Courgettes and peas bake. Use a teaspoon to scoop the seeds from the middle of each. Learn how to cook courgettes in three delicious ways - fried, baked and spiralised. For the sprialised courgette, you will need a spiraliser or large noodle attachment of a free-standing mixer or food processor.
You can assemble this dish, refrigerate it and bake it later - or the next day. You can even freeze it and cook when needed. You can swap Parmesan cheese with. You can cook Courgettes and peas bake using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Courgettes and peas bake
- It's 4 of courgettes.
- Prepare 1 of onion.
- Prepare 200 g of short pasta.
- You need 50 g of breadcumbs.
- It's 8-10 of cherry tomatoes.
- You need half of tsp of nutmeg.
- It's 2-3 of bay leaves.
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp of olive oil.
- You need of salt and pepper.
This bake is the perfect comfort food for a chilly winters night. It's a great family dish that freezes well, so make up more than you need for when you need a healthy meal in minutes. You'll discover the courgette, bacon and chilli work extremely well together to make an easy and interesting dish. I associate courgettes with summer holidays in Greece, where the pale-skinned, pear-shaped variety are sold by the roadside and served in every taverna.
Courgettes and peas bake step by step
- Add a pinch of salt to one tablespoon of olive oil in a non stick pan. Chop the onions finely and shallow fry them for five minutes or so until golden..
- In the meantime, chop the courgettes. The smaller you chop them, the sooner they will become mushy - so it depends on your preference. These are 1-2 cm..
- Add the courgettes to the pan with the nutmeg, the bay leaves and a generous pinch of pepper. Stir and cover with a lid. Let it cook for 15-20 minutes..
- Once they have become soft and creamy, remove the lid but continue cooking so that the water evaporates..
- In the meantime, preheat the oven at 200 C. Cook the pasta with the peas. Leave the pasta a few minutes undercooked as it will finish cooking in the oven..
- Chop the cherry tomatoes in half..
- Once cooked, mix the pasta and the peas in with the courgettes and remove from heat. Add salt to taste..
- Fill an oven dish with the pasta and courgettes, cover it with the breadcrumbs and lay the tomatoes on top. Drizzle generously with olive oil..
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the breadcrumbs look crispy. (I burned the tomatoes a bit here)..
- Ready!.
Divide the porridge between shallow bowls and top with the courgettes and peas. A creative bbq recipe, this healthy salad is loaded with courgette, feta, rainbow chard, spinach & herbs. See more vegetarian bbq ideas at Tesco Real Food. Delicately spiced courgette and pea cakes. Courgette (or zucchini as it is known in the US and Italy) is in season in the UK between June and September.