Easy courgette recipe – courgettes (zucchini) with garlic and tomato

This tasty courgette recipe is a terrific and quick way to cook courgettes (zucchini). Flavoured with garlic it comes together from just a few simple ingredients. Ready in 10 minutes!

Each year we grow vegetables in our garden. They’re so yummy, freshly picked, prepared and eaten. Usually we have tomatoes, french beans, spinach, leeks and courgettes (zucchini), along with a few other things.

It doesn’t matter what else there is, there’s always courgettes. They are super easy to grow, produce an attractive leafy plant, and provide LOADS of courgettes – often we can’t eat all we grow! And they’re always delicious.

Grow your own, or buy your own

It’s still likely to be a few weeks before we get to eat the first of our courgette harvest. However on the market I saw they had lovely green and yellow summer courgettes for sale. I’m not sure the yellow ones taste any different from their more common green counterparts, but they do look pretty together, so I bought one of each. 

Courgette recipe with garlic and tomatoes

We were in need of a quick dinner after getting home late from my daughter Kipper’s friend’s birthday party, so I reached for the courgettes. I rustled up this tasty courgette recipe with garlic and tomatoes in the time it took to boil some pasta to go with them. 

Ingredients in this yummy courgette recipe

I only used a handful of ingredients in this tasty courgette recipe – really just what I had to hand. To make it yourself, you will simply need:

• Courgettes – of course! Also known as zucchini.
• Fresh tomatoes – I had two big ones but more smaller tomatoes will also work fine.
• Tomato puree – to boost the tomato flavour and thicken the sauce.
• Garlic – yum!
• Olive oil – extra virgin is best
• Vegetable stock – make your own with my healthy instant soup powder!
• Salt and pepper to season.

This courgette recipe is pretty garlicky – which we love – so if you’re not such a huge garlic fan then perhaps use only one clove.

I also didn’t add any herbs to this, just a little salt and pepper, but a few fresh garden herbs would be lovely. You can add woodier herbs such as rosemary, thyme or oregano to the sauce as it simmers, or simply sprinkle something soft like chopped parsley, basil or mint over the top once it’s all cooked.

What to eat with courgettes with garlic and tomato

We had our courgettes with garlic and tomato on top of some pasta, but this recipe for courgettes would make a terrific side-dish with just about anything!

Serve your courgettes alongside rice, quinoa or other grains. Add a spoonful to a plate of grilled fish. You can even serve this recipe cold as a salad – try sprinkling over some crumbled feta for added deliciousness! Then scoop it up with a bit of toasted sourdough – mmmmm.

This tasty courgette recipe is a quick and easy way of serving some of the summer’s inevitable courgette glut – I’m looking forward to eating it again as our courgette plants really get going!

Serves 2-3 as a pasta sauce, 4 as a side-dish.

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More delicious courgette recipes

If you grow your own courgettes, you’ll know that having loads of them at some point in the summer is completely inevitable! When that happens, you might like to try some of these delicious courgette recipes:

• Creamy courgette puff pastry tart
• Stuffed courgettes with bulgur and pine nuts
• Courgette, lemon and poppyseed loaf cake
• Quick courgette and cherry tomato pasta with feta
• Courgette and potato Spanish omelette

Courgettes, like all fresh whole vegetables and fruits, are suitable for Pesach without special certification. You can find a helpful (and long!) list of items that can be used on Passover without a special hechsher, here.