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This vegan zucchini fritters recipe bakes a bounty of summer squash into deliciously crisp zucchini patties. Using a food processor, these baked zucchini fritters come together in just 30 minutes for dipping, snacking, or serving with salads, soups, or sides of your choosing!
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Table of Contents
- Why You’ll Love this Vegan Zucchini Fritters Recipe!
- Ingredients for Baked Zucchini Fritters
- How To Make Zucchini Fritters Vegan
- Toni’s Recipe Tips for Baked Zucchini Fritters
- FAQs for Vegan Zucchini Fritters Recipe
- Storage Instructions for Zucchini Patties
- Serving Suggestions for Vegan Fritters?
- More Delicious Zucchini Recipes!
- Baked Vegan Zucchini Fritters Recipe
Why You’ll Love this Vegan Zucchini Fritters Recipe!
Zucchini grows easily and abundantly in many gardens, leaving many with lots of fresh zucchini at the height of the season. This means that I am always on the hunt for new ways to cook it, whether it’s harvested from home or bought on sale at the grocery story or farmers’ market.
Luckily for me (and you), zucchini adapts itself to a wide variety of different preparations! In this recipe, it’s grated, seasoned, and cooked up for delightful baked zucchini fritters you’re going to love. There are so many ways to enjoy these budget-friendly fritters: as an appetizer with dipping sauces galore, as part of a light lunch with a salad or soup, or just to munch on throughout the day with their irresistibly crispy tenderness! Plus, these fritters are guilt-free without oil or frying!
If you’re still looking for ways to use zucchini, consider cooking it up into crispy cheesy zucchini chips, bread it for some healthy zucchini fries, or stuff it like these tex-mex zucchini boats!
Ingredients for Baked Zucchini Fritters
All you need are a handful of simple ingredients to make the best vegan zucchini fritters.
- Onion and garlic: These two aromatics combine to give the fritters a nice foundation of flavor.
- Fresh parsley: Use fresh to really get the earthy, herby, lemon flavors found in parsley.
- Zucchini: Fresh zucchini is the star of the show in these vegan fritters.
- Baking powder: Contributes to the structure and gives the fritters some volume.
- Flour: Absorbs some of the water but also gives your fritters structure.
- Nutritional yeast: All about more flavor. Nutritional yeast adds umami and ‘cheesy’ flavors to these vegan zucchini fritters.
- Flax meal: This ingredient takes the place of egg and helps hold the egg-free fritters together. Plus, it absorbs some of the excess water in the zucchini, keeping them from being overly mushy and wet.
- Sesame seeds: Over the top for an easy garnish.
How To Make Zucchini Fritters Vegan
Let’s look at what goes into making the best vegan zucchini patties!
Preparations:
- Before you get started mixing them up, gather all your ingredients, preheat the oven to 425 degrees F, and lightly oil a baking sheet or line with a piece of parchment paper.
Step 1: Combine the onion, zucchini, parsley, and garlic in a food processor. Then pulse until the ingredients are a uniform minced size.
Step 2: Next, squeeze the veggie mixture with your hands over the sink to release some of the excess water.
Step 3: Transfer the veggies to a large bowl and add baking powder, salt, pepper, flour, nutritional yeast, and flax meal. Then mix everything together until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
Step 4: Wet your hands to lessen the stickiness of the mixture and form into small golf ball-sized pieces. After, place each ball on the prepared baking sheet, evenly spread apart. Then sprinkle the top of each with a generous amount of sesame seeds.
Step 5: Place them in the preheated oven and bake for ten minutes. Then remove the tray from the oven, flip each fritter over and bake for another 10 minutes. Finally, serve with a condiment of choice! They are lovely on their own, as an appetizer, or atop a salad.
They should be crispy and golden brown. You may have to adjust cooking time based on the oven, so give them a check around 8 minutes.
Toni’s Recipe Tips for Baked Zucchini Fritters
- The zucchini fritter dough is quite sticky. Working with slightly wet hands will make it easier to shape them into uniform balls.
- Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon measure for more even-sized fritters. Not only does this look better but it will also help them cook more evenly.
- Squeeze well. Really put some effort into squeezing the veggies to get as much water as you can out of the fritters. Zucchini contains a great deal of water and not squeezing enough can make your fritters a bit mushy.
FAQs for Vegan Zucchini Fritters Recipe
Zucchini contains a lot of water and moisture, so the key to making sure your zucchini fritters aren’t too soggy is to make sure to squeeze as much water as you can before mixing them up. The dough will be sticky but if it seems overly wet, add a bit more flour to help absorb any excess water they may have.
There are a few reasons why fritters don’t hold together very well. To keep this from happening, here are a couple of things to troubleshoot. First, make sure the veggies are chopped into small minced pieces. Second, make sure the ingredients are measured out correctly. Last, if the mixture seems a bit crumbly or won’t stick together to form balls, then you may need to add additional moisture or flour to keep them together.
Visually, zucchini fritters are ready when the outside is golden brown and slightly crispy to the touch. If you press down, they should feel firm and spring back when pressed. If pressing them leaves an indentation, then you will want to cook a bit longer.
Storage Instructions for Zucchini Patties
- Leftovers: If you have leftovers or you make these for your meal prep, store leftover zucchini patties in the refrigerator for up to five days.
- Freezer: Baked zucchini fritters vegan are perfect for freezing. I suggest storing them in a container with a piece of parchment paper in between any layers. This keeps them from sticking together and you can take out just what you need for a meal. Store in the freezer for up to three months.
- Reheat: Lay them out on a baking sheet and heat in a 350° F oven for 10 minutes or until heated through. If frozen, you can thaw them out first or heat them up from frozen by adding additional time.
Serving Suggestions for Vegan Fritters?
Serve up vegan zucchini fritters as an appetizer with a flavorful dip or they also make a tasty meal with a salad or soup. Here are a few serving ideas you can use.
- Vegan lemony avocado mayo: Simply combine one-quarter of mashed, ripe avocado with a few tablespoons of vegan mayo, a squeeze of lemon juice, a pinch of sea salt, and pepper.
- Tahini dip: Thin out some tahini with warm water, lemon juice, and fresh garlic.
- Vegan ranch or vegan garlic sauce.
- Salad: They make a great combination served with a Strawberry Kale Salad, a Greek Millet Salad, or this Garbanzo Bean Kale Salad.
- Soup: Not up for a salad, then serve them with a bowl of soup for a complete meal! I really love it with this Vegan Tomato Basil Soup or Vegan Minestrone Soup.
More Delicious Zucchini Recipes!
Vegan Breakfasts
Vegan Blueberry Zucchini Muffins
Vegan Lunches
Zucchini Tart
Vegan Desserts
Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies
If you tried this baked vegan zucchini fritters recipe or any other recipe on my blog, please leave a 🌟 star rating and let me know how it went in the 📝 comments below. Thanks!
If you want even more zucchini recipes, then check out this round up of 20 Delicious Zucchini Recipes You Need to Try and also my Guide on How to Cook Zucchini!
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Baked Vegan Zucchini Fritters
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Ingredients
- 1 small onion chopped
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 Tablespoons of fresh parsley
- 2 small zucchini chopped
- ¼ teaspoon of baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon of salt
- ¼ teaspoon of black pepper
- ½ – ¾ cups of flour or more as needed
- ¼ cup of nutritional yeast
- 3 Tablespoons of flax meal
- 3 Tablespoons of sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and lightly oil a baking sheet or line with a piece of parchment paper.
- In a food processor, pulse the onion, garlic, parsley, and zucchini until all are a uniform minced size. Squeeze the veggie mixture with your hands over the sink to release some of the excess water.
- Transfer veggies to a large bowl and add baking powder, salt, pepper, flour, nutritional yeast, and flax meal and mix together until thoroughly combined.
- Wet your hands (mixture will be a bit sticky) and form into small golf ball-sized dollops. Place on the baking sheet evenly spread apart, and sprinkle the top of each with a generous amount of sesame seeds.
- Bake for 10 minutes then remove from oven, flip them over and bake for another 10 minutes until crispy and golden brown. You may have to adjust cooking time based on the oven, so give them a check around 8 minutes.
- Serve with a condiment of choice. Lovely on their own, as an appetizer, or atop a salad.
Notes
- The zucchini fritter dough is quite sticky. Working with slightly wet hands will make it easier to shape them into uniform balls.
- Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon measure for more even-sized fritters. Not only does this look better but it will also help them cook more evenly.
- Squeeze well. Really put some effort into squeezing the veggies to get as much water as you can out of the fritters. Zucchini contains a great deal of water and not squeezing enough can make your fritters a bit mushy.
These look so nutritionally dense and amazing
Nothing like a nutrition-packed crunchy snack!
Such a unique recipe! Can’t believe how much I liked it, even though I don’t usually go for zucchini. Give it a try!
It’s a yummy one for sure!
So good! Yum 🙂
These fritters certainly hit the spot!
love how crispy these are!
Right?! So crispy and tasty!
Yum! I tried them with tahini dip, and it is a perfect combo!
Love that tahini combo! Sounds incredible!
I often make courgette fritters as we usually have masses in the summer. But I’m going to try your recipe to make a change next time. Especially like all those sesame seeds.
The sesame seeds add such a nice touch to the fritters! Hope you enjoy it 🙂
Our garden is overflowing with zucchini so I’m constantly looking for new recipes to try. These fritters were easy and delicious. Thank you!
It’s definitely a fun way to enjoy your zucchinis!
I have never done this with my zucchini. It looks delicious and easy to make. Yum!
It’s a yummy way to enjoy them! So crunchy!
Love that how crispy they turned out! So so good!