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Thai Curried Zucchini Fritters with Spicy Peanut Sauce

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Thai Curried Zucchini Fritters with Spicy Peanut Sauce

With all the zucchini that I have had this summer one of my favorite quick and easy ways to enjoy it has been simple zucchini fritters or cakes. Zucchini fritters are pretty just grated zucchini that is mixed up to form a batter and then it is fried in a pan until golden brown, rather like a pancake. Other than being easy to make, one of the things that I like so much about them is the fact that you can play around with the flavours in them and you can serve them with various condiments so you can have something new each time. Recently I have made texmex zucchini fritters with salsa and Greek style zucchini fritters with tzatziki . The next version that I wanted to try was Thai curried zucchini fritters with a spicy peanut sauce.
I thought I would keep it simple and I mixed some home made Thai curry paste into the zucchini batter along with some Thai inspired herbs and a birds eye chili for some extra heat. I used my favorite spicy Thai peanut sauce recipe and I served the zucchini cakes smothered in it. The Thai curried zucchini fritters turned out great! They were nice and crispy on the outside and warm and moist on the inside and just packed full of flavour. These zucchini cakes were easily tasty enough to eat by themselves or with a simple fish sauce based dipping sauce but they were great with the savoury peanut sauce. That peanut sauce is so addictive and I just can’t seem to get enough of it! Now I am off to think of new ways to enjoy the zucchini that I have left.

Thai Curried Zucchini Fritters with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Thai Curried Zucchini Fritters with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 20 minutes Servings: 2
ingredients
  • 2 cup zucchini (grated and squeezed to drain)
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons green curry paste (or red curry paste)
  • 1 green onion (chopped)
  • 1 handful cilantro (chopped)
  • 1 birds eye chili (thinly sliced)
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1/4 cup Thai spicy peanut sauce
directions
  1. Mix the zucchini, flour, egg, curry paste, green onion, cilantro, chili, fish sauce and lime juice in a bowl.
  2. Heat the oil in a pan.
  3. Spoon the zucchini mixture into the pan to form patties and cook until golden brown on both sides, about 2-4 minutes per side.
  4. Serve with spicy peanut sauce.
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  1. Daniel says

    This is one of the most creative and flexible zucchini recipes I've seen. Thank you for sharing.

    When I was a kid, our family always grew zukes and *always* had way more than we could eat. We thought we were being generous by giving the surplus away to our neighbors, but one year we really overdid it… and by the end of the summer we started noticing our neighbors going out of their way to avoid us!

    Dan
    Casual Kitchen

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  3. Divina Pe says

    Lovely zucchini fritters. I happen to have some zucchinis in the fridge and they are cheaper these days that a few months ago. Your recipes are so full of flavor and I love them all.

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  8. Jennifer says

    You never cease to amaze me with your wonderful creations!!! I LOVE thai spiced foods. Zucchini soak up whatever flavour your friend it with, only seems perfect for this! and that peanut sauce….drooling!!

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  9. THE Holly says

    Hi Kevin. I linked over from Latent Chestnut and was so impressed with that photo of the fritters. Very nice work, wow. I'm all over those Greek fritters, can't wait! Thanks for a nice post 🙂

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  13. John says

    What a great-looking dish! Thanks for this.
    My neighbor treated me to homemade vegetarian kofta this weekend. These fritters are a nice variation on the recipe. And that Thai spicy peanut sauce sounds delicious!

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  15. Anonymous says

    Gotta eat with the eyes.. and my eyes are saying this looks like baby sick on top of a dogs dinner. Some of your other dishes look really appealing, but this one looks like it was scraped off the floor or out of the bin.

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  22. Dragana says

    I just today stumbled on this blog and made the 'Greek' version of these fritters tonight – they were delicious!! I can't wait to try out some of your other recipes – everything looks beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!

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