45+ Delicious Vegan Zucchini Recipes

Never wonder what to make in peak zucchini season again! This collection of over 45 delicious vegan zucchini recipes will keep you eating amazing flavors, no matter how many zucchini you end up with!

When it gets to that time of year, when neighbors sneak a bounty of zucchini onto your porch, or you go out into the garden and find yet another 2343 zucchini ready to pick, you'll want some of your favorite zucchini recipes to turn to! From vegan zucchini fritters and bakes, to fries, dips and snacks, these plant-based recipes will help you use up the glut in the most delicious way.

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Here's a collection of favorite vegan zucchini recipes from both me, and my recipe creator friends. There are so many great recipes here, there's bound to be something the whole family will love!

🔥Oven Baked

When you have a few pounds of zucchini to use up, why not try making an oven bake. Mixed with chickpea flour into a frittata, topped with marinara sauce, or enveloped in crispy filo pastry, all of these bake are beautiful, delicious and will satisfy your taste buds!

Zucchini Scarpaccia: Easy Vegan Italian Tart

Make the most of summer zucchini with this Italian scarpaccia tart! Crispy outer edges and tender interiors make this delicious for a light lunch, snack or side dish.

Vegan Lasagne Tart

Vegan Lasagna Tart, made with cashew ricotta and slices of fresh zucchini, is always a crowd pleaser. It's a great main dish for date night, dinner parties, and holidays, or even just a random Friday night.

Recipe by Diannes Vegan Kitchen

Vegan Greek Zucchini Pie : Kolokithopita

A delicious vegan Greek inspired pie, full of zucchini (courgettes), herbs and vegan feta.

Baked Zucchini and Squash

This vegan baked zucchini and squash is a delicious summer vegetable side dish made with tomato sauce, zucchini, yellow squash, and fresh herbs.

Recipe by Champagne Tastes

Vegan Tofu Frittata (Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy Free)

This Vegan Tofu Frittata is a delicious alternative to quiche and is packed with protein! Use up leftover veggies or create your own combos. Perfect easy dish for picnics, as a breakfast casserole or a light lunch.

Vegan Zucchini Slice

A yummy and easy way to use up zucchinis! Vegan version of the classic Aussie recipe.

🥙Side Dishes

Adding extra veggies as a side dish is a great way to sneak extra zucchini into a meal! These wonderful recipes made with fresh zucchini are delicious, colourful and nutritious!

Courgette & White Beans with Salsa Verde

A delicious BBQ recipe that's perfect as a side dish to pretty much any summer BBQ!

10 Minute Summer Squash Salsa

This homemade fresh summer squash & zucchini salsa makes a excellent side dish. Less than 8 ingredients & under 10 Minutes. A perfect side dish for barbecue's or any summer holiday.

Recipe by The Vgn Way

Zesty Zucchini Stir Fry

Make a quick stir fry with your zucchini. Spice it up the way you like it. Perfect for adding colour and flavour to a main dish!

Recipe by Masala Herb

Sweet & Sour (Agrodolce) Zucchini

Summertime trips to farmers' markets, or your backyard garden, present the perfect opportunity to make sweet and sour zucchini, or zucchini agrodolce, an unexpectedly flavorful dish that combines fried zucchini, and red onion in a sweet vinegar sauce.

Recipe by Sip and Feast

☀️Fritters

It wouldn't be a round up of vegan zucchini recipes without fritters. From tasty versions spiked with vegan feta cheese or packed with juicy sweetcorn, there's a fritter you'll want to try over and over.

Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters (Zucchini Fritters)

A super yummy way to use up courgettes /zucchini in season. The sweetcorn makes these fritters extra delicious. Easy recipe for summer.

Vegan Courgette Fritters with Pine Nuts (G.F. recipe)

Delicious gluten free courgette fritters (or zucchini) made with pinenuts for a yummy crunch, as well as capers and fresh herbs!

Vegan Mücver (Turkish Zucchini Fritters)

A super yummy way to use up courgettes /zucchini in season. THese are a vegan twist on a delicious zucchini fritter from Turkey called Mücver.

🍝Pasta & Zoodles

Substituting zucchini for pasta is a great way to use up extra zucchini. Or you could just add zucchini into the creamy pasta sauce, or even add grated zucchini to fresh tomatoes for a wonderful easy light meal.

Creamy Zucchini Pasta with Lemon Basil Sauce

A super quick and easy pasta recipe made with protein-rich silken tofu, lots of zucchini ribbons plus fresh basil and lemon.

Easy Mushroom Zucchini Pasta

Tender spaghetti with zucchini and mushrooms in a light, creamy sauce that's ready in just 30 minutes! This easy pasta dish is filled with flavour, delicious fresh produce and just a hint of spice.

Recipe by This Healthy Kitchen

Zucchini Tofu Meatballs with Saucy Spicy Tomato Orzo

Delicious tofu and zucchini balls with a spicy tomato orzo. Great dinner recipe and perfect for meal prep!

Zucchini "Pasta" with Tomato Sauce

This gluten free zucchini "pasta" dish is gluten free and super easy to make. Serve with crusty baguette.

Recipe by Chef Savvy

Courgette and Tomato Pasta

Super Simple tomato courgette pasta dish that is perfect for a quick summer meal.

🌶️Curry & Stew

When slow cooked into a curry or stew, zucchini takes on other flavours and adds a lovely texture. Combined with white beans or chickpeas, zucchini cooks down and melts into the curry, creating a delicious bite with every mouthful.

Zucchini, Chickpea and Potato Curry

This vegan Indian coconut milk curry is full of flavour. It's hearty & healthy filled with zucchini, potatoes, & chickpeas.

Recipe by The Short Order Cook

Easy Zucchini Curry

Take advantage of all the zucchini around and whip up this tasty, lusciously creamy, vegan Zucchini Curry and pair it with some roti for a meal your family is sure to love.

Recipe by Savory Spin

Zucchini And Cannellini Tomato Stew

Humble ingredients make for big flavours in this super simple one-pot meal. This dish is great to make when you don't have much in the house. In just about 30 minutes you'll see how a couple of canned goods can be transformed into a healthy, hearty and delicious meal.

Recipe by A Saucy Kitchen

Courgette with Mung Lentils and Coconut (Kootu)

The creaminess of fresh coconut and some simple spices make this Courgette/Zucchini with mung lentils such a comforting dish!

Recipe by Keeping The Peas

Indian Zucchini Curry

Try this zucchini curry cooked in Indian style, a perfect weeknight meal which happens to be vegan, gluten-free, low in calorie and ready under 30 minutes.

Recipe by Fit Meal Ideas

Courgette Curry with Chickpeas

Make the most of Zucchini/Courgette season with this rich curry with tomatoes and chickpeas.

🥗Salads

Fresh or grilled, tossed with fresh lemon juice , a few juicy tomatoes or bell peppers and with an abundance of herbs, zucchini is great in salads.

Pasta Salad with Zucchini

Perfect for summer potlucks or meal prep lunch, totally vegan pasta salad with pine nuts, basil, and veggies!

Recipe by My Therapist Cooks

Zucchini Chickpea Quinoa Salad

Zucchini Chickpea Quinoa Salad mixes zucchini, chickpeas, quinoa, fresh parsley and green onions, all tossed in a spiced olive oil dressing. This quinoa salad recipe has the rich, warm flavours of cumin, turmeric and paprika and makes a healthy, filling lunch.

Recipe by A Cedar Spoon

Grilled Zucchini Salad

Grilled zucchini combine with a zesty dressing to make this sunshine-fuelled salad. Perfect for when you want to grill outside and make the most of fresh seasonal veggies!

Recipe by Cooktoria

Raw Zucchini Pad Thai Salad

Crunchy zucchini and squash noodles team up with other colorful veggies to create this light and fresh raw vegan pad Thai salad! Complete with an easy creamy peanut dressing to spice up your veggie dish, this quick, refreshing and low-calorie 20-minute recipe makes for the perfect raw lunch or dinner.

Recipe by Nutriciously

🍲Soup

Even in summer a soup is satisfying, especially if you have a few chilly days. Or you just fancy a bowl of comfort! Zucchini soup has the added advantage of being easily frozen, so you can make some up to eat later in the year.

African Peanut Soup

Healthy African peanut soup with rice, based on a traditional West African recipe that's packed with protein, vitamins and, best of all, flavour.

Recipe by Hurry The Food Up

Cream of Zucchini Soup

Zucchini Soup that you can make in 30 minutes with only 5 core ingredients. With this simple, gluten-free, vegan, dairy free recipe you can put all your garden zucchini to use and treat your family to a bowl of zucchini soup that you can serve warm or cold.

Recipe by Fool Proof Living

Roasted Tomato, Zucchini, and Eggplant Soup

A vegan roasted tomato soup with summer garden vegetables, including zucchini, eggplant, onion, and garlic, roasted together in a sheet pan and blended.

Recipe by Occasionally Eggs

🥒Stuffed

Sometimes life sends ginourmous courgettes or zucchini. We like to stuff them with a delicious savoury filling, such as vegan "ground beef", or black beans, and topping with vegan cheese before gently roasting in the oven.

Vegan Stuffed Zucchini

Larger zucchini or courgettes are perfect for stuffing. These ones have walnuts and quinoa for a protein rich but plant based filling.

Recipe by Keeping the Peas

Moroccan Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Full of a special blend of Morrocan spices, with chickpeas and tangy but sweet dried cherries, this is a lovely twist on a Zucchini Boat!

Recipe by A Saucy Kitchen

Meaty Vegan Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Turn bland zucchini into a crave-worthy meal with this easy vegan recipe for Stuffed Zucchini Boats. This is the BEST plant-based filling EVER, with delicious meaty texture and tons of umami taste.

Recipe by Debra Klein

Kouse Mahshi: Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini

Delectable zucchini done Lebanese style, stuffed with wholesome rice and vegetables in a rich tomato broth.

Recipe by Plant Based Folk

🍟Fries

Zucchini fries are a great way to entice even wary courgette eaters into scoffing lots of yummy veggies. A dusting of nutritional yeast or vegan parmesan cheese, or gently spiced and coated in panko bread crumbs adds to the crunchy snack time.

Crispy Air Fryer Zucchini Fries - Easy and Vegan

Yummy snack to make with seasonal zucchini or courgettes! Easy to make in the air fryer or oven!

Air Fryer Zucchini Chips

These garlic flavored air fryer zucchini chips are crispy and addicting! With no breading, this recipe comes together quickly and easily for a delicious healthier snack, appetiser or side dish.

Recipe by Running to the Kitchen

Indian Spiced Air Fryer Chips

These awesome Air Fryer Zucchini Chips make a healthy and delicious one-bite appetiser that's just perfect for entertaining. The Indian spiced zucchini coins have so much flavour and the grab-and-go size lets guests nibble and mingle with ease!

Recipe by Minstry of Curry

🥨Dips and Snacks

Get snacking with these delicious dips and snacks made with zucchini!

Zucchini Babaganoush (Smokey Courgette Dip)

A smoky and delicious vegan zucchini dip that's perfect for scooping onto crackers or crudites or smooshing onto a sandwich

Grilled Zucchini Hummus

This smooth and creamy Grilled Zucchini Hummus is a delicately flavoured, easy to prepare dip. A classic hummus recipe is made even more delicious with the addition of the slightly charred, smokey zucchini.

Recipe by It's Not Complicated Recipes

Baked Courgette and Onion Bhajis

A healthy version of your favourite Indian street food. Deliciously spicy, crispy on the outside and yet soft and light on the inside. Naturally vegan and gluten free.

Recipe by Tales From The Kitchen Shed

Zucchini Crostini

A simple but delicious appetizer or canape that makes the most of in season zucchini!

Recipe by This Wife Cooks

🍰Sweet Treats

Save some room in your tummy for a sweet treat made with courgettes! From classic vegan zucchini bread to lush rich chocolate muffins, there's a sweet treat to help you use up all those zucchini!

Chocolate Vegan Zucchini Muffins

These easy Chocolate Vegan Zucchini Muffins are a brilliant way to use up those extra zucchini, while giving yourself the most delicious and moist chocolate treat. They're great for dessert, picnics and on the go!

Healthy Zucchini Bread Recipe

Healthy Zucchini Bread for a tasty breakfast or snack. Seriously delicious with no sugar, no dairy and no oil. Applesauce makes it so moist, everyone will love this vegan treat.

Recipe by Debra Klein

Vegan Zucchini Muffins with Lemon

These lemon zucchini muffins are zesty and refreshing, and totally vegan! They're made with applesauce and walnuts, too, so they're nutritious as well as delicious.

Recipe by Fannetastic Food

Mexican Chocolate Zucchini Bread

This Mexican Chocolate Zucchini Bread is a flexible, quick-bread recipe that can be made as muffins or a loaf. It's moist, chocolatey, lightly spiced, and made with about half the oil of traditional zucchini bread recipes.

Recipe by My Quiet Kitchen

Lemon and Courgette Cake Traybake

A deliciously light and fluffy cake created with summer courgettes and lemon! Made with aquafaba instead of eggs so this recipe is 100% vegan!