Zucchini

These kebabs are threaded with cubes of marinated chicken breast, red onion, mushrooms, pineapple, and zucchini.

The zucchini makes the cake super moist but doesn’t affect the overall chocolaty goodness.

Cooking summer squash low and slow yields sweet, nutty, tender—but not mushy—results. Fold them into pasta, top toast, or serve beside any grilled main.

This simple weeknight dish relies on zucchini ribbons instead of noodles, and is stuffed with a zippy ricotta-pea filling.

It's a pizza. It's a salad. Here, store-bought pizza dough gets this family-friendly dinner on the table in less than an hour.

If you grill the vegetables a day or two ahead, this satisfying pasta dinner comes together in a snap.

Swap in any kind of ground meat and any kind of vegetable for this saucy, clean-out-your-pantry rice noodle stir-fry.

Cooked, puréed zucchini adds rich, creamy body to this easy, summery soup.

This playful Indian take on veggie lasagna pairs chickpea-flour noodles with eggplant, sweet potatoes, and chile- and ginger-spiced tomato and yogurt sauces.

A little meat-mallet action transforms this tough cut of beef into a quick-grilling all-star.

For a super summery dinner, top supremely crunchy cutlets with a shaved zucchini salad studded with mint, cashews, and ricotta salata.

This garden wrap is stuffed to the brim with fresh, seasonal vegetables and herbs.

This is one heck of a cake on so many levels. For starters, nobody is ever going to guess there's zucchini in here, because it virtually disappears in the baking—there's not even a hint of vegetable flavor or nubbiness that you might expect from grated zucchini. What you will notice is what a moist cake this is, maybe the moistest chocolate cake you've ever had.

No matter what time of day, these delicious baked eggs made with tangy kimchi and fresh summer squash are a delightfully flavorful dish.

No, you don’t have to tear the zucchini with your hands, but it makes for a cool presentation—and we all know it’s way more fun than using a knife.

This summery, Greek-inspired dinner comes together in a snap with the help of a grill basket.

When cooked long enough, the squash gets jammy and saucy, ideal for coating big pieces of pasta, like paccheri or ziti.

This simple pasta delivers big on bright summer flavor, and gives you a good excuse to work through some of that zucchini surplus.

Bush’s® grilled summer veggie and bean bowl with harissa vinaigrette

This so-good-you-won't-believe-it's-healthy pie is covered in pesto and cheese and topped with a veritable salad of peas, crisp asparagus ribbons, zucchini, leeks, and watercress.

The whole family gets what they want with this easy, customizable sheet-pan dinner.

Zucchini "noodles" keep this fragrant curry soup gluten-free. The spiced lamb meatballs are just as good in a wrap or on a salad.

Recipe courtesy of Bon Appétit Executive Chef Mary Nolan

Not only is this immunity-boosting chicken soup just as comforting as your grandma’s, it's also gluten-free, thanks to spiralized zucchini “noodles.”