This low calorie baked zucchini fritters recipe is low in calories, sugar and carbs, and so yummy!
Plus this healthy recipe for zucchini fritters comes with 3 yummy (low calorie) dipping sauces to choose from!
You can make this easy zucchini fritters recipe as a snack, side dish, or appetizer. Plus, it’s better for you than fried zucchini fritters, so you can enjoy it without guilt!
This zucchini fritter recipe comes with low calorie tips for making zucchini cutlets, healthy dips, and so much more!
This baked zucchini fritters recipe is just 38 calories!
Low Calorie Zucchini Fritters
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make zucchini fritters healthy.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll even find low calorie cooking tips, a nutrition label and more!
To make these zucchini fritters recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections…
Read through the sections for low calorie tips, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Zucchini Fritters Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Zucchini Patties
- Baked Zucchini Fritters Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Zucchini Fritters Baked
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this recipe for zucchini patties to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping lis for the best zucchini fritter recipe…
Ingredients in Healthy Zucchini Fritters
It’s easy to make zucchini patty recipes low calorie… when you have our tips and tricks.
Here’d how we make these crispy zucchini fritters low in calories and healthy…
Low Calorie Tips for Making Zucchini Fritters:
- Olive Oil Spray… Instead of frying shredded zucchini recipes in oil, lightly spray them. This will save you 100’s of calories and lots of fat!
- Parchment Paper… Using parchment paper will mean you don’t have to worry about this zucchini patty recipe sticking to the pan. So you won’t need extra oil. This saves you 100’s of calories and fat, and best of all, it saves in cleanup time!
Shopping List for Zucchini Pancakes:
- Zucchini
- Eggs
- Scallions
- All-purpose flour (almond flour or gluten free flour work too)
- Salt and pepper
- Olive oil spray
Healthy Dips for Shredded Zucchini Fritters:
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this zucchini pancakes recipe you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for zucchini croquettes can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make the best zucchini fritters recipe…
How to Make Healthy Zucchini Fritters
This zucchini patties recipe is easy to make with nothing more than a bowl and a box cheese grater!
It is important to squeeze out the moisture from the zucchini, so use a kitchen towel, cheese cloth or paper towels to get them good and dry… otherwise you’ll have soggy fritters!
How to Make Healthy Zucchini Patties:
- Preheat oven to 425° and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Use a box grater to grate zucchini into a large bowl.
- Move the zucchini onto a piece of cheese cloth, or into a clean kitchen towel and squeeze as much of the moisture out as you can.
- Add the zucchini, egg, shallot, flour, salt and pepper to the bowl and stir to combine.
- Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop the zucchini mixture. Roll in wet hands into balls.
- Place on the prepared baking sheet and press down into patties.
- Spray with olive oil and place in the hot oven
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, flip, spray the tops with olive oil and bake for an additional 10-12 minutes.
- Serve hot or cold with sour cream, Greek Yogurt or one of the healthy dips below.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for zucchini fritters vegetarian recipes…
Low Calorie Zucchini Fritters Recipe
These baked zucchini fritters are low calorie and so yummy!
If you skipped past the low calorie tips, you can scroll back up to the “Ingredients” section to learn how to make zucchini fritters healthy and low calorie.
More Low Calorie Zucchini Recipes:
3 Healthy Dips and Dressings for Zucchini Fritters:
Low Calorie Zucchini Fritters {38 CALORIES}
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 zucchini
- 2 large eggs
- 3 scallions chopped
- ⅔ cup all-purpose flour almond flour or gluten free flour work too
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- Olive oil spray
Healthy Dips and Dressings for Zucchini Fritters:
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425° and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Use a box grater to grate zucchini into a large bowl.
- Move the zucchini onto a piece of cheese cloth, or into a clean kitchen towel and squeeze as much of the moisture out as you can.
- Add the zucchini, egg, shallot, flour, salt and pepper to the bowl and stir to combine.
- Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop the zucchini mixture. Roll in wet hands into balls.
- Place on the prepared baking sheet and press down into patties.
- Spray with olive oil and place in the hot oven
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, flip, spray the tops with olive oil and bake for an additional 10-12 minutes.
- Serve hot or cold with sour cream, Greek Yogurt or one of the healthy dips above.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Zucchini Fritters Baked
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Article History:
- Originally written nd published September 14, 2021 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on May 9, 2023 by Audrey Johns
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