Corn, Bacon, and Zucchini Fritters

Tasty and healthy, these corn, bacon, and zucchini fritters are quick to make. With a little smoky flavour, pesto, and some vegetables, it is a great side to your salad or soup. The drizzle of olive oil in the pan is just enough to make it crunchy and healthier. Not fried, not greasy! Just delicious!

Perfect for a picnic, potluck, weekday dinner, or the lunch boxes of the little ones or grown-ups!

This is a great recipe for a simple lunch such as my carrot and chicken patties or Caprese sandwiches.

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• 🥗 Ingredients Needed
• 🔪 How To Make It
• 📋 Variations and Substitutions
• 💭 Recipe FAQs
• How To Serve With A Zucchini Fritter?
• More Yummy Zucchini Recipes
• 📋 Corn, Bacon, and Zucchini Fritters

Why you will love these fritters:

• A HEALTHIER lunch option
• Packed with great FLAVOURS
• EASY to make

🥗 Ingredients Needed

Only 6 simple ingredients to prepare an easy recipe that you can adapt if you need to:

A few notes on some of the ingredients:

• ZUCCHINIS: The highlight of the recipe, do not consider using frozen (such as frozen zoodles) it would be too much moisture released in the fritters.
  
• CORN: It can be frozen corn and cooked or canned, both would work.
  
• BACON: It can be store-bought bacon bits or cooked bacon cut into small pieces.
  
• PESTO: Pesto is always in my fridge, I love how I can add it to different dishes or salads to enhance a blended dish. The combo with the zucchini is a winner. Can be skipped but don't!
  
• EGGS: Most of the time, I buy large eggs so you'll only need 2. Adapt to 3 if you only have small ones.
  
• ALL PURPOSE FLOUR: Don't skip it, it will bind all the ingredients together and balance the moisture.

🔪 How To Make It

It is a rather simple fritters recipe, here are the few steps to make them.

First, let's prepare the zucchinis: using a cheese grater, shred them. Next, place the shredded zucchinis in a paper towel and gently squeeze the excess water. (Picture 1)

Then, set the zucchini aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs. (Picture 2) Now, you can add the fresh corn and zucchini to the eggs and mix well (Picture 3)

Lastly, add the chopped bacon, pesto, and flour to the bowl. Mix some more until fully incorporated. (Picture 4)

Tip: If you wish, you can add extra herbs to the mix such as cilantro, chives, tarragon or thyme.

Cooking: In a cast-iron skillet, over medium-high heat, pour some olive oil. Using an ice cream scoop, drop some corn zucchini batter on the hot pan and cook for about 2 minutes on each side.

Serve while it is hot with some sour cream and some extra bacon bits for the crunch!

📋 Variations and Substitutions

If you wish to give a different spin to these yummy fritters, here are some ideas for you:

• Vegetarian: Skip the bacon to be able to offer it to the nonmeat eater and save the bacon as an add-on on top of the sour cream.
• Spicy up: Pour a few drops of sriracha, chili oil, or harissa to add a little fire to your fritters.
• Deluxe version: Dip it in guacamole, queso cheese, or top it up with crispy onions.

Also, if you wish, to make it gluten-free, use gluten-free flour, do not skip it.

💭 Recipe FAQs

How To Serve With A Zucchini Fritter?

• You can eat it for a lunch on the go with a topping such as tzatziki like this one from Momsdish.
• Make it a nice vegetarian lunch and serve it on the side of a delicious salad. What a nutritious lunch!
• Snack time! If you are more of a savoury person, this is a nutritious snack for grown-ups and kids. Pack it for work or for school.

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