One of my favourite ways of dealing with the glut.
But why do I always forget to wait a while for the water to amalgamate before I add more & get a sticky mess that flows over the side of the tin as it rises??
Less than a cup is needed.
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tell me, is this from rosie whathername's vegetarian cookbook, by chance?
looks delish :) i am inspired to bake this weekend - hugh fearlessly-eatsitall has a receipe for lavendar short bread that i have promised the OH
It looks like everyone on this forum will be mostly eating courgettes this weekend :o
I have picked bag fulls today, most of them too big but never mind :)
Svea - you mean Roz Denny? If so, yes.
Lavender? I'll stick with Rosemary. Too unadventuurous.
wardy - young marrows are lovely too!!
Give it a try - I would. :D
nope tim, rose elliot
but good receipe, will try out this w/e :)
Super, have yeast, have strong flour, have cheese...now do I have any courgettes? :P
Tim glad the big uns will be just as good. Oh deep joy ;D EJ Let us know how the bread turns out. I have approximately 15 courgettes on stock today and no guests to palm them off to. I put them in the sausage casserole last night (no, not all of em) and my old man (courgette hater who's been away all week) was pleased to see it was courgette with everything as usual ;D It was like he'd never been away :)
absolutely gorgeous bread, tim - had it last night together with a 'broth' of tomatoes, onions, french beans and broccoli (only small amounts picked so no point cooking on its own).
yummy summer supper :)
PS: the lavendar short bread is divine. standard shortbread receipe, add two teaspoons of fresh lavendar flowers. the flavour is very subtle yet clearly there. super yum! will have to do that again. and so easy :)
Good dunking stuff!
Just wanted to say, I made this last night, almost exactly to the recipe but I didn't have any parmesan, so used very strong cheddar, and I didn't have the sesame seeds for the top, so went without. Made it like the piccy, a tray full of rolls all adjoining and looking very rustic. Took it to mums today for supper with good smokey ham and cheese, and it was absolutely amazingly DELICIOUS! Soft, bouncy, tasty, not chewy or cakey. A wonderfully light, moist, yummy bread! We were expecting it to be heavy due to the courgettes, but we were very very pleasantly suprised! Plan to make lots and freeze them before the courgette rush comes to an end! Thanks Tim!
I had to borrow the seeds from 'next door'. And most of them then fall off!!
I also made this a couple of days ago, and it gets a huge thumbs up from the Pinks family! I threw in some fresh herbs as well, it was delish! Thank you Tim. ;D
I'm going to make some to disguise the courgettes so my old man won't know it's courgettes again. Courgettes last night in sausy casserole but I cut em up small so he might not notice em :) We are mostly eating sausages at the mo as no guests in and I had quite a few to get through ;D
Wardy, I really couldn't tell there were courgies in there other than the little strips of green and yellow from the skins. (I shredded mine on my mandolin rather than grated)
d**n. Bought a mandolin last year and then forgot about it. Grated my knuckles along with the courgettes making this bread this pm. >:( Had the sesame seeds in but misread the recipe and added 60g rather than 60ml of cheese so will be rather cheesy. Waiting for OH to get back from work to taste but it certainly smells deelish. Thanks Tim! :-*
Jill that looks fab. Good old Tim - a winner this one surely. EJ gotcha -mandolin not grater. My old ma (no longer with us) who's flat I'm still sorting out is full of marvellous cooking utensils and bless her she has a mandolin! She has some fab scales and electric mixers etc. I was making some bread t'other week and used her mixing bowl and scales etc. I kept thinking good old ma and now I find a mandolin :) :) So have mandolin. Do I have any courgettes? Now let me think ;D ;D
Where can I find the recipe for this bread please? :)
that bread looks delicious Jill :)
Gardenqueen, click the link in Tim's post at the top for the thread - it really is yummy. I'd only had one small piece before OH and the boys hoovered it all up. Now been told to make more so off to pick more courgettes. Thanks again Tim!
Joy! Another courgette recipe I can try. Looks delicious. After a slow start mine are coming thick and fast, and when I go to the lottie I am almost afraid to look, because invariably they are loads more to pick. :) busy_lizzie
Glad someone made it the way it was supposed to be - rather than my 'melted' version!
Just been to plot again and I couldn't believe how many more courgettes there are :o I've got guests in again this weekend so I do believe they will be getting the courgette bread and fritters plus a bag full each to take home with them as a memento of their stay with me. Do you think they'll return? ;D
Thank you for that Jill. It sounds scrumptious. Now I just have to wait for the courgettes to appear. A tad late planting them this year! :(
Made courgette bread last night. Disaster might be too strong a word but it certainly didn't look like yours Jill.
I added too much liquid Tim and had no tin so just put it on a baking tray with the result that it spread to about the size of a large pizza  ;D
I'll make some soup later to go with it for tonight's tea :)
I now have my fingers and toes crossed that I get a glut of courgettes
so that I can make this delicious looking bread and maybe freeze
some....
that's if my courgettes don't start laughing at me again, and
refuse to grow  ;D
Debs
Fingers crossed for your glut, Debs.
Heeding Tim's water warning, I left the courgettes to drain for 45 mins rather than 30 and then tried to remove as much moisture as poss with sheets of kitchen towel. I was also quite cautious when adding the water. I'm sure your naan bread version will be just as tasty tho Wardy ;) :)
Hee hee. It tasted ok but needed more salt. I'm a bit conservative about adding salt so in the end didn't put enough it. I think squeezing the courgettes would be a good idea (to get the water out) . I did add too much water though so no excuses
Anyway courgette hating old man has been eating the bread without complaint for most of the evening with his red wine ;D He ate two lumps with his salad (home grown o'course) and then had the bread with slabs of ham and yet more salad
He knew what was in it as found my recipe which I'd hidden :)
Tim,
I noticed that your link showed the beginning of a recipe
for rosemary focaccia.
Could you post that link please. I jhave an abundance of rosemary
after sowing - successfully - some seeds.
Thanks
Debs
Me too Debs and I made rosemary foccacia :) Felt smug to use my own herbs. I only dried a few and then chopped them in my herb mill. I was dead pleased with the result. Added some sauted onion. Lovely
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/foc1009.jpg
Thanks Tim :)
Debs
Courgette bread, made with not quite enough salt and not quite strong enough cheese, is delicious when pulled apart and spread liberally with seedless raspberry jam!!! Lovely for breakfast.....
Christine Your bread sounds like my effort! I used Red Leicester. Nowt like Parmesan but all I'd got. Not enough salt here either. Perhaps Parmesan is saltier Good tip about the jam. Ta :)
If you're making more, Wardy, I found that (having dried the courgettes between paper towels, and using strong flour) 6.5 fluid oz of water was just about right. Can you tell I was adding it a drop at a time?Â
I shall be making it again as I have still loads of courgettes to do something with. My OH is fed up to the back teeth with them so to surprise him yesterday we made veggie kebabs and put all courgette on his ;D ;D
Of course - kebabs!!
one year on, and the recipe has disappeared, again. tim, or someone else who has it, would you mind reposting please?
Tim's Courgette Crown Bread recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
450g/1lb courgettes, coarsely grated
salt
500g/1 1/4lbs/5 cups plain flour
2 sachets fast action yeast
60ml/4 tbsp Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
ground black pepper
30ml/2 tbsp olive oil
lukewarm water, to mix
milk, to glaze
sesame seeds, to garnish
1. Layer the courgettes in a colander and sprinkle them lightly with salt. Leave to drain for 30 minutes, then pat dry.
2. Mix the flour, yeast and Parmesan together and season with black pepper.
3. Stir in the oil and courgettes and add enough lukewarm water to give you a good firm dough.
4. Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface until it is smooth, then return it to the mixing bowl, cover it with oiled cling film and leave it to rise in a warm place.
5. Meanwhile, grease and line a 23cm/9in round sandwich tin. Preheat the oven to 300oC/400oF/Gas 6. When the dough has doubled in size, turn it out of the bowl, punch it down and knead it lightly. Break into eight balls, rolling each one and placing them in the tin as shown. Brush the tops with milk and sprinkle over the sesame seeds.
6. Allow to rise again, then bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly in the tin, then turn out the bread to cool further.
You will find it here too, and a pic!
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,28/topic,22475.0 (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,28/topic,22475.0)
many thanks, doris. i had missed tim's repost a few days ago = my bad.
have now saved it to the desktop :)
I know this is lazy, but has anyone tried this, or a similar recipe, in a breadmaker?
Should I use strong flour for this or just normal plain flour. Doing muy grocery shop at tesco online so thoughtt I would ask while I remmeber,
I used strong for mine and it was deelish, Vez.
Caroline 7758 sorry don't have a breadmaker yet. (It's on my Christmas wish list).
Thanks Jill I will add that to my shopping list. I have an overload of courgettes. My first couple of plants did not seem to be doing well, so silly me sowed more. Now they are all producing lots of fruit.
the nreadmaker is a great idea. i will have a go at that. probably the slow setting to give plenty of time for the dough to rise - the courgete makes it a little on the heavy side as far as rising goes - if i remember right from last year :)
How did the breadmaker version turn out Svea?
not yet done, sorry. will do next week or so.
i asked for the recipe in preparation, you see.
Had a go in the breadmixer this afternoon...............this is where I say how delicious it was...........when it fully cools down I'll use it as a door stop for the garage.
what setting did you use? i can see how it would need a lot of time to rise.
maybe the dough setting is the most helpful on the breadmaker - at least that gets automated then?
Quote from: Svea on July 29, 2006, 16:33:19
what setting did you use?
Brick :D :D
The wholewheat setting, first off it spilled over the side covering the heating element, so we had to live with the smell of burning bread whilst the rest of it cooked. The loaf then collasped, the final texture was a sort of doughy blob. Used Tims recipe, but only 1 packet of yeast and 130ml water, needs less water and more skill. ???
Made some courgette bread this morning, it looks yummy! I'm taking it to a party tonight to try out on the neighbours!!!!!! I also made some walnut bread, tried some for lunch with some cheese and homemade pickle, lush :) :) :)