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It has to be the most pointless vegetable.  It has absolutely no taste at all.   

What do you do to make it taste good ?

I have noticed that some people dislike the taste of rice and pasta.  For example my Uncle always refers to both as "Tasteless foreign muck".  I am not sure if this is due to the fact he finds them unpleasant to eat or it is just a generational thing. He likes traditional British cuisine.   I love pasta and rice, even without a sauce to mask their plainness I still enjoy the taste.

But the courgette has no taste as far as my taste buds can tell.  Is there a taste to the courgette that I am missing.

I looked on google and in a few books earlier. A few referred to it as an interesting vegetable.  Why?  .  The cucumber is interesting as it has a fantastic taste.  I am not sure if they are both from the same vegetable family, but if they are the cucumber is a far better family member.

I know women who would agree with that.

Down Rover!!

LMAO

Geo

youve out did yourself sark.

The courgette has a subtle taste, try baking it with a bit of butter.

(hoping to raise the tone  ;) )

I find Courgettes pleasant and tasteful


Cauliflowers on the other hand I do not

Most tasteless vegetable. The Cauliflower. They add cheese to it for a reason.

Spread some dripping on it.

Not even going there.

I once had baby courgettes in Italy which had been cut into strips like thin french fries and deep-fried.

They were absolutely fantastic mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  ;kev;

Couple of tips :

• Get them Fresh
• Don't boil, steam if you have to. But the best way is to sear on hotplate or griddle pan with touch of olive oil (brushed on the courgette slice)

The BBC have a great web site for searching recipes by ingredient (hope is ok to post URL) e.g for Courgette :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/recipes/queryengine?templatestyle=refine_by_1_gg&orig_kw=courgettes&config=db&scope=recipes&page=1&pagesize=15&attrib_26=keywords&oper_26=eq&val_26_1=%2Bcourgettes&attrib_2=programme_name&oper_2=eq&val_2_1=&attrib_3=chef_name&oper_3=eq&val_3_1=&attrib_12=healthy&oper_12=eq&attrib_13=quick&oper_13=eq&attrib_10=vegetarian&oper_10=eq&submit.x=17&submit.y=6

Go to any Italian restaurant and order fried Zucchini and you will find it delicious as Karabiner appears to have done. Easily cooked by dipping the slices of courgette in milk followed by flour and then deep frying it.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm making me hungry now lol.

Courgettes are class Sark! As a veggie I am highly disappointed you don't value them as highly as you should.

Sweet potato cut into 2cm cubes
Butternut squash cut into 2cm cubes
2 red onions cut into quarters
courgette cut into inch slices and halved
3 parsnips quartered and halved
Turnip or swede or both cut into 2 cm cubes
Pepper cut into large pieces somehitng like 3cmx3cm
2 garlic cloves, crushed or diced into tiny pieces.
Enough olive oil to coat
Salt
Other ingredients can include yams, potatoes, aubergines, pumpkins, other squashes, carrots and any assorted other root veggies.

Take all the pieces of vegetables and put in a bowl. Add the garlic and oil and mix thoroughly to ensure an even coating.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place the vegetables on a non stick oven tray so they cover the surface of the tray but are not piled on top of each other. Try to ensure a little space between them to allow the air to circulate. If there's some left over (there will be) then keep this covered with clingfilm in a bowl in your fridge for later consumption. Sprinkle salt over the vegetables.

Put tray in oven. Cook for 40 minutes (could be longer if your oven isn't too good), giving them a jiggle half way through.

Take out and pat dry on kitchen towel before serving with moroccan cous cous and chili coated chicken. Houmous, pitta bread and olives optional.

Stuff face.

Just got to persuade the other housemates to put the squashes on the bb shopping list Mr Cat

add meat for flavour??

Ratatouille
let delia help

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/ratatouille,1158,RC.html

Thanks.  I will try these recipes.

Up till now I have just chopped them up and added them to my pasta.  Maybe I have been cooking them in a bad way. 

I tend to find if a vegetable has a strong taste raw then they taste great cooked.  I love brussel sprouts with butter on them.

Cauliflower cheese is really tasty, especially if it has three truck loads of pepper on top of it.  I don't just mean the small truck load amount of pepper,  I am talking dumper truck amounts of pepper.  I fear that I will have a pepper related illness in the future as I put it on everything.

any good on toast!!

Wrap each slice in an entire rasher of bacon, lovely.

I love the subtle taste of courgette, raw or fried. If I'm cooking for 2+, I add flavour by frying it in garlic and instead of regular oil I use toasted sesame oil.

Alternatively, cut it in 4 cross sections, scoop out the soft middle, and refill with cheese and spring onions, then cook.

Blitzed, it makes a great base for an unusual sauce.

My god, I must be turning gay.

Afterwards, have some beers, beat your chest, and watch some rugby with your (straight) male friends.

courgette optional???

get the corgette and chop it into chunks.
get skewer and stick corgette on it
add other chunks of veggies like onion, mushroom, baby corn, pepper

get  bowl or tupperwear dish and put in olive oil, garlic, pepper
put the kebabs in to marinade

get the kebabs on the barbeque (i like mines in tin foil do they dont burn)
prepare pita break also

Bob's you uncle:)

yummm.

Also try adding chunks of pizza-mozzarella wrapped in precooked bacon, that have been marinated in red wine and herbs. Last about 2.4 seconds at barbeques, the cheese is all melted.

I am turning gay, amn't I?

sounds great minus the pig:)

when you having the barbeque fear? you sound like a good cook

The trouble with simply adding courgettes to a recipe is that they are around 98% water and tend to make it mushy.

They need to be cooked separately, and possibly sliced and then salted(to extract some of the water) first.

It's very similar to eating a four layered burger with bacon and cheese on top of each one, as long as you have a rocket leaf on the last layer, you're being healthy. This way you're eating rasher after rasher of bacon, but it's good for you!

All very tasty sounding, apart from the bacon .  However I could add meat free bacon, that is really nice.

I will have a bash at Mad's recipe sometime in the next week first.

I have a large supply of courgettes that my Dad is growing, he keeps giving me them  :D .  I am always  " Oh thanks, another one,  I will take it home and cook it ".  I still think they are tasteless, but I will give the recipes a try .  ty

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Raw cauliflower is nice though.

Does not compute?

You should try it mate,  it is great and tastes like real bacon.  Ok,  I can't actually remember what bacon tastes like, so I may be wrong, lol.  The last time I tasted bacon was in about 1993 or 1994 while watching a BTCC race meeting at Knockhill, I ate a dodgy bacon roll.  Seriously, try the fake stuff, it has a unique taste.   Actually it was 1993 because I had just bought the 'Verses' album by Pearl Jam a few days before and that came out in that year.

I find the best way to deal with vegetarians is to slip a little beef into their coffee while they aren't looking.

Chop courgette in small chunks.
Fry for 3 mins under a medium heat.
Add mushrooms & onions (finely chopped)
Add steak
Remove courgettes
Serve.

lol 

That post took a turn I certainly wasn't expecting.

Nor I, it;s Tragic :)

you forgot the meat

butter, garlic, grated courgette, fry, add lemon juice/zest
add to pasta, lots of seasoning & parmesan
obviously all the while quaffing something chilled & white

Whilst wear pink lycra speedos..x

If I ever forget the meat, you have my permission to shoot me.

Milk? ;hide;

mmm...hadn't thought of that

er, no lol,
hope ur well big man & do please try & get a seat for vegas ok

1: Peel courgette

2: Discard everything except peel

3: Discard peel

4 Have fish and chips

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Hi Sark

Not a courgette recipe
But very tasty...

Take a marrow,peel it,cut it long ways on,scoop out the seeds.fill with raw chopped onions,tie together with string,wrap in tinfoil,get a tray put some water in it,place marrow on a rake on tray and bake,yummy...

Or for non veggies fill the marrow with sausage meat,again yummy...

Redimp. I think you just made that up ;yellowcard;

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your off :redcard:

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Dewi you can't Red card me!!!
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Sounds good that does.  I will try it,  ty  :)

Here's a good one Sark, take the courgette, bend over and...............



Nevermind

no thanks mate

Courgette and apple juiced. Very nice - add a little ginger if you want a bit of a kick - great to wake you up first thing in the morning.

YUMMY!

I will resist ..

;gobsmacked;

LOL - just realised.....