Chocolate Zucchini Bars | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with chocolate zucchini bars.

That's right. These are made with a surprisingly large amount of zucchini, but without any flour or any white sugar. And I'm trying to present these as breakfast bars, which is a little tough since they have the texture and taste of a special occasion decadent dessert. But anyway, we'll figure out what these are later. But for now, we'll start with how to prep the pan, which is by generously greasing it with oil.

And then by placing in a piece of parchment

paper that goes across the bottom and up two sides like this. And that's going to make it a lot easier to get this out of the pan once it's cooled.

And once that's set, we can move on to the star of the show, some nice, fresh, hopefully pretty small zucchini.

Okay, young zucchini is going to be more tender and less bitter and won't have any seeds inside. And what we need for this recipe is two pack cups, which is probably going to be about three small zucchini, but your results may vary. And what we'll do once that's grated is transfer those onto some paper towels and then gather those up and give it a good squeeze in an attempt to remove as much excess liquid as we can.

Oh, and you know what? Forget I just said paper