What can I do with overgrown courgettes?

[Chocolateteabag]

Just found these two hiding under the leaves - any ideas as DC can only take a few small discs fried up at any one time
seems a shame to waste them

Can you freeze them.

I’d make the fat on into a Jack O’Lantern.

I am ruthless with my unwanted courgettes - they go to the neighbour's chickens, or in the compost bin.

I do have some small portions of frozen grated courgette in the freezer to add to soup for the winter but honestly, there is no law to say you must eat every scrap that comes off the veg patch.

Courgettes are the only surplus veg the local day centre and food bank won't take from our allotment site 🤣

I just chuck them in any kind of sauces, pasta, curry, stews etc. You can also make them into chutney.

Courgette cake!

Zucchini slice or stuffed zucchini’s.

I started a thread recently about cucumbers and courgettes so I shall link it. Previously, I've filled them with savoury mince- just look up marrow and mince recipes. 1 year I made marrow and ginger jam which was delicious. 😋
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/marrow-ginger-jam

Courgette roasted with a bolaganse meaty sauce and cheese on top is also pretty good.

Make cake!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/courgette-cake-recipes

Here it is https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/food_and_recipes/5555544-what-are-your-favourite-recipes-for-using-up-cucumbers-and-courgettes?page=1

Could you make soup and freeze in portions?

Chutney or jam? Grate and make a courgette cake (like carrot cake) or grate and make into little patties/pakoras with some gram flour. Cut into chunks and roast, add to salads, couscous or just drizzle with olive oil and scatter over chopped herbs & feta, squeeze of lemon?

Courgette cake or spiralise them and dress with lemon, olive oil, mint and chillies

Rice in the hollowed out middle- baked

Try cheesy courgette muffins. There's a great recipe here https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/recipes/11-14-l2c/courgette-and-cheese-muffins/ and you can freeze the muffins too if you've got loads. Though they are so tasty there may not be many left.

As a PP said, spiralise or shred and make courgetti? Mix with actual spaghetti to bulk out.

Oh, and a cake 😁

Cut them open take some of thei. nsides out fill with a mince tomato type filling , grated cheese on the top and oven for 25 mins .

Use them in place of aubergines in a moussaka

If I have spares that we don't eat or preserve in bread and butter pickles, then I chop and either fry or put into the remoska to cook down and then freeze in portions for winter. I only just used up last year's frozen portions the week before this year's started being harvested. I add them to soups, stews, curries and pasta sauces.

Grate one and dice the other. Cook low and slow with garlic and olive oil. Eat on pasta or bread or make into soup.

I wouldn’t say these were too big though. Some of mine end up the size of a toddler!

I grate courgette into my burgers when I make them. Give them a good squeeze first tho. Dh the veg dodger has no idea and happily scoffs the lot

This isn't my pic, but last year I had one a very similar size to this which was hiding behind leaves. They are sneaky bastards and do anything to evade detection.
I used the marrow and ginger recipe I posted up thread.

Grate them or chop small and stir them into any recipe, they are so mild you can't taste them and they basically disappear (so you can feed them to people who don't like them. I mix them into risotto, curry, bolognese, chili etc.

Grate them and make fritters or frittata, I like recipes with a bit of feta in
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/aug/25/how-to-cook-perfect-courgette-fritters-recipe
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/04/herby-frittata-loquat-feta-salad-arabic-summer-recipes-sami-tamimi

I’d grate then and hide them in any sauces as extra veg. Works well in a spag bol or other tomato based pasta sauces. Could do well in a chilli too. Maybe batch cook something and freeze it in portions?