These Courgette Fritters are cheesy, herby and totally delicious. When courgettes are in season, this is a brilliant way of making the most of a glut of them. Serve them for dinner, in a bun as a burger, for packed lunches or picnics.
My love affair with these Courgette Fritters is a long one. I first started to make them for my young toddlers, when I had a glut of courgettes in the garden, TEN YEARS ago.
I first posted this recipe here in 2018 and now, five years later, they’ve had a little refresh, but I will be making batches of them on repeat yet again this year.
Packed with creamy feta, zingy fresh herbs and the humble courgette – these are everything we want in a summer supper.
Why you’ll love this Courgette Fritters recipe
⭐️ Healthy and packed with goodness
⭐️ Very easy to oven-bake
⭐️ Mouthwatering blend of flavours
About Easy Courgette Fritters
A ‘fritter’ is normally vegetables or protein, coated in a batter and fried. That’s how these Courgette Fritters started their life, but then I must admit, they’ve morphed into more of a courgette burger maybe?
My reasons being:
➡️ I HATE standing over a hot frying pan.
➡️ It’s really annoying to have to fry something in batches for 4 people.
➡️ I feel like you need a large portion of courgettes for them to be filling, so I made the change to go big or go home. It’s quite tricky to make large fried fritters as they can burn on the outside before the inside is cooked.
SO in light of all of the above, I have oven-baked these and so technically they are more of a burger, but I have also included frying instructions below… so you do you!
If you want to try some other courgette recipes, give my Courgette Soup, Courgette Lasagne, or my Hidden-Veg Bolognese a go. And the rumours are true… yes, you can even make a Courgette Cake. Yum!
This recipe makes 8 Courgette Feta Fritters, which will serve 4 hungry people, depending on how you’re serving them up.
Courgette Fritters Ingredients
- Courgettes – The fresher the better. If you’re growing them yourself, try to use them before they get too big as they can get very watery.
- Feta cheese – Or Greek Salad cheese
- Eggs – I use medium, free-range
- Garlic – You can use fresh or jarred/paste/frozen if you prefer
- Dill – A small bunch of fresh dill has a big impact, so please do try and add this
- Mint – Also fresh
- Dried oregano
- Plain flour
- Breadcrumbs – I use good quality ready-made ones (Panko style) to save time but you can make your own if you prefer.
- Red onion
- Oil – Olive oil or sunflower oil if you prefer
- Yoghurt, mint and lemon – To serve (optional)
How to make this Courgette Fritters recipe
1. Grate your courgettes and squeeze as much liquid out as possible, using a colander, a tea towel or your hands. Discard the liquid.
2. Put all of your fritter ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. (I use clean hands.)
3. Shape the mixture into 8 patties and put them onto a greased baking sheet.
4. Bake in a preheated oven as per the recipe below until golden brown, firm and cooked through.
Substitutions
- Red onion – If you don’t have these but do have spring onions, these would work instead.
- Cheese – If you’d like to make these dairy-free, just take out the cheese.
Leftovers
In the fridge You can keep this recipe in the fridge for 3 days. Reheat fully by heating in the microwave (they will lose their crunch) or in the oven (be careful not to overcook) or enjoy them cold.
In the freezer These are great for batch cooking and freezing. Make sure you freeze them once cooked and cooled, one at a time, or separated on a baking tray before storing them together. This will stop them sticking together.
Defrost thoroughly before eating and you can then either reheat well or eat them cold. (Note: They won’t be crispy if you heat them in the microwave but still delicious.)
Top tips for making Courgette Fritters
Drying the courgettes
Squeezing the water out of the courgettes is really important, or you could end up with soggy fritters.
I use a clean tea towel for this job (which is a bit annoying as we then have a mucky tea towel BUT does get the most liquid out and saves a lot of time.) You could also use bare clean hands or a sieve.
How to shape a fritter
You can shape into patties with your hands but I use these nifty little rings. Anything that will help to give you a round shape would work or free style with your hands.
Coarsely grate
Be sure to use the coarse side of your grater or food processor setting for your courgettes. I’ve used a fine one before and the texture wasn’t quite as good.
FAQ
You could have them on their own as finger food or enjoy them with a creamy dip like tzatziki.
If you’re eating them as a bigger meal, why not try a simple Cucumber Salad, or perhaps Homemade Chips or Jacket Potatoes?
Yes you can. Just make sure the patties are half the size (ie this recipe would make 16) before you start, then fry them in oil for about 4-5 minutes on each side. Don’t overcrowd the pan – you’ll probably need to cook them in batches. (There’s more information in the recipe at the bottom of this post.)
If I’m reaching you in America, we’re talking about Zucchini Fritters here (yes – courgette and zucchinis are the same thing).
They might grow on different continents but they’re still the same vegetable (actually, technically a fruit), not only delicious but high in antioxidants, vitamin C, potassium and fibre.
Definitely yes! This is where so much fibre is in them. The skin isn’t tough or chewy so works fine in recipes.
Courgettes are also fantastic for potassium and vitamins A and C, so we want to use as much of the vegetable as we can.
Yes! They are honestly so versatile and can be flavoured and cooked in so many ways. Including peeled into ribbons for salads or finely sliced.
We can also stuff them, add them to pastas, hide them in sauces, roast them, sauté them, dress them or grill them.
This is the one thing I wouldn’t do with a courgette. Cooking the delicate vegetable like this can make them mushy and lacking in flavour.
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Easy Courgette Fritters {with Feta Cheese}
Ingredients
- 750 g Courgettes Grated
- 100 g Feta cheese Crumbled into big chunks
- 2 Eggs Medium free range
- 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
- 1/2 Red onion Peeled and finely chopped
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
To serve:
- Greek yoghurt For dipping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220C.
- Grate your courgettes and squeeze out as much of the liquid as you can over a colander. Use the colander and your hands – there will be lots! (See tips below.)
- 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 the mixture 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.
To fry the Courgette Fritters:
- Make 16 smaller patties instead of 8.
- Heat 1 tbsp sunflower oil in a non-stick pan over a medium low heat, cook on each side for about 4-5 minutes until golden and cooked through.
- Add more oil if needed between batches – don’t over crowd the pan.
- Keep the cooked batches warm in the oven while you finish off the others.
Notes
Nutrition (per serving)
This recipe was first published here on 5th July 2018. It was fully updated with new photos and video on Monday 3rd July 2023.
Lynnette says
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.
Sarah Barnes says
Ahhh so pleased it went down well. Check out the courgette cake recipe I did too, hope you like it!
Danielle says
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!
:) says
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!
Ian says
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.
Christopher Ward says
Absolutely delicious thank you for this great recipee.
Maria Georgiou says
This might possibly be the best snack I’ve ever made with courgettes… this recipe is incredible!!! Thank you so much!! 😁😁😁
Debbie Middlemiss says
Totally delicious! They look exactly like the picture in the recipe too! Thanks Debbie
vicki says
awesome recipe even without the egg
Jane says
Great recipe or using up a glut of courgettes from the allotment. Because I can never resist tweaking a recipe, I made a couple of changes:
Things I added: Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; half a teaspoon each of dried chillies and sumac
Things I omitted: Dried oregano and olive oil (but I omitted the oil only because I forgot! So ten minutes into the cooking time I brushed the tops with olive oil to stop them burning. )
Quantities I altered; Halved the breadcrumbs and doubled both the onions and garlic (I love my alliums!) . I probably didn’t use anywhere near 15g of the fresh herbs, but the mint was still really punchy.
I cooked mine in the airfrier for about 20 minutes without any added oil (except for the brush of oil mentioned above).
Delicious! Served with a simple mixed salad drizzled with fresh lime juice, white wine vinegar and chopped chilli.
Celia Christie says
Lovely recipe for using up courgettes, I made a few changes to the recipe, I used mixed herbs, and chillis I used just one egg and cooked the fritters in an air fryer oven which made them very crispy no oil was used, absolutely loved them will definitely make these again thank you