Best Ever Zucchini Cheddar Bread | Zucchini Cheddar Quick Bread Recipe
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Recipe type: Side
Cuisine: Continental
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Serves: 1 10-inch bread loaf
 
Ingredients
  • Zucchini – 1 (big enough to have 1 cup grated zucchini)
  • All-purpose flour – 1 & ½ cups
  • Cheddar cheese – 1 cup, grated
  • Baking powder – 1 tbsp
  • Egg – 2, at room temperature
  • Milk – ½ cup, at room temperature
  • Olive oil – ¼ cup
  • Salt – 1 tsp
  • Black pepper – ½ tsp
  • Green onions – ¼ cup, chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 180 C / 350 F and place the wire rack at center of the oven.
  2. Brush all internal sides of a loaf tin with butter. Set it aside.
  3. Thoroughly wash and dry the zucchini and cut the head off. Then grate it using the coarse grating side of a box grater.
  4. Now squeeze out as much water as possible from the grated zucchini by pressing a handful at a time between your palms. Once the entire grated zucchini is squeezed, you should be left with about a cup of grated zucchini.
  5. Take a bowl and whisk together flour, salt, black pepper and baking soda in it until well mixed.
  6. In another large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk and olive oil. Stir in grated zucchini making sure that it’s distributed evenly.
  7. Next add in dry ingredients mixture. Now mix wet & dry ingredients using a spatula until no white streaks of flour is visible.
  8. Then add grated cheddar cheese & chopped green onions and fold carefully to evenly distribute. Do not overmix – stop as soon as all the ingredients look evenly distributed & mixed up.
  9. Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf tin and smoothen the top using the back of a spoon or an offset spatula. Bake your zucchini bread for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  10. Once the bread is baked, let the loaf pan cool down for 10 minutes on a cooling rack before de-molding.
  11. After about 10-15 minutes, run a knife around all sides of the zucchini bread to ensure it’s not sticking to the pan. Then take out the zucchini bread out of the loaf pan and let it cool completely on a cooling rack.
  12. Once completely cooled, cut your cheesy zucchini cheddar bread into slices and enjoy!
Recipe by Flavor Quotient at https://www.flavorquotient.com/2020/09/best-ever-zucchini-cheddar-bread-recipe/