Zucchini Recipes

Whip up a frittata for brunch, or serve one with a leafy green salad for a light dinner.

This easy lasagna "bianca" is tomato-free, and full of zucchini—adding a welcome dose of vegetables to this updated take on the classic. 

Toss this zucchini and squash on the grill and the flavor intensifies from the heat. This time-saver side dish (less than 30 minutes) is perfect for a no-fuss summer lunch or dinner. 

Using zucchini instead of lasagna noodles helps lighten the dish -- and also makes it gluten-free.

Healthy salmon and zucchini slices are broiled together in this quick and easy dinner.

Wrap up the day by sitting down to heart-healthy fish "en papillote," a fancy-sounding method that's so simple.

Here's a 30-minute vegetarian dinner you'll want to make on repeat. Halloumi cheese is perfect for the grill (or grill pan), it's charred along with bell peppers, zucchini, and radicchio and wrapped up in a warm tortilla for easy eating. 

In Rome, fresh ricotta made from sheep's milk is more widely available than that made from cow's milk, but either will work in this recipe. An abundance of zucchini blossoms (fiori di zucche) made it easy for Kovel to use them as a topping, but if you can't find them, it's not a problem; they are an optional flourish here.

Salting the zucchini before cooking it draws out water, eliminating sogginess.

This zucchini nut bread is a favorite of Spigolo chef Scott Fratangelo.

It looks like your usual stuffed shells, but hidden under the cheese, pepperoni, and marinara is grated zucchini that kids will never detect.

A few minutes in a skillet transforms ripe tomatoes and zucchini into a fresh sauce for gnocchi.

Fresh zucchini and ripe banana add moisture to these muffins, ensuring they are soft and tender but low in fat.

A hearty, healthy summer side of thick-sliced zucchini brushed with a miso-soy glaze, then grilled. The result is deep umami richness.

Kids won't even notice the zucchini is this delicious spice bread from Mary Bodor of Patterson, New York.

This Orzo and Zucchini salad tastes best at room temperature, so prep it and stow it for a bit while cooking the rest of your meal.

This ratatouille is a great make-ahead option for summer entertaining, as the flavor benefits from some time to develop. It can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to three days. It's delicious hot or at room temperature. Recipe courtesy of Clare Vivier.

Skirt steak is well-marbled and should be cook medium rare; any more, it will toughen.

Meaning reboiled in Italian, this hearty vegetarian soup lives up to its name. It's just as delicious on the day it's made as it is reheated. This recipe appears in our cookbook "Martha Stewart's Slow Cooker" (Clarkson Potter).

This cool pasta borrowsflavors and ingredients -- greenbeans, cannellini beans, zucchini,tomatoes, and carrots -- fromminestrone soup.

Everyone will love the combination of flavors and textures in this vegan quinoa salad: garlicky sauteed zucchini, delicate scallions, crunchy roasted pistachios, and fragrant fresh mint.

After a quick turn on the grill, these flame-kissed boneless thighs get tossed with a minty lemon dressing. Corn and zucchini are next up on the grates—and when you platter everything up with the meat on top, the sauce dresses everything. 

Roasting chicken thighs with their skin on helps keep the meat moist, while the pan juices lend lusciousness to the zucchini that roasts alongside. Serve couscous as an alternative to rice or potatoes.

Roasting the zucchini and tomatoes rather than sauteing them intensifies their flavor.