Bring your garden into your kitchen with this low-fat, delicious pizza your kids will love!
Marinated vegetable skewers with eggplant, zucchini, and mushrooms get grilled and served with spicy peanut sauce for plant-based cookouts or weeknight dinners.
Provencal onion soup with eggplant, zucchini, tomato paste, and fresh basil simmered in red wine. A low-fat, vegetable-rich French soup with no butter or cheese.
Slow cooker beef stew loaded with zucchini and sweet corn in a savory steak sauce broth. Fork-tender meat meets a glossy cornstarch-thickened sauce in this set-it-and-forget-it dinner.
Lemon-tarragon marinated chicken kabobs with zucchini and red pepper, broiled until golden and juicy. A low-calorie, high-protein skewer dinner that comes together fast on busy weeknights.
Indoor beef kebabs broiled right in your oven, no grill required. Sirloin cubes soak in a sesame-soy marinade with brown sugar and lemon, then skewer up with mushrooms, zucchini, pepper, and pearl onions.
Vegetable and tofu triangles wrap grated carrots, zucchini, spinach, crumbled tofu, and cheddar in crisp pastry. A vegetarian hand pie that freezes well for lunches.
Grilled vegetable and mushroom soup builds smoky depth by charring zucchini, summer squash, red onion, peppers, and shiitake on the grill before dicing them into a savory broth. Smoke and char in every spoonful.
Basil-Vegetable Saute with zucchini, bell peppers, scallions, and fresh basil, ready in 15 minutes. A low-calorie, vegan side dish that works alongside grilled meats or pasta.
Spanish omelettes: vegetable-loaded egg substitute omelettes with zucchini, mushrooms, peppers, and tomato sauce. A lighter breakfast built for watching cholesterol without skipping flavor.
Stir-fried zucchini cooked tender-crisp in a hot pan with just oil, water, salt, and a pinch of sugar. Five-ingredient side dish ready in 10 minutes from one summer squash glut.
Quick summer vegetable refrigerator pickles with fennel, zucchini, cauliflower, and red onion in a fennel-seed and peppercorn brine finished with olive oil and balsamic. Keeps a month.
Classic Zucchini Nut Bread: a traditional cinnamon-spiced loaf with shredded zucchini and chopped nuts. Makes two loaves, freezer-friendly, with timeless coffee-cake comfort.
Quick zucchini sheet cake using boxed mix with grated zucchini, cinnamon, and crunchy walnuts on top. Dust with powdered sugar for casual weeknight dessert.
A tasty side dish that can go with any meal you enjoy this summer!
Stuffed zucchini blossoms (kolokytholouloutha yemista) filled with rice, fresh mint, parsley, tomato, and olive oil, then simmered in water. A traditional Greek vegetarian appetizer.