Pre-cook zucchini for freezing in the oven

Zucchini get a very special flavor and taste wonderful if you pre-dried them in the oven.

Thinly slice the young zucchini with the peel, peel older, large zucchini, before removing the seeds and cutting them into thin slices.

Finely chop the garlic, pluck the basil.


Heat up the oven to 220 ° C, while one, or with circulating air, also heat several sheets with.

Then quickly spread the zucchini thinly on the plate, add garlic and basil and drizzle over olive oil. Mix a bit and put it back in the oven. Switch off after 5 minutes and leave it in the oven for around 12 hours.

The zucchini do not dry, become soft and oily. Then the sheet comes into the freezer and when the zucchini are frozen, then they are portionwise filled in bags and stored in the freezer.

How to use?
A wonderful ingredient to Italian vegetable dishes and not as boring and watery as the plain frozen zucchini.

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