Australian

Zucchini Slice

Name: Zucchini Slice
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 4 zucchini; 4 slices bacon; 1 onion; 1 cup self-raising flour; 6 eggs; 1.5 cups shredded cheddar; 1/3 cup vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Chloe @chloe_melbourne

Zucchini Slice is Australian home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

55 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 zucchini
4 slices bacon
1 onion
1 cup self-raising flour
6 eggs
1.5 cups shredded cheddar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 350F and grease a baking dish.
Grate the zucchini and squeeze out the excess liquid.
Dice the bacon and onion and cook in a skillet until the onion is soft, about 5 minutes.
Whisk the eggs, flour, and oil in a large bowl, then stir in the zucchini, bacon, onion, and cheddar.
Season with salt and pepper, pour into the baking dish, and bake until set and golden, about 40 minutes.
Cool slightly, slice into squares, and serve.

Watch how to cook Zucchini Slice

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Australian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Zucchini Slice, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Aussie Corn on the Cob
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Aussie Garlic Bread
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Zucchini Slice carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Zucchini Slice
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Avocado on Sourdough
Gluten	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 390 kcal
Protein: 17 g
Carbs: 22 g
Fat: 26 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 740 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Zucchini Slice takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.