Zucchini: the Garden Veggie That Just Keeps on Giving
We don’t have a lot of garden space in our yard, but we still plant one zucchini plant each year. It’s easy to grow and there are new zucchini every couple of days or so to be picked and used in all sorts of recipes. Sometimes we go a healthier route and make zoodles, which are actually surprisingly fantastic in place of actual spaghetti noodles. We prefer them to spaghetti squash even! But most of the time I like to bake with the profusion of zucchini that results from our gardening efforts. If you have an excess of zucchini like we do or your neighbors keep dropping it off on your porch, be sure to check out some of our other zucchini recipes like Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread, Morning Glory Muffins, and Zucchini Bread with Walnuts.
Zucchini in Baked Goods
Zucchini is magical when it comes to baked goods. It makes them extra moist and tender and wonderful. The mild flavor of zucchini lends itself well to adapting to other ingredients like warm spices like cinnamon and cloves, rich chocolate, or the bright citrus notes of lemon and poppy seed. Really, I just took my stand-by zucchini bread recipe and tweaked it a bit to make this lemon poppy seed version. So far I have only made it in loaf form, but like any quick bread this recipe would serve well as muffins instead. And while you don’t NEED the lemon glaze that graces the top of the moist, wonderful loaves, I highly recommend adding it. It’s such a treat to have a slice of this lemon poppy seed zucchini bread in the afternoon as a snack, or for breakfast in the morning.
How to Make Lemon Poppy Seed Zucchini Bread
More bread recipes like this
Passion Fruit Lemon Loaf Cake Best Banana Bread (this seriously is the best banana bread ever – just read some of the dozens of comments at the end of the post) Glazed Apple Fritter Yeast Bread Irish Soda Bread Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread Coconut Lime Glazed Banana Bread Cranberry Orange Bread Fresh Cherry Quick Bread Pear Bread Fresh Strawberry Bread Lemon Blueberry Bread
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