The Easiest Zucchini Recipe (Ready in 10 Minutes)

This is probably the easiest Chinese zucchini recipe. It’s made with just a few ingredients in minutes, but it is incredibly delicious and popular all over China. In Beijing, this dish is known as Hu Ta Zi糊塌子, some parts of Shandong call it Gua Cai Bing Zi瓜菜饼子. In Henan and Hebei province , you will hear it as 咸食.

Some northern regions call it 摊面片, while most places in the south call it 西葫芦鸡蛋饼, which literally means zucchini egg pancakes. That ‘s something you will see a lot in Chinese home cooking. The same dish can have many different names depending on where you are from.

For the zucchini pancake
454g / 1 lb of zucchini, shredded
1 tsp of salt
3 chicken eggs
1 cup of all-purpose flour
1/4 cup of diced scallions
Oil to pan-fry

For the dipping sauce
1 tbsp of diced scallion
1/2 tbsp of garlic paste
1 tbsp of chopped Thai bird eye chilies
3 tbsp of soy sauce
1.5 tbsp of water