Zucchini Slice (DF & GF)

Yum, yum, yummo - who doesn’t love a good old Zucchini Slice?! My mum used to make it all the time when we were little. I gave her recipe a bit of a “glow up” to make it gluten-free and dairy-free friendly. It’s packed with nutritional yeast, to give the slice a cheesy flavour. 

Ingredients 

• 3 cups (380g) grated zucchini 
• ½ red onion, diced
• 6 medium sized eggs 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cracked pepper
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil   
• 2 tbsp chopped rosemary
• 1 cup buckwheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder 
• ½ cup nutritional yeast
• 200g nitrate-free bacon, diced 

METHOD 

1. Preheat the oven to 180c. Line a baking dish with baking paper and set aside.
2. In a food processor, chop the zucchini and onion until it resembles a “grated” texture. 
3. Add to the food processor eggs, salt, pepper, olive oil, rosemary, buckwheat flour and baking powder. Beat well, until the batter comes nicely together. 
4. Stir in nutritional yeast and bacon. 
5. Pour the zucchini slice batter into your pre prepared baking dish and even out the top. 
6. Place the zucchini slice in the oven and bake for 45min or until cooked through and golden on top. The slice is ready when you gently push in the middle and there is no ‘give’.
7. Ideally allow to cool in the baking tin for at least 10 minutes before cutting up to serve.

Approved for: Adrenal Diet, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free

Chris & Filipa Bellette are the Founders of multi award-winning health practice Chris & Filly Functional Medicine, which is best known for ending body burnout (for good!) in “busy” people with energy, mood and gut issues. They are the authors of Ending Body Burnout, and have worked with over 2,000+ burned-out clients in the past combined 25+ years, with their own passion for ending body burnout coming from their own personal experience of body, mind, family & business breakdown, after a prolonged period of physical and mental stress.

Filipa is an accredited Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach & Trauma Therapist. She is also a Ph.D. Scholar, author & regularly featured the media, such as Forbes, Body+Soul and The Daily Telegraph. Chris is a Burnout Recovery Coach & an accredited Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, with a Bachelor of Human Movement Science. He has existed in high-performance realms of the sporting (think national athlete) & business industries and knows what it takes to get out of hustle-and-grind culture to thriving. 

They were recently awarded as the Tasmanian State Winner & National Finalist for the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2022, and Winner of the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards 2022.