| 1 | My family don't like them....I love them. But just wanting some new ideas on how I might convince them to eat them.......or things to hide them in!!! jimbob37 - 2017-12-28 16:03:00 |
| 2 | Spiralize them with other veges and used as such Instead of pastas. Check out this link.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.as
px?id=1675691&topic=13 Then check out all the sales re a Spiralizer like Briscoes, Noel Leemings has 50% off, and any others. Cheers valentino - 2017-12-28 16:18:00 |
| 3 | I spiralize them and just wipe the inside of sauté pan with butter, cook them quickly and add salt and pepper.....delicious and they do cook very quickly when spiralized. eljayv - 2017-12-28 16:37:00 |
| 4 | Spiralized (is that a word even??)zucchini, fry up some garlic in little oil, add zucchinis, salt and pepper, cook till tender. Stir in 2 T sour cream and some parmesan cheese - beautiful.
also love them fried up with onions, bacon and mushrooms and put on toast for a fast easy dinner. dibble35 - 2017-12-28 19:53:00 |
| 5 | I saute/fry mushrooms and zucchini together then add cream and reduce slightly and serve over fettuccini pasta. Can do zucchini on its own, oh and add salt and pepper to taste.
Grate zucchini and add to cakes or muffins especially chocolate ones. If making carrot cake can add some to that as well.
Grate and freeze and add to vegie soups in winter cgvl - 2017-12-29 09:21:00 |
| 6 | We cook grated zucchini fritters on the BBQ (like corn fritters). And I make an egg/vege/cheese bake in the oven that has about 4 grated zucchini in it (a great recipe for whatever needs to be used up in the fridge). If you're interested in either, I'll post the recipes. ed65 - 2017-12-29 11:34:00 |
| 7 | Z's are a fab base for a rich tomotoey ratatouille sauce, then used for various pasta recipes, or a chunky dip rexavier - 2017-12-29 12:48:00 |
| 8 | I've got a lovely choc zucchini cake recipe - its so moist and keeps well. Cant wait till my own zucchinis are ready so i can make it again. Had a series of disasters with my zucchini plants this year so was really late finally getting one to grow, just setting its first ones now. dibble35 - 2017-12-29 17:18:00 |
| 9 | Grated into mince meat for patties is one way of keeping the patties moist. karlymouse - 2017-12-29 23:01:00 |
| 10 | Can I please have a recipe for chocolate cake with zucchini thanks ellajay2 - 2017-12-31 10:58:00 |
| 11 | ellajay2 wrote:
Can I please have a recipe for chocolate cake with zucchini thanks
This is the one i use.
Got it off here a few years ago, not sure whos it was originally
ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CAKE
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup raw sugar
3 eggs
21/2 cups flour
1 tsp real vanilla extract
1/2 plain yogurt
1/4 cup cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups grated zucchini Line a 25cm square pan. Beat butter and sugars until light and creamy (don’t hurry this step). Beat in eggs, one at a time, adding a spoonful of the flour with each addition. Add vanilla and yogurt and mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and using a wooden spoon, partly combine with the egg mixture. Then add zucchini. Do not overmix. Turn mixture into the prepared pan and bake at 170C for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake. ETA - my recipe has 1/2 cup choc chips sprinkled on top before you bake it, Edited by dibble35 at 2:33 pm, Sun 31 Dec dibble35 - 2017-12-31 14:31:00 |
| 12 | Slice through lengthwise and roast plain, or smear chilli sauce and cheese on the cut side and then roast. Grate into meat loaf mixture. nanasee1 - 2017-12-31 16:43:00 |
| 13 | How exciting dibble35, I posted that recipe! I'm so glad someone else has been enjoying it, it is such a lovely cake. You've made my day :) |
| 14 | This is a recipe that I often use, substituting carrots when zucchini are out of season. An easy, no fail recipe and it cooks in the MW, very like a mud cake with less eggs. My Grandies love this cake and have no idea that it contains the hated veges. Chocolate Zucchini Cake
125g butter
3/4 cup sugar
11/2 cups grated zucchini
2 eggs
1/2 teasp each cinnamon & mixed spice
1/2 cup choc chips
3/4 cup cocoa
11/2 cups SR flour
1/4 cup plain yoghurt Cream butter & sugar, add eggs one at a time and beat in between each egg. Add spices, zucchini, choc chips & yoghurt & mix well. Add cocoa and flour and mix. Put mixture into a prepared microwave cake pan. Bake in microwave on high for 8 minutes. Stand 5 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack. Edited by nauru at 7:24 pm, Sun 31 Dec nauru - 2017-12-31 19:22:00 |
| 15 | Here's one I've lost the original recipe for and can't find it on any website. It was given to me on a piece of paper. So here's roughly what I do.
Grate 4 zucchini into a mixing bowl
Add 2-3 grated carrots
Add a cup of flour, mix
add a cup of grated cheese
Now add whatever leftovers you have(potatoes, corn,chicken, ham capsicum,)mix in.
You can also add some fried bacon and onions if you wish
Pepper and fresh herbs, garlic
add enough oil to stick it all together(1/2-1 cup)
place in baking dish.
Beat 4-6 eggs (as you would for a bacon and egg pie, I just break up the yolks and add some milk)
Pour this over the mixture and mix in( I find this easier than doing it in the bowl)
I fan bake on 180 for about 35mins, then check to see if its cooked through.
It's more colourful if you have yellow zucchini as well to add.
Hopefully I remembered everything. I'm doing it Wednesday when my kids come over for dinner. blueviking - 2018-01-01 08:48:00 |
| 16 | rebecca18 wrote:
How exciting dibble35, I posted that recipe! I'm so glad someone else has been enjoying it, it is such a lovely cake. You've made my day :)
Hi, it is a lovely cake, should be able to make it in a few weeks time, hopefully ill have enough zucchinis growing by then so i can take it out to the bach when i'm going in late Jan. dibble35 - 2018-01-01 09:07:00 |
| 17 | I make this often in summer and the whole family love it
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/zucchini-slice/eb7eed59-5f53
-4f6f-bfb5-9b7e3f81a702 ash27 - 2018-01-01 21:29:00 |
| 18 | Fry onions, peppers and of course courgettes. Add some tomatoes and capers and sliced olives. Serve with any meat (steak or chicken is nice) and some potatoes or if you prefer rice or pasta. uli - 2018-12-25 15:23:00 |
| 19 | "I make this often in summer and the whole family love it
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/zucchini-slice/eb7eed59-5f53
-4f6f-bfb5-9b7e3f81a702 " Made this last night and used a mild blue instead of cheddar, some spinach type leaves and ham instead of bacon. We 2 pigged the lot. Far beats any of my quiche etc recipes. |
| 20 | blueviking wrote:
Here's one I've lost the original recipe for and can't find it on any website. It was given to me on a piece of paper. So here's roughly what I do.
Grate 4 zucchini into a mixing bowl
Add 2-3 grated carrots
Add a cup of flour, mix
add a cup of grated cheese
Now add whatever leftovers you have(potatoes, corn,chicken, ham capsicum,)mix in.
You can also add some fried bacon and onions if you wish
Pepper and fresh herbs, garlic
add enough oil to stick it all together(1/2-1 cup)
place in baking dish.
Beat 4-6 eggs (as you would for a bacon and egg pie, I just break up the yolks and add some milk)
Pour this over the mixture and mix in( I find this easier than doing it in the bowl)
I fan bake on 180 for about 35mins, then check to see if its cooked through.
It's more colourful if you have yellow zucchini as well to add.
Hopefully I remembered everything. I'm doing it Wednesday when my kids come over for dinner. sounds yum, just the sort of thing i like caspm5 - 2019-01-02 17:20:00 |
| 21 | blueviking wrote:
Here's one I've lost the original recipe for and can't find it on any website. It was given to me on a piece of paper. So here's roughly what I do.
Grate 4 zucchini into a mixing bowl
Add 2-3 grated carrots
Add a cup of flour, mix
add a cup of grated cheese
Now add whatever leftovers you have(potatoes, corn,chicken, ham capsicum,)mix in.
You can also add some fried bacon and onions if you wish
Pepper and fresh herbs, garlic
add enough oil to stick it all together(1/2-1 cup)
place in baking dish.
Beat 4-6 eggs (as you would for a bacon and egg pie, I just break up the yolks and add some milk)
Pour this over the mixture and mix in( I find this easier than doing it in the bowl)
I fan bake on 180 for about 35mins, then check to see if its cooked through.
It's more colourful if you have yellow zucchini as well to add.
Hopefully I remembered everything. I'm doing it Wednesday when my kids come over for dinner.
I do something very similar, I got the recipe from here ages ago & add what ever veges I have & I have even been known to add a little bit of sweet chilli sauce & it's always good & popular.
I don't like zucchini as a cooked vege, but I do like them raw so I grate it on salads.
I also make zucchini muffins (Digby Law's recipe) & they freeze very well.
The nieces & nephews know that I always have some in the freezer & love them.
Last year I grated & froze them raw & have used them for baking cakes/muffins ...only thing is they are very wet, so either drain well or add more flour to get the cake/muffin mix right. samanya - 2019-01-02 18:07:00 |
| 22 | If you are even remotely interested in gardening, grab a copy of the NZ Gardener garden diary. They have articles about what to do with a glut of different veges, with recipes. (I am remotely interested, just suffer black thumbs, unfortunately lol). The recipes for zucchini are:
Baked zucchini fries with Parmesan
Easy zucchini pickle
Zucchini cherry tomato & goat cheese tart
Zucchini jam
Zucchini salsa Edited by unknowndisorder at 6:16 pm, Wed 2 Jan |
| 23 | bump bev00 - 2019-12-31 00:48:00 |
| 24 | Yesterday I sliced up a small zucchini.
Whisked up 2 eggs and a splodge of milk then bunged that into a hot pan.
Once the mix started to cook (30 - 40 seconds) I added the zucchini slices and some grated Edam cheese.
Yes, OK...I made a zucchini omelette.
Did the usual folding in 1/2 trick with the omelette after a couple of minutes or so.
Another minute later it hit the plate.
Very quick and tasty...Nigella would be proud! Edited by gettinggrey at 3:29 pm, Tue 31 Dec |
| 25 | Stirfried. We grow one plant only so don't get that excess...nothing worse than a glut to make you sick of something. lythande1 - 2019-12-31 15:53:00 |
| 26 | lythande1 wrote:
Stirfried. We grow one plant only so don't get that excess...nothing worse than a glut to make you sick of something. I wish I could grow 1/2 a plant ...one produces way too much for me.
I give heaps away. samanya - 2019-12-31 18:19:00 |
| 27 | dibble35 wrote:
This is the one i use.
Got it off here a few years ago, not sure whos it was originally
ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CAKE
125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup raw sugar
3 eggs
21/2 cups flour
1 tsp real vanilla extract
1/2 plain yogurt
1/4 cup cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups grated zucchini Line a 25cm square pan. Beat butter and sugars until light and creamy (don’t hurry this step). Beat in eggs, one at a time, adding a spoonful of the flour with each addition. Add vanilla and yogurt and mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and using a wooden spoon, partly combine with the egg mixture. Then add zucchini. Do not overmix. Turn mixture into the prepared pan and bake at 170C for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake. ETA - my recipe has 1/2 cup choc chips sprinkled on top before you bake it, ....sounds nice, but what can you use instead of yoghurt. Never have any when I want it for baking. korbo - 2020-01-01 14:48:00 |
| 28 | use them instead of lasagna sheets when making lasagna |
| 29 | drumgirl-lj wrote:
use them instead of lasagna sheets when making lasagna Love that, thanks. linette1 - 2020-01-02 12:22:00 |
