Sweet zucchini? This recipe will blow your mind!

The zucchini season is in full swing. Zucchini, as a low-calorie vegetable similar to cucumber, finds a wide range of uses in the kitchen. You can bake it, stuff it, make it into patties, add it to sauces or even use it as a base for pizza crust. But how about trying incorporating it into something sweet? Our chocolate bread, with zucchini as the main ingredient, will convince you that this vegetable is great in desserts too!

Protein chocolate sandwich with zucchini

Ingredients:

• 400g zucchini
• 130g spelt flour
• 2 eggs
• 140g white Greek yoghurt
• 50 ml milk
• 30g chocolate protein
• Baking powder
• 60g coconut sugar
• 10g cocoa
• pinch of cinnamon
• Optional - your favourite nuts

Procedure:

1. Grate the zucchini coarsely and let the water run off. Ideally leave in a colander and squeeze after 10 minutes.
2. In the meantime, mix your whole wheat flour with a scoop of protein, ideally some chocolate.
3. Add the cocoa, cinnamon, coconut sugar* and baking powder, about half a teaspoon.
4. Beat the two eggs, add the white Greek yogurt and mix.
5. Add the squeezed zucchini to the batter.
6. If the batter seems too thick, add a little milk.
7. Finally, stir in your favorite nuts chopped into smaller pieces. We used 30g of hazelnuts.
8. Transfer the batter into a baking paper lined loaf tin or other baking tin.
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 35 minutes.

*Tip: instead of coconut sugar you can use cane sugar, honey or some non-caloric sweetener.

If you divide the sandwich into 10 parts, each part will be calorically like this for our exact recipe:

Total calories: 502 Kj
Protein: 8g
Carbohydrates: 15g
Fat: 3g
Fiber: 2g

Enjoy and don't forget to document your creation and tag us in the photo!