Lots of courgettes??

Pink.

Oven roasted vegetables

Courgettes
Mushrooms
Red Onion (quartered)
Yellow pepper (sliced)
Garlic (roughly chopped)

Drizzle with olive oil and put in the oven on high temperature. When almost cooked add baby tomatoes and cook in the oven for another five to ten minutes.

Lovely with a roast, particularly with lamb.

Pink

omega_2

When we cook them as a simple accompaniment (sp?), we usually blanche them with a peeled clove of garlic in the cooking water.

Ticklemouse

I like to slice mine, brown in a little olive oil, then add sliced onions, mushrooms, garlic, herbs, tomatoes (large or baby, tinned or otherwise), cook them all together then add a good glug of balsamic vinegar and cook down.

It doesn't always look too appetising if you over cook it, but if you like balsamic vinegar, then this is fab. You can add or delete veg to your taste too. It's nice as a side dish to roasts or other meats and also eaten on top of jacket spuds.

Mmmmm - bought some today. I shall make the above to go with my lamb chops

bugs

The courgette souffle in the River Cottage Cookbook is a favourite in my house. It might be on the website but if not...it's basically a souffle where you beat the yolks with courgettes that you have cooked until soft with some garlic, before folding in the whites. It's very nice and looks pretty too with the flecks of green from the courgette's skin.

A friend of mine makes couscous, and tells me that the secret to a good veg topping is to make big chunks and cook slowly for a long time (about an hour, and a typical courgette would cut in to only two or three lumps) so that the courgette stays firm and you can taste it. Allegedly.

r.mac_2

:hello:

I have to confess that I'm not a fan of courgettes. I think this is because my mother just boils them - Yuck

IMHO that leaves them with no taste, no colour and rather wet and sludgy. I think the 20 mins simmering time may have something to do with that though :rotfl: Sorry Mum!

Anyway, I was re-introduced to them by a freind last summer. Slice thinly on the diagonal, griddle quickly until a little coloured, but still firm, also griddle onion quarters. Mix onion and courgette with splash white wine, creme fraich and some nuts. Add to pasta and eat!

Bogof_Babe

Has anyone got a recipe for that courgette frittata (sp?) off the eggs advert? You know - the one where all that's in the fridge is one courgette, one onion, some cheese and a box of eggs. The bloke cooks it while the girls are dithering around. It looks scrumptious! (The bloke's not bad either lol).

squeaky

If you google on "courgette frittata recipe" as written including quotes you get two recipes to choose from

Js_Other_Half

I have made courgette cake in the past - very nice

filigree_2

I'm not keen on them boiled or steamed, I prefer them cooked so they go a bit brown. You can just slice and fry them with a squirt of lemon juice to serve, or you can cut them into chunks and use them as part of a kebab with peppers, onion etc.

They work well in stirfries, cut them in half lengthways and scoop out the soft centre, then cut the firm flesh into thick matchsticks.

Js_Other_Half

This isn't the recipe I use, but it does look similar.

http://www.foodiesite.com/recipes/2002-07/zuchcake.jsp