Ceremonial Courgette

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It's my first very own homegrown courgette! What's the nicest/simplest way to cook it so everyone can really Taste How Wonderful It Will Be?

Griddle plain slices of the courgette on a griddle pan or barbecue. Then drizzle with plenty of olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt and add chopped parsley for a delicious salad. This works really well with aubergine as well.

griddle, griddle, griddle, griddle or bbq OR grate and make into a fritter served with minty yogurty dressing, or griddle.

marinate slices of courgtte in olive oil s&p and lemon BEFORE griddling or you will be over come with smoke!

Thanks!
It was massive so I chopped it in big bits and roasted it with rosemary and garlic. Was nice but tbh still just a courgette.
Didn't deserve the platter and dimmed lights and the neighbours round just to admire...

with your many more might I suggest a delish pasta sauce with onion, garlic, courgette, creme fraiche, parmesan and dill

and dill and courgette fritters

weeny ones sliced very thinly lengthways in a salad raw with lemon juice and ex v oo and plenty of black pepper

IMO courgettes need lots of herbs and seasoning and are much better small

I've just made courgette, elderflower and raspberry muffins which are really lovely, floral, summery and light. I've also got a good courgette pickle recipe, it's kind of burger relish like and was v popular with family/friends last year. It's great for later in the season when you're sick of the sight of courgettes as it keeps for months and months so is a good way of managing a glut.

I'll post the recipes if any appealing.

Those recipes sound lovely Profyaffle, I'd like to try them if you don't mind posting or linking.

OK then, here's the muffin recipe:

Ingredients
2 medium eggs
140g sugar
200g finely grated courgette
3tbsp elderflower cordial
80g white rice flour
120g ground almonds
120g fresh raspberries
2tsp baking powder

Pre heat oven to gm 4, line a muffin tray with muffin cases. Whisk the eggs and sugar together til pale and quadrupled in size. Add the courgette and cordial and whisk again. Mix in the rice flour, almonds, baking powder then fold in the raspberries (but don't crush them too much) Spoon the mixture into the cases and bake for 25 mins.

Cool in the tin for 15 mins.

For the icing mix 140g of icing sugar with approx 3tbsp elderflower cordial, colour with pink colouring if wanted. Ice the cakes and top with a fresh raspberry.

The pickle recipe is here (excellent blog btw )

prof - that muffin recipe sounds wonderful - did you invent it? its so unusual.

i will def try it in the next few weeks as we have rasps and courgettes in the garden

what a marvellous blog

No, I didn't invent it- wish I was that clever! It's from Harry Eastwood's book, Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache. All the recipes feature veg in cakes in place of the fat, I also made chocolate and beetroot brownies yesterday. Lovely book if you can get past the twee characterisations of the cakes (ie, "This cake is a ruddy cheeked child in woollen socks running down the beach while inhaling a miasma of melancholy" etc etc)

lol @ twee characterisations - I find James Alexander-Sinclair's gardening writing similarly toecurling

Thanks for that ProfYaffle and at the wonderful breakthough of veg instead of fat in cakes. The world has waited long enough.

It's fab, my dc are unaware just how many courgettes they've eaten in the past few days