These healthy and simple Courgette Fritters are perfect for all the family. Made with feta cheese, and baked in the oven, they are a delicious dinner. Perfect finger food for baby too!
Summer time dinners ahoy! Hello delicious Easy Courgette Fritters, oven baked with feta cheese.
I’m not growing any vegetables this year, as we are moving house, but the only vegetable I’ve ever grown successfully was courgettes (or zucchini if you’re American).
Let me tell you, even if you’re not a gardener, if you grow courgettes, you’ll feel like Alan Titchmarsh every time you go to check on your plant babies.
Courgettes grow and grow with our much persuasion and it’s SO satisfying.
I never tire of them as they are one of my favourite veggies, but if you are stuck for ideas, Courgette Fritters are a brilliant go to recipe.
How do you make Courgette Fritters?
How do you make Courgette Fritters?Courgette Fritters are usually made with grated courgettes (zucchini), plus a binding ingredient like flour or breadcrumbs and eggs, plus herbs for flavour.
They are usually then fried in hot oil in a pan. You can do this with this recipe, however, I prefer to bake them in the oven so that they are less greasy.
Can you freeze Courgette Fritters?
Yes, you can easily freeze Courgette Fritters (Zucchini Fritters). To avoid them sticking together, so you can defrost one at a time, freeze separated with sheets of baking parchment.
Thoroughly defrost the Courgette Fritters before either eating at room temperature or warming through.
Tips for making the Courgette Fritters:
- Be sure to use the coarse side of your grated (or food processor) for grate your courgettes. I used a fine one here and the texture wasn’t quite as good.
- I LOVE these breadcrumbs from Waitrose for this recipe. They have a great texture and really feel like homemade, without the faff.
- This recipe makes EIGHT Courgette Fritters, which will serve four hungry people.
Fancy some other recipes you could use courgettes in? How about my Chicken and Bacon Pasta Bake or my Hidden Vegetable Bolognase?
Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do. I’d love to know how you got on and what you thought of it if you make this Courgette Fritters recipe. Please rate the recipe and leave me a comment below if you do.
Also, if you fancy showing me a photo by tagging me on Instagram (@tamingtwins) I LOVE to see your creations.
How to make the Courgette Fritters recipe:
Easy Courgette Fritters Recipe - Oven Baked with Feta Cheese
These healthy and simple Courgette Fritters are perfect for all the family. Made with feta cheese, and baked in the oven, they are a delicious dinner. Perfect finger food for baby too!
Ingredients
- 1 kg Courgettes Grated
- 100 g Feta cheese Crumbled into big chunks
- 2 Medium free range eggs
- 2 Cloves Garlic Peeled and crushed
- 15 g Fresh dill Chopped
- 15 g Fresh mint Chopped
- 1 tsp Dried oregano
- 75 g Plain flour
- 200 g Breadcrumbs
- .5 Red onion Peeled and finely chopped
- Fry light spray or Olive oil for greasing
To serve:
- Yoghurt
- Mint
- Lemon
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 220C
Take your grated courgettes and over a colander, squeeze out as much of the liquid as you can. Use the colander and your hands, there will be lots!
When you've squeezed out the liquid, put all of your courgette fritter ingredients into a large bowl and mix well with clean hands.
Shape into 8 patties and put onto a greased (or sprayed using Fry Light) baking sheet.
Bake for about 30 minutes of until browned, firm and cooked through.
Great recipe for using a good amount of my glut of courgettes from my allotment! Really tasty too. I changed the flavourings after my first try and used zatar and a pinch of chilli powder, my family preferred that. I also found 1 egg was plenty.
Overall a very good recipe, best one I have found to use up my courgettes.
Ahhh so pleased it went down well. Check out the courgette cake recipe I did too, hope you like it!
Lovely recipe. I didn’t use as many of the fresh herbs as suggested (mainly because I didn’t pick enough and was too lazy to go back into the garden to get more!) but I don’t think the recipe missed it. I also added a pinch of chilli and it worked really well!
I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this vegetarian recipe! I made it even healthier by substituting the flour and breadcrumbs for ground almonds and it was delicious. I also improvised on the herbs and just used what I had in the cupboard and I didn’t measure anything, just guessed – but it still worked!
Made these to use up some courgettes given to me by a neighbour and they were delicious. I had no dill so used some fennel from the garden which worked well. I’ll definitely be making them again. Thank you.