Zucchini Fritters

The following is a recipe that I whipped up for lunch today as I was craving something on the lighter side and wasn't all that hungry. They are very scrumptious and provide a nice side veggie for any meal, or go great as a snack! They are easy to make and take very minimal effort. I can't wait to make these again and will probably pair them with my salmon cakes sometime in the near future! Now enough with the small talk, let's get cookin'!

What you will need:

• 4-5 Medium to Large size zucchini, grated
• 5 eggs (5-6 egg whites if you're omitting the yolk)
• 5 tablespoons of flour (For a healthier option, go with coconut flour)
• Cooking Salt
• Black Pepper
• Olive Oil
• Feta cheese, or any cheese you prefer (Optional)

Instructions:

1. Begin by fine grating your zucchini into a medium/large sized bowl. Once all your zucchini is grated, sprinkle a small amount of cooking salt over them and allow them to rest for 7-10 minutes. This allows some of the retained water to rest at the bottom.
2. Once your 7-10 minutes are up, grab the grated zucchini in handfuls and squeeze all the water out of them and add them to a clean bowl. Keep doing this until you've squeezed out all of the zucchini and it has been placed into the waiting bowl.
3. Take all of the eggs and place them in a large bowl and whisk them together with a pinch of cooking salt and black pepper. Feel free to add any other seasonings you'd like to experiment with.
4. Add the grated zucchini to the egg mixture and mix well. Follow by adding any cheese if you're choosing to incorporate it.
5. Once you've mixed the egg mixture and zucchini, add the flour and mix well until all the flour has been absorbed. 
6. Heat olive oil in a frying pan at a medium/high heat. Once the oil is hot enough, bring the temperature down some before adding the fritters to keep them from burning. Scoop out heaping spoonfuls into the oil and allow them to cook 1-2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. 
7. Once the fritters are done cooking, move them to a plate ready with paper towels to soak up all the extra olive oil. 

I got about 18 small fritters out of this recipe. Quantities will change based on how large you would like them to be. 

As a healthier option to frying them in olive oil, I will be experimenting with baking them instead and will be sure to post an update for that! 

This recipe holds a lot of room for trying out new things, be it a different squash, cheese or cooking them in different flavored oils, the possibilities could be endless!

If you tried out this recipe I would love to hear how yours turned out! Stay tuned as well as I will be trying to post a new recipe and/or fitness blog everyday! Also, I will be working out all the kinks with my camera so that all recipes in the future will have more in depth how to's, and less mediocre pictures. So stick around!