Zucchini Yogurt Quick Bread
After a scorcher of a month, the zucchini plants in our garden have slowed down considerably, but for a period there, I was picking five or six zucchini a day. Zucchini is a versatile vegetable, but you really can only do so much with zucchini day after day before you become a tad tired of it.
Thank God I have chickens who appreciate leftover zucchini! Knowing I had family coming to visit, I spent the early part of July baking treats to freeze, so I’d have snacks I could thaw out quickly.
I used some of my zucchini harvest to make some muffins and a few loaves of this tasty quick bread. This loaf turned out to be a big hit with the grandkids, even those who do not like vegetables.
I would pull a loaf out of the freezer first thing in the morning, and it would be devoured before lunch! The addition of yogurt plus the grated zucchini helped to create a very moist loaf; the nuts added texture, and the loaf was not overly sweet.
Buon Appetito!
Deborah Mele
Zucchini Yogurt Quick Bread
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Light Farro (Spelt) Flour
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 3/4 Cup Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs At Room Temperature
- 1/2 Cup Olive Oil
- 1/2 Cup Fat Free Greek Yogurt
- 1/2 Cup Chopped Walnuts
- 1 Cup Grated Zucchini
Topping:
- 1/2 Cup Finely Chopped Walnuts
- 1/3 Cup Sugar
- 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and lightly grease and flour a 9 X 5 inch loaf pan.
- In one bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and soda, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, oil, and yogurt.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and stir just until mixed.
- Fold in the walnuts and zucchini.
- In a small bowl, stir together the chopped nuts, sugar, and cinnamon, and sprinkle over the loaf.
- Bake for about 1 hour, or until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes then remove from the pan and continue to cool on a wire rack.
Can I replace the spelt flour with regular white flour without making any other changes to the recipe?
Should be fine.
Buon Giorno Deborah,
I have a question regarding the walnuts that are to added into the batter; how much? Those should be folded into the batter along with the zucchini correct?
Grazie Mille,
Rosetta
Rosetta, sorry about that. I had edited the recipe as soon as it went up but for some reason the edits didn’t stick.
I cut the sugar down to a third of a cup and omitted the topping as when I followed the recipe the first time it was too sweet for me . Husband is diabetic.