Categories: Main DishesNo-meat

Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese

These are zucchini based vegetable pancakes with a bit of fresh sheep cheese, which can be optional if you don’t like sheep cheese, but to my opinion it benefits a lot to the taste.

You can use zucchini or other kind of summer squash; remove seeds they already formed before cooking.

Vegetable pancakes are good choice for breakfast, brunch or lunch. Serve them warm with sour cream or sour cream and garlic dip how I did.

Ingredients:

  • 2lbs of zucchini
  • 1/2-3/4 cups of shredded sheep cheese
  • 2 eggs
  • Bunch of fresh green parsley
  • Bunch of fresh green dill
  • All purpose flour, about 1/2 cup
  • 1 pack of dry yeast (about 2 tablespoons) or 0.5oz of raw yeast
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for frying

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients: if you don’t like taste of sheep cheese you can replace it with any other cheese to your taste, or skip it all together, but I like these pancakes made with “brynza”:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 1
  2. Skin zucchinis, if they are more mature and have seeds formed already – remove seeds as well, then grate zucchinis on medium-sized slots of your grater:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 2
  3. Salt generously:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 3
  4. And set aside for about 15 mins in warm place, grated zucchini will produce a lot of juice and we are trying to remove most of it:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 4
  5. So, pour shredded zucchinis to colander and using spoon or hands try to squeeze juices out and discard them:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 5
  6. Move drained zucchini back to the bowl:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 6
  7. Add all yeast:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 7
  8. Crack eggs in:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 8
  9. Rinse and chop green parsley and dill, and add them to the bowl as well:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 9
  10. Mix contents of the bowl:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 10
  11. Add sheep cheese grated on medium slots:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 11
  12. Mix:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 12
  13. Add sifted flour, amount of flour you need will vary greatly depending on how good of the job you did removing the juices, for me it took about 1/2 cup, just pay attention to a dough you get, it shouldn’t be too thin to drip from the spoon but it should be still possible to scoop it with a spoon:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 13
  14. So keep mixing flour in until you get desired consistency, then cover bowl with a towel and set aside in warm place for 30 mins to rise a bit:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 14
  15. You will get something like this:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 15
  16. Warm up skillet over moderate heat with enough oil to cover bottom of it; scoop batter tablespoon and form pancakes on the skillet, fry until golden brown:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 16
  17. Then flip to other side using spatula and fry until ready:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 17
  18. Repeat with all batter, move ready pancakes to a plate:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese Recipe: Step 18
  19. Serve warm with a bit of sour cream or with sour cream and garlic dip like I did:
    Zucchini Pancakes with Sheep Cheese
Enjoy!