I love these zucchini fritters. I often prepare half recipe (about ten fritters or more) and…eat it all by myself. They have that taste that just lead you to eat one after another.
Fortunately, they’re light and give me no guilty feeling. I called them zucchini fritters but they’re not deep fried. I do cook them on a pan, but just adding oil with a spray and using a non-adherent pan.
They’re good served immediately, but I have also eaten them after a while and they were good the same.
Zucchini have few calories, and this recipe has some flour and cheese, but no fat. This recipe is for about 30 fritters…each of them with only 31 calories!
I found this recipe on the Brazilian Lucilia Diniz blog. I have adjusted it a bit to my taste as I do not add light cream. So here’s to you the guiltless zucchini fritters :-)!
- 4 to 5 medium zucchini
- ¾ Tsp of salt
- 4 eggs
- 1 garlic clove mashed and minced
- 85 g of all purpose flour
- 50 g of grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 Tbsp of minced scallion
- pepper to taste
- extra virgin olive oil
- Wash the zucchini and grate them using a large hole grater.
- Add a bit of salt and let them rest for about half an hour to loose water.
- Lightly beat the eggs and add the grated Parmesan cheese.
- Combine the eggs with the grated zucchini and add the rest of the ingredients.
- Take a non adherent pan spray some olive oil on it and put on medium to high gas.
- Pour a Tbsp of the mixture for each fritter.
- As soon as they color, turn them upside down to cook the other side.
- Serve immediately or later.
- Buon appetito!
I love zucchini fritters too!! I will have to try this recipe out soon…Thanks for posting!