10 Surprising Things to do with Zucchini
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If you plant zucchini, you probably have them coming out of your ears at this point. Here’s a list of 10 surprising, delicious and drool-worthy ways to use up your summer zucchini. Oh P.S. To keep your zucchini plants mass producing, make sure you’re picking them off when they are ripe. If you let the jumbo ones start to form, the new little ones stop growing.
Crisp Zucchini Bites with Garlic Aioli. Crunch on the outside and juicy on the inside. Seriously delicious! Recipe Here.
Grilled Zucchini Caprese. So fresh and perfect for summer. Recipe from Little Broken.
Zucchini Pad Thai with zucchini “zoodles” – yes way!! Check out this video below from White on Rice Couple. I did a little digging and found the spiralizer and julienne peeler on Amazon.
Zucchini Fritters – these are on the regular rotation at our house. My son loves them! Recipe Here.
Zucchini Parmesan – pummeled with marinara and melted cheese. Ah! My name is all over this dish! Recipe from A Cozy Kitchen.
Quick Pickled Zucchini – weird, but it works! Tutorial Here.
Zucchini in chocolate muffins. You’ll love them even more knowing they are skinny. Recipe from Vikalinka.
Braised Zucchini on Crusty Bread – We make batch after batch of this during zucchini season. Recipe Here.
Zucchini + Pizza = Zucchini Pizza Boats!! Recipe from Cooking Classy.
Last but definitely not least, Grilled Moroccan Veggie skewers. Recipe Here. Be sure to dunk your grilled zucchini in Tzatziki Sauce. Mmm…
Natasha Kravchuk
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We grow zucchini every year. All summer I cook a lot of recipes with zucchini. We love zucchini fries. These are crispy and loaded with cheese. Great and healthy TV snack or good friend to a glass of white wine. Another option is zucchini spread, delicious on crisp toast or you can use it as a base to a meat dish or as a souce to lasagna or spagetti. The bonus is that the spread can be canned, so it will be at hand even in the winter. Pizza from zucchini is wow:-) For a dessert, I make zucchini brownies with or without summer fruit.
Zucchinis are really awesome and so versatile. I’m glad you’re enjoying every recipe that you try!
You missed one. Make apple pie out of it. My mom always made apply pie from zucchini and not actual apples.
That’s a good one too! Thanks for your suggestion.
The Zucchini Bites look amazing. I’m actually wandering down to my local farmers market later on this afternoon, so will definitely be picking up some zucchini and trying those. An easy recipe and they look delicious 🙂
They really are a treat and are especially good this time of year when zucchini is in season 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing my caprese zucchini! I love you forever 🙂 I’m loving the whole zoodles thing. Been experimenting with it lately and loving it so far!
It is pretty wild and low carb; not that nursing moms really care about that ;-). You’re welcome – thank you for creating such an amazing recipe!
Nice.. and one more possibility, believe me everyone will like it:
1 large raw zucchini (thin sliced)
3-4 cucumbers
2 carrots
baked bacon
direction:
using mandolin slicer (1/8″ thick) it should be thick as noodles, slice all of the vegetables.
After vegetables thinly sliced put them into salad spinner to discharge excess water from vegetables.
transfer to mixing dish, add ranch dressing & mayonnaise (2:1 ratio), salt, pepper to taste.. sprinkle with bacon…
you might ask what raw zucchini?, yes, raw zucchini, it taste delicious…
Thank you so much for sharing that with me. I’d love to try it!!
So far, I tried the pancakes and the crisp zucchini bites. Both are amazing!!
That’s fantastic! I’m so happy you loved them both 🙂
You’re a life saver!!! I was just breaking my head on what to do with the insane amount of zucchinis that are becoming ripe in our garden. Thank you so much!!! May God bless you and your family!
That’s awesome! I love when good timing happens :). Thank you and God bless you also.
I love, love, LOVE zucchini sticks
and lie to myself about them being healthy!
oooh zucchini sticks sound good. Do you have a recipe on your site? Are they like the zucchini rounds I have above, just in stick form?
Love this delicious combination of zucchini recipes! Yum!
Thanks Shelby! Isn’t it amazing how many uses there are for it?
Whoa, you have so many great ideas for zukes! We love zukes here but go to traditional with them. Those pizza boats look great. As do the chocolate muffins. Can never figure out why zucchini and chocolate just works, just does. Have to share these with wife, she just fries them up with garlic which is good but I need a little variety in my life.
The pizza boats are also a nice way to get kids to eat zucchini although my son loves zucchini a number of different ways :-). Zucchini fried up with garlic sounds nice too.
Oh so many possibilities! I have such a mad crush on your crisp zucchini bites, Natasha, what a beauty of a recipe! Love Katya’s grilled zucchini Caprese salad too. Summer produce is the best! Thank you for sharing my choc muffins, beautiful!
I’m totally loving this time of year when my moms garden is in full bloom. It’s such a treat!