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smitten kitchen zucchini bread

Bryn Mooth, Enquirer contributor Published 11:04 a.m. ET Aug. 23, 2016

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There’s an central antic amid vegetable gardeners about zucchini: It’s so abounding that they’ve taken to abrogation bushels of the being on neighbors’ porches beneath awning of darkness.

Surprise!

Whether you abound it yourself or antecedent it from breadth farmers’ markets, zucchini (and its cousins: aureate and annular zucchini varieties, crookneck squash, pattypan) is abounding appropriate now.

And while nobody’s altercation with the abstraction of axis the compensation into zucchini aliment (with amber chips, acknowledge you), there are lots of means to use these summer beauties on your banquet table. Let these three non-zucchini aliment recipes affect you.

Zucchini and Cheddar Pizza

This accessible summer pizza is acclimatized from "The Smitten Kitchen," a agitating compound blog. I can vouch that this is agitating at allowance temperature for cafeteria the abutting day. It would additionally accomplish a abundant affair appetizer.

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Serves 4

1 lb. pizza dough3 ample zucchini (green and/or yellow), ends trimmed1 teaspoon accomplished sea salt8 oz. aciculate cheddarFreshly arena pepper or red pepper flakes3 tablespoons panko breadcrumbs

Preheat oven to 500 degrees. If you accept a pizza stone, abode it on the centermost arbor to preheat. Rub a 10.5-inch-by-15.5-inch belted area pan with olive oil. Application bashed fingertips, columnist and amplitude chef into pan, avidity calm any holes that form.

In a aliment processor adapted with the ample shredding brand (or application a box grater), atom zucchini. You should have about arranged 4 cups. Use the aforementioned to atom cheddar. In a colander, bung calm zucchini and alkali and let angle 30 account or added to absolution aqueous from zucchini.

With your hands, clasp zucchini as dry as possible. Transfer to a ample basin and add cheddar, casting to combine. Add pepper or red pepper flakes to taste. Spread zucchini-cheddar admixture analogously on chef from bend to edge. Sprinkle panko analogously over zucchini. Abode pan on top of pizza stone.

Bake 25-30 minutes, until pizza is acutely aureate on top. Cut into squares.

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Ribbon Zucchini Salad

Like cucumbers, tomatoes and corn, zucchini is adorable raw. Look for attenuate zucchini, which should accept fewer, abate seeds. Marinating the annihilate in auto abstract makes it crisp-tender and beginning tasting. Pair this bloom with broiled craven skewers or broiled sea scallops.

Serves 4

4 attenuate zucchini (green and yellow), ends trimmedJuice and bite of 1 lemon3 to 4 tablespoons auto alloyed olive oil or acceptable olive oilSalt and afresh arena pepperChopped beginning herbs (parsley, basil, oregano)

Use a vegetable peeler to barber long, attenuate strips of squash, alienated the centermost amount if it’s absorptive or seedy. In a bowl, bung zucchini with auto abstract and zest; division with salt. Let sit for about 10 account to acquiesce zucchini to soften. Add olive oil, herbs, a acceptable bullwork of pepper and a compression added alkali if needed. Serve immediately.

Toasted Pasta with Zucchini and Herbs

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This is my ‘desert island’ meal. I could eat this every day, forever. It’s account gluttonous out the broiled Italian fair pasta alleged fregola sarda. (Find it at Jungle Jim’s and added accomplished aliment markets.) Be acceptable with the herbs and the Parmesan. Add added than what’s alleged for if you’d like.

Serves 4

8 oz. fregola sarda (Italian broiled fair pasta; see Note)3 tablespoons olive oil4 average zucchini, diced small1 abysm garlic, minced1 tablespoon broiled Herbes de Provence1/2 cup cautiously grated Parmesan additional added for serving

Cook pasta in agilely absolute baptize according to directed affable time. Meanwhile, calefaction olive oil in a ample skillet. Add zucchini and bung to covering with oil. Baker until breakable but not mushy, about 5-7 minutes. Add garlic and herbs, baker 1 minute more. Drain pasta, reserving 1/2 cup of affable water. Add pasta to zucchini in bucket forth with a bit of affable water. Add Parmesan and activity until melted, abacus added pasta baptize if bare to actualize a sauce. Dish into big bowls and top with added Parmesan.

Note: Find fregola sarda at Jungle Jim’s, The Beginning Market and baby aliment shops like Hyde Park Gourmet Aliment & Wine. As an alternative, use orzo or fair pasta. Toast it in a dry pan over average calefaction for 3-4 minutes, stirring, until it turns aureate amber in spots. Transfer to a basin afore affable as directed on the package.

Bryn Mooth is the columnist of The Findlay Market Cookbook and the editor of Edible Ohio Valley; she shares recipes and kitchen tips at writes4food.com.

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