This zucchini buckwheat breakfast bake is a unique way to use up summer zucchini. Eat it in your breakfast!
I never really understood the whole “dog days of summer” saying. There aren’t many dogs that I know of who enjoy being outside in this heat.
If they’re anything like Ginger, they’re inside sprawled out on the cool floor with their tongue hanging out the side of their mouth after a quick jaunt around the yard.
Although, maybe that’s the point of the saying to begin with? Whatever.
The whole purpose of that was basically to say whatever the saying actually means, I think we’re in it.
End of July/early August means a few things to me.
Heat, crazy high electrical bills (thank you, New York state and your high electric rates), disgusting little parsley worms that I discovered yesterday coating my entire plant on the front steps (ew, ew, ew) and zucchini inundation.
It happens every year.
One zucchini somehow multiples into two and before you know it your produce drawer is packed with them.
You’re grilling, roasting, shredding, feeding it to your dog, but no matter how many meals you try and shove it into, it remains triumphant, almost laughing back at you from its cozy spot in the fridge.
It started last week over here.
4 small zucchini from the grocery store went from manageable for the two of us over the course of the week to slightly overwhelming when coupled with its gigantor cousin from the CSA.
Round 1 goes to me though.
Between these buckwheat bakes and a huge grilled vegetable side dish for dinner with family last night, we powered through them all in 2 days.
We’ll see how the rest of the summer fares.
ps- for all of you who are weirded out by vegetables in your breakfast, you can’t taste the zucchini in here at all, I promise.
Try these healthy zucchini recipes too:
Zucchini Noodles with Avocado Cream Sauce
Paleo Almond Zucchini Bread
Banana Zucchini Muffins
Bruschetta Hummus Stuffed Zucchini
Chinese Chicken Zoodles
Zucchini Buckwheat Breakfast Bake
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup buckwheat flour
- 2 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup shredded zucchini, squeezed of excess water
- 3/4 tablespoon melted coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon greek yogurt
- 1/2 small banana, mashed
- 1 tablespoon chocolate chips, optional
- 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a ramekin or line with parchment paper.
- Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
- Combine wet ingredients in a small bowl.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir to fully combine (it will be a very thick batter because of the coconut flour).
- Add chocolate chips and walnuts if using and fold into batter.
- Transfer batter into greased or lined ramekin.
- Bake for 30-32 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
- Top with more chocolate chips, walnuts, coconut butter, honey or other desired topping.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Gina Matsoukas is an AP syndicated writer. She is the founder, photographer and recipe developer of Running to the Kitchen — a food website focused on providing healthy, wholesome recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets both digital and print, including MSN, Huffington post, Buzzfeed, Women’s Health and Food Network.
If there were little wormy things anywhere near my plants I would have run screaming in the other direction – dang that unreasonable fear to things without legs!
But these – I would run screaming Towards – anything breakfasty is high on my to-eat list.
I’ve got half of a gigantic zuke that’s been hangin’ out in my fridge for a few days so this recipe couldn’t have come at a better time!
I have been putting zucchini into everything….we got a ton from the garden and some from a CSA share so it’s been zucchini fritters, fried zucchini, roasted zucchini…list goes on.
Such pretty little cakes! You make the best little bakes and the pics are so pretty – delicate and light and just so pretty!
OOOH PRETTY!!!!!
Love the buckwheat!! Now swing by here next and help me style my photos? I had an epic failure with the veg burger shots b/c I was too hungry to be a good food blogger. ahhhh!
VERY interesting!!!! I love zucchini and this look sso healthy. I’ll just have to try it!
These look delicious! I like to make pulp muffins for breakfast to use up the leftover pulp from juicing. I think I would be able to sub that into this recipe in place of zucchini, I can’t wait to try it!
I bought a zucchini at the farmers market this weekend and the guy said I could get a better price if I bought more. I told him I always have ambitious plans for zucchini, buy more than I need and then they go to waste. I need to collect a bunch of recipes to plan out for next week!
My parents garden is suddenly full of 15-inch zucchinis. My mom told me yesterday that she’d just finished baking her 18th loaf of zucchini bread.
18 loaves…that is insane. Hopefully you’re getting at least 1 or 2 of those!
I love zucchini everything – this looks like a perfect way to start the day!