How to cook courgette ?

We have been given some courgettes from a friend who has harvested a bucketload after all the rain.
Not really used them before.
Any favorite ways of cooking them?
Thank you
robert

 

Take some courgettes, aubergines, red peppers and onions. Slice them all up reasonably chunky. Put the courgettes and aubs in a colander and sprinkle with sea salt. Shake it up then leave it to drain for about half an hour.

Then fry the whole lot together at high heat in a wok or large frying pan with olive oil. Add some passata or tomato puree, some garlic, rosemary/thyme whatever you've got, and a squirt of lemon juice. Serve it up with herby rice and maybe some grilled chicken or fish on the top.

Or for a light snack, make your chunks of courgette as described above, fry them at high heat until they go golden brown, add salt, black pepper and lemon juice, serve with mint and yogurt dip.

 

I like them simply fried with onions and herbs, but if you have a lot why not use some over ripe tomatos to make some ratatouille?

 

Its Zucchini to us over here. You can make several loafs of this and they freeze very well, great for holiday gifts.

Zucchini Bread
3 Eggs Beaten
1 cup White Sugar
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup oil
3 tsp. maple flavoring
2 cups Shredded, peeled Zucchini
1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. soda
1/2 cup wheat germ
2 1/4 cup unsifted flour
1 cup chopped nuts
1/2 cup coconut
1/4 cup sesame seeds for top
Beat eggs with sugar, add oil and flavoring. Stir in Zucchini, nuts and coconut, then dry ingredients-gently-stir together-do not beat! Pour in greased and floured pans, sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake One Hour in 350 degree oven.

 

Thinly sliced and caramelised-fried slowly in a little olive oil and butter and two mins before turning out add a teaspoon of fresh thyme.

 

You can have them as plain or as fancy as you like Capney.
They're nice just sliced and fried in butter, or add onion, garlic and herbs if you like.

Or cut into chunks, boil for 1 minute and drain well.
Put in an oven dish and pour over eggs beaten with some milk and grated cheese if you like and bake in the oven about half an hour.

Or cut them into slices. Layer in an oven dish with very thinly sliced potato, onion, garlic.
Pour over a white sauce and bake in the oven til the potatoes are soft.

Jings, there's so many ways to cook courgettes. Just as well as I'm overun with them.

 

This is wonderful.
Thanks to you all my courgettes will be well presented on table.
I make a bit of bread redstar so your recipe will be stored away for future.
many thanks
robert

 

Sorry - thought I had replied to this thread Capney!
Our courgettes go in everything - spaghetti sauce, lasagne, stir fries, roasted veges - you name it, this time of year, it generally has it in there!
If you google 'zuchinni recipes', you will find a load of them, as this is what they are called in North America.
The courgette 'bread' is more like a cake - sort of carrot cake texture, but not carrot tasting of course. It's a sweet cake though, not a bready bread.
I've just gotten another four sort of larger ones today off the allotment.....so time to start doing stuff with mine now as am being overrun with those and the ones I have at home.
Another failsafe way to get rid of excess courgettes - drop them on the neighbours doorstep, ring the bell and run........lol

 

"Another failsafe way to get rid of excess courgettes - drop them on the neighbours doorstep, ring the bell and run........lol"

:lollol::lollol:Thats just about how we got them.:lollol::lollol:
Heres another question.
Has anybody ever dried them with dehydration?
I now have one of those gizmos (dryer) and looking for stuff to experiment with.
robert

 

Uhoh......you're not one of my neighbours are you? lol

 

my mate drizzles them in honey and roasts them in with a lamb roast.

 

It all sounds very yummy indeed I can't wait to try them out, thanks guys for your postings.:thumb:Hel.xxx.

 

Quite nice quick fried in a beer batter!

 

I'm with the others - cooked simply in olive oil with a little garlic and black pepper

A friend does this and adds crunchy pea-nut butter!

Courgette fritters are easy, - grate, season, add chick pea (gram ) flour to make a thick batter, fry spoonfuls. Could be spiced up a bit

When the kids refused to eat courgettes we used to grate them and add to all kinds of dishes in disguise