In that post, I mentioned that I’d whipped up a batch of zucchini date bread over the weekend. There’s still plenty of time to savor both zucchinis and tomatoes in New York state; they won’t disappear from the market until October, or even a touch later. But I’m hoarding zucchini like it’s my job anyway. It’s one of my favorite vegetables for a lot of reasons, but I especially love its versatility. It’s delicious raw, cooked, spiralized, sauteed, or roasted; you can use it in gratins, pastas, salads, and, apparently, even relish.
Of course, zucchini can also be given a sweet treatment. It’s a great addition tobaked goods, adding moisture and texture as well as a healthy dose of phytonutrients. Zucchini bread is a famously easy way to squeeze a few more veggies into kids’ diets…and it’s plenty appealing for us grown ups, too.
This wonderful, gluten free loaf marries grated zucchini and soaked medjool dates for a ton of moisture and natural sweetness. It’s a spin on the date nut bread I posted on Food52 last year. I tweaked the recipe by reducingthe dates slightly to make room for the zucchini. Because the zucchini addsnatural moisture in the bread, I reduced the oil from 1/2 to 1/3 cup, and I reduced the maple syrup, too. Fans of sweeter baked goods may want to use 1/2 cup maple syrup in place of 1/3, but I promise that the dates add a lot of sweetness to the bread–without any refined sugar.
Recipe: Zucchini Bread
This is a perfect fall quickbread, equally nice for breakfast or snacking. I’ve been eating it plain most of the time, but a schmear of nut butter is a pretty great addition.
As I said, it’s hard not to love this bread. I’m particularly happy that I added the ginger to it: cinnamon is sort of ubiquitous in baked goods, and ginger often gets added along with it, but I wanted to feature ginger on its own here. It adds subtle spice here, as well asa wonderfully autumnal fragrance! I also love the way the chopped dates almost seem to melt into the bread, working their caramel-like magic along the way.
Hopefully you’ll give it a try this fall, and let me know what you think! I’m guessing that chopped figs would also be terrific, if you prefer them to dates, and raisins are also fine. I almost alwayssoak dried fruit before adding it to baked goods, as it prevents you from ending up with tough, chewy pieces in the finished bread (and makes the slices easier to cut).
Banana, Zucchini And Date Loaf
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This is a perfect fall quickbread, equally nice for breakfast or snacking. I’ve been eating it plain most of the time, but a schmear of nut butter is a pretty great addition.
As I said, it’s hard not to love this bread. I’m particularly happy that I added the ginger to it: cinnamon is sort of ubiquitous in baked goods, and ginger often gets added along with it, but I wanted to feature ginger on its own here. It adds subtle spice here, as well asa wonderfully autumnal fragrance! I also love the way the chopped dates almost seem to melt into the bread, working their caramel-like magic along the way.
Hopefully you’ll give it a try this fall, and let me know what you think! I’m guessing that chopped figs would also be terrific, if you prefer them to dates, and raisins are also fine. I almost alwayssoak dried fruit before adding it to baked goods, as it prevents you from ending up with tough, chewy pieces in the finished bread (and makes the slices easier to cut).
Banana, Zucchini And Date Loaf
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This is a perfect fall quickbread, equally nice for breakfast or snacking. I’ve been eating it plain most of the time, but a schmear of nut butter is a pretty great addition.
As I said, it’s hard not to love this bread. I’m particularly happy that I added the ginger to it: cinnamon is sort of ubiquitous in baked goods, and ginger often gets added along with it, but I wanted to feature ginger on its own here. It adds subtle spice here, as well asa wonderfully autumnal fragrance! I also love the way the chopped dates almost seem to melt into the bread, working their caramel-like magic along the way.
Hopefully you’ll give it a try this fall, and let me know what you think! I’m guessing that chopped figs would also be terrific, if you prefer them to dates, and raisins are also fine. I almost alwayssoak dried fruit before adding it to baked goods, as it prevents you from ending up with tough, chewy pieces in the finished bread (and makes the slices easier to cut).
Banana, Zucchini And Date Loaf
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