Zucchini Puree Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot and add the onion. Cook, stirring, until it is tender, about 5 minutes. Add a generous pinch of salt, the garlic and the zucchini and stir for about a minute, until the garlic smells fragrant. Add the curry powder, stir together, and add the stock or water, the rice and salt to taste. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes. Taste and adjust salt.
• Purée the soup with an immersion blender or a food mill or in batches in a blender, taking care to remove the lid or take out the center insert and to cover with a towel to avoid hot splashes. Return to the pot, heat through, add pepper and cayenne to taste and stir in the lemon juice. Serve, garnishing each bowl with paper-thin slices of zucchini, chopped chives and croutons if desired.

Steps:

• Place zucchini in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook until very soft, 5 to 10 minutes. Drain well.
• Transfer zucchini to a blender or food processor; puree until smooth. Allow to cool before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Puree zucchini in a high-powered blender or food processor. Measure out 2 cups of zucchini puree, then add prunes until level hits 3 cups. Return to the blender and process. Add brown sugar, cocoa, oil, salt, and vanilla extract; blend until totally smooth.
• Whisk whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, and baking soda together in a bowl. Stir in nuts. Pour chocolate mixture into flour mixture and stir together as gently as possible; batter will be very thick.
• Spread batter into the prepared baking pan and smooth as much as you'd like; this batter will not smooth out much as it bakes. Sprinkle Demerara sugar and chocolate chips on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until brownies just spring back when touched in the middle or a toothpick comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Allow to cool before devouring.

Steps:

• Steam the zucchini until just tender. (Steam it over, not in, water).
• Saute the onion in butter, with salt, until soft(5 minutes or so).
• Puree all ingredients until smooth- in blender or food processor.
• Heat gently (don't cook it) just before serving.

Steps:

• Scrub potatoes; do not peel. Cut large potatoes into bite-size chunks; leave tiny potatoes whole. Put in pot with water to cover, bring to a boil, and cook, about 7 minutes for the cut-up potatoes, 20 minutes for whole potatoes.
• Wash and trim zucchini. Cut in half, then cut each half into 6 pieces. Steam about 5 minutes. Drain.
• With food processor running, put garlic through feed tube to mince.
• Add zucchini, oregano, nutmeg, salt and pepper and process to puree.
• When potatoes are cooked, drain; cut the tiny whole potatoes into quarters. Spoon zucchini puree over potatoes, and serve.