Amish Zucchini Bread Recipe with Pineapple - Amish Heritage (2024)

Quick Bread

What is a quick bread? Quick bread is bread that's quick to make because it doesn't need yeast or time to rise. It's like the fast food of bread – no waiting around for dough to rise. Just mix, bake, and boom, you've got bread in a hurry.

So one thing I love about zucchinis is that they are very versatile. There are so many delicious ways to use zucchini, whether you are sauteing them with other vegetables, frying them, making casseroles, or using them for baking. These are all great ways to use up your big supply of fresh garden zucchini.

You can also grate extra zucchini. Put two cups in a freezer bag and freeze them to use later. Then you can still make zucchini bread in the wintertime when you don't have fresh zucchini.

Freezing Zucchini Bread

This zucchini bread recipe makes two loaves. And maybe you are thinking that there's no way you can eat two whole loaves of zucchini bread before it goes bad.

After all, many moist baked goods containing fruit or vegetables don't have a long shelf life. You can store them in the refrigerator, which extends the goodness of your baked goods by a couple of days.

But I enjoy a soft room-temperature piece of zucchini bread better than a cold refrigerated one. So I store mine at room temperature, therefore it may go bad within four days.

So what do I do if I can't eat all my Amish zucchini bread within four days? The answer to keeping a baked good fresh till you are ready to eat it is to freeze it.

As soon as my loaves are partially cooled I bag them and put one loaf in the freezer. If you only have one or two people to eat your zucchini bread, you could cut your loaves in half, keep only one half out, and freeze the rest.

Remove your frozen loaf from the freezer and allow an hour for it to thaw before slicing it. You could even slice the bread before freezing it. But I have found that bread keeps fresh longer in the freezer if it's not sliced.

How to Prepare Zucchini to Use for Baking...

Wash the zucchini well. If your zucchini is huge, cut it open and remove the seeds. But if you have smaller zucchini, simply wash the zucchini and shred them with a grater (affiliate link). Leave the peels on, they contain a lot of nutrition and also add to the beauty of the bread.

Zucchini has a high water content so it will create some liquid when grated. Some recipes require you to drain the liquid and squeeze out any excess moisture.

But for this recipe, you can add the zucchini along with any liquid it creates. Although, my Tupperware grater has an attachment and some of the juice drains out of the bottom as I'm grating. So if there's a lot of liquid you may want to pour some of it off.

You can also use thawed frozen zucchini to make this bread.

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