Fried Eggs with Zucchini and Paprika

Fried eggs with zucchini and paprika are easy to make meals suitable as daily snacks, full meal, or even dinner.

Eggs are rich in fats, too, but if you use organic or omega-3 eggs, then those fats are healthy fats.

Published: October 29, 2016.

If you want to reduce the amount of fats in this meal, use egg whites instead of whole eggs.

For this meal, we need one medium-sized zucchini, larger paprika, and three eggs. As said before, three (larger) eggs have almost 20g of fats, but also 3 larger omega-3 eggs have at least 1g of omega-3 with plenty of other healthy fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals ... Peel of zucchini (some people just wash them) and cut into suitable sized slices. Paprika - make three rings, 1 cm high, and chop the rest of it. Add some salt.

Put everything on preheated non-stick frying pan.

After frying vegetables on both sides for several minutes, add eggs - put them into the paprika's rings. This way, they will get the taste and aroma of paprika. Add some spices you like - pepper, more salt (but not much), etc.

Few notes: no matter how accurately you slice paprika's rings, some egg whites will always get under the ring's edges and out - it is OK since this is real-life cooking, not some TV cooking show :)

After frying eggs few minutes on both sides, put foods on the plate. To increase protein content, I also added some cottage cheese - a great source of slow-digesting proteins and calcium.

Serve warm. Bon Appetite!

The nutritional content of this meal is given in the following table:

Food	Amount	Protein	Carbs	Fats	Fibers
Eggs	3 (200g)	24g	2g	20g	0g
Zucchini	250g	5g	8g	1g	3g
Paprika	75g	1g	4g	0g	2g
Cottage Cheese	150g	18g	4g	5g	0g
Total:		48g	18g	26g	5g
Calories:		192 kcal	72 kcal	234 kcal	-

That is around 500kcal, mostly from fats and protein. Again, if you want to reduce fats and calories, use egg whites from 'ordinary' eggs.

Also, to increase fiber content, one can eat some salad with this meal, although there are already two vegetables present - for example, a tomato salad with vinegar and salt and no oil.