast the crumbs in a dry frying pan until golden brown.
Step 5
Sprinkle some toasted breadcrumbs into the bottom of a rectangular baking dish, then top with a layer of zucchini. Drizzle with meat sauce and sprinkle with mozzarella. Lay out a layer of zucchini again and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Repeat layers until you run out of ingredients. The top layer should be a layer of mozzarella.
Step 6
Cover with foil and put the casserole in the oven for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil and bake for another 15 minutes.