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🍽️ Crispy Zucchini Cheese Squares

654 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 200 g filo pastry (or yufka pastry)
• 3 tbsp liquid butter
• 2 zucchini (approx. 800 g)
• 1 sprig mint
• 1 clove garlic
• 200 g cream cheese
• 100 ml whipping cream
• 2 eggs
• 100 g grated cheese (e.g. Pecorino)
• salt
• pepper

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius fan-forced.
2. 2. Line a 20x20 cm baking dish with baking paper.
3. 3. Line the bottom of the dish with the pastry sheets.
4. 4. Brush each layer of pastry sheets with butter.
5. 5. Wash the zucchini and remove the hard ends.
6. 6. Grate the zucchini coarsely.
7. 7. Rinse the mint under cold water.
8. 8. Shake the mint dry.
9. 9. Pluck the mint leaves from the stems.
10. 10. Finely chop the mint leaves.
11. 11. Peel the garlic.
12. 12. Finely chop the garlic.
13. 13. Stir the cream cheese smooth with the cream.
14. 14. Stir the eggs into the cheese-cream mixture.
15. 15. Fold the chopped garlic into the mixture.
16. 16. Fold the chopped mint into the mixture.
17. 17. Fold the grated cheese into the mixture.
18. 18. Fold the grated zucchini into the mixture.
19. 19. Season the filling with salt.
20. 20. Season the filling with pepper.
21. 21. Pour the filling into the prepared baking dish.
22. 22. Bake the zucchini squares in the oven for about 45 minutes.
23. 23. Remove the dish from the oven when the surface is golden brown.
24. 24. Let the zucchini squares cool down in the oven or on the stove.
25. 25. Cut the cooled squares into small cubes.
26. 26. Serve the zucchini squares lukewarm.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 654
• Protein: 25 g · Fett/Fat: 43 g · Carbs: 41 g