Spiced Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters Recipe

These spiced Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters are so easy to make and are ready in under 30 minutes. They're crispy, filling and delicious. Perfect for lunch or as a tasty appetiser.

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• 🛒 What You'll Need For The Fritters
• 🛒 What You'll Need For The Yoghurt Sauce
• 🔪 How to Make Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters
• 👩‍🍳 Top Tips
• 💭 FAQs
• 🍽 Serving Suggestions
• More Tasty Courgette Recipes To Try
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• Spiced Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters

These zucchini fritters are lightly spiced, you can taste the spice but there is zero heat and loads of flavour, which is perfect for kids. Fritters are a great way to introduce new vegetables to kids, we love them, and even my Parsnip Fritters go down a treat with my family! Vegetable fritters are also a great way to introduce new flavours and spices, just remember to keep the heat down.

I serve these with a minty, garlic and lemon yoghurt sauce. It's so easy to make but tastes amazing! They are also great with a spoon or two of mango chutney or a splash of sweet chilli sauce. This is one of my favourite recipes for using up a glut of courgettes. And the whole family loves them.

🛒 What You'll Need For The Fritters

• Courgettes - you will need three small or two medium courgettes. Look for firm courgettes that are not bruised. Use a box grater to grate or shred the courgettes. 
• Sweetcorn - you will also need sweetcorn for this recipe, canned corn is absolutely fine for this recipe. 
• Eggs - two large eggs will help the fritter mixture stick together.
• Flour - I use plain all-purpose flour for this recipe but you could also use chickpea flour if you like.
• Spice - ground cumin and ground coriander are the spices you will need for this recipe. This is a mildly spiced recipe so you can add more if you like.
• Other Ingredients - you will also need olive oil for frying and salt and black pepper for seasoning. Lemon wedges and mango chutney for serving.

🛒 What You'll Need For The Yoghurt Sauce

• Natural yoghurt - plain full-fat natural yoghurt is best for this sauce. If you use low fat it will end up to thin and watery.
• Lemon - you will need the juice of half a lemon along with the zest.
• Garlic - one clove of garlic is fine for this recipe but you can use more if you like.
• Mint - you will also need fresh mint for this sauce. 

🔪 How to Make Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters

Please see the recipe card below for full instructions and an ingredient list.

1. Grate the courgette - use a box grater to grate the courgettes. Add the grated courgettes to a large sieve, add a good pinch of sea salt and mix with your hands. Place the sieve over a large bowl, and leave for at least 10 minutes, this is to drain off some of the excess liquid from the courgettes.

2. Make the yoghurt sauce - while the courgettes are draining, make the yoghurt sauce. This is as easy as adding all the sauce ingredients, yoghurt, lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic chopped mint and salt and pepper, all together in a small bowl and then letting it sit in the fridge until you're ready to use it.

3. Make the batter - use your hands to squeeze out any excess water from the grated courgette. Add the courgette, sweetcorn kernels, and spring onions to a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs and stir well.

4. Add the courgette, sweetcorn, and spring onions to a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs and stir well. Sieve in the flour, baking powder and spices then add the salt and pepper and mix well. You should have a sticky batter now.

5. Cook the fritters, heat a little oil in a large non-stick pan on medium heat. Add two tablespoons of the batter to make one fritter, to the pan, cook the fritters for about 3 to 4 minutes on each side, they should be golden brown and cooked through. I cooked these in batches of four. You can keep them warm in the oven if you need to.

👩‍🍳 Top Tips

• Try and get as much water as you can out of the courgettes, you'll be surprised at how much water will come out just from draining them first.
• Use young smaller courgettes, older and larger courgettes don't have as much flavour.
• When buying courgettes look for firm courgettes, with bright, shiny and unblemished skin. If a courgette feels soft and looks dull, it usually means it’s no longer fresh.
• Don't let that batter sit for too long, ideally, you should make the fritters straight away. If you leave the batter to sit for too long you will end up with doughy fritters!
• The baking powder lifts the batter and this results in a fluffier crispy fritter, so, if you can don't leave that out.
• Use light-flavoured oil for cooking these, I use light olive oil.

💭 FAQs

🍽 Serving Suggestions

We usually have these Courgette and Sweetcorn Fritters on their own with that minty yoghurt sauce, but if you want to make more of a meal of this then these black pepper and rosemary fries are great with these fritters along with a simple green salad.

More Tasty Courgette Recipes To Try

If you love courgettes then you might like to try my Courgette Risotto with peas and lemon. This is such a lovely summer dinner. Or try my Pesto Gnocchi with Courgettes and peas, this is another great weeknight dinner. Finally for a summer picnic try my Courgette Quiche, this always goes down a treat!

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*This recipe was first published on June 2016, it has been updated on June 2023 with new photos and more information.