Easy zucchini fritters are perfect to serve for breakfast, healthy lunch or low calorie dinner. Simple zucchini recipe with 5 ingredients that you can make in less than 30 minutes!
Zucchini fritters are also great for breakfast, served with Greek yogurt, sour cream, tzaziki, soy sauce or tahini – you name it. Use your favorite dipping sauce! These are perfect for dinner, along with Greek salad, chicken or salmon.
This breakfast idea is so simple! You will need a large bowl, shredded zucchini, eggs, hard cheese, flour and scallions. Add salt and leave zucchini aside, then mix with and fry for 3 minutes on each side. That’s it, tasty dish is ready!
Enjoy this step by step recipe with pictures. I hope this will make it easier for you to follow!
Why you need to make this easy zucchini recipe
This is our go to recipe this zucchini season. I also love to tweak this easy recipe and add grated carrot or potato. And every time I make them, they are so delicious!
You can also play along and use feta instead of hard cheese, or add parsley instead of scallions and find your perfected recipe!
This is an easy recipe that was one of my favorite childhood summer breakfast or lunch dishes. My aunt used to grow zucchini and we had a lot of them! So zucchini fritter is my favorite zucchini recipe, because it is so easy and so delicious.
Truly, this is quick and easy family loved recipe.
I actually made them a lot, just mixing zucchini with flour and egg. But over the time, I figure out that adding cheese and scallions takes adds amazing flavor and from now on this is how I make them most of the time.
So we’re pretty confident that you’ll love this easy zucchini recipe, too!
You should definitely check our Cauliflower fritters, too. Another summer comfort food, so to say.
How to make easy zucchini fritters
First you will need shredded zucchini, hard cheese (such as Parmesan), flour, eggs and scallions. See the step by step process shots below.
Shred zucchini with food processor or with hand grater (picture 1), generously sprinkle with salt and leave aside for 20 minutes (picture 4-5).
While you’re waiting for zucchini to release their juice, your can grate the cheese and chop some scallions (picture 2-3).
Leaving zucchini helps to make healthy fritters crispier and less watery.
Using your hands or sieve, squeeze liquid from zucchini. Don’t miss this step, it is important, so the fritter will remain their shape and won’t fall apart.
By the way, you can use zucchini liquid for soups, cooking vegetables, adding to homemade sauces. You can freeze it in an ice cube mold.
Combine zucchini with eggs and cheese, mix with the flour and add chopped scallions (picture 6-7). Season with freshly ground black pepper.
Heat a little bit olive oil in a pan. These don’t need to be heavy fried! Form fritters with about 2-3 tbsp of zucchini mixture, pressing them lightly into the into rounds. Place them with about 1-2 inches spacing. On a medium heat, cooking time is just 3 minutes for each side – until golden brown (picture 8-9).
Repeat until you have about 9 fritters. You can place them on a paper towel to absorb excess oil. Delicious zucchini appetizers are ready! And of course you can double the recipe, to make more and more.
To my mind, these easy zucchini fritters are best served hot with Greek yogurt, sprinkled with scallions. You can also use sour cream or our tahini recipe for serving.
There is a possibility that these zucchini fritters will be eaten right from the pan, without any topping. Yes, they are so good on their own, but better have some dipping sauce on your hand. By the way, you can try these with our pumpkin dip.
How to store and freeze zucchini fritters
This recipe makes perfect fritters! They are not soggy and won’t fall apart. Moreover, you can freeze them. Place cooled zucchini fritters in a freezing bag and store up to 2 months. Thaw before reheating. Freshly cooked, they can last up to 4 days in the fridge, if you can keep them for so long.
So if you’re looking for a recipe with zucchini, consider these fritters a must-try! They are soft, cheesy and delicious! And low carb at the same time!
If you’d love to have more zucchini dishes this season, check our grilled zucchini roll-ups. Chicken zucchini lasagna is our favorite dinner recipe this month! I’m using zucchini every day as one of my vegetables for dinner, when it is in season.
I hope you will enjoy this healthy zucchini recipe for dinner. Or brunch, breakfast – you name it. I can eat these easy zucchini fritters all day long!
Share this easy zucchini fritters recipe with your friends! Because they also need a delicious breakfast or lunch idea. Maybe they are searching recipes for zucchini right now!
Zucchini Fritters
along with Greek Salad, chicken or salmon. This is a great breakfast idea, too!
- a flat pan
- food processor or grater
- a knife and cutting board
- spoons for measuring and mixing
- sieve or cheese cloth
- 600 g zucchini
- 60 g hard cheese
- 100 g flour
- 2 eggs L size
- 80 g scallions
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp black pepper ground
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Greek yogurt (optional)
- extra chopped scallions (optional)
- Shred the zucchini, mix it with salt and leave for 20 minutes to let it release the juice.600 g zucchini, 2 tsp salt
- In a separate bowl grate the cheese and chop the scallions.60 g hard cheese, extra chopped scallions
- Squeeze the excess liquid from shredded zucchini with your hands (use a sieve or a cheese cloth). Discard the liquid
- Mix zucchini with cheese, egg and chopped scallions. Mix in the flour. Add pepper to taste.60 g hard cheese, 100 g flour, 2 eggs, 80 g scallions, 2 tsp black pepper
- Heat olive oil in a pan on a medium heat. Form the fritters from the zucchini mix. One fritter equals about 2-3 tbsp of the mix.1 tbsp olive oil
- Fry them 2-3 minutes on each side until brown and crispy.*
- Serve with Greek yogurt** and scallions.80 g scallions, Greek yogurt
** Use sour cream, cream cheese, tahini or other dipping sauce instead of Greek yogurt.
Loved these! Making again today. Not a fan of eating zucchini, but I love growing them, now I can eat them! So far the best zucchini recipe!
Hi Anna,
Thank you so much for your feedback, glad you like this recipe!
With the start of zucchini season, this is definitely one of our favorite recipes to make with them.
Quick, easy and delicious. 🙂
What can I use to replace the flour ?
You can use any gluten free flour. Try rice, corn or almond flour.
Is it 114 calories for 1 fritter? What is the serving size? Thank you!
Hi Megan! I use very well fit to calculate calories, and yes, these are calories per 1 fritter. The fritter size is the same you see on these pictures
Love zucchini fritters but didn’t know you can freeze them. Thanks for the tips!
You’re welcome, Matt! Follow my freezing instructions and you will always have an easy breakfast or lunch to reheat!
These zucchini fritters were the best I’ve ever made, and they were so easy to make, which is huge for me. I’ll save this recipe for a repeat, thank you!
So happy to hear that you loved this recipe, Kristine! You can follow us on Pinterest or Facebook to get the latest easy and delicious recipes in your feed!
These were so simple, loved these and so did the rest of my family!! Perfect for sneaking those veggies in
Healthy veggie treat for your family, right? So happy that these easy fritters turned out delicious for your family, too!
I would give this 5 stars, but it won’t let me. Your recipe looks delicious, I love zucchini fritters! I like the fact that they can be frozen, I am all about batch cooking!
Thank you for the 5 stars, Denise! If you try this recipe, I’m sure you will love all the flavors packed in this simple zucchini recipe!