Your guide to freezing courgettes, including how to prepare them for freezing and store them properly. Plus, courgette recipes to try.

Your guide to freezing courgettes, including how to prepare them for freezing and store them properly. Plus, courgette recipes to try.

To freeze spinach, cook it first, removing the stalks and then simmer until soft. It can then be squeezed to eliminate the excess water, rolled into balls and frozen.

Freezing veg like summer squash (which includes little patty pan squash) as well as courgettes is tricky as they have such a high water content.