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Crispy Zucchini Schnitzel with Dill Cream Sauce
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Crispy Zucchini Schnitzel with Dill Cream Sauce

Zucchini slices in a crisp breadcrumb coating, fried to perfect gold — served with a fresh dill cream sauce

⏱ 35 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Israeli👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Crispy Coating

  1. 1
    Spread the flour on a flat plate.
    💡The flour dries the surface, the egg sticks to it and holds whatever comes next. Without the flour, the coating tends to peel off during frying.
  2. 2
    Beat the eggs in a wide bowl.
    Bowl
    💡Work with one "dry" hand for the dry coating and one "wet" hand for the egg, so your fingers don't get caked in layers of coating.
  3. 3
    On another flat plate, mix the crumbs with the paprika, salt and black pepper.

To assemble

  1. 4
    Cut the vegetable into slices evenly thick.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 5
    Pass each piece through the breading stations, in order, and press well so the coating sticks.
    💡A wet vegetable sheds its coating and spatters in the oil. Dry well after cooking or salting, before the flour.
  3. 6
    Heat the oil in a wide pan over medium-high heat and fry 3–4 minutes on each side, until the coating is golden and crisp.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
    💡What you brown (meat, patties, schnitzel) goes into hot oil: in lukewarm oil it soaks it up and comes out greasy. For onion and garlic that you soften, oil heated over medium or low heat is enough; do not wait for it to smoke.
  4. 7
    Transfer to paper towels.
  5. 8
    Mix the sour cream, dill and lemon juice and salt for the sauce.
  6. 9
    Serve hot with the sauce.
256calories
7 gprotein
16 gcarbs
18 gfat
● protein 11%● carbs 25%● fat 64%

Per serving (184 g), of 4 servings

For the Crispy Coating · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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