Name: Carrot Zucchini Fritters
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 medium zucchini ((grated)); 1 medium-to-large carrot ((grated)); 1 onion (yellow or red) ((grated)); 50 grams cheese (grated) ((optional)); 2 medium eggs; 5 tbsp whole wheat flour (or other gluten-free type); salt (to taste) ((preferably some less refined, like sea salt)); olive oil or lard ((to cover the bottom of the pan))

Carrot Zucchini Fritters – Healthy, Easy Low-Carb Recipe

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A healthy way to use up zucchini, these crispy, filling, and Fluffy Carrot Zucchini Fritters are a delicious, simple, and quick breakfast or brunch option! I’m confident you’ll add these zucchini fritters to your list of favorites as well if you’re searching for a satisfying, healthful meal that only requires a couple of simple ingredients and takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.

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Table of Contents

Why You’ll Love These Zucchini Fritters?
Ingredients You Need
How To Make

The flavor of zucchini is mild and almost sweet, but it really takes on the flavor of whatever it is cooked with! Zucchini, a summer vegetable that is more of a fruit, is full of vitamins, fiber, antioxidants, and other health benefits that you need to incorporate into your diet during these frigid fall and winter months! It goes perfectly with grated carrots and minced onion!

Zucchini is one of those highly versatile low-calorie, high-fiber foods with zero-fat ingredients you can use for various recipes – one of my favorites is definitely Zucchini Pasta!

Crispy, filling, and healthy 5-ingredient Zucchini Fritters are also kids-friendly, and versatile, requiring you approximately only less than 30 minutes to both mix all the ingredients and prepare them on the stovetop. How cool is that?

Whenever you’re extremely busy, overwhelmed, and simply don’t have the time to prepare something both delicious, filling, and easy – these Zucchini Fritters will become your best friend!

Why You’ll Love These Zucchini Fritters?

Super easy to make – These Carrot Onion Zucchini Fritters only require a few easy, basic steps for preparing, nothing complicated that would potentially wear you out more after an already exhausting day! Your job is to grate a zucchini, carrot, and onion, squeeze the excess water out of it, add flour, eggs, and salt to the mixture, and bring it to the pan for cooking!

Ready in less than 30 minutes!

Only simple 4 ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen – How many times have you refused to make a mouth-watering, insanely delicious-looking recipe you found just because it requires 15+ ingredients for which you need to get ready and drive to the grocery store to get them? Yeah, skip that… For this recipe, you’ll only need 5 main, simple ingredients, which you probably already have! How cool is that? you’ll only need one medium zucchini, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 2 eggs, flour, and salt! Yessss! We ADORE insanely easy recipes!

Breakfast, lunch, dinner? Yeah, everything works perfectly fine! These Zucchini Fritters can be made whenever, and for whatever reason! In my opinion, they fit in every part of the day! The one thing is sure – you won’t be left out hungry afterward! Don’t ask me how many times I didn’t even eat all of them – it fills you up pretty quickly! But, the good thing is that you always can leave the rest for later!

Ingredients You Need

Zucchini (grated) – You’ll need 1 medium zucchini.

Carrot (grated) – You’ll need 1 medium carrot.

Onion (finely chopped) – You can use either yellow or red onion.

Cheese (grated) (optional) – You can use Cheddar, or Parmesan cheese, or any other type suitable for grating. It is not a necessary ingredient and could be used to enhance the overall flavor and add a melty taste.

Whole Wheat Flour – You can also use some other gluten-free flour, but make sure to adjust the thickness based on the amount of zucchini, and carrots, you may need less or more flour.

Eggs – 2 medium-sized eggs at room temperature.

Salt – Preferably higher-quality, less refined salt, like sea salt.

Olive oil or lard – To cover the bottom of the pan.

How To Make

Step 1: Grate the zucchini, carrot, and onion, and before transferring it into the medium bowl, with hands, squeeze out the excess moisture from them.

Step 2: In a bowl with grated ingredients, first add 3 tablespoons of whole wheat flour, and stir it well. Crack 2 eggs, and add to the mixture. Stir it well again, and add another 2 tablespoons of flour. Salt it to taste with salt. Depending on the amount of grated ingredients and flour type, you may need more or less flour, so adjust accordingly. The mixture should be smooth, not too liquid nor too thick and dry.

Step 3: Preheat a pan over medium heat, and add oil (or lard) enough to cover the bottom of the pan. Also, prepare a plate with a few paper towels you’ll place below and on top of the fritters once they’re ready, so it can soak excess oil from the fritters in case you put more.

Step 4: With a spoon, add the mixture to the pan for cooking (I added 4 simultaneously), and wait until the bottom part becomes golden (30 seconds to 2 minutes, it depends), and flip to the other side to cook as well until it gets that golden-brownish look. How much you’ll wait for one side to coo depends on the size of the fritters, as well as on the amount of oil you put in. If you exaggerate a bit with oil, the fritters will cook a lot faster – have that in mind.

Step 5: When each fritter individually is ready, place it on the plate covered in a paper towel, and leave for a couple of minutes so that the towel can soak in excess oil, and for the zucchini fritters to cool a bit. Enjoy!