What to do with courgettes

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Trying to include more vegetables in my diet, and have found that I like courgette.
Apart from roasting them, what else can I do with them? And nothing with egg as I'm allergic.

Slice them and shallow fry them in very little olive oil with some garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice and black pepper.

Slice them thinly lengthways, brush with olive oil with some thyme garlic and paprika in it and roll around a cube of feta, hold together with a cocktail stick and then grill.

Cube a couple of courgettes, dice a couple of onions, chop up some garlic, dice 4/5 tomatoes, a red peppers, add some dried herbs, a few bay leaves, mix with a large handful of uncooked rice, place in an ovenproof dish and add a couple of glasses of stock. Put in the oven at 180 ish for about half an hour and then add some cheese (either grated or dot some marscpone or ricotta on top.

Grate and mix with cooked barley mint, garlic and cumin and make little patties and grill.

Cake
Bread
Chutney
Grated into tomato sauce

The list is endless.

Slice pretty thickly lengthways and griddle with yellow peppers, serve with grilled halloumi, salad, humus and pitta. Yum.

Fry garlic and chilli in some olive oil. Grate in a courgette. Add mascarpone or any cream cheese. Fry on low heat for a bit until softened. Add spaghetti, salt and maybe little bit of spaghetti water. V quick and tasty.

When you are a gardener, july and august are hardcore courgette times.m

You literally put them into every meal. In some way or other.

Finely chopped and cut Jed off at the start of a v vegetable risotto. Chopped and fried with mushy. As springiscoming v finely/grated with some spaghetti

Fried off !

Courgette and sweet potato soup.

Sounds wrong, tastes right.

There is no meal which can't be improved by adding courgette! (Or peas).
Fry them with chorizo, then bung into a tomato sauce with some butter beans and serve with pasta. Nom.

I like them raw and thinly sliced in salad. Especially with a lemon and oil dressing. I also like them fried in garlic butter and added to pasta with Parmesan (and a tiny bit of chilli if you like).

Heat olive oil, add Grated or spiralised courgettes, garlic and dried or fresh chilli and cook for a couple of mins. Good side dish with fish, chicken whatever.

Make courgetti! Spaghetti from courgette.

Put them on the top of a pasta bake, flip halfway though cooking, then add the cheese 🤤

Simple courgette soup is far tastier than you would expect (needs to be seasoned well though, nothing worse than courgette without enough salt)
Brown onions, add chopped courgettes and soften. Add stock. Cook for about 10 mins and then whiz til smooth. Add cream if you wish

Courgette soup is delicious. Fry 2 onions in butter, 3 courgettes and a fat clove of garlic. 1 medium diced potato. Vegetable stock and simmer then whizz it. Plenty of black pepper. Cream if you like it. I love it. Also creamy courgette sauce with pasta.

Snap!

They're lovely in this veggie chilli: www.rivercottage.net/recipes/pinto-bean-chilli

Or chop into chunks, fry and make a chicken, courgette and chickpea curry.

Slice lengthwise using a vege peeler and add to tagliatelle with lemon, olive oil, parmesan and basil.

Thinking about it courgette ribbons go well in most pasta sauces with any wide ribbon pasta.

Dip them in cornflour and water batter then fry: courgette tempura - delicious.
Cut into chunks with chunky pieces of red pepper, red onion, aubergine and cherry tomatoes. Toss them all in a tablespoon of oil mixed with a tablespoon of garlic puree and some oregano. Roast in the oven until slightly caramelised.
Spiralize and stir fry with sesame oil, soy and sweet chilli. Or just cut into batons with matchstick carrot slices, baby corns and spring onions and stir fry in sesame, garlic and chilli.
Cut into ribbons and lightly fry with oilive oil, garlic, chilli flakes and lemon zest, then toss into spaghetti or linguine. (I want that for dinner now)

These recipes sound lush!

kbPow - snap indeed! (and you remembered the garlic )

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/courgette-orange-cake-cream-cheese-frosting?_gl=12s7xcr_ga*YW1wLTJDNWcxS1QxaWJhaDBjbHB0NFZjcDdOUGNDdVh5RkJiTTh3TmFtMXVDOXprVHFJeGRUcjZHMElKVVBLUWc3d28.

Last night my kids had chicken and "chips" made with courgette batons dipped in flour, then beaten egg, then seasoned breadcrumbs and fried in olive oil.

I also love grating/shredding a couple of courgettes, a small onion, add some flour, salt, pepper and an egg. Mix batter together and fry off as fritters/pancakes. Eat with sour cream and lumpfish roe from the supermarket. Kids love these too.

Finally you can cut courgettes on an angle to make big ovals. Brush with olive oil and griddle or bbq so they char a bit or just fry in a frying pan. Mix the hot courgette with torn up buffalo mozzarella, fresh mint, salt and olive oil. Eat with bread to soak up dressing and some Serrano ham on the side.

Oh sorry saw you are allergic to egg!! You can use cornflour and water as a binder instead for the breading and the pancakes, that works fine too.

Courgette Polpette just leave out the egg. Delicious.

Also fried with chickpeas, red pepper and halloumi. Pinch of ras el hanout brings it all together.