By the end of summer, I feel like all of my friends are begging people to take extra zucchini off their hands because their gardens are overflowing with it! Just a pile of green squash with a person buried underneath it, crying for help.
If you’re one of those people (or a lucky recipient of said extra veggies), I’ve got an awesome list of 20 of the best zucchini recipes to help use up that bumper crop of zucchini.
We’re got sweet dessert recipes as well as savory, chocolate recipes, pizzas, donuts, and even tortillas. That’s right – I said tortillas. Keep scrolling and check them all out!
1) Zucchini Bread
This Easy Zucchini Bread Recipe is great to use up any extra zucchini. The Brown Butter Zucchini Bread is perfectly moist and is topped with a brown butter streusel topping. This zucchini bread recipe comes together quickly and is perfect for any time!
2) Zucchini Fries
With their crispy, Parmesan- and Panko-crusted outsides and tender insides, this recipe is more than a side dish—it’s proof that a stand-alone vegetable can be legitimately delicious in its own right.
3) Healthy Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Healthy Chocolate Zucchini Cake is fudgy and moist, studded with dark chocolate chips and topped with a creamy chocolate avocado frosting. It tastes a little indulgent yet it’s filled with wholesome ingredients. Your family will never know they’re eating their veggies!
4) Grilled Zucchini Baba Ganoush
The smokey, grilled zucchini flavor comes through in this variation on a classic baba ganoush recipe. Great for a party dip or weekday lunch.
5) Lemon Zucchini Bread
This lemon zucchini bread is incredibly soft, moist, and it’s also gluten free AND dairy free! You wouldn’t even know it because it’s just that good.
6) Zucchini and Halloumi Fritters
These quick and easy Zucchini and Halloumi Fritters are a great way to sneak some extra veggies into your diet. These cheesy golden fritters are a healthy and super tasty snack, lunch or dinner that the whole family will love.
7) Zucchini Pizza Boats
Zucchini Pizza Boats come together in just 30-minutes. Fully loaded with sausage, mushrooms, peppers and olives, it’s a lower-carb, lower-calorie way to enjoy pizza and sneak some extra veggies into your diet.
8) Zucchini Bread Pancakes
You don’t even have to have an abundance of zucchini right now to justify making these Zucchini Bread Pancakes. Thick, fluffy, buttery pancakes with zucchini, nutmeg, and cinnamon. The result? A phenomenal tasting pancake, reminiscent of Zucchini Bread, but much more fluffy and moist!
9) Chocolate Zucchini Banana Cake with Vanilla Coffee Frosting
The best and (easiest) Chocolate Zucchini Banana Cake with Vanilla Coffee Frosting. No fuss, super quick to mix up, and SO DELICIOUS! Yes, that pretty much sums up this zucchini banana cake. It’s the perfect simple cake to bake up this weekend and use up all that summer zucchini! With over-ripe bananas, zucchini, salted butter, and a good amount of creamy vanilla coffee frosting this is sure to become a favorite. Perfect as an afternoon snack or a late-night dessert.
10) Ricotta Pesto Pasta with Zucchini
This Ricotta Pesto Pasta is made with fresh zucchini, basil pesto and ricotta cheese. It’s an easy dinner recipe that is creamy, flavorful, and ready in just 30 minutes!
11) Zucchini Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These zucchini oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are extra soft with chewy centers and crisp edges. Loaded with chocolate chips, each cookie is flavored with brown sugar and a hint of cinnamon. Best part of all? You can’t taste the vegetable hiding inside.
12) Zucchini Crust Pizza
Zucchini Crust Pizza is the BEST low carb recipe to make with fresh garden zucchini and your favorite pizza toppings. This recipe works well with a variety of flours, including almond flour, all-purpose flour, and coconut flour. BONUS: This makes a great make-ahead recipe that you can freeze and bake later!
12) Pan Seared Zucchini Turkey Meatballs
Juicy, flavorful meatballs lightened up with ground turkey meat and grated zucchini. Zucchini turkey meatballs are super fast to prep and cook in 10 minutes on the stove top for an easy, healthy weeknight meal!
13) Healthy Summer Squash Casserole
Healthy, simple, and fabulous, this Zucchini and Squash Casserole is the best low-carb recipe for Summer squash! Yellow squash and zucchini are baked in the oven to perfection with a crispy crust made from Parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs. This easy casserole is amazing for Summer picnics and potlucks, and makes the perfect side dish for any holiday dinner!
14) Maple Chocolate Zucchini Donuts
These chocolate zucchini donuts with white chocolate maple frosting all started with a donut pan I’d been eyeing for a while.
15) Easy Low Carb Enchiladas
Zucchini slices replace tortillas in this easy recipe for Low Carb Enchiladas, filled with taco seasoned ground beef & smothered in a delicious red sauce!
15) Zucchini Alfredo Quiche
This zucchini alfredo quiche is perfect when summer is winding down and your counter is filling with zucchini from the garden.
16) Spinach Tortillas
This zucchini alfredo quiche is perfect when summer is winding down and your counter is filling with zucchini from the garden.
17) Simple Fresh Zucchini Pasta Sauce
This zucchini pasta sauce is the perfect way to use up your summer zucchini harvest! It’s easy to make, buttery, and totally delicious.
18) Zucchini Grilled Cheese
Just in time for prime picnic season, a melty summer sandwich that wants to go everywhere with you.
19) Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes with Cookie Butter Frosting
Perfectly dense and moist chocolate zucchini cupcakes packed with grated zucchini and topped with insanely addictive Biscoff cookie butter frosting!
20) Zucchini Noodles with Tomatoes, Fresh Mozzarella, and Basil
A fresh and vibrant vegetable dish made with sauteed zucchini, garlic, olive oil, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, parmesan, and basil.
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