baked courgette fries

12 January 2015

You might remember that last year, I blogged about our New Year's Eve Eve - just a quiet celebration with us alone at home, something that we wanted to continue doing every year as the actual NYE is usually spent with other people. 

This past NYE was hosted by us, so we didn't feel much like cooking too much or making a mess, but we did still want to have some nice food and wine to carry on the tradition (not that having nice food and wine isn't a fairly regular occurrence anyway...). And we also knew that there was a big feast to come the next day, so we wanted to keep it quite light.

The big and surprisingly delicious cheat of the meal were the prepared mussels from M&S, which you just need to heat up on the hob - these are really quite handy for a lazy dinner. To accompany them, although regular fries would have been great (when are they not?), I decided to try my hand at a slightly healthier alternative - baked courgette fries.

The recipe is at the end of the post, although you can hardly call it a recipe - it's so easy your pet could make them. I just improvised having looked at a few recipes online, and they came out great which was a success! E enjoyed them too which is a good stamp of approval to have.

It was a lovely evening of chatting about the year past and our plans for 2015, and it forced E to take a break from food prepping for the next day which was the most important thing!













Courgette Fries
Ingredients:
2-3 courgettes, sliced into "fries"
1/3 cup dried breadcrumbs
1/3 cup ground almonds
1/3 cup parmesan
dried herbs of choice
2 eggs
salt and pepper

To make:
1) Preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius.
2) Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl with a pinch of salt, and whisk the eggs in another bowl.
3) Dip the courgette pieces in the eggs, then cover with crumb mixture.
4) Spread courgette pieces a single layer on a baking tray, and bake for about 30 minutes, flipping halfway through.
5) To make them extra crispy, place under the grill for a couple of minutes - keep an eye on them!
6) Enjoy with extra sea salt and pepper, or dip in mayo, hummus, taramasalata.. the list goes on,




10 comments:

  1. How do courgette fries compare to regular ones in taste? x

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  2. Yum!! Love courgette fries, they always go down a treat :)

    Rosie xx

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  3. I was a little confused at first because I had never heard of a courgette before but then I googled the veggie and up popped photos of zucchini! Never heard it referred to as courgette before haha. Thanks for teaching me a new word Miho! (because I'm a total geek and actually really, really like to learn new words.)

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  4. Ohh yum! They look SO good <3 xx

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  5. I love mussels so so much...my mouth is watering. And the fries look incredible...I can't believe you just improvised them! They look like something that I would take hours reading about to get right haha.

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  6. holy crap girl these look amazing and just made me absolutely starving!!!! xx

    www.thejessjway.com

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  7. I really must give these a go. They look so good and a nice lower carb option.

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  8. These look utterly delicious! A yummy side without the guilty, carbs and calories - what more can you want?! I have decided that I need to try some of yours and E's food, you're both so talented!

    Aftab
    Fresh And Fearless

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  9. Daaamn, those courgette fries look good! And the best thing is that they're baked - so healthy, you! I remember the last time I tried to make potato fries at home it was a nightmare trying to deep fry them without a deep fat fryer...but using breadcrumbs is genius! I'd love to try making tempura-fried or panko crumb vegetables sometime too :) xx

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  10. Stunning, just simply sooo yummy! I love melons of all sorts and I also love them battered in fine crumbs and deep fried to hell! I swear I could eat a bowl of these by myself! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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