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Courgette, courgettes and more courgettes ... recipes to use up your glut here

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We have just 2 plants - one normal long yellow courgette and one round Nice courgette, also yellow.   They've been producing for a month now - easy to grow and quite a good spread of vitmains and minerals plus fibre, especially if picked small before they get too watery and bland.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I haven’t had a female on mine yet. 🥲
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I reckon to have looked for female flowers/developing courgettes every few days, nothing. Then yesterday I found a courgette the length of my hand! It must have been hiding in plain sight -surely it can't have grown from tiny flower bud to ready for picking in a couple of days.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You'd be surprised @JennyJ.  If OH turns his back on ours we get Zeppelins.   Too far for me to hobble at the mo to keep an eye but he's also managed to let a round one get to small pumpkin size when they should be picked at tennis ball size.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Steady EddieSteady Eddie Posts: 79
    Having just cooked this to use up some courgette - I can recommend it:

    https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/courgette-orzo-traybake.html
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    try the the zucchini cookbook.
  • Shauna2021Shauna2021 Posts: 53
    Ive made this but 50/50 courgette and aubergine. Hoping at some point I can use my own aubergine too: 
    https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/melanzane-parmigiana 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Felicity Cloake’s take on Courgette Fritters 

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/aug/25/how-to-cook-perfect-courgette-fritters-recipe

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I might try those @Dovefromabove, as well as some of the other nice recipes people have kindly done links for - I've bookmarked a few.
    I've grown them this year to do the 'courgetti' thing. Younger daughter has had some tests done and she has so many intolerances that it would be easier to list what she can eat! It would be a nice way of getting some nutrition into her without any problems arising, so thanks for all the input folks.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Have a look on the BBC Food and Good Food sites @Fairygirl.   Plenty of recipes to try if you put courgette in the search box.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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