Potatoes with zucchini in a frying pan

These vegetables can be served as a side dish or as a separate dish. Now the season of fresh vegetables has begun. And young zucchini, like potatoes, are many times tastier, so it's time to cook various interesting and delicious dishes from them. In addition to potatoes, you can add fresh tomatoes or sweet peppers.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 5 % 1 g
Fats 43 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 52 % 11 g
123 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients. To cook potatoes with zucchini in a frying pan, we will need: potatoes (it is advisable to choose special varieties suitable for frying), young zucchini with small seeds and tender flesh, fresh thyme, butter (optional), vegetable oil, ground black pepper and salt.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the zucchini thoroughly, dry it. If the vegetables are large, cut them into quarters, if small - in semicircles.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash potatoes, peel and cut into medium cubes.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wash thyme, dry and peel the leaves from the twigs.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the potatoes and fry them for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. During this time, the potatoes should be browned from all sides.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Add the zucchini to the pan with the potatoes. Fry everything together for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    When the zucchini juice is released, season the vegetables with salt, pepper and sprinkle with thyme leaves. Fry for another 5-7 minutes.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    At the very end, add a piece of butter to the pan. It is not necessary to add oil if you see that the vegetables are already saturated with fat and there is still vegetable oil left at the bottom of the pan. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for another 3-5 minutes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Put the finished potatoes with zucchini on plates and serve immediately while the dish is hot. Enjoy your meal!

Zucchini is now the cheapest, so I bought a lot of them and cook new dishes every day, combine as soon as possible. I even took a swing at a chocolate cupcake with zucchini. Those who have tried, say that it is delicious. Therefore, I will definitely cook it myself. Well, in the meantime, hands have not reached the cupcake, such a potato with a milky young zucchini will do. Not a chocolate cupcake, of course, but also very tasty.)

Potatoes with zucchini can not be fried, but stewed by adding 200 ml of water to the pan. So the dish will turn out to be less caloric.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Zucchini - 23   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Thyme - 101   kcal/100g
  • Dried thyme - 276   kcal/100g
  • Thyme - 276   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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