Feta Zucchini Fritters

These feta zucchini fritters are a delicious snack or summer appetizer.

Fresh zucchini feta fritters have a sumptuous gooey interior and crispy outside, perfect for dipping into the refreshing minty yogurt sauce. It's a real taste of summer! I make these feta zucchini fritters every year when the homegrown zucchini (or courgettes, as they are also known) in the garden start to take over, and we need to use them up.

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Why this is the best recipe

Cooking with seasonal produce is important to me as a chef, and making little zucchini feta pancakes is the perfect way to let the zucchini flavor shine. These easy zucchini fritters are served with a mint yogurt dip that works well with summer food, like this black garlic chicken or buttered sweetcorn. If you like a bit of spice, try them dipped in this homemade pineapple hot sauce too!

Ingredients

These easy feta fritters have no complex or hard-to-find ingredients; you will probably have most of them in your fridge or pantry already.

Feta zucchini fritters

1. Zucchini: You can use any zucchini (courgette) variety in this fritter recipe, we grow several, and they all taste as delicious as the next. The smaller they are, the better, though, as they have less water in them.
2. Feta cheese: A deliciously tangy feta is the perfect summer cheese!
3. Shallot: Shallot has a milder, sweeter taste than garlic, so I prefer to use it so that the onion taste isn't too strong.
4. Parsley: A great herb that gives amazing flavor and goes with almost everything!
5. All-purpose flour: AP flour (also known as plain flour) gives structure to the zucchini feta fritters and helps them to stay together.
6. Baking powder: A small amount of baking powder allows the fritters to puff up slightly and create more structure.
7. Egg: Egg is a binding agent and helps bring all the feta zucchini fritter ingredients together.
8. Olive oil: Olive oil is perfect for shallow frying; it has a high smoke point and is a great source of healthy fats.

Mint yogurt dipping sauce

1. Yogurt: Use plain, unsweetened yogurt to make this dipping sauce.
2. Mint: Fresh mint gives an unbelievably delicious flavor to the dish and pairs beautifully with the cheese in the feta zucchini fritters.
3. Lemon: A touch of citrus acidity brings everything together and highlights the fresh flavors.
4. Salt and pepper: Freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of salt are the only other seasoning you need.

See the recipe card for the quantities and full instructions.

Instructions

1. Prepare the zucchini. Wash, top, and tail the zucchini and grate them into a sieve over a mixing bowl.
2. Sprinkle the zucchini with salt and leave for 30 minutes to let them release their water. Then, press your hands or a fork down and force any remaining water through the sieve into the bowl. Pour the water away.
3. Make the fritters. Whisk together the egg, flour, and baking powder in the bowl until it forms a thick paste. Stir in the grated zucchini, chopped fresh parsley, and a cup crumbled feta, and season the batter with salt and pepper.

Top Tip: Zucchini has a very high water content, and it is really important to release it all before cooking your feta zucchini fritters. Otherwise, you will end up with zucchini soup in your frying pan as all the liquid runs out, and it won't be pretty!

How to cook zucchini fritters

1. Heat some oil in a frying pan or skillet over medium heat, and then begin frying your feta zucchini fritters.
2. Spoon a heaped tablespoon of the feta zucchini fritter batter into the pan and use the back of the spoon to flatten it.
3. Fry three small zucchini feta pancakes at a time for a few minutes on each side, flipping only once the edges become golden brown and crispy. Remove cooked fritters to a plate with paper towels.
4. Make the dipping sauce, blend the yogurt, parsley, lemon juice, and the rest of the mint together.
5. Serve the hot crispy feta zucchini fritters with the cool mint yogurt dipping sauce, and enjoy.

Variations

Here are some ways to make this zucchini feta fritters recipe suit you.

1. Spicy: Add chili pepper flakes to the fritter mix to give them a kick
2. Deluxe: Mix some cream cheese or sour cream into the dipping sauce to make it rich and thick.
3. Herbs: Try this recipe with chopped fresh dill instead.
4. Oven baked: For a more hands-off cooking experience, cook the feta zucchini fritters on a lined baking sheet in the oven at 175 degrees Celsius/350 degrees Fahrenheit. Drizzle with oil before baking and flip halfway through.

Equipment

You will need a mixing bowl, a sieve, and a frying pan to make these feta zucchini fritters as well as a good spatula to flip them when the time comes!

An immersion blender is a great way to quickly blend a dipping sauce. Although if you don't have a blender, you can mix the dressing by hand, it will just be a bit chunkier.

Storage

Store leftover feta zucchini fritters in the fridge after cooking and fry them again to reheat and crisp up. Good for 2-3 days.

These ingredients don't stand up well to freezing.

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