Zucchini Fries just like you love at your favorite restaurant. The perfect way to use up all that zucchini you’ve bought or grown this summer!
Zucchini Fries are the perfect Appetizer to serve this summer, especially if they are home grown! If you love this recipe, then you are sure to love Crispy Fried Pickles and Fried Cheese Curds.
Sabrina’s Zucchini Fries Recipe
Crispy Zucchini Fries are not intimidating, hard or even difficult to make. I’ll give you two options in fact, baked and fried. The fried version are the classic kind you’ll find in every restaurant across the country.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 4 zucchini , cut into spears
- 2 large eggs , beaten
- canola oil , for frying
Instructions
- Mix bread crumbs, Parmesan and garlic powder in a medium sized bowl and dredge each piece through the mixture.
- Dip the zucchini spears into the beaten eggs then coat again in the bread crumb mixture.
- Add 3 inches of canola oil to a dutch oven on medium high heat (350 degrees) and fry for 3-4 minutes or until golden brown.
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Note from Sabrina
Both Panko and classic breadcrumbs are used for zucchini fries and while I normally love using Panko, in this case to maintain a more classic flavor I use classic breadcrumbs. You can also use breadcrumbs with Italian Seasoning in them, but to keep classic flavors I stick with classic ones.
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About this Recipe
The process for making them is so easy. The addition of Parmesan cheese to your breadcrumbs will create a flavorful crust. Since you don’t need the pieces of zucchini to cook through very much you’ll just cook them long enough to brown the outside.
Recipe Tips & Tricks
Be careful you don’t let the oil get too hot, this will brown the outside before the zucchini even has a chance to soften inside and even though we don’t need it cooked too much, raw zucchini is also not the flavors we are looking for.
Paring Suggestions
Zucchini Fries are a perfect appetizer to a delicious Italian dinner of Chicken Parmesan or Meat Lasagna. My family and guest love them dipped in this Easy Marinara Sauce.
Baking Method
- The zucchini fries get coated in a breadcrumb and Parmesan cheese mixture before being dipped in beaten eggs and dredged in the breadcrumb mixture again.
- The pieces of zucchini are sprayed with cooking spray well after being added to a baking sheet.
- They are baked at 425 degrees for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
- You may want to turn the zucchini pieces halfway through.
- If you’d like to keep the calories down even more you can swap out the whole eggs for egg whites too.
- If you’d like to minimize the breading you can also dredge the zucchini in flour before the eggs instead of the breadcrumb mixture.
Variations
- Garlic: Add ½ teaspoon of Garlic Powder to add a punch of garlic flavor.
- Cayenne Pepper: Spicy Zucchini Fries! Add ¼ teaspoon cayenne powder to the breading mixture.
- Vegetables: Try making carrot fries. Bread and fry them the same way. I also have used broccoli stalks and cauliflower stalks in the past with great success! Steam lightly before breading and frying.
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Can you bake these in the oven instead of frying?
Yes, I included directions and how to adapt the recipe in the above post. Enjoy!
Do you think these would cook well in an air fryer? Temp? Do you know the WW points?
I haven’t tested it but if you decide to try, I’d love to know how it turns out. Thanks!
These looks sooooo crispy and perfect for snacking!
Definitely!
I’m always game from some zucchini fries!!
xo Michael
What a fabulous way to eat zucchini, yum!
If it’s fried… I will love it!
I’ve honestly always wanted to make zucchini fries. These look SO yummy!
Now’s your chance, Emily! Enjoy!