Zucchini Fritters with sour cream dip
These fritters are light and crispy and make a perfect light lunch or dinner.
Ingredients
Fritters
- 500 g zucchini medium
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 1 tbsp freshly grated lemon zest
- 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
- 1 clove of garlic
- 75 g flour
- olive oil
Dip
- 250 g sour cream
- 1 onion or two shallots
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tbs finely chopped parsley
- 4 tbs of chopped lettuce
- a tsp mixed mediterranean spices
Instructions
- Use the large holes of a box grater and grate zucchini into a bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes then check if there's too much of extra liquid. If so drain the zucchini.
- Then prepare the herbal dip. Chop the onion(s), lettuce, parsley and garlic cloves. Stir them into the sour cream.
- Add the pepper, salt and mediterranean spices mix. Chill in the fridge until your fritters are ready.
- Back to the fritters, add the salt, lemon zest, the chopped parlsey, garlic, pepper and the eggs.
- Mix the ingredients until the eggs cover all of the zucchini mixture. Slowly add flour and stir again.
- In a large pan heat the olive oil.
- Form your fritters with two tablespoons. Carefully drop the mixture into the pan and depending on its size you can add 2 more fritters.
- Cook fritters until truly golden, then turn them and repeat the same.
- Once all the fritters are ready, serve with a generous spoon of herbal sour cream.
- Bon appétit