Looking for a soft homemade bread? You will love this Zucchini Bread, which is perfect for big breakfasts! Bread making is one of my addictions since I LOVE that tempting smell of bread baking in oven. When the whole house is filled with that smell, I feel that our home becomes a real home where lots of family members live in. Right, I miss the times when all my family members including grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins used to gather and have great meals together. My grandma would bake scrumptious breads then and it was a real joy for all of us to have those breads right from oven! You know what? My grandma would make butter too from the milk of her own cows. Homemade bread with homemade butter, can you imagine that? A breakfast to die for!
Who doesn’t love a little butter melting on a newly baked bread? When you know that it’s a healthy zucchini bread, you can feel less guilty!
I use whole wheat flour when making breads and this whole wheat bread is a classic one in our home. I use carrot and walnuts in that one and I wanted to try zucchini and cheese in this one. And it resulted in this soft and fluffy zucchini bread! I can hear you asking how it becomes that fluffy with whole wheat flour. The secret is grated zucchini inside. It gives a super softness to the bread. So I have another healthy and soft bread with whole wheat flour now!
You just need some time to make this zucchini bread since you will wait the dough twice; both after kneading it and after dividing it into balls.
You see how it rises after 40 minutes. It’s ready to go into oven now!
If you love to make your own bread, you must give this zucchini bread a try! You can use all purpose flour too if you are a fan of cotton like white breads. Just be careful with the amount of water then, you might need to use less.
I’m sending this fluffy zucchini bread to YeastSpotting!
We made this zucchini bread last weekend and wanted to double our joy by having it in an open area. Then, completely out of the blue, we decided to have a picnic in our favorite park in Eskisehir. Our last picnic was last Summer and we missed it a lot! Since it was a sudden decision, we didn’t spend long hours to prepare things; unlike a typical Turkish picnic with barbecue and lots of meat, it would be a simple picnic with our zucchini bread, cheese, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers and a little jam with us. And we took Turkish tea in a flask as a drink. It was a wonderful brunch for us and we will be doing it often until our baby comes. I even took pictures of my husband Yusuf when he was taking the picture of this bread and shared it on my “Who am I” page. Check it out!
And here is the recipe for Kabakli Ekmek:
Fluffy Zucchini Bread
Homemade fluffy zucchini bread with whole wheat flour.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Yield: 10-12
Ingredients
- 3 zucchinis, grated (2 ½ cup when squeezed)
- 1 tsp salt, for zucchinis
- 6 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tbsp dry instant yeast
- ½ cup kasar cheese or parmesan, grated
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 ½ cup lukewarm water
- Coating:
- 2 tbsp yogurt
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tsp nigella seeds
- 1 tsp butter, for the pan
Instructions
- Grate zucchinis into a strainer, sprinkle salt on it and wait 15 minutes so that it releases excessive juice.
- Squeeze grated zucchinis with your hands after 15 minutes.
- Mix flour, yeast, cheese, salt and sesame seeds in a large bowl.
- Toss in zucchinis and mix.
- Add in olive oil and water. Mix with your hand.
- Knead it for about 10 minutes.
- You can add a little extra water or flour to have a soft dough.
- Cover it and wait for 1 hour.
- Sift a little flour on the counter and divide the dough into 7 balls.
- Butter the cake pan and place dough balls into it giving a flower shape.
- Mix yogurt and 1 tbsp olive oil and brush the tops of balls with this mixture.
- Sprinkle sesame and nigella seeds on it.
- Cover it and wait for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven at 200C.
- Bake it until golden, for 50 minutes.
- Cool it on a wire rack.
I discovered it yesterday (looked it up really, I remembered having a vegetarian cookbook mentioning a zucchini bread back in the late 1980s-early 1990s and had fond memories of the recipe, but lost the book in one of my many international moves) and had to bake it right away. I halved the recipe which still gave me more than enough for my family of 4’s breakfast today. It’s perfect, I wouldn’t change a thing. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you Marie! I know that feeling when you lost a recipe. I’m so glad that you loved the recipe. It’s one of our favorites as well. We enjoy it with butter when it’s still hot.
I have no clue as to what nigella seeds are and absolutely no chance if finding them where I live (Merida, Mexico). What can I sub for these?
You can use black sesame seeds or poppy seeds if you can find or just leave it out.
Delish! I can’t wait to try it this weekend. And that photo of you and your husband – aww, it warms my heart 🙂
Hi Sarah, this is a bit moist soft bread and a great way to make zucchini haters eat zucchini. That photo of us was taken a year ago, now our son is already 10 months old! Can’t believe it myself!
Found your recipe on feastie.com – Just baked this bread, thank you for the great recipe and mouth-watering pictures!
Used vegan mozzarella cheese instead of real one, and mixed regularflour with oat flour (didn’t have enough, so had to grate some oat flakes 🙂
Used way more seeds than the recipe calls for – it’s just my thing, putting different seeds everywhere they can go 🙂
The bread raised very well and is truly fluffy!
Homemade bread with homemade butter would be amazing! Your zucchini bread looks delicious and perfect for a picnic.
Hi Lisa! That combination is unforgettable! I still remember it with all my senses! It turned our picnic to a great feast! We will definitely make it again!
This looks simply amazing. Now to go and track down some zucchinis so I can make this…and soon! Thank you so much for sharing, my friend!
I know you love baking Monet, so it will be so easy to make this bread for you! You will love the softness zucchini gives to it!
Fluffy Zucchini Bread… oh MY!!!! this looks delightful!
Thank you Tracy!
Yummy Zerrin! I have had many sweet zucchini breads and it is now wonderful to get the savory version too, looks so delicious! Big fan of nigella and sesame seeds, this one is a keeper : )
You know what? I’ve never had sweet zucchini bread, I always use zucchini in savory treats. I added a little sesame inside bread and it gave a nice flavor!
I love the little individual rolls of zucchini bread. How delicious. I can tell it has a little crispy crust and chewy inside from those awesome pictures your hubby took. What a super guy to help you will your site and photography. I just get excited if my family doesn’t eat something before I have a chance to get a photo. Have a super weekend. BAM
Thank you Bam! He is always my biggest assistant at home! And I become his assistant when he’s shooting 🙂 I know that feeling, I make sure that he’s full before starting taking pictures! Wish you a nice weekend!
Well you got me right at the start with the warm bread and melting butter! 🙂 Love the look of this zucchini bread – and isn’t it just great when the weather turns and it’s picnic season again. 🙂
Julia
Newly baked bread and melting butter makes a perfect breakfast itself! Hopefully, we can have real picnics with lots of meat before the birth!
I am dying to make this Zucchini bread now. After a failed attempt with Zucchini n baking, I have never been able to gather courage to try it on again. After reading your experience, am so looking forward to make it again. Hopefully for good this time 🙂
I’m sure you will have a great result this time! And it will be one of your favorites!