Our Favorite Zucchini Recipes

New in 2022…

In the last year we’ve added 3 zucchini recipes to our website and they may be my favorites!

Zucchini Bread Coffee Cake, Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread and Sauteed Summer Veggies including zucchini!

New in 2021…

Zucchini is one of my favorite veggies (technically a fruit?) so I am constantly cooking and baking with it, and each year we add more zucchini recipes to our repertoire.

This year we added Zucchini Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal Cups, an Easy Veggie Bake, Zucchini Banana Bread and Summer Minestrone Soup using zucchini!

The Zucchini Chocolate Chip Baked Oatmeal Cups are a made with wholesome, nourishing ingredients and are the best make-ahead breakfast or snack!

The Easy Veggie Bake is a simple and delicious side dish!

And the Zucchini Banana Bread (covered in chocolate chips here!) is a combination of two favorites!

The Summer Minestrone Soup uses all the best summer produce including zucchini and summer squash and is both fresh tasting and cozy.

Original post… Zucchini is one of the most versatile vegetables and in honor of National Zucchini Day, we compiled all our favorite ways to enjoy it here in this post.

All these recipes are gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan and cover everything from zucchini bread and muffins to zoodles and pasta to fries and chips!

Let’s start with baked goods.

We love baking with veggies because especially with gluten-free baking, it helps add moisture and yields the best texture for quick breads and muffins.

Zucchini Bread or Muffins: A favorite family recipe adapted to be gluten-free, and no one knows the difference… Whether you make it as a quick bread or muffins, this recipe is loved by everyone, even those who say they don’t like zucchini!

 

Lemon Thyme Zucchini Loaf with Lemon Glaze: This easy quick bread is fresh tasting, has a perfect soft and fluffy texture and is bursting with lemon

Or the muffin version…

Lemon Zucchini Muffins with Lemon Glaze

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins: Tastes like a chocolate chip muffin but packed with zucchini! This easy gluten-free muffin recipe yields moist, soft and fluffy muffins every time!

Next up, let’s go with yummy snack food or sides because who does love chips and fries!

And when you make healthier chips and fries with zucchini you get the same crunchy, salty flavor but some extra nutritional goodness!

Zucchini Chips: Crispy, Crunchy, Salty… These gluten-free baked chips are healthy snacking at its best!

 

Zucchini Fries: Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free optional, this is super easy, healthy and delicious veggie alternative to classic fries!

And finally, let’s move on to dinners.

Zoodles (or zucchini noodles) are the obvious, easy dinner and of course, pasta!

Caprese Zoodles with Basil Pesto: Roasted tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, black olives & zucchini noodles tossed in Basil Pesto — an easy and fresh tasting Summer dish!

With this recipe I tend to enjoy the zoodles not cooked but other times I love to saute them quickly with some olive oil, garlic and lemon juice and serve them with other roasted veggies and tahini sauce…. so good!

Here’s my favorite Warm Garlicky Lemon Zoodles with roasted veggies and tahini sauce.

Another favorite is pasta!

Pasta with Zucchini and Tomatoes: A simple pasta dish that showcases the some of the best of Summer produce. With minimal ingredients, it’s bursting with flavor and literally tastes like Summer!

Being huge fans of quesadillas, we had to add zucchini to our Italian Roasted Veggie Quesadilla...

When in doubt, grill or roast them!

Grilled or Roasted Zucchini are so versatile… you can enjoy them on salads, on pizzas, sandwiches, savory oats, on toast or even as a simple side dish!

Hope you love these as much as we do!

Let me know if you make any of these recipes and leave a comment and let me know your favorite ways to use zucchini.