Need to use up zucchini....help me out!

Cream of Zucchini Soup~ awesome!!
From Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes

Cream of Zucchini Soup



This simple recipe is a favorite in my house. I make this a few times a month and my family loves it!


Cream of Zucchini Soup
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 4 • Size: 1 cup • Old Points: 1 pt • Points+: 2 pt
Calories: 65.3 • Fat: 1.0g • Protein: 3.5 g • Carb: 11 g • Fiber: 2.8 g


• 1/2 small onion, quartered
• 2 cloves garlic
• 3 small zucchini skin on cut in large chunks
• 32 oz fat free chicken stock
• 2 tbsp reduced fat sour cream
• salt
• pepper

Combine chicken broth, onion, garlic and zucchini in a medium pot and cook on medium heat.

Bring to a boil, lower heat, cover, and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat. Purée: Add the sour cream. Using an immersion blender, purée till smooth.

Stir in remaining ingredients, and adjust seasonings to taste. Serve hot.

Optional: Top with 2 tsp parmesan cheese - 1 point extra

I cook them in tomato sauce (with onion,peppers,garlic& any spices you like) and eat it with rice

Or zucchini soup. (something like this http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/zucchini-soup-i/detail.aspx )

slice in rounds, spray w/ veg oil, add salt & pepper & roast in an iron skillett @ 425

I need some zucchini recipes......other than sauteed, baked in a cheesy casserole and for bread.....sick of all these ways! I have ALOT so please help me!!

Leave it on your neighbor's front door:happy:

Zucchini pancakes topped with marinara sauce and parm cheese, or with fresh sliced tomatoes - makes great dinner, along with a side salad and fruit

I have been wanting to try this Faux Fried Zucchini.

http://www.hungry-girl.com/newsletters/raw/896

I just used some last night in my kabobs on the grill. Place rounds of zucchini with peices of onion, peppers and mushrooms on skewer and I brushed with some low sodium teryaki sauce. YUM!\

I will also sometimes saute with mushrooms and add to pasta.

The wonderful thing about zucchini is if you shred it, you can sneak it into almost anything and no one willl know. Which is the only way I can get my husband and son to eat it. So, add it to spaghetti sauce, or anything, and increase the nutrients and vitamins, without increasing the calories too much. Hope this helps. :-) Good luck.

I make stuffed zucchini. Brown ground turkey (or other protein of your choice), I usually add onion and sometimes green pepper. Add marinara or other tomato based pasta sauce until the meat is well coated. Scoop out the insides of the zucchini (you can save these and use in bread or another meal). Stuff with meat mixure and top with mozzarella cheese. Bake in oven about 30-45 minutes or until the zucchini is as tender as you like it. You can search for the specific recipe that I altered to our liking at tasteofhome.com.

Hope this helps!

I've been reading "Animal Vegetable Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver. It's her memoir written from the years she and her family moved to a farm and ate only what they grew or traded with neighbors. One whole chapter is about zucchini!! There are recipes from the book on her website. I wish I had your problem. I love zucchini.

Here are some of them:

DISAPPEARING ZUCCHINI ORZO

¾ lb pkg orzo pasta (multicolored is fun)
Bring 6 cups water or chicken stock to a boil and add pasta. Cook 8 to 12
minutes

1 chopped onion, garlic to taste
3 large zucchini
olive oil for sauté
Use a cheese grater or mandoline to shred zucchini, sauté briefly with chopped
onion and garlic until lightly golden.

thyme
oregano
¼ cup grated parmesan or any hard yellow cheese
Add spices to zucchini mixture, stir thoroughly, and then remove mixture from
heat.
Combine with cheese and cooked orzo, salt to taste, serve cool or at room
temperature.


ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
(Makes about two dozen)

1 egg, beaten
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup honey
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Combine in large bowl.

1 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
Combine in a separate, small bowl and blend into liquid mixture

1 cup finely shredded zucchini
12 oz chocolate chips
Stir these into other ingredients, mix well. Drop by spoonful onto greased baking
sheet, and flatten with the back of a spoon. Bake at 350°, 10 to 15 minutes.

You can slice it with a jouline slicer and mix in to replace pasta. it will come out a little crunchy if you use the green outside (not skin) layer. Saute it with your sauce or meat and its good. I prefer it to pasta, but husband prefers pasta, so its your preference.
I love it in Chicken Marinara or Chicken with Chunky Veggie marainara.

Chop it up, add some whole kernel corn, a lot of pepper and a pinch of seasoning salt. Wrap it up in tinfoil and throw it on the grill for 30 minutes. Spicy!

I just baked about 10 of them, sliced into chunks, in olive oil, then when they are done add pesto and passata, and bake some more.

They are good grated into pancake mix and fried as fritters with chill jam.

saving these!

Slice it raw and dip in fat free ranch dressing as a snack.