11 Simple Zucchini Casserole Recipes
Try one of these easy zucchini casserole recipes, or learn about how to choose and store your veggie.
Maybe you've been in the vegetable aisle at the grocery store and you've wondered "What can I make with zucchini?" If you just don't know what to do with zucchini, you've come to the right place!
Zucchini casserole recipes are some of the most delicious around. This underrated vegetable makes for one of the heartiest ways to include something healthy in your dinner casserole.
You can easily add other elements to make it more appealing to your whole family. Cheeses, bread crumbs, and even meat all taste great paired with zucchini and the right seasoning. Make the best baked zucchini casserole your family has ever tasted in no time at all. Adding zucchini to your casseroles is the best way to get a serving of vegetables that also tastes great!
Don't forget to read up on how to choose and store zucchini below.
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Zucchini Cheese Casserole
This easy side dish recipe is as simple as mixing the ingredients together and baking! Once it's done, you'll have a savory, soft casserole recipe that's packed with veggies and full of flavor.
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Gooey Zucchini and Potato Casserole
Whether you love zucchini or are just trying to sneak in more vegetables, this might be the best way to enjoy the vegetable! It's an easy side dish recipe everyone is sure to love, made with hash browns, cheese, Panko bread crumbs, and more cheese.
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Easy Zucchini Fritters
The combination of zucchini, onion, butter and a few other simple ingredients makes these fritters "viciously addictive."
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Baked Zucchini Bites
These healthy snacks are made from a combination of zucchini, cheese, garlic, and onion. Zucchini bites are very easy to make.
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Bisquick Zucchini Casserole
This simple Bisquick zucchini casserole is comfort food at its best. This recipe is filling, yet light and fluffy, with plenty of flavor from Cheddar cheese, garlic, and onion (and the zucchini, of course).
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Zucchini Cheddar Puff Casserole
This zucchini cheese casserole is light, fluffy, and filled with just the right amount of Cheddar cheese. This recipe is perfect for any weeknight dinner, but it also works for a more elegant event.
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Zucchini & Mozzarella Casserole
This zucchini casserole recipe is for the picky eater to try. Mozzarella is so good when it's melted that they might not notice the zucchini.
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All Star Beefy Zucchini Casserole
This delicious zucchini casserole with ground beef might be your new favorite way to eat zucchini! Cream of mushroom soup, rich ground beef (or ground chuck), and a few other favorite ingredients make this a dinner recipe you won't want to miss.
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Wholesome Zucchini Casserole
Made with zucchini, broccoli, eggs, milk, red pepper flakes, and chopped onion, this casserole uses easy-to-find ingredients that won't break your budget.
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Creamy Ranch Sausage and Zucchini Bake
Creamy Ranch Sausage and Zucchini Bake is sliced fresh zucchini and crumbled sausage mixed with a creamy ranch sauce and baked to perfection with a melted layer of cheese to top it off.
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Chicken Penne Casserole with Corn and Zucchini
This healthy Chicken Penne Casserole with Corn and Zucchini is oozing with melted cheese and a smooth, creamy sauce! It’s the perfect clean eating dinner to showcase some of summer’s best produce!
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How to Choose the Perfect Zucchini
There have been many times when I've been standing in the produce section and I only pretend that I know what I'm doing. I just don't know how to choose any ripe vegetable or fruit, let alone a zucchini. I squeeze it lightly to make sure it won't turn to goo in my hand, but beyond that, I'm clueless. So I found some answers that will help both you and me as we try to figure out how to choose the perfect zucchini.
Fun fact you may not know already: zucchini can grow up to 2 inches in length every 24 hours. That's amazing! But in this case, bigger doesn't mean better.
Large zucchini tend to be flavorless and watery with large seeds inside. Pick a zucchini that is about 6-8 inches. It'll be better if that zucchini has a vibrant color. Zucchini can be green, yellow, or white, and it doesn't matter what color it is, as long as it's vibrant. Also, look for zucchini that have a good chunk of stem still attached, because they will last longer.
How to Store Zucchini
Something everyone struggles with is how to store your vegetables so they last as long as possible. You might be going grocery shopping for the week and you won't be using your zucchini right away.
So, how do you store zucchini so it'll be fresh by the time you make one of the amazing recipes above?
It's really simple if you want to refrigerate your zucchini. Keep your zucchini in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. It will last three to five days.
You can also freeze your zucchini if you don't need to use it within three to five days. You can chop up the zucchini and freeze it as is, but it might be worth blanching it before freezing it.
What's blanching, you ask? Basically, it's boiling the zucchini for a hot second (actually, it's about a minute). You'll deactivate the enzymes that would otherwise cause the zucchini to become mushy, discolored, and unusable in your zucchini recipes.
Don't blanch it for too long. If you do it for more than a minute, the zucchini will be cooked too much.
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