Courgette recipes - 60 recipes
Courgettes have to be one of the easiest vegetables to cook! No need for pealing, just wash them and fry, bake, roast or grill… your options are endless. Have you tried making your own summer ratatouille with fresh tomatoes and aubergine? Or a filling courgette gratin with béchamel sauce and a golden cheese topping?
Courgettes are a summer vegetable and are full of goodness and are one of Britain's top ten favourite veg!
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Top rated Courgette recipes
Healthy Ratatouille
By Harriet
Full of vegetables, this ratatouille will rock your socks
- 1 Onion (Peeled and Chopped)
- 1 Clove of Garlic (Peeled and Crushed)
- 1 Small Aubergine (Diced)
- 1 Green Pepper (De-seeded and Chopped)
- 1 Courgette (Sliced)
- 2 Cans Chopped Tomatoes
- 10ml Oil (any type is suitable)
- 1 Handful Fresh Basil
Vegetable Tortilla
By UniqueTaste123
Vegetarian, Dairy free, Gluten free
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 green pepper- halved seeded & finely chopped
- 1 red pepper - halved seeded & finely chopped
- 1 aubergine - diced
- 1 courgette -diced
- 2 red tomatoes - peeled seeded & diced
- 8 eggs
- Salt
Courgette and salmon crème brulée with a whipped goat cheese cream
By BERNHARD
Preparation of the whipped cream: Mix the goat cheese with all ingredients
- For the crème brûlée
- 200 g courgettes
- 2 slices of smoked salmon
- 3 egg yolks
- 20 cl of single cream
- 10 cl of milk
- 25 g Parmesan + 1 tablespoon
- salt and pepper
- For the whipped goat cheese
- 1 small fresh goat cheese
- 20 cl of single cream
- 10 cl of milk
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Courgette Cream Soup
By mollisia, (Hand) One Day On A Plate
Courgette is the vegetable of autumn, but the green colour evokes freshness of spring
- - 1l stock
- - 2 courgettes
- - 2 potatoes
- - 1 onion
- - olive oil
- - fresh thyme
Recipe: Courgette and Apple Jam, rated 3.2/5 | Gourmandize UK Ireland Gourmandize.co.uk
By romana.richards
Find this recipe for Courgette and Apple Jam, rated 3
- 3 lbs (1,5kg) of courgette flesh, diced into 1cm cubes
- 2 lbs (1 kg) of apple flesh, diced into 1cm cubes, held in acidulated water till ready
- 2 1/2 lbs (1.250 kg) of granulated sugar
- 100g Golden Raisins soaked in 2Tbls orange juice or liquer
- 1 tsp allspice powder
Slow Cooker Quorn Sausage Casserole
By Harriet
A warming, comforting dish, suitable for lazy Saturdays and times when you need an easy to prepare, simple, yet yum...
- 1 Onion (Finely Sliced)
- 4-6 Quorn Sausages
- 2-3 Cans Whole Plum Tomatoes
- 1 Tin Baked Beans
- 1/2 Swede (Cubed)
- 2 Carrots (Diced)
- 1-2 Sticks of Celery (Sliced)
- 1 Medium Potato (Cubed)
- 1/2 Pepper (Diced)
- 1 Small Courgette/Marrow/Squash (Chopped)
- 1/2 Aubergine (Diced)
- 3 Large Mushrooms (Sliced)
- 1 Clove Garlic (Crushed)
Steamed salmon in foil, courgettes & peppers
By Steph du blog une graine d'idée
Cut out 3 squares of aluminium foil or steaming paper if you have any
Duo of grilled red mullet with tapenade
By Carole E.
Blanch for 30 seconds the chives in boiling salted water then cool immediately in ice cold water
Courgette and goat cheese tart
By floflorence08
Wash and peel the courgettes, cut them into small pieces
- 1 pastry
- 34 courgettes
- 1 small goat cheese log
- 4 eggs
- 50 cl of crème fraîche
- salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Zucchini Paneer ( Courgettes and Indian cottage cheese Curry)
By Joydeep Pal, Joydeep's World of Food
Indian cottage cheese better known as Paneer is a hot favourite among the vegetarian community
- 2 Medium Zucchini (Courgettes/Summer squash) (Washed)
- 200gm Paneer (Indian cottage cheese)
- 1 pc Tomato (big)
- 2 or 3 Green Chillies
- 1 tablespoons of Ginger Paste
- 5-6 tablespoons of Oil : Sunflower oil
- Spices:
- Cummin Whole(Jeera): 1/4 teaspoon
- Cinnamon (Darchini): 1/4 of a stick
- Cardamom (Elaichi): 3 small one
- Clove (Labongo/laung): 3
- Garam Masala: ½ teaspoon
- Cumin powder (Jeera): 1 table-spoon
- Turmeric powder (Halud/Haldi): 1 tea-spoon
- Sugar: 1 tea-spoon
- Water
- Salt to Taste
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More Courgette recipes
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Ratatouille
- 300g peppers
- 3 tbsp Ketchup
- 100g courgettes
- 100g cherry tomatoes
- 1 shallot
- 1 small onion
- 20 cl tomato coulis
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tbsp olive oil
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Chicken and Bacon Pasta
- 150g diced cooked chicken
- 100g rindless bacon
- 1 courgette
- 2 spring onions
- 200g soft cheese (Philadelphia or similar)
- salt and pepper
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 300g amori pasta
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Courgette and minced beef bake...
- 500 g of minced beef
- 100 g rice
- 4 onions, chopped
- 5 courgettes
- 200 g button mushrooms
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 10 cl crème fraîche
- Juice of one lemon
- 100 g grated cheese
- Olive oil
- Salt & pepper
- Chili powder
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Jean's Courgette Pud !
- 1 1b of courgettes
- 1 onion large
- 1 large carrot
- 1/2 glass of water
- 1/2 glass of vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- Medium matzo meal
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Ravioli bake with summer vegetables
- - 1 courgette
- - 250g fresh filled pasta (cheese filled ravioli for example that cooks in quickly )
- - 2 tomatoes
- - 4 tablespoons soya cream
- - Salt
- - Pepper
- - oregano
- - nutritional yeast flakes
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Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable...
- 2 red onions, quartered and sliced lengthways
- 1 large purple aubergine, chopped
- 2 yellow peppers, deseeded and chopped
- 2 red peppers, deseeded and chopped
- 3 courgettes, chopped
- 1 small fennel bulb, chopped
- 275ml/½ pint olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and sliced
- black pepper and coarsely ground sea salt
- 600g/1lb 5oz small new potatoes
- 450g/1lb baby vine tomatoes
- 25g/1oz basil, chopped
- 400g/14oz tin red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 200g/7oz mature cheddar cheese, grated
- Colourful vegetable lasagne 4.6/5 (21 Votes)
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Zucchini and Tomatoes
- 2 zucchini
- 2 tomatoes
- 4 garlic cloves
- salt
- pepper
- parmesan
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Courgette beef burgers
- 2 courgettes, round
- 1 courgette long
- 1 tomato
- 300g minced beef
- Olive oil
- Sherry vinegar
- Thyme, savory, parsley
- Espelette pepper
- Tabasco
- Salt and pepper
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Courgette surprise
- round courgettes
- thinly sliced ham, cut into pieces
- 1 little goat cheese
- large button mushrooms
- salt
- spices
- garlic
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Soup - Devilled Pepper, Courgette...
- 1 courgette, sliced and diced
- 1 pepper – mine was yellow
- 2 red onions finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
- Some dried chill flakes to taste or a chopped deseeded red chilli
- Black pepper
- 1 litre of chicken stock
- Whatever ham you can muster – I used three slices chopped.
- Olive oil
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Thai Red Curry
- 8oz/225g rice
- 9oz/250g tofu
- oil
- 1 tbsp Thai red curry paste
- 150g shallots/red onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 aubergine
- 1 courgette
- 100g green beans
- 100g mange tout
- ½ pint/300ml coconut milk
- juice of 1 lime or lemon
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