A simple and delicious summer zucchini slice recipe served hot or cold. Perfect for lunches, snacks, or a light meal.
This simple slice of summer topped with cheddar and fresh tomatoes is a favourite in the cookbook author’s household. Serve it hot or straight out of the fridge this little slice of sunshine is on high rotation at our house come summertime when zucchinis are abundant. That’s because it’s just as tasty fridge-cold as it is fresh from the oven.
It also gets a big thumbs up from our daughter, who as a toddler delighted in taking finger lengths of the slice and turning it into mush between her fists before sniffing, and now as an almost-six-year-old (thank you very much!) loves helping to prepare it! This slice tastes best in summer, when zucchini and tomatoes are at their peak. At other times of the year, just swap out the fresh tomatoes for a tomato chutney on the side. If you’d prefer to keep it vegetarian, leave the bacon out, or swap it for finely sliced button mushrooms.Unlike many other vegetables that intensify with flavour as they ripen and grow, zucchini’s flavour peaks when it is around the size of a newborn’s forearm and then begins to deteriorate. As fermentation legend Sandor Katz says: “Zucchini has a finite amount of flavour – and the bigger it gets, the less of that flavour you can taste.” You can still buy oversized zucchini, particularly when zucchini is most abundant in summertime, but at some point (probably once it’s the size of a grown man’s forearm) it begins to be referred to as “marrow” – and is best treated as you might a marrow bone … scooped, stuffed, seasoned and roasted, or sliced, battered and deep-fried.I like using gluten-free flour in this slice because it’s lighter than regular flour and forms a slightly different crust set at the bottom, but you can use regular self-raising flour if you’d prefer. You could also bake the batter in a muffin tin lined with paper cases as individually portioned frittatas for work and school lunchboxes – or just wrap slices in a bit of baking paper for on-the-go snackin
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