Zucchini Fritter Easy Dinner Recipe – 4 Ingredients, 20-Minutes

These Crispy, Filling, and Fluffy Zucchini Fritters are such a delicious, straightforward, and quick dinner or breakfast idea and a smart way to use up nutritious summer zucchini! If you are looking for a healthy, filling, less than 30-minute dinner recipe, without any uncomplicated steps, and 10+ ingredients, I’m pretty sure you’ll add these Zucchini Fritters to your list of favorites because I also did!

Zucchini has a moderate flavor that borders on sweetness, but it largely absorbs the flavor of whatever it is cooked with! A summer vegetable that is essentially a fruit, zucchini is loaded with vitamins, fiber, antioxidants, and other healthful advantages, that you have to fit into your diet somehow during these chilly fall and winter months!

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, Fluffy 4-ingredient Zucchini Fritters are also kids-friendly, and versatile, requiring you approximately only 20 minutes to both mix all the ingredients and prepare them with a heat-resistant plant-based oil on the stovetop. How cool is that? Whenever you’re extremely busy, overwhelmed, and simply don’t have the nerves 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 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, squeeze the excess water out of it, add flour, eggs, salt, and baking powder to the mixture, and bring it to the pan for cooking!

• Ready in approximately 15-20 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 4 simple ingredients, which you probably already have! How cool is that? you’ll only need one medium zucchini, 2 eggs, flour, sea salt, and baking powder! Yessss! We ADORE insanely easy recipes!

• Breakfast, lunch, dinner? Yeaa, 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

• 1 medium zucchini (300g)

• 8 tablespoons white whole wheat flour

• 2 eggs

• Sea salt

• Baking powder (2 tsp)

• Heat-resistant plant-based oil (for cooking)

How To Make

1. The first step is to prepare the zucchini – Grate the zucchini using a bow grater, and before transferring it into the medium bowl, with hands, squeeze out the excess moisture from the zucchini.

• In a bowl with grated zucchini, first add 3 tablespoons of white whole wheat flour, and stir it well. Crack 2 eggs, and add to the mixture. Stir it well again, and add another 5 tablespoons of flour. Salt it to taste with sea salt or Himalayan salt.

• Add 2 teaspoons baking powder (12 grams – 1 packet). Stir it all together evenly.

• Preheat a pan over medium to low heat, and add heat-resistant plant-based oil (I used sunflower oil) enough to cover 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.

• With a spoon, add the mixture to the pan for cooking (I add 4 simultaneously), and wait for around 15 to 30 seconds for each side to cook, 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 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.

• 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 oi, and for the zucchini fritters to cool a bit. Enjoy!

Pro tip: Don’t exaggerate too much with oil when adding it to the pan for pre-heating – it will result in your zucchini fritters literally swimming in the oil, and therefore, it may be harder for the paper towel to soak in excess oil from them. Add enough oil to cover the pan, but don’t exaggerate, or put too little – the fritters will easily burn in that case!

Alternatives, Tips, And Ideas

• In case your Zucchini Fritters seem to fall apart, can’t hold well, or get stuck to the pan, make sure to use enough oil, preheat the pan, and do not flip too soon or too many times. You can also use a non-stick cooking pan, and simplify the process. Also, the problem may lay in the possibility that you didn’t use enough flour, since it helps create structure. If you’re using whole wheat flour – you may need to add more amount of it, and it can possibly make your zucchini fritters denser, and maybe not so fluffy.

• Squeeze excess liquid from Zucchini – Squeeze grated zucchini over a bowl with clean hands to get rid of extra moisture.

• When cooking fritters, make sure not to cook at too high a temperature – it can result in your zucchini fritters quickly getting undercooked on the inside, and the outside will get golden-brownish a lot quicker, and may even get burned. The safest way is to cook it at medium to low heat to give it enough time for each fritter to get evenly cooked.