Categories: cooking-gluten-free
Tags: vegetables, cooking, recipes, Courgettes
Date: 09 August 2010 14:06:56
Make soup with them.
Personally I almost always make soup up as I go along. Every soup I make is different (even the few that I actually follow a recipe for). I made one the other day that was mainly courgettes and a few leftovers from my fridge. I started by chopping a couple of small onions and a carrot and gently frying them in olive oil. Then I added about 2 1/2 pints of chicken stock (homemade but I often use stock powder to make up stock for soup - in which case I always use Marigold's low salt vegetable bouillon powder), about 6 chopped small/medium courgettes and cooked them in the pressure cooker for about 7 minutes on full pressure. Then I added random leftovers from the fridge (cooked french beans and carrots, a bit of leftover gravy, some cooked new potatoes) brought it back to the boil and whizzed it with my hand blender. I added some Season-All to add a bit of spice to it.
Variations are to use more carrots and onions, add celery at the beginning, other vegetables such as leeks, sweet potato, whatever you want really! A tin of tomatoes instead of some of the stock makes it a bit different, if I want a thicker soup I add a handful or two of red lentils, etc. etc. So many possibilites!!