{"slug":"olive-oil-zucchini-bread","collection":"recipes","is_recipe":true,"visibility":"public","title":"Olive Oil Zucchini Bread","description":"A tender, moist quick bread of grated zucchini, olive oil, and Greek yogurt, fragrant with cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon zest, with optional walnuts for crunch.","body_md":"\n## Ingredients\n**Yield: One 8-inch loaf**\n\n- Butter, for the pan\n- 185g grated zucchini (1½ cups)\n- 105g dark brown sugar (½ cup)\n- 80ml olive oil (⅓ cup) (or other oil such as safflower or canola)\n- 80ml plain Greek yogurt (⅓ cup)\n- 2 large eggs\n- 5ml vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)\n- 190g (7oz) all-purpose flour (1½ cups)\n- 3g salt (½ teaspoon)\n- 3g baking soda (½ teaspoon)\n- 2g baking powder (½ teaspoon)\n- 4g ground cinnamon (1½ teaspoons)\n- 1g ground nutmeg (¼ teaspoon)\n- 2g finely grated lemon zest (1 teaspoon)\n- 55g (2oz) chopped walnuts (½ cup) (optional)\n\n## Method\n\n1. **Preheat oven:** Heat oven to 175°C (350°F). Butter an 8-inch loaf pan.\n\n2. **Mix wet ingredients:** In a large bowl, use a rubber spatula to mix together the grated zucchini, sugar, olive oil, yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract.\n\n3. **Combine dry ingredients:** Whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, lemon zest and spices in a separate bowl. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Fold in the walnuts if using.\n\n4. **Bake:** Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 40 to 55 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking. The bread will be done when a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.\n\n5. **Cool:** Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove the bread from the pan and cool on a rack completely before cutting and serving.\n\n\n## Notes\n\n- **Unit repair (2026-07-30):** the ounce figures here were placeholders rather than conversions — small weights had been written \"(1oz)\", middling ones \"(2oz)\" or \"(3oz)\", regardless of the actual gram value. The gram weights are correct and are unchanged; only the bogus ounce fragments are removed. A spoon or cup measure sharing the same parentheses is kept, since that one is real.\n\n","draft":false,"servings":"8","prep_time":"15 minutes","cook_time":"50 minutes","total_time":"1 hour 15 minutes","created_at":"2024-07-04T05:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-30T22:14:26.810875Z","categories":["Bread"],"tags":["Cinnamon","Greek yogurt","Lemon","Nutmeg","Olive Oil","walnuts","yogurt","zucchini"],"methods":["Baked"],"themes":["Vegetarian"],"ingredients":[{"section":"","items":["- Butter, for the pan","- 185g grated zucchini (1½ cups)","- 105g dark brown sugar (½ cup)","- 80ml olive oil (⅓ cup) (or other oil such as safflower or canola)","- 80ml plain Greek yogurt (⅓ cup)","- 2 large eggs","- 5ml vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)","- 190g (7oz) all-purpose flour (1½ cups)","- 3g salt (½ teaspoon)","- 3g baking soda (½ teaspoon)","- 2g baking powder (½ teaspoon)","- 4g ground cinnamon (1½ teaspoons)","- 1g ground nutmeg (¼ teaspoon)","- 2g finely grated lemon zest (1 teaspoon)","- 55g (2oz) chopped walnuts (½ cup) (optional)"],"parsed":[{"raw":"- Butter, for the pan","item":"Butter","prep":"for the pan"},{"raw":"- 185g grated zucchini (1½ cups)","qty":185,"unit":"g","item":"grated zucchini"},{"raw":"- 105g dark brown sugar (½ cup)","qty":105,"unit":"g","item":"dark brown sugar"},{"raw":"- 80ml olive oil (⅓ cup) (or other oil such as safflower or canola)","qty":80,"unit":"ml","item":"olive oil"},{"raw":"- 80ml plain Greek yogurt (⅓ cup)","qty":80,"unit":"ml","item":"plain Greek yogurt"},{"raw":"- 2 large eggs","qty":2,"item":"large eggs"},{"raw":"- 5ml vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)","qty":5,"unit":"ml","item":"vanilla extract"},{"raw":"- 190g (7oz) all-purpose flour (1½ cups)","qty":190,"unit":"g","item":"all-purpose flour"},{"raw":"- 3g salt (½ teaspoon)","qty":3,"unit":"g","item":"salt"},{"raw":"- 3g baking soda (½ teaspoon)","qty":3,"unit":"g","item":"baking soda"},{"raw":"- 2g baking powder (½ teaspoon)","qty":2,"unit":"g","item":"baking powder"},{"raw":"- 4g ground cinnamon (1½ teaspoons)","qty":4,"unit":"g","item":"ground cinnamon"},{"raw":"- 1g ground nutmeg (¼ teaspoon)","qty":1,"unit":"g","item":"ground nutmeg"},{"raw":"- 2g finely grated lemon zest (1 teaspoon)","qty":2,"unit":"g","item":"finely grated lemon zest"},{"raw":"- 55g (2oz) chopped walnuts (½ cup) (optional)","qty":55,"unit":"g","item":"chopped walnuts"}]}],"servings_int":8,"qc":{"status":"passed","last_checked_at":"2026-07-30T22:17:39.978771Z","checked_by":"claude-code","standard_version":"2026-07-29","findings_count":0,"stale":false}}