Easy Air Fryer Zucchini Fritters
January 16, 2023
30 min
super easy
5
These gluten-free Air Fryer Zucchini Fritters are an easy snack or side dish for the kids. A kind of pakora made with zucchini, eggs, carrots, garlic, parsley, olive oil and aged cheddar.
These Air Fryer Zucchini Fritters are fun and easy to make, plus the kids love them. They get this lovely crunch when they are freshly made. The idea behind this was to make a Mediterranean-style pakora with loads of shredded zucchini and carrot. But without all the oil. This zucchini fritter can be used as a side dish with the white dip or as a simple snack. It tastes great warm or cold.
The Pakora Idea
It started with the idea of making a healthy Air fried Pakora, but pakora doesn’t have eggs. So better call them fritters. Ultimately, after a few batches. I’ve settled on a simple parsley plus aged cheese flavour instead of the Indian spices. This way, with eggs, make it a bit more of a complete snack or bite for the kids.
The two regular flours used for pakora are Chickpea flour which is a great binder and rice flour which gives a nice crunch. I’ve used both too, which makes them gluten-free and healthy!
Air Fryer or Oven?
Well, Both! The recipe works well also with the oven. The main difference is that in the oven the patties flatten up and cook at a darker bottom. Although, I much prefer the Air fryer, you’ll need to make it in batches. So it’s up to you!
The White Dip
The dip is a basic creme Fraiche with lime and parsley but you could add some dill or coriander if you prefer. It’s a really simple dip and you can replace the creme with plain Greek yogurt or sour cream. Even add a tad of garlic to give it a tzatziki flair.
Variations
This recipe is adaptable. You could do any mix of grated veggies you’d like. Plus, whatever mix of spices you’d like too. For example, add a bit of curry powder in there and you get something closer to a real pakora. The world is wide open for you here!
Baby version
If you intend to make this for baby (BLW) try to cut on the cheese and salt and you have an ultra-healthy bite for baby too!
Preservation
These quiche-like fritters will stay good in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Ingredients
- 200 g zucchini eq. 1 medium sized zucchini
- 2 small carrots
- 2 eggs
- 1 small potato
- 1 garlic clove pressed
- ½ cup chickpea flour
- ¼ cup rice flour
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp parsley finely chopped
- 40 g aged cheddar
- salt and pepper
White dip
- 3 tbsp Cream fraiche or plain greek yogurt or sour cream
- ¼ lime
- 1 tsp parsley finely chopped
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Start by cuting in a cheese grater or mandoline the zucchini, carrots and potato.
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and mix.
- Cover the bottom of Air fryer and make little 4 cm patties.
- Cook in the Air Fryer at 200°C (400F°) for 8 minutes. (needs three batches in the Air fryer and only one in the oven at same temperature for 18 minutes.)
- Make the white sauce by mixing every ingredient.
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9 Comments
Vanessa
These are so delicious and I love that I can make them in the air fryer!- Kristen
Our family loved these and thank goodness. We always have so much zucchini, we grow a ton and then freeze it so having another go to recipe that our family loves is so helpful. These will be on repeat in our house. - passionate foodie
love it. Usually, pakoras are made with potatoes and onions but I really like this idea of using zucchini.
- Mikayla
Whipped these up and took them to work for lunch, I shared them and now she will be making them too!
The air fryer has to be my current favourite small kitchen appliance. It’s just magic! These fritters look great, and it’s such a good idea to use a combination of flours. I love that I can substitute other veggies this recipe. I’m going to use corn as I am allergic to zucchini.