Zucchini bread is juicy and aromatic and adds variety to your diet. We’ll show you how to make the healthy bread yourself at home.
Zucchini bread is a tasty change from traditional bread recipes. With just a few ingredients you can make a juicy bread that you can serve with snacks, soups or as a snack in between.
Incidentally, you can get zucchini from German cultivation between June and October. For all other ingredients, too, we recommend using regional products wherever possible. This saves long transport routes and thus CO2 emissions.
When buying the ingredients, also pay attention to organic quality. In this way you support sustainable agriculture that does not use chemical-synthetic pesticides.
Zucchini Bread: This is how you make it yourself
Ingredients:
0.5 package(s) dry yeast (for 500g flour)
1 tsp sugar
40 ml lukewarm water
200 g flour
200 gzucchini
150 g almonds, ground
20 gflaxseed (crushed)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 pinch(s) of salt
2 teaspoons bread spice
1 tbsp flour for the mold
Directions:
Mix the dry yeast with the sugar, the water and half of the flour. Mix everything together until there are no more lumps in the batter. Now let the mixture rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile: Wash the zucchini. Cut off the two ends and grate them roughly with a kitchen grater. Squeeze them lightly with your hands and drain off the excess liquid.
Now mix the remaining flour, the almonds, flaxseed, and the olive oil into the dough. Knead the dough thoroughly.
Now mix the dough with the grated zucchini, the bread spice, and a pinch of salt. If the dough is too wet or too dry, add a little more flour or water.
Let the dough rise again in a warm place for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle a loaf tin (length 26 cm) with some flour so that the bread can be removed more easily later. Bake the bread with top/bottom heat for 40 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.
Tip: To ensure that the zucchini bread lasts as long as possible, you should follow a few tips when storing it. You can find out more about this here: Storing bread – you should pay attention to this.
Serve zucchini bread: This goes well with it
Zucchini bread tastes especially good fresh out of the oven with a little margarine or butter. And the bread is also a good side dish for soups and dips:
- You can serve zucchini bread with zucchini soup, butternut squash soup, pea soup, or wild garlic soup, for example.
- On warm days, the bread is suitable as an accompaniment to a cold gazpacho.
- You can make vegetable dips from fresh vegetables and herbs such as beetroot, wild garlic, or tomatoes and serve them with the bread.
- The bread tastes particularly delicious with a light salad.
If you can’t finish the zucchini bread, freeze the bread. This way you avoid food waste and always have some homemade bread in the freezer.
