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    Home » Lunch » Savory Zucchini Bread with Roasted Red Peppers and Feta

    Aug 27, 2008 · Modified: Nov 3, 2017 by Sues · This post may contain affiliate links, uses cookies, and generates income via ads · View privacy policy + disclosure statement linked in footer · 9 Comments

    Savory Zucchini Bread with Roasted Red Peppers and Feta

    Rarely does a week go by when I don't see at least one thing I want to make off of the Closet Cooking blog. Kevin is an amazing cook (and photographer) and my friends and I check out his blog on the daily. The picture of the savory zucchini bread he made was so colorful and pretty-looking. Plus, anything involving the words "bread" and "feta" makes me drool a little bit. It didn't take any twisting of my arm to know I had to make this.

    What You'll Need:

    • 1 large zucchini, grated
    • 2 chopped roasted red peppers
    • 2 cloves grated garlic
    • ½ cup feta
    • 1 teaspoon oregano
    • 2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
    • ¼ cup olive oil
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 cup all purpose flour
    • ½ cup whole wheat flour
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder

    Well, first I had to roast red peppers, which I've never done before. But it was actually pretty simple. Just halve the peppers, take the seeds out, and put them on a baking tray like so:

    Preheat the oven to 450 and right when it's all heated up, put it on broil. Now put the peppers in for 7-10 minutes, until the skins are nice and blackened.

    Now put them in a bag to cool them for about 20 minutes. I would have probably put them in a paper bag over plastic, if I had had one. While roasting the peppers, I had flashbacks to being 6 years old and my dad coming inside from roasting peppers on the grill. He would open the paper bag and tell me he had baby bunnies inside. I would freak out before realizing there were actually peppers in the bag and not, in fact, baby bunnies. And I just made my dad sound really cruel. Don't worry, I wasn't permanently scarred. Too badly.

    Once the peppers are cooled, it should be fairly easy for you to just remove the skins. And look! Now you have your very own roasted red peppers!

    While the pepper are roasting and cooling and such, you can start working on the rest of the bread. You'll want your zucchini grated, which is pretty easy to do with a regular old cheese grater.


    And chop those roasted red peppers up.
    Put the grated zucchini, red peppers, garlic, feta, oregano, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and eggs in a large bowl.
    And mix them all together!


    In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt, and baking powder together.

    And then combine the two mixtures together.


    Put the batter in a buttered 9x5 loaf pan.


    And bake it at 350 degrees for about an hour.

    The bread should slide out of the loaf pan easily. At first I was a little worried because parts of the bread felt way too moist to be cooked through. But then I realized the zucchini I used was pretty wet and I might have thrown a little extra feta in too (shh!).

    This bread has so many flavors bursting from it; it's difficult to even describe. I'm a pretty big eater (duh), but found that I was barely able to eat a whole slice of this bread before feeling extremely full and satisfied. This was fabulous because it meant the bread lasted for days and I was able to enjoy it longer and even give a portion of it to Sara.


    I decided to make my own hummus to go along with the savory zucchini bread. Since I was making it last minute and didn't want to go to the store, I just used whatever I had in my cabinets. I made it with red kidney beans, lemon juice, a little bit of peanut butter, garlic, kalamata olives, paprika, and cumin. Put all the ingredients in my little food processor and chopped them up.


    The hummus on the bread probably combined way too many flavors, but it was delicious nonetheless. And I had so much left over, I just started smearing it on everything I eat. Hey, there are worse things to be addicted to!

    This is definitely not the zucchini bread to make if you're looking for that typical sweet, dessert-like zucchini bread. But if you're looking for something that can be more of a meal, you should try this out. Now I'm starting to get excited about all the possible ways for me to experiment with zucchini bread. This one was a fabulous start!

    There are so many different ways to make the bread and so many different things to add. Let us know if you baked the bread using an ingredient not listed!

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    1. Sara says

      August 28, 2008 at 9:37 am

      sooooooooo good! loved it!

    2. Liz says

      August 28, 2008 at 4:02 pm

      I'm sorry, my IT guy just said I have to get a new laptop. something about to much drool covering the keys...

    3. willtherebecake says

      August 28, 2008 at 4:02 pm

      Oh crap, blogger got me a again...

      That comment above was me.

    4. Kevin says

      August 28, 2008 at 4:03 pm

      Your savoury zucchini bread looks like it turned out great! Glad you enjoyed it. I am going to have to try using kidney beans in my next hummus.

    5. Alya says

      August 29, 2008 at 8:33 am

      YUUUUUMMMM.. I love bread with different flavors..

    6. sarawithnoh says

      August 31, 2008 at 12:02 pm

      I soooo can't cook but I can bake - this looks like a good halfway point. I'll have to try it 🙂

    7. Wanda says

      August 31, 2008 at 10:01 pm

      Wow that looks so good!!!

    8. Jessica says

      December 01, 2009 at 12:26 am

      I finally made this bread tonight. It was SO GOOD I seriously could not stop eating it. Next time I might do muffins (bake faster and easier to portion control... 😉

    9. Dryflour says

      September 04, 2011 at 8:19 pm

      i looooooove savory vegetable loafs. i've been making at least two a week with my flood of squash and zucchini. i found this post because i was wondering what a peanut butter/tamari flavored zucchini bread would be like.... hmmmmm. it's seriously better than a brownie or banana bread!

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