It’s dinner time, you want to cook healthy but you don’t know what to prepare and above all you don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. With the recipe that we offer you, you will cook a healthy and above all delicious dish.
With just 3 main ingredients, you can make delicious zucchini fritters! This recipe is easy, fast and very rich. Zucchini fritters are perfect as a side dish or starter and can also be served as a main dish.
The zucchini flower has a soft and delicate texture as well as an exquisite flavor. Zucchini blossoms are slightly sweet, you can stuff them, bread them and fry them, but they can also be enjoyed raw or baked in a zucchini bread or on a pizza.
Zucchini fruit or vegetable: which family does it belong to?
Zucchini is not a vegetable at all, although it belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, it is a fruit. So why do so many people think otherwise? To classify food as fruits or vegetables, we usually do it according to taste. And while some types of squash do taste somewhat sweet, they also have an earthy flavor that allows them to be eaten in the same way as vegetables. That being said, zucchini can also be used as an ingredient in baking, making zucchini flan, zucchini pie, etc.
Zucchini has many health benefits. It can be used in a multitude of recipes, both savory and sweet.
It is its high fiber content, as well as its vitamin, mineral and antioxidant content, especially carotenoids, that makes zucchini a healthy vegetable and a valuable food for the body. Low in calories, zucchini is also a slimming asset with many benefits. Do not hesitate to consume it regularly and do not deprive yourself of it.
Zucchini Fritters. source: spm
Ingredients to make zucchini fritters:
- 3 zucchini
- 1 egg
- 1 cup corn
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 clove of garlic pressed
- Salt and pepper
- Peppers
- A tablespoon of olive oil
- chopped basil
Ingredients for the side sauce:
- 200g plain yogurt
- A pressed garlic clove
- fresh dill
Preparation :
- To start, grate the courgettes, soak them in salt for 10 to 15 minutes
- Then, drain them as much as you can with your hands or a towel to remove excess salt and water.
- Pour your shredded zucchini into a large bowl and add the egg, basil, corn, and spices.
- Using a spatula, mix well until ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Add the flour and mix again until you get a kind of dough.
- Make donuts with your hands.
Lightly grease a nonstick skillet (you can wipe the skillet with a paper towel to limit the amount of oil) and cook your donuts over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutesthen flip them to the other side and cook them for 5 to 7 minutesthen flip one last time and cook for 3 minutes (cover the pan during each cooking).
Serve on a plate while it’s still hot and enjoy.
To make the dipping sauce, simply place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well with a spoon.
Keep in mind :
If you want to have crispy and golden donuts, you should cook them in a pan with a drizzle of olive oil. Cooking them in the oven will dry them out and your donuts will turn into pancakes.
Zucchini Fritters. source: spm
Other recipes to make with zucchini that will surely make you happy:
Zucchini gratin: the quick and easy recipe
This is a recipe for 2 people:
Ingredients :
- ½ kg zucchini
- 200 g of dietary minced meat
- ½ onion
- 150ml tomato coulis
- ½ brick of light cream
- ½ bag grated Gruyère cheese
- A little thyme of your choice
- Salt and pepper
In a frying pan, pour a drizzle of olive oil, and brown the half onion and the minced meat.
Add the tomato coulis, thyme, pepper and salt.
Oil a gratin dish with a little olive oil and cut the zucchini into strips, while the minced meat cooks.
Arrange the zucchini strips in the bottom of the gratin pan, spoon a layer of the mince mixture on top, then add a second layer of zucchini and so on.
Pour a little cream over everything and sprinkle with cheese.
Bake for 1 hour at 180°C.
Gratin zucchini. source: spm
With these gourmet zucchini-based recipes you will please your palate without feeling guilty.
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