Can you make an entire meal with zucchini? Why not? And that’s what I have for you today – Zucchini platter! Right from appetizer to condiment to entree to dessert, everything made with zucchini.
I have been posting grain-based platters recently like recipes with quinoa, flattened rice/aval, ragi flour, and rolled oats. And today, I picked a vegetable as my ingredient, and it is zucchini.
If you are reading my blog or following me on Instagram, by now, you would have known about my bountiful zucchini harvest. I couldn’t share the zucchini much with our friends, so I ended making quite a lot of recipes with zucchini. I shared a few on the blog, and I still have to share some.
Zucchini
Zucchini call it as summer squash or courgette, is one of my favorite vegetables and one of the vegetables that you can grow easily in the backyard. The surprising fact is that botanically zucchini is a fruit, but we treat it like a vegetable in the culinary context.
Even though it looks like a cucumber, you can’t eat it raw like cucumber. You need to saute it slightly or blanch it atleast. It is perfect for grilling and roasting.
One medium-sized zucchini 200grams has approx 35 calories. You can check the nutritional profile online. And because of its low-calorie profile, it is considered a keto vegetable, and zucchini noodles or zoodles are quite famous for that reason.
My Zucchini Platter
Initially, I was not planning on making this platter. I was planning to make zucchini rice and raita for our everyday meal, and that’s when the thought of a zucchini platter hit me. So I decided to make some appetizer and dessert with zucchini as well.
Instead of pakora, I decided to make some zucchini fries that I have testing for quite some time now. I also made some halwa. Then I had some zucchini pith, so I decided to make some chutney with hemp seeds. Yes, it’s zucchini chutney with hemp seeds.
Simple recipes with zucchini
I have zucchini fries, zucchini chutney, zucchini rice, zucchini raita, and zucchini halwa on my platter. I am yet to share the chutney and halwa. But please find the links for the other recipes below.
Appetizer | Fries
Condiment | Zucchini chutney
It’s a simple chutney with zucchini pith and zucchini with cilantro, curry leaves, and mint. I also added some hemp seeds, and it was so good. You can serve it with idli, dosa, or rice or use it as a dip as well.
Entree | Zucchini rice
Condiment | Zucchini raita
Dessert | Zucchini halwa
I made this more like Kasi halwa, and I am super amazed by the result. It’s not on the blog, and I will share it soon.
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Loving your choice of ingredients for this week platter. All are so healthy and different ones. Many new dishes from this platter to learn.
Thank you :-)
Interesting Zucchini platter Srividhya with all the healthy dishes you have added here. I will check on the fries recipe, as last time when I made they did not turn out well, thanks for the share.
Thanks Renu. I am sure you will like this version.
I love zucchini and use it a lot. My friend served me raw zucchini salad and I am hooked to it after that. I add it raw to pasta salads and regular salads too. But mostly just dice it and eat it just like that :-). My son doesn’t like it raw one bit though. He would like the thali here as everything is cooked.
:-) Then I am sure he will like this.
This is surely such an interesting platter Srividhya, its so good that you were able to come up with so many different dishes with this one vegetable. I am eyeing that Zucchini halwa you have made. it surely doesn’t look like it has this veggie in it..wonderful!
Thanks Valli. As I didn’t have many options ended up with this one.
Zucchini platter is really unique , what a wonderful idea . It’s interesting to see a Halwa and Chutney with this exotic veggie . I am
Sure the raita and rice too would be an instant hit , but what I like most is the fries !
All this from your own kitchen garden gives them a wow factor . How nice to know that everything is so pure and organic .
Thanks and I was super excited while making this as well.
This one sure is a delightful meal using zucchini. It is hard to guess that you have come up with this filling thaali using a single vegetable. Thanks for the air frying idea of zucchini fries. It hadn’t occurred to me.
Thanks Suma. I had to use all the zucchinis and that’s how this happened.
Brilliant idea using home grown zucchini for this platter. I shall try to take this idea and see if I can come up with something similar :)
Thanks. Glad you liked it.