Head to the farmers’ market, grocery retailer, or your personal backyard and collect all of the zucchini! I’m sharing my most-loved zucchini recipes, and also you’ll discover a number of for each meal and event right here. Get pleasure from summer time’s favourite vegetable in an straightforward frittata for breakfast, on zucchini & herbed ricotta flatbread for lunch or dinner, and zucchini oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for dessert.
Dare I say that zucchini is essentially the most underrated ingredient to grace our kitchens? 😉
Candy & Savory Zucchini Recipe Concepts
Have a surplus of zucchini in your fingers and questioning the way to use all of it?
This completely unassuming inexperienced squash is one powerhouse (and versatile!) ingredient to include in recipes—each candy and savory. Because it’s largely water, it provides unparalleled moisture in baked items, identical to carrots in carrot cake. Tasters NEVER notice it’s hiding inside, both—in truth, you’ll be able to’t even detect it on this chocolate zucchini bread or peanut butter chocolate chip zucchini bread.
My chocolate zucchini cake is a constant reader favourite, particularly in the course of the summer time months when zucchini is in season. The cake makes use of a whopping 3 cups of zucchini, and I assure it’s essentially the most indulgent solution to eat your greens!
And I do know you gained’t flip down a batch of zucchini muffins or zucchini bread. Each freeze splendidly for a simple breakfast or snack possibility, too.
In the case of savory recipes, there are just about countless methods to make the most of zucchini. Spiralize it to make zucchini noodles for hen meatballs or bruschetta hen. Slice and bake it in my tacky zucchini casserole, or shred it for these stovetop zucchini fritters. And don’t overlook about my savory zucchini biscuits! A field grater really is useful for many zucchini recipes.
It’s very easy. Shred the zucchini after which squeeze out as a lot moisture as you’ll be able to with paper towels or a clear kitchen linen. Spoon in a zipped-top bag after which flatten out, which makes thawing faster. Freeze as much as 3-4 months. Thaw, then blot dry if it’s tremendous liquid-y. Use in any recipe that requires shredded zucchini.
Zucchini can be improbable roasted within the oven with just a little garlic and lemon. I LOVE making ready it this fashion, and I share the recipe particulars under. High with some freshly grated parmesan cheese… so good!
Listed below are 20+ favourite zucchini recipes to strive the following time you’re on the lookout for a means to make use of this MVV…
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20+ of My Greatest Zucchini Recipes
Favourite Zucchini Bread
This flavorful and moist zucchini bread recipe has been a household favourite for years, and I’m comfortable to share it. No mixer required!
Zucchini Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Every cinnamon-kissed chew of zucchini cake is nestled underneath a blanket of brown butter cream cheese frosting. This cake and frosting combo is pure perfection, and is somewhat easy to make. Straightforward dessert at its most interesting!
Merely Zucchini Muffins
You’ll love these straightforward zucchini muffins as a result of they pack plenty of healthful taste and solely require about half-hour begin to end.
Straightforward Zucchini Casserole Recipe
Bursting with oregano, thyme, basil, and garlic, this straightforward vegetable facet dish bakes in half-hour and doesn’t require any pre-cooking.
Cream Cheese Zucchini Muffins
These tender cream cheese zucchini muffins are deliciously spiced with cinnamon and full of a cheesecake-style filling.
Zucchini Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Zucchini oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are additional tender with chewy facilities and crisp edges. Take the time to blot the shredded zucchini earlier than utilizing, as the surplus moisture will destroy the meant texture. These are phenomenal!
Zucchini Crumb Cake
This zucchini crumb cake is moist, cinnamon-spiced, and full of summer time’s bountiful inexperienced vegetable. Completed with a buttery brown sugar crumb topping and velvety vanilla icing, everybody will beg to have veggies for breakfast!
Backyard Vegetable Frittata Recipe
This frittata recipe can be your new go-to for a wholesome egg-based dish you’ll be able to serve and luxuriate in any time of day. I really like loading it with zucchini, candy potato, and bell peppers.
Bruschetta Hen with Zucchini Noodles
This 1-pan bruschetta hen with zucchini noodles is wholesome, scrumptious, and really easy to make—it’s positive to earn a spot in your weeknight dinner rotation, particularly within the summertime.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Chocolate zucchini cake is unapologetically wealthy, decadent, and moist, because of shredded zucchini within the batter. And belief me, style testers are none the wiser that there’s a vegetable hiding on this layered magnificence.
Zucchini & Herbed Ricotta Flatbread
My favourite topping mixture for flatbread is sliced zucchini, herbed ricotta, roasted tomatoes, and contemporary basil. I present you the way to put all of it collectively on this recipe!
Greek Yogurt Zucchini Bread
Straightforward and healthful Greek yogurt zucchini bread comes collectively with none refined sugar, and with loads of yogurt for additional moisture. And it’s one other nice make-ahead possibility for the freezer.
Zucchini Fritters
Golden brown, crisp, and gluten free! Flavored with garlic and contemporary herbs, these savory little desserts cook dinner shortly on the range and are welcome at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
It is a tremendous chocolatey, additional indulgent tackle basic zucchini bread. Plan to make greater than 1 loaf, as a result of this one disappears quick!
Roasted Vegetable Complete Wheat Pizza
My complete wheat pizza dough is the right base for a summery roasted vegetable pizza. A lot of veggies on this!
Peanut Hen Zucchini Noodles
This flavorful peanut hen zucchini noodles dish is a more healthy dinner that has lean protein, loads of greens, and a tasty savory peanut sauce. Be happy to skip the meat and substitute with extra greens, or tofu.
Thick & Hearty Minestrone Soup
Zucchini joins many different colourful greens on this thick and hearty minestrone soup recipe. A favourite meat-free consolation meal!
Crustless Veggie Quiche
It is a lightened-up, wholesome crustless quiche recipe that packs a heavy taste punch with tons of zucchini, yellow squash, bell pepper, and cheese in each chew.
Zucchini & Candy Potato Fritters
These savory stovetop desserts mix zucchini, candy potato, onion, garlic, and loads of contemporary herbs to carry you a flavorful vegetarian meal or facet dish. Creamy herbed Greek yogurt sauce is a must-make accompaniment!
Hen Meatballs with Zucchini Noodles
Filled with taste, baked, after which brushed with a lemony garlic herb butter, these pair completely with zucchini noodles. (There’s loads of sauce to make use of up!)
Roasted Lemon Garlic Zucchini
If you end up with about 1 and 1/2 kilos of zucchini mendacity round (not onerous to do… about 3–4 medium zucchini!), strive roasting it with lemon, garlic, and oregano, and end it with some contemporary parmesan. We gobble it up this fashion as a result of it’s extraordinarily flavorful and pairs with a wide range of principal dishes. It’s additionally fairly tender, with out being mushy so long as you chop the zucchini thick sufficient.
Above all, I adore it as a result of it’s extraordinarily fast and simple; and typically (okay, more often than not) I don’t wish to spend greater than 10 minutes prepping a facet dish!
- Preheat oven to 425°F (218°C). Line a big baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Slice zucchini into 1/2-inch-thick slices after which halve every slice.
- In a big bowl, mix zucchini, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, oregano, salt, and pepper. Unfold evenly on ready baking sheet.
- Bake for quarter-hour. Take away from the oven and sprinkle half of the parmesan evenly on high. Return pan to the oven for 3–5 extra minutes, till the zucchini is fork-tender with out being too tender and mushy.
- Take away from the oven and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Be happy to serve with non-compulsory lemon zest, pink pepper flakes, and/or contemporary parsley garnishes on high.
- Cowl leftovers tightly and retailer within the fridge for as much as 5 days. Reheat as desired.
Notes
- I don’t suggest freezing this roasted zucchini as a result of it turns into fairly soggy when thawing.
- Herbs: You’ll be able to substitute Italian seasoning mix for the oregano, or use the identical quantity of dried thyme, rosemary, or basil. You may as well substitute 2 teaspoons of contemporary oregano, thyme, rosemary, or basil.
Vitamin
- Serving Dimension: 1 serving
- Energy: 60
- Sugar: 0.1 g
- Sodium: 254 mg
- Fats: 3.7 g
- Carbohydrates: 4.3 g
- Protein: 4.4 g
- Ldl cholesterol: 2.4 mg
