Ways to cook zucchini — Parmesan air fried zucchini crisps, zucchini boats, zucchini bread, zucchini lasagna — for the weeks your garden won't quit.
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Open in Pepper →Zucchini shows up fast and all at once, and it takes on whatever you give it — cheese, ground beef, chili powder, cinnamon and brown sugar. That makes it one of the easiest vegetables to build a whole dinner around.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection in late summer, when the counter is covered in squash and nobody wants another plain side dish, or on a Tuesday when dinner has to stretch a pound of ground beef.
Every recipe here uses zucchini as the main event: Parmesan air fried zucchini crisps, zucchini cheese bread, soy sauce zucchini boats, Mexican street corn style zucchini, zucchini fritters, roasted zucchini with Parmesan, ground beef zucchini bake, and zucchini lasagna.
Salt and squeeze it
For fritters or bread, salt shredded zucchini for 10 minutes, then wring it out in a clean towel — you'll pull out a good half cup of water.
Cut planks even
Slice zucchini for lasagna or a bake about 1/4 inch thick so every layer cooks at the same rate.
Roast hot and fast
Roast zucchini at 425°F for 18 to 20 minutes, cut side down, so it browns instead of steaming into mush.
Hollow boats deeper
Scoop out the seeds and leave about 1/4 inch of wall so the boats hold a pound of ground beef or turkey without splitting.