The ultimate zucchini cream recipe
The ultimate zucchini cream recipe
If you are looking for easy creams or soups based on zucchini, this cream of zucchini and potato will delight you. To do it, you need:
- 1 kg of zucchini
- 1 onion
- 2 potatoes
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- 2 slices of dry bread to make croutons
Prepare the ingredients
Prepare the ingredients
Bring water to a boil. Meanwhile, wash the zucchini well, chop and reserve. And peel and chop the onion and potatoes.
Sauté and add the water
Sauté and add the water
Add a thread of oil in a saucepan and add the chopped onion. Sauté for about 3-4 minutes and add the potato and zucchini. Pour the water that you have heated into the pot until it covers the zucchini. Cook everything for about 20 minutes.
Blend with the mixer
Blend with the mixer
Once the vegetables are cooked, turn off the heat, mash them well with a mixer, and season with salt and pepper to taste. If you want it to be more creamy, you can add just before crushing a cheese into portions. It is one of the easiest ways to make zucchini cream with cheeses.
Go through the chinese
Go through the chinese
If you want it to be much finer, you can pass it through a Chinese strainer. Thus, you will remove all the remains of skins or parts that have not been well shredded. But, on the contrary, you will take less fiber.
Plate and serve
Plate and serve
Serve it in individual bowls and accompany it with a string of oil and croutons. To make them, cut the slices of dry bread into squares of a centimeter more less. Heat a small skillet with a finger of oil. When it begins to heat up, add the bread in several batches and sauté for 3 minutes over medium heat. Drain with a slotted spoon and let it rest on a plate lined with absorbent paper.
Zucchini cream with yogurt sauce
Zucchini cream with yogurt sauce
If you want a lighter garnish, you can accompany it with a yogurt sauce. To make it, whisk a yogurt together with a tablespoon of lemon juice, some fresh mint leaves and half minced garlic, and a pinch of sugar, salt and pepper. You can make drawings with this sauce on the cream and decorate with mint leaves.
With toasted almonds
With toasted almonds
Another very healthy and delicious garnish is to put some slices of almonds on top of the zucchini cream along with a little oil mixed with chopped parsley. To make them richer, brown the almonds a little in a non-stick pan with a thread of oil. This is how you incorporate the benefits of nuts.
With carrot and cheese pancakes
With carrot and cheese pancakes
You can also complete your zucchini cream with some sauteed carrot cubes and cheese pancakes. To make the pancakes, line the oven plate with parchment paper and arrange 100 g of grated cheese in small piles. Cover them with another paper, put another tray on top to flatten them and cook for 10 minutes in the oven preheated to 180º.
With rice noodles
With rice noodles
If you are looking for an original and sophisticated decoration, but also super easy, try this one. You just have to top your zucchini cream with some fried rice noodles. As simple as it is effective.
Light zucchini cream
Light zucchini cream
And if you're looking for a lower-calorie version than the old one, don't miss our 100% guilt-free version of zucchini cream. See recipe.
Zucchini and potato cream recipe step by step
Ingredients
- 1 kg of zucchini
- 1 onion
- 2 potatoes
- 4 slices of dry bread
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
How to make zucchini cream
- Prepare the ingredients. Bring water to a boil. Wash the zucchini and chop them. Peel and chop the onion and potatoes.
- Sauté the vegetables. Sauté the chopped onion for 3-4 minutes. Add the potato and zucchini.
- Add the water and cook. Add the hot water until it covers the zucchini and cook for about 20 minutes or so.
- Grind and go through the Chinese. Turn off the heat, blend with a mixer and if you want it to be finer, go through the Chinese.
- Plate and serve. Decorate with a string of oil and some toasted bread croutons.
More creaminess
- Before mashing the vegetables, add a cheese in portions.