50 Amazing Zucchini Recipes
These 50 Amazing Zucchini Recipes have so many great ideas for using zucchini, and most of the zucchini recipes are low in carbs! This post has all my favorite zucchini recipes from many years when I was growing zucchini in the garden.
PIN these amazing ideas with zucchini to try some later!
Gardeners everywhere celebrate August 8 as Sneak Some Zucchini on to Your Neighbor’s Porch Day and many years ago I posted this collection of zucchini recipes in honor of that day. But every year I keep cooking with zucchini and updating the post with more zucchini favorites, and now there are more than 50 Amazing Zucchini Recipes here, after I’ve been adding new ones for a few years!
And this collection of zucchini recipes has endless ideas to help you use your zucchini before you have to start leaving it on someone’s porch! Check out these recipes, and if you really have a lot of zucchini, you can use Summer Squash Recipes to find all the zucchini recipes on my website.
What kinds of zucchini recipes are featured here?
I’ve divided my zucchini recipes into categories to help you find something you’ll like, so you’ll find ideas for grilled zucchini, stuffed zucchini, zucchini side dishes, cheesy zucchini, raw zucchini salads, zucchini noodle recipes, zucchini recipes with eggs, grilled or cooked zucchini salads, zucchini muffins or bread, and soup or stew with zucchini!
Are the zucchini recipes low-carb or Keto?
This collection has my favorite zucchini recipes from Kalyn’s Kitchen, so most of these recipes will be low-carb or Keto. But there are still a few old favorites from the early days of the blog, many of which can easily be made low-carb with minor changes. You can click to a recipe and use the diet-type info under the title to check what diets each recipe is suitable for if you are in doubt.
Grilled Zucchini Recipes:
Grilled Zucchini Pizza Slices were a surprising hit on the blog.
You won’t find an easier recipe than this one for Easy Kabobs with Zucchini and Sausage!
You can’t go wrong with basic Grilled Zucchini as a side dish and this post has all my tips for How to Grill Zucchini.
Easy Grilled Greek Zucchini has been a huge hit!
More Grilled Zucchini:
- Grilled Zucchini Lasagna
- Grilled Sausage and Summer Squash
- Easy Grilled Vegetables
- Zucchini Crust Pizza Margherita
Stuffed Zucchini Recipes:
Meat, Tomato, and Mozzarella Stuffed Zucchini Cups is a recipe that’s been a big hit! I make the “cups” by hollowing out extra-large slices of zucchini.
Taco Zucchini Boats are loaded with Southwestern Flavors!
I used my favorite little 8-Ball Zucchini for these Stuffed Zucchini with Ground Beef.
For a meatless option for stuffed zucchini, there’s this tasty Vegetarian Stuffed Zucchini with Brown Rice, Black Beans, Chiles, Cheddar, and Cotija Cheese.
Zucchini Side Dishes:
You can use a lot of different garden veggies in this Garlic-Lover’s Vegetable Stir-Fry, but zucchini is one vegetable I’d always include.
You can’t go wrong with Zucchini with Pesto. And you can make this with purchased pesto if you want a quick and easy zucchini side dish!
Roasted Zucchini and Mushrooms with Feta made history in my family when my brother-in-law had seconds on vegetables!
More Zucchini Side Dishes:
- Mom’s Creamed Zucchini (a Denny Family Favorite)
- Baked Summer Squash with Lemon, Mint, and Feta
- Summer Squash with Pesto and Parmesan
Cheesy Zucchini Recipes:
I love anything that pairs zucchini with Feta, so of course I crave this Zucchini Bake with Feta and Thyme.
Broiled Zucchini with Mozzarella and Pepperoni is always a hit and this is a great recipe from my sister Val who says even the kids will gobble it up!
This low-carb Easy Cheesy Zucchini Bake has a lot of fans! And this has been the number one zucchini recipe on Kalyn’s Kitchen for many years now!
Parmesan Crusted Zucchini is easy and delicious!
More Cheesy Zucchini:
- Cheesy Zucchini with Garlic and Parsley
- Roasted Summer Squash with Feta and Basil
- Cheesy Calabacitas
- Roasted Summer Squash with Garlic and Parmesan
- Cheesy Zucchini Sausage Sheet Pan Meal
Raw Zucchini Salads:
Please try this Zucchini Carpaccio which is a dish of thinly sliced raw zucchini marinated in olive oil and lemon juice and then served with thinly sliced basil and goat cheese!
Bacon, Tomato, and Zucchini Salad with Feta is definitely a wow!
Raw Summer Squash Salad with Arugula and Feta is amazing if you enjoy arugula!
Zucchini Noodle Recipes:
If I had to pick my all-time favorite recipe for zucchini noodles, it’s this Zucchini Noodles with Cherry Tomato Pasta Sauce.
I’m also crazy about this Julienne Zucchini Vegan Mexican Bowl.
More Zucchini Noodles:
- Zucchini Noodle Mock Pasta Salad
- Mediterranean Zucchini Noodles
- Greek-Style Zucchini Noodles
- Don’t miss my posts` on How to Make Zucchini Noodles as well as 20 Zucchini Noodle Recipes.
Zucchini Recipes with Eggs:
Zucchini and Green Chile Breakfast Casserole is a good way to sneak some zucchini into the breakfast menu.
Cheesy Zucchini and Basil Strata can be eaten any time of day.
Greek Frittata has Zucchini, Tomatoes, Feta, and Herbs, and this is a great breakfast.
More Zucchini with Eggs:
Grilled or Cooked Zucchini Salads:
There’s no doubt that Grilled Zucchini Greek Salad is one of my favorite zucchini recipes ever!
Marinated Zucchini Salad will be a hit for a barbecue side dish!
This Grilled Zucchini Caprese Salad is amazing!
More Grilled or Cooked Zucchini Salads:
- No-Pasta Salad with Zucchini and Italian Sausage
- Grilled Vegetable Salad with Feta
- Spicy Grilled Zucchini and Eggplant Salad
Zucchini Muffin Recipes:
Flourless Keto Zucchini Muffins are also gluten-free and very low in carbs, and these are delicious!
I love these Savory Zucchini Muffins with Green Chiles!
Savory Almond Flour Zucchini Muffins with Feta are great for Feta Cheese fans!
More Zucchini Bread or Cake:
- Low-Sugar Harvest Cake
- Zucchini Bread with Blueberries
- Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Soup or Stew Recipes with Zucchini:
Instant Pot Ratatouille is one of the best things I’ve ever made with zucchini! And if you have fresh garden zucchini, this is a must try!
Zucchini and Yellow Squash Soupis really tasty!
Italian Sausage, Zucchini, and Macaroni Soup is not low-carb but it’s a family favorite!
More Soup or Stew with Zucchini:
- Ratatouille Stew with Italian Sausage
- White Bean Sausage Soup (with Zucchini and Basil)
- Low-Carb Turkey Soup with Zucchini Noodles
- Italian Sausage Zucchini Noodle Soup
- Turkey Mushroom Soup with Zucchini
- Italian Beef Stew with Zucchini, Mushrooms, and Basil
65 Comments on “50 Amazing Zucchini Recipes”
Its been among the best use of the sources.
Glad you have enjoyed the recipes!
Love your recipes. Just trying your zucchini muffins tonight.
Here's something to try with zucchini, if you haven't. My brother told me about a dish he had in Italy with burned zucchini and tomatoes. Slice up your zucchini as you would to cook it for a side dish and put it in a frying pan with a little olive oil. Cook over medium-high heat until the zucchini chars some on the outside. (Not just a golden brown, really dark.) Add tomatoes ( I just use canned Italian Seasoned ones.) and warm through. This really does something for the zucchini, making it somehow better than ever.
Thanks Gayla, glad you are enjoying the recipes. I am intrigued by the idea of burned tomatoes! Will definitely have to try that.
Don't burn the tomatoes, just the zucchini!
Yes, that's what I meant to say! My brain is not 100% per cent awake yet.
Wow,
These recipes look amazing. I can't wait to try some. I've bookmarked your page. I love to cook and you've got great ideas that I can share with my readers. Thanks so much. Lisa
Mickey, have fun gardening. I don't really know how to reply to that, since I have no idea what recipe you're referring to. If it's a question on a specific recipe, you can click through and ask it on that post.
I finally have time to grow a garden since retiring in March. Of course the zucchini and yellow squash are prolific. I have tried your recipes but find they are soupy. Do you cook the zucchini first? Additionally, I have made bread and butter pickles with my zucchini, yellow squash, onions, and pimentos…delicious. You can't tell they are not cucumbers
Hi Kalyn!
You've quickly become one of my favorite food bloggers. I don't follow South Beach to a tee anymore but reading your blog helped me to remember how tasty and healthy the meal plans are. I just save your zucchini roundup on my desktop. The meals are VERY doable yet healthy. I can't wait to try them.
Thanks Kelly! I have to admit I was kind of stunned to realize that I had over 50 zucchini recipes, and once I got started I found so many good ones!
I am swooning over this list of recipes. I think I just may need to go on a zucchini diet. Goodness knows I'd always be satisfied with something delicious — yes, even for breakfast. Wonderful!
Lydia, my pleasure!
Wow — that's a lotta zucchini! So many great ideas here; I'm printing this updated post to keep on my fridge during zucchini season. Thanks so much for mentioning my zucchini e-book.
RJ, I have heard of people freezing shredded zucchini and baking with it in the winter, but I haven't tried it. If you have a FoodSaver, sealing it in a bag would be the way I would do it.
Great ideas Kalyn. Question for you. Can I freeze raw zucchini now,for winter baking later? Does it come out thawed still the same? Thanks a lot.
Tsan, thanks for the great idea! Sounds delicious, both versions.
Thanks for some great ideas, love the marinated raw salads, I never would have thought of that! One of our favorites is zuchini crab cakes
shred 2-3lb zuchini and toss with 1/2 tablespoon old bay seasoning, let sit in colander and press well after 30 min.
add 1 diced onion, 1 egg, and enough breadcrumbs to make it tacky and saute till golden brown on each side.
they freeze great and we eat em all winter long, a similar greek style recipe can be done with salt instead of old bay, 1/2 cup feta, chopped parsley and mint, salt pep to taste, and then fry in olive oil
Enjoy
I'm so happy I found this blog! Especially the Zuchinni recipes! You are so creative; I love it!
Thank you sooo much!! Zucchini is one of my favourite foods. So great to find so many things to do with them!
I have grated zucchini and let it drain. Then mixed it with grated cheese, thinly sliced onion and chilli to spread as a pizza topping.
David, I have made zucchini lasagna like that and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the nice thoughts about the recipes!
We had so many zucchini, and vegetarian friends were coming over, that I made a zucchini lasagna, swapping the zuccs for the pasta. It was amazing, and ever-so-easy. But we still have some left over so I'll have to tuck into some of your recipes.
Cristie, hope you enjoy the recipes!
Great round up. That grilled salad looks delicious and I've been looking for some whole wheat versions of bread that are low in sugar, I'll give these a go.
Day, so glad you liked it!
Kalyn, I made the marinated zucchini salad and it was awesome! I added some lemon zest for extra zing! Thanks for all the great ideas!
PJ, just picked a bunch more zucchini yesterday, so I'm going to be making something with zucchini myself today (probably "creamed" zucchini for my dad!)
i have lots of zucchinis from farmer's market sitting in my fridge now, so i am glad to have seen this post. I think the breakfast casserole is whats on my mind next.
Julia, thanks for sharing.
Wow thanks for all the zucchini recipes. This is great. We have been getting an abundance of them in our CSA, and so are always looking for new ways to use them. Here's a recipe we put up that you might like as well:
http://foodandtheabstracttruth.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/summer-squash-gratin/
Thanks Kevin! I'm giving it away (literally) at my house!
Great collection of zucchini recipes! The farmers are practically giving it away at the markets thee days.
Karina, thanks!
So many fabulous zucchini recipes- so little time. I want to try every one.
Mama Peck, how I wish I could give you some!
These ALL look wonderful! Makes me homesick for my garden in Utah. Unfortunately, we haven't learned the trick of growing zucchini in Az and it kills me to have to BUY it! I would love to have someone leave some on my porch… come on over! 🙂
Shirley, thanks for helping me find it. (Unfortunately I have a conflict for BlogHer food so I won't be there, sigh.)
Hey Kalyn, here's the link to Ali's original recipe: http://www.nourishingmeals.com/2009/08/zucchini-baketastes-like-cheese.html Not sure why it wouldn't show up in the search (I looked, too). I found it on her sidebar links. 🙂 Glad you subscribed! You'll love her recipes. She'll be at BlogHer Food again this year, so I'll be sure to introduce you. 😉
Shirley
Dara, it must have been great zucchini weather lately in Utah, because the plants are going wild here too.
Best Cook, thanks! (I do work hard on the photos, although I still have a lot to learn.)
Shirley, love the sound of that recipe, but I couldn't seem to find it when I searched on that blog. (Did subscribe to her blog though, thanks for introducing me to it!)
Amanda, thanks!
Wow fabulous round up Kalyn, thanks!
Now, that's some zucchini love, Kalyn! That zucchini bread with the blueberries popped out at me. 😉 All look great though. I'm making a zucchini bake this evening for our support group meeting: zucchini, sweet onion, almond flour, olive oil, and seasonings. It's a recipe from Ali at Whole Life Nutrition Kitchen. Everyone loves it. I even added some chicken, cheese, and tomato sauce, and turned it into a main dish as Cheesy Chicken Zucchini Bake. One needs never be short on ideas with your listing. I especially love your numerous salad ones–thank you!
Shirley
Love all your recipes and the pictures look great!!
Perfect timing for this post. Our plant is producing huge zucchini right now and we're doing everything we can to keep up with it. That zucchini bake is particularly enticing.
Tanna, that would be a fun idea! Glad you liked the post.
I'd love a big bag of zucchini about now … now that I have these recipes.
Seriously, wouldn't it be neighborly to find these recipes tucked in a bag of zucchini.
Really Excellent Kalyn.
Amanda, the cupcakes look good. (Not South Beach friendly for my diet though, sigh.)
Shea, hope you get some zucchini! Maybe one of your neighbors will hear about it.
Jacqueline, thanks for sharing, never too many good zucchini recipes.
The Housewife, thanks! Hope you get to try the Chocolate Zucchini bread.
The chocolate zucchini bread has been on my to do list for a very long time… what better way to get your veggies in! 😀 I really like your line up of recipes!
I love the look of that marinated salad and the bake and the salad with feta…..
We recently had a zucchini roundup for No Croutons Required and the entries were fabulous, it was one of my favourite rounds. You can be so creative with zucchini or courgette as we call it in Scotland.
These recipes look wonderful. Zucchini is my most favorite summer vegetable, so I'm always looking for new things to do with it. I really wish I had a neighbor who felt the need to ditch some on my doorstep.
I made a yummy zucchini cupcake this year… my family cant get enough of them!
http://iammommy.typepad.com/i_am_baker/2010/07/zucchini-cupcakes-and-the-best-cream-cheese-frosting.html
Jane, your zucchini salad sounds good, especially the walnuts.
Pam, thanks! Glad you can use some zucchini recipes!
Lynette, zucchini will be great for phase one. Sounds like your brother-in-law is in the holiday spirit!
Perfect timing! I was just complaining that I didn't have any friends with gardens when I bought ny own zucchini at the grocery store. Then my brother in law showed up with more zucchini from his garden. I just started phase 1again after being told by the doctor to lose weight!
You have officially become my very very favoritest person!
I think the neighbors used to run the other direction when they saw me coming with sacks of zucchini. I have a favorite salad of shredded raw zucchini, swiss cheese, walnuts with a basic vinaigrette dressing. It is on my blog. This post makes one realize you cannot have too much zucchini!
Jessica, so glad you're enjoying the blog. I don't know for sure what's causing your zucchini problems, but I found this about why zucchini blossoms fall off. That makes it sound like you'll still get zucchini. If that doesn't fit what's happening with your plant, I would google to see what else you can find! Good luck!
Kalyn I have to say I just LOVE your blog!!! I was excited to try to so many of your recipes with my fresh produce this summer, but unfortunately my garden has only given me a handful of green and yellow beans and 3 cucumbers.. 🙁 I've loved every recipe I've tried so far!! If you don't mind, I was wondering if you know what pops the flowers off of my zucchini plant, and what to do to avoid this next year? I have a garden fence, have used insecticides and have been fertilizing! I've never had this problem!!! Thanks…
Val, if only you lived by me, I would be happy to share!
Right now I wish someone would sneak some zucchini onto my porch…did I just say that:D
Thanks Susan! I love it too, but I confess I can't keep up with the harvest. Of course, the neighbors don't mind getting it!
Fantastic collection of zucchini recipes! Although, no one has to sneak any on my porch. I love the stuff!
Foodalogue, thank you, and you're right, the possibilities are endless!
Lydia, glad you like the Greek salad idea. Isn't this a fun "holiday"?
TW, I had a feeling you might have some surplus zucchini! As you can imagine, I was so sad to miss BlogHer this year, but next year for sure I'll be there!
What a fantastic "Zucchini Fest!" As you might expect, I'm overun with zucchini, and I think I might adapt one of the baked dishes with cheese for tonight. (Missed you at BlogHer!)
That Grilled Greek Zucchini Salad is going to become one of my favorites, too. I like to make zucchini and herb frittatas. Thanks for celebrating this holiday!
You've proved the versatility of zucchini is seemingly endless. Wonderful array of dishes.