Spiced Courgette Fritters: Simple & Delicious
Spiced courgette fritters are packed full of flavour and nutrients. Crisp on the outside and soft in the middle, they’re delicious served warm with minted yoghurt for breakfast, brunch, lunch or supper.
When a friend kindly left me a multitude of courgettes on my doorstep the other day, I was delighted. Not only were they freshly picked, but they were small, multi-coloured and pretty. My friend was equally delighted, she can’t give them away fast enough.
Any number of recipes have been developed to make the most of this seasonal abundance. When I consulted Twitter, the oracle spoke: spiced courgette fritters it was.
What To Make with Homegrown Courgettes
As I may have mentioned already, we’re really behind with the plot this year and didn’t manage to plant as much as we hoped. What we did plant was very late. So although we have courgettes coming (I hope), they aren’t going to be ready for picking any time soon.
I’ve had plenty of courgette gluts in the past, however and many of them end up as soup. They do make a very tasty soup. I’ve also made any number of courgette cakes and other bakes. Here are all the courgette recipes on Tin and Thyme.
Spiced Courgette Fritters
Spiced courgette fritters are another excellent standby. They’re packed full of flavour and nutrients. They’re crisp on the outside, soft in the middle and utterly delicious. Eat them warm for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner, depending on mood.
This time we had them for breakfast, with enough left over for supper. They reheat in the oven quite effectively. We ate ours with some plain yoghurt dolloped on top. Accompany them with a variety of salads, however and you have something a lot more substantial.
For a rather different, but equally delicious recipe, why not try my courgette sweetcorn fritters?
Other Courgette Recipes to Use Up Your Glut
If you’re lucky enough to have one, that is.
- Chocolate courgette squares
- Courgette couscous
- Courgette chickpea pancakes
- Courgette tempeh hash
- Summer green soup with parsley & almond pesto
- Vegan chocolate courgette cupcakes
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Spice Courgette Fritters. PIN IT.
Spiced Courgette Fritters – The Recipe
Spicy Courgette Fritters
Ingredients
- 2 small courgettes (zucchini) or one medium large – grated
- 2 spring onions (scallions) sliced
- 1 clove garlic finely chopped
- small bunch of parsley chopped
- 1 large egg (I used a duck egg)
- 2 tbsp wholemeal spelt flour
- ½ tsp baharat (or other Middle Eastern spice mix of choice)
- pinch salt
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
Instructions
- Beat the egg with the flour, salt and seasoning in a large bowl.1 large egg, 2 tbsp wholemeal spelt flour, ½ tsp baharat, pinch salt
- Stir in the remaining ingredients.2 small courgettes (zucchini), 2 spring onions (scallions), 1 clove garlic, small bunch of parsley
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan and dollop tablespoonfuls of the mixture into rough rounds in the pan.2 tbsp sunflower oil
- Fry over a low to medium heat for about 4 minutes or until they're crisp and golden. Flip over and fry for a further 3-4 minutes on the other side.
- Repeat with the remaining batter.
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Linkies
Eggs for breakfast was Dom’s dictate for this month’s Simply Eggcellent. So, he’s getting these spiced courgette fritters over at Belleau Kitchen.
It’s been a long time since I participated in Breakfast Club, but these spicy vegetable fritters give me the perfect opportunity. Hosted by Sarah over at Maison Cupcake.
These also go to Ren Behan for Simple and in Season – there’s a perfect glut of courgettes now.
I am in LOVE with this style. I cannot wait to cook from this site, this week!
Thanks Jillian, do let me know how you get on.
Oooh, these look fab. I haven’t grown courgettes for the past couple of years as I run out of steam with them VERY quickly, may just give them a go next year again thanks to this recipe 😉
Janie x
Oh I love courgettes Janie, but I know what you mean. The word glut must have been made up just for these very prolific squash.
I was just about to pass right by this recipe because in Canada, we refer to courgettes as zucchini, and I just assumed that this recipe was about courgette flowers, which are so difficult to find here! But, I’m glad I stopped by and read the post. Sounds wonderfully delicious! I love the addition of the baharat; I would have never thought of that.
I’m glad you stopped by Byron. I know they use the Italian word for courgettes in North America. I’m not quite sure why we use a completely different word. It can be confusing.
I’ve never really been a fan of courgettes in any thing other than fritters, these look delicious.
I’ve heard a few people saying they’re not that keen on courgettes. They might not be the tastiest veg around, but they produce so brilliantly well and always make me think of summer.
sounds like an amazing fritters recipe.. my kids are totally fond of it.. looking fwd to seeing their reaction
Making fritters has got to be one of the easier ways of getting veg into kids I reckon Fareeha.
These fritters look Delish.
Thank you Preethi, they are very good indeed 🙂
I love fritters… Here in the city, though, while I do get the full variety at farmers’ markets, I don’t have any glut – I envy you that! They are so versatile…
Ours are so late this year, I’m not sure we’ll get a glut, but I’d certainly prefer to have one than not 😉
Courgettes look so pretty. I love them. Fritters look so tempting. May just serve them with baked beans tomorrow as a light dinner option. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Thanks Mayuri, what a great idea to have these with baked beans – yum.
These sound great! I’ve only recently turned vegetarian, so looking for lots of new recipes to try out. 🙂 xxx
Well I can highly recommend these fritters Emma. I’ve only recently changed my blog over from being a vegetarian one, so although I have some savoury vegetarian recipes on here, I will soon have a lot more.
These fritters sound delicious. I wish I had a neighbour that just gave away ingredients like this!
Ah yes thank you Annie. I felt very lucky. Sounds like you need to get friendly with your local allotmenteers 😉
We are swamped with garden courgettes right now, but I have been too busy to do anything exciting with them! We have even grown round ones! These fritters look so good, especially with the extra spice thrown in.
I sowed a couple of round ones, first time ever, only once came up but as we are rather behind, only time will tell if we get anything from it. What have you been doing with all your courgettes?
These fritters look so delicious! I have to buy some zucchini tomorrow to make some fritters too.
I bet you’ll come up with some splendid courgette fritters Angie. I made some large ones for supper recently using chickpea flour.
Those courgettes are so pretty! I’ve never seen a yellow courgette. One of the down sides of living in a city centre is that our supermarkets are tiny and we get no variation at all (boo!) The fritters look so delicious Choclette 🙂
Where are you Nadia? Don’t you get farmer’s market’s? We used to grow yellow courgettes a lot as they were my favourite, but these days I prefer the Italian green and white stripy ones.
I love courgettes and made some fritters like this with last years haul. This years lot was ruined whilst we were on holidays but I still plan something similar as I do love this veg. Yours look v tasty!
Oh no Nazima. Did they die or grow into marrows? I shall be heading over to you to see your recipe 🙂
Mmmm delicious, perfect snack or breakfast x
Thank you, I could just snack on two or three now!
Great idea for using up a glut of courgette! (Which we always have this time of year…) Thanks for inc. my Courgette and Feta Bake 🙂
Oh for our own courgette glut Emma. Not sure how many (if any) we’ll get this year.
We love courgette fritters (there is actually a recipe for it in my book), and it’s a great way to use up the abundance of courgettes around at the moment.
Ah, great minds Dannii 😉 They are very good and I’m looking forward to making some more when our courgettes finally start producing.
I love courgette and veggie fritters! Really need to make some today or tomorrow 🙂 And I also love Bharat this is what we mainly use in Jordan (we add it to chicken, meat, rice and vegetables)
Ah that’s interesting Diana. I didn’t know it was a Jordanian spice mix – it’s a very good one 🙂
Oh wow, these fritter look so darn good, I’m literally drooling over your pics Choclette:-) Thanks for linking to my Courgette Soup:-)
Excellent Camilla, that’s what I like to hear 😉
oh wow these look so good. I do adore a courgette and how lucky to be left such a wonderful gift from neighbours. I have a wonderful recipe for a fried courgette and tomato layered lasagne type thing on my blog which you could try, it’s such a summery dish! I think I need to go and have breakfast now before I pass out! Thanks for linking to Simply Eggcellent x
Thanks Dom, courgette lasagne sounds good to me 🙂