How to Bake Zucchini? In Oven, Pan

Zucchini is a versatile vegetable that you can eat raw, even with the skin on. But how to bake zucchini? If you do that, the zucchini must be well washed! Zucchini is also often grilled in a pan or on the BBQ and in small cubes you can also stir-fry it well, but baking zucchini is also very good.

Zucchini Baking. You do this in a pan or in the oven. Wash the zucchini under the tap and cut into thin slices. Drizzle the zucchini with a little oil and sprinkle with coarse sea salt and ground black pepper. Bake the zucchini in an oven dish at 180 degrees for 15 minutes and in the pan, turning regularly for about 6 minutes.

Zucchini can be cut in different ways, for example in long slices or round slices. For zucchini woks you usually use cubes. And yes. you can also make pasta out of it, they also call this courgetti. Long strings of zucchini that you can easily use in a salad. We will not go into that in this blog, we will continue with baking zucchini.

How Long To Bake Zucchini?

We bake zucchini in the oven or in the pan. You can also add other seasonings to flavor the zucchini, such as garlic or a little Ketjap Manis.

How long you have to bake zucchini depends on the size of the pieces you use. Are they thin or thick slices or are they large cubes. This strongly determines how long you have to bake zucchini.

1. Baking zucchini in the oven
   You can use thin slices or large pieces in the oven. Bake this in an oven at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Thicker slices obviously take longer.
2. Baking zucchini in a pan
   Depending on the size of the pieces, you can fry zucchini in the pan for 5-10 minutes. The longer you bake the zucchini, the softer it will become. So if you think the zucchini is cooked, taste a piece. If not to your liking, bake the zucchini a little longer.

The baked zucchini is easy to season with salt and pepper. You can of course also use other herbs. Read our blog about seasoning zucchini after baking or grilling.

Baking Zucchini In The Oven

The zucchini can be baked in the oven. One calls it baking and the other calls it grilling, one thing is for sure, it comes from the oven. I tell you the basics of baking zucchini in the oven. Cooking is experimenting and trying out, so add other seasonings yourself if you want. What do you need?

• 1 zucchini, well washed
• Ground black pepper
• Coarse sea salt
• sunflower foil

What are you going to do in the kitchen?

1. Cut the zucchini into long slices, round slices, cubes or large pieces. Leave the skin on the zucchini.
2. Brush the bottom of the baking dish with a little olive oil and place the slices in the dish. Instead of an oven dish, you can also use baking paper and place the slices on it. Also now use a little bit of oil foil.
3. Now drizzle the slices with a little oil foil and sprinkle with coarse salt and ground black pepper. You can also add other herbs such as thyme or rosemary and oregano.
4. Place the dish in a preheated oven at 180 degrees and bake the zucchini for about 15-18 minutes. The zucchini is well cooked when the outside gets a brown edge.

Remove the dish from the oven and serve your baked zucchini. Enjoy your meal!

Zucchini Baking Pan

It is fun to fry zucchini in the pan. You will see the zucchini change color and that is an indication that the zucchini is cooked. What do you need?

• 1 zucchini, well washed
• Ground black pepper
• Dig sea salt
• sunflower oil
• Provencal herbs

What are you going to do in the kitchen?

1. Cut the zucchini into long planks, round slices or cubes depending on how you want to serve it. Preferably cut thin slices, these become tastier during baking.
2. Place a frying pan on the heat source and heat the sunflower oil on a medium heat. If you don’t have enough space in the pan for the zucchini, take a second pan.
3. Place the zucchini slices in 1 layer in the pan and move the pan a little so that the slices do not stick to the bottom.
4. Add the sea salt and pepper.
5. Turn the slices regularly and move the pan again to prevent sticking.
6. If the slices change color, add the Provencal herbs to your own taste and fry briefly.
7. When the slices start to brown, the zucchini is ready and baked, this is after 4-8 minutes.

Serve your dish right to your guests and they will love it.

Zucchini Bitter After Baking

In the past, a bitter-tasting zucchini was poisonous. This was due to the substance cucurbitacin that was naturally present in the zucchini. However, this has not been the case for centuries, you only have to be careful with zucchini from your own vegetable garden. These may still contain cucurbitacin. The zucchini from the supermarket is just safe.

The bitter taste after baking is often caused by using an old zucchini. Before you bake an older zucchini, it is better to let it sweat for a while. This way you remove the bitter substances from the zucchini.

Cut the zucchini into slices or cubes and sprinkle with salt. Let stand for 10 minutes and then wipe off the salt and moisture with kitchen paper. Now you can bake the zucchini and it will taste less bitter.

I hope this gives you enough information on how to bake zucchini. Good luck with cooking!