I bake for my 12yo who is autistic and only eats bread and chicken wings: I have been trying for years to give him a fruit or a vegetable with no success so far, until I had an idea: I used my tried and trusted KA recipe (in comments), and added a large peeled, microwaved and pureed zucchini (I counted the weight as water and adjusted the water in the recipe accordingly): HE IS EATING IT! This may be the first thing with a vegetable he’s ever put in his mouth ever. Bread tastes like usual and proofed perfectly. I don’t know who this may help besides me, but here it is!
by blueannajoy
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[base recipe](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2023/02/15/best-sourdough-bread-recipe)
Thats hilarious. Hows it taste compared to non-zucchini bread?
wonderful 🙂
You just brought tears to my eyes. You are a great mother. Creative too. I wonder what else you might be able to slip into the bread? How about using sourdough discard to make a batter for the chicken wings? Using the discard gets those microbes into his digestive system.
I understand the zucchini is shredded/ground up into this bread but I’m also imagining that one slice back is just an entire full zucchini hanging out.
Wow it’s like it disappeared, you can’t even tell. How’s the taste?
If you can get him to eat pasta, maybe he would eat something like chicken Parm. It’s got breaded and fried chicken in it. And you can sneak a LOT of veggies into pasta sauce.
That’s brilliant. I used to make both courgette and beetroot cake for my son and he would love it 😄