I think people have a love hate relationship with zucchini: I know gardeners do. There’s always the thrill of having the seeds successfully germinate – zucchinis are so good about that. Then there are the strong plants that grow so quickly with their lovely big leaves, and the beautiful flowers, so bright and cheery.

But then, the shock when one sees a zucchini that’s been hiding under a leaf and has become the size of a baseball bat, or the monumental amounts from all the prolific plants that you worried might not make it, but did. Trying to find enough friends and neighbors to give them away to is such a challenge. But, it’s great that there are so many ways to use zucchinis: they’re great whether raw or cooked, as salad, main meal savory muffins or sweet cupcakes, they’re just an amazing vegetables that I am always grateful to see in the garden. Here are some more unusual recipes for zucchini that we enjoy.

These tasty muffins are lovely. They’re light and fluffy ad with the ‘cheesy’ flavor of nutritional yeast a tang of a bit of mustard they really filled us up for Sunday morning brunch.

Yield: 7 med. large muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
• 1/4 cup chives, snipped in small pieces
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg replacement
• 1 cup zucchini, grated
• 3/4 cup soy milk or soy cream
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 4 tablespoons nutritional yeast
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard powder

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 (F).
2. Mix the flour, egg replacement and salt together in a large bowl.
3. Add the nutritional yeast and mustard powder and stir the dry ingredients to mix well.
4. Mix the soy milk, and vegetable oil in a separate bowl.
5. Add the grated zucchini and the chives (save a few chives to sprinkle on top).
6. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and stir just until moistened.
7. Grease a muffin pan or line with paper liners.
8. Scoop the batter evenly in the muffin cups and sprinkle the tops with some chives.
9. Bake 25 minutes, or until golden brown.

Notes:

I made 7 medium large muffins. You can make 12 regular sized from the recipe, or more mini muffins.

You’ll find salads, raw, yummy savory muffins and main meals on Vegalicious, and do check back with us through the end of the summer, we have at least five more yummy zucchini recipes that we have enjoyd and will be posting over the next month.