Zucchini Tomato Casserole Recipe

[Saviolo]

This is a recipe adapted from my family instead of something that hubby came up with. This casserole is really similar to a dish my mom made a lot while I was growing up. We used to grow zucchini and tomatoes in the yard, and this delicious casserole would happen when they were fresh and ripe. Nothing like eating your own produce from the garden!

You can make this vegan by replacing the butter with vegetable oil and omitting the cheese or using vegan cheese instead. Also, you can use more or less garlic or shallot, or if you really want some intense bulbiness, you can use the mandolin to get paper thin slices of onion to layer in there with the tomatoes and zucchini. Lots of ways to spice this up. You could add a bit of curry powder or five spice powder if you want to change the flavour profile completely, but we like to let the fresh flavours of these local veggies shine on their own in this dish.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

1. What a refreshing summer dish! I can buy fresh veggies at growers market this weekend

..so going to give it a try. Thanks for sharing recipe.

Paz.

[Saviolo]

5. It really is great.

Also great left over, cold or hot.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. May try some vegan version of this.

looks good.

[Saviolo]

6. For sure.

Oil instead of butter, and either vegan cheese or no cheese. It doesn't really *need* the cheese, but we love it.

[Ohiya]

3. Thanks

I've been wondering what I was going to do with all the tomatoes and zucchini I'm going to have in a couple of weeks!

[Saviolo]

7. I'm pretty sure that's exactly how my mom came up with it.

"Welp, I've got piles of tomatoes and zucchini. What do I do?"

One year, we found a zucchini that we had missed under a particularly large leaf, and it had grown HUGE. We sliced it up and put it in the casserole and were a little disappointed, it kind of tasted like nothing at all.

[Kali]

4. yum

I make similar without the tomato, but that sounds even better.

[Saviolo]

8. Zucchini lasagna noodles

Would definitely work well. You could probably make a straight up lasagna with them. We like this because the ingredients are so fresh right now, and those tomatoes were unbelievably good.

[AwakeAtLast]

9. Oh yes, my Mom made something similar!

Unfortunately it was when I was a picky eater kid, so I son think I ever ate it!

I don't have a garden right now, but if I ever have extras of these vegetables, I will keep this in mind!

[Saviolo]

10. I wasn't a terribly picky eater.

But if something had cheese in it, I'd put it in my face, no questions.

I also would eat anything from the garden, because I helped grow it.

[Fresh_Start]

11. Try layering in potato and thin onion slices as well.. nt

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