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Zucchini & Summer Squash

Famously prolific, zucchini and other summer squash overwhelm many home gardeners and farmers markets. Try these tasty, easy recipes to use one of summer's most bountiful produce items.

10 Easy and Delicious Zucchini Recipes
These ten easy and delicious zucchini recipes won't just help use up summer's most prolific vegetable, they'll make you want to plant or buy more!

Cold Zucchini Soup
This cold zucchini soup is easy, tasty, and full of zucchini.

Cream of Zucchini Soup
This simple cream of zucchini soup is ready in a snap and is chock full of zucchini!

Shaved Zucchini Salad
Very thinly sliced zucchini needs only a bit of lemon and parmesan to make a beautiful, tempting salad.

Grilled Green Beans Onions Zucchini
Try this mix of summer vegetables on the grill.

Grilled Zucchini & Summer Squash
Zucchini and summer squash are tasty, easy additions to any summer grill.

Grilled Zucchini With Basil Dressing
Grilled Zucchini With Basil Dressing is simply, delicious, and a great way to use up some of an ample zucchini harvest.

Late Summer Vegetable Stew
Zucchini, peppers, and tomatoes come together in this quick summer vegetable stew.

Spring-to-Summer Vegetable Ragout
This late spring through early summer vegetable "ragout" is a light stew of carrots, zucchini, and peas that makes an easy side dish or a hearty main meal when served over steaming polenta.

Zucchini Mint Salad
Zucchini Mint Salad of shaved zucchini, olive oil, lemon, and mint is refreshing, easy, and delicious.

Summer Vegetable Pesto Soup
A simple soup of zucchini, green beans, and tomatoes topped with bright pesto makes a simple supper.

Zucchini Frittata
This simple combination of summer squash, onion, garlic, cheese, and eggs makes a quick and satisfying brunch, lunch, or casual dinner.

Vegetarian Enchiladas (Zucchini, Cabbage, and Chile)
Vegetarian enchiladas full of zucchini, cabbage, and chiles.

Zucchini Gratin
Fresh zucchini is turned into an easy, delicious side dish.

Zucchini Meatball Soup
Zucchini is in the meatballs and the broth in this spicy, filling soup.

Zucchini Soup
This simple zucchini soup is ready in a snap and is full of plenty of zucchini!

Zucchini Pasta
I like to use fusilli or other corkscrew-type pasta for this dish, since the strips of squash tangle up with them nicely.

Zucchini Mint Pesto
Zucchini Mint Pesto is delicious on hot pasta, as a dressing for pasta salad, or spooned over simply cooked chicken or fish.

Zuni-Style Zucchini Pickles
Sweet and kicky zucchini slices that are still crunchy, brightly flavored with mustard, and a brilliant chartreuse color.

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