Buckwheat Krupeniki with Cottage Cheese and Zucchini

Cooking

1. Pour water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add salt. Shake the packets with buckwheat, and lower them gently into the boiling water. Reduce heat and cook the buckwheat for 7 minutes until ready. Let cool and remove the buckwheat from the packets.

2. Peel and grate the zucchini coarsely, chop parsley and chili finely.

3. Mix the buckwheat with the cottage cheese, the eggs, the zucchini, the greens and the chili peppers. Add salt, 2 tbsp of olive oil and mix well. Shape small cutlets (grechaniki) from the mixture. If the mixture does not retain shape, add some polenta or bread crumbs.

4. Heat 2 tbsp of olive oil in the pan and fry the cutlets for 5-6 minutes on each side. Add more oil as needed.

5. Serve the cutlets with leaves of spinach.

Cuisine Russian cuisine

Dish type Entrees