20 Essential Zucchini Recipes: A Chat With Margaret Roach
Earlier this week, I chatted with my friend Margaret Roach, the master gardener behind A Way to Garden and author of the award-winning book, A Way to Garden, all about farm shares and the unique problems farm share subscribers face.
In our chat, we discuss strategies for dealing with our weekly hauls and share favorite ways to prepare the one vegetable you cannot have enough creative recipes for this time of year: summer squash.
After I hung up the phone with Margaret, I felt inspired to branch out and immediately tried two new recipes, both of which I cannot recommend enough: this simple zucchini sauté over on Smitten Kitchen (so fast! pictured below) and these zucchini tortillas, which are baked, made with four ingredients, and happen to be gluten-free. I’ve rounded up 20 more zucchini recipe ideas below.
You can listen to our chat or read the transcript over on A Way To Garden, where you can also leave a comment to enter a giveaway: Margaret is giving away a copy of my book, Bread Toast Crumbs.
Subscribe to all of Margaret’s future podcast episodes on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify or Stitcher AND enter to win a copy of Margaret’s A Way to Garden by leaving a comment below. Please tell me if you have a favorite way to prepare zucchini or other summer squash, or simply tell me your favorite summer recipe.
PS: Do you follow Margaret on Instagram? She is the funniest.
20 Zucchini Recipes to Make All Summer Long
Zucchini Tortillas (4-Ingredients, Gluten-Free, Baked) (A new favorite.)
Quick Zucchini Sauté over at Smitten Kitchen (Another new favorite.)
Zucchini Bread (Contest Winning 🎉🎉🎉)
Fried Squash Blossoms from Jenny Rosenstach’s Dinner A Love Story: How delicious do these look?
Sautéed Summer Squash with Mint, Basil & Pine Nuts
Oven-Baked Zucchini Fries over at Marilena’s Kitchen
Roasted Ratatouille = The Best Ratatouille
Veggie-Loaded Stuffed Bell Peppers
Summer Squash Pizza with Burrata and Basil
Toasted Orecchiette with Zucchini & Corn
Hetty McKinnon’s Melted Zucchini Pasta
Zucchini Relish over on Delish.Com
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72 Comments on “20 Essential Zucchini Recipes: A Chat With Margaret Roach”
Zucchini bread all the way!
Thank for some new zucchini ideas. I always make tons of zucchini fritters and freeze them. They make a nice light but warm winter lunch or side dish.
I found you thru a previous interview with Margaret. Her BBQ Lentil recipe is the BOMB.
I think my favorite way is making zucchini crisps, zucchini “rice” and muffins of course. It’s definitely a favorite around my house! 🙂
Lately I have been slicing zucchini lengthwise on the mandolin and sautéing in garlic and butter. Your recipe for zucchini fritters is the best!
I came to get the peach blueberry cake, and roll recipe but left with much more. I actually do have CSA farms in my area. Some are diverse with vegetables, orchards, honey and meat. I have already contacted one farm and got joined. They have farm to table dinners once a month. I’m excited. I would not have known about CSA without you introducing me to Margaret Roach.
My go to recipe for yellow summer squash is a lemony risotto with squash. Yummy!
I enjoyed this chat between you and Margaret Roach. I appreciated the discussion about really organizing for the excess produce that is inevitable in the garden. I always feel guilty if everything doesn’t get used – sometimes I have to accept that compost is a legitimate way to return nutrients to the earth.
I am always looking for new zucchini recipes and I love yellow squash!
Thanks!
Great article , can’t wait to try some of these recipes!
Glad I found your site…lots of delicious looking recipes…have made the fritters, and the zucchini bread…yum! Just ordered your cookbook, can’t wait…
Summer lasagna is my favourite way to use up zucchini. So delicious and healthy