Courgettes (Zucchini) pie. Don't miss this easy Zucchini Pie, which is the most delicious way to enjoy fresh summer produce! In the meantime, peel some ribbons from one or two zucchini and prepare a batter with two eggs, a cup of heavy cream, a pinch of salt, pepper, and turmeric. Pour this batter into the puff pastry dough and decorate.
Remove from the oven, cut into slices and eat.
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You can cook Courgettes (Zucchini) pie using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Courgettes (Zucchini) pie
- Prepare 700 grams of finely grated courgettes.
- It's 3 of eggs.
- Prepare 150 grams of feta cheese.
- You need 200 grams of cottage cheese.
- Prepare 1 cup of toasted golden breadcrumb s.
- It's 1/2 bunch of finely chopped curly parsley.
- It's 1/2 bunch of finely chopped dill.
- It's 3 tbsp of dried mint.
- Prepare 6 of finely sliced spring onions.
- You need 1/3 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
- You need 1 of salt.
- Prepare 1 of pepper.
A crustless zucchini quiche is a delicious way to utilize an abundance of summer zucchini. This vegetarian quiche is very low carb so it's perfect for keto diets, too. At first, I was leary of using zucchini in a quiche because I thought it might be watery. Pites like this Greek zucchini pie, are what Greeks call their pies that are made with vegetables or cheese surrounded by layers of phyllo.
Courgettes (Zucchini) pie step by step
- Preheat the oven at 175oC. Grated courgettes should be slightly salted (crumbled feta will be added later on) and left for 15 minutes in a colander to drain any excess water..
- Brush an oval glass dish eith the olive oil and scatter evenly on all surface some breadcrumbs..
- Mix together the finely sliced dill, curled parsley and spring onions with the dried mint, crumbled feta, cottage cheese, eggs, the remaining breadcrumbs and pepper..
- Squeeze grated courgettes to drain any excess water. Mix with the rest of ingredients. Pour the mixture in the dish and drizzle with the remaining olive oil. Bake for 45 minutes or until golden..
- This recipe is gluten free if breadcrumbs are omitted or replaced by gluten free breadcrumbs. :-).
Phyllo can mean the thin sheets of phyllo you find in the frozen section of the super market, or homemade phyllo (dough) which most women in Greece would roll out when they made a pita. This zucchini pie recipe is a fresh riff on spaghetti pie, where zoodles stand in for spaghetti and sweet grape tomatoes replace pasta sauce. Serve zucchini pie for breakfast, lunch, or dinner—it's great hot, cold, or at room temperature. For a special brunch treat, top wedges with a sliver of cold-smoked salmon and a dill sprig. Add the zucchini and gently stir to coat the zucchini with the egg mixture.
