Lots of courgettes??

Rossy2692

Hi all,

My veggie patch is shaping up nicely especially the courgettes! They just keep growing at an alarming rate! Does anyone have any recipes for them? Can I use them in soup??

Thanks in advance
x

Ronankfan

i made soup with mine yesterday - only a very simple one but the kids and i loved it. Just fried off 2 chopped onions til soft then added 3 courgettes and 600ml of stock and cooked for 15 mins then blitzed it up and it tasted lovely!!!

Pink.

Hi Rossy,

I use courgettes in minestrone soup and they're lovely. There's an earlier thread with lots of ideas for using courgettes so I'll add your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

floyd

We have just been presented with a courgette the size of my thigh (1.1kg) so I thought I would have a go at some chutney as huge veg tend to be a little bland for cooking in other dishes.

I spotted that JoeyEmma had posted a recipe earlier in this thread http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/64/recipe-for-courgette-chutney/ and would report back in 3 months when it was matured to say whether it was any good or not. Anyone know whether its a good one? Its on page 8 of this thread and I looked through for updates but couldn't find any.

I don't want to freeze it as there isn't room and there are only 2 of us so we'd be sick to death of it by Monday :rotfl:

jtb2412

Hi floyd, the recipe you've put a link up for is the one i've used a few weeks ago. MIL used it last year and it was absolutely delicious ! Can't wait to try ours in a few weeks ! Lovely with cheese (sounds strange I know).

Have a quick question myself if anyone can help - put some courgettes in the ground a few weeks ago and didn't realise they were the round variety (got given some seeds) - how big do they get before I have to pick them? They are size of golf ball at the moment - anyone any idea??

TIA xx

floyd

Wow thats fab, thanks for the quick reply. Did you use regular salad tomatoes or beef ones and were they skinned first?

jtb2412

Lol @ quick reply ... nothing on the TV that I want to watch so am 'browsing' on here tonight.

I must admit I cheated a bit and used tinned chopped tomatoes ! lol

MIL used tinned too so not sure what it would be like with the fresh. Saves a lot of time ! If you're using fresh then I would suggest peeling (just make a small cross with a sharp knife (not too deep) in the base of the tomato, pop in boiling water for a minute or two (or until skins where you've cut start to peel away) and then remove, place in cold water and peel off skins). You probably already know that though .

Happy chutneying (is that a word?) lol

floyd

Thats fab thanks, I will see if I feel like skinning, if not I will use tinned as it sounds like it works a treat

champys

floyd wrote: »

Thats fab thanks, I will see if I feel like skinning, if not I will use tinned as it sounds like it works a treat

I never bother skinning the tomatoes for chutney - I just cut them up fairly small (so the pieces of skin are small) and you never find them back as such once it has become chutney.

floyd

Thanks for the help everyone, I have just finished bottling up and have 4 large jars of lovely smelling courgette chutney. I had a little taste and its beautiful so it can only improve with time as long as I potted them up properly, I will cry if it goes mouldy.
I used 5 large fresh vine tomatoes and I did skin them after all as I couldn't be arsed to chop them finely

There are a few little bubbles which I hope won't affect it adversely, I tapped the jars firmly so that it settled properly but couldn't get rid of all of them.

I am definately a preserving convert now, the blackcurrant jam went down a storm so I will have to see what is the next glut to appear from FIL's plot.

Thanks all