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Zucchini Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

August 19 By Renée 7 Comments

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Baked Zuchinni Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

Zucchini Cakes are a great way to use up those prolific summer squashes. Made with fresh zucchini and a short list of simple ingredients, these tasty zucchini patties can be served as a light main dish, a side dish, or even as an appetizer.

Baked Zucchini Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

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Mom always let our zucchinis grow to ginormous proportions before she picked them. Then she would slice and cook them 1950’s-style – boiled in salted water until they lost all signs of life. Served up flaccid and grey on my plate, they looked like the slugs Mom salted on the sidewalk at night. Our dog wouldn’t even eat them from under the table for me. 

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Fast forward about twenty years: we were invited to have dinner at the home of our friends, Bob and Vicky. When we arrived, Vicky informed us that we would be having, among other things, fresh zucchini. Vicky appeared so excited about her zucchini, as if it is something to look forward to. 

Imagine my surprise then when Vicky placed before me a dish of lovely little green and yellow coins, lightly seasoned and perfectly tender-crisp. I nearly ask her what they were – I didn’t recognize them as zucchini! They were delicious! 

That night over dinner, Vicky told us how she grew those little zucchinis in her very own garden, and that it was the first time she had ever planted zucchini. She went on to say that she had no idea how prolific they were, so she had planted about twelve zucchini hills. (If you’ve ever grown zucchini, you know what that means!)

Vicky sent me home with a bag of pickle-size zukes – and I was thrilled to have them!

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It’s been a long time since I discovered my love for zucchini, and I’ve had lots of opportunities to learn how versatile they are. 

Zucchini Cakes have become a summer favorite, and a great way to use those abundant summer squashes. This healthy zucchini cakes recipe outlines directions for baking them in the oven. (Slower, but healthier.) However, if you prefer, they can be fried in a skillet instead. (Quicker, and the results are prettier.) 

Baked Zucchini Cakes can be served as either a light main dish, a side dish, or even an appetizer. 

Baked Zuchinni Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
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Baked Zucchini Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

Made with fresh zucchini and a short list of simple ingredients, these tasty zucchini patties can be served as a light main dish, a side dish, or even as an appetizer.
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Course: Appetizer, Main dish or side
Cuisine: Vegetarian
Keyword: zucchini
Prep Time:30 minutes
Cook Time:24 minutes
Total Time:54 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 219kcal
Author: Renée | The Good Hearted Woman

Ingredients

US Customary - Metric
Zucchini Cakes
  • 2 ½ cups grated zucchini
  • ½ large red bell pepper
  • ½ medium onion finely chopped
  • 1 cup Panko crumbs
  • ½ cup grated Parmesan
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ¼ teaspoon white pepper
  • 2 large eggs beaten
Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
  • 1 large red bell pepper
  • ½ cup tomato sauce
  • 1 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic
  • ½ teaspoon hot sauce I use Sriracha

Instructions

Roasting Red Peppers

  • Place oven rack 4-5" away from heating element.
    Preheat boiler.
  • Seed and remove stems from 1 1/2 red bell peppers.
    Brush both sides of each pepper half with olive oil.
    Place prepared pepper halves on a foil lined baking sheet.
  • Place baking sheet in the oven and broil the pepper for 4-5 minutes on one side.
    Turn peppers over and broil peppers for another 4-5 minutes.
    The pepper skin will char.
  • Remove broiled peppers from oven and allow to cool.
    When peppers are cool, use a paring knife (or your fingers) to carefully peel away as much of the pepper skin as possible.

Zucchini Cakes

  • Preheat oven to 400°F [200°C]
  • Finely chop one of the roasted pepper halves.
  • In a medium bowl, combine chopped red pepper, zucchini, onion, Panko crumbs, parmesan, salt and pepper.
  • Pour beaten eggs into zucchini mixture and stir to combine.
  • Bake the in the Oven
    (Zucchini cakes cooked this way aren't as pretty, but they're healthier.)
    Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and spray it with cooking spray.
    Form zucchini mixture into cakes and place on parchment.
    Bake cakes for 12-15 minutes, turn and bake another 12-15 minutes.
    I use a wide-mouth canning lid to make perfectly-formed cakes.
  • OR Fry Them on the Stovetop
    (Fried zucchini cakes have a lovely, golden-brown crust, but they are higher in calories and fat.)
    Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat.
    Add enough vegetable oil so that there is a thin coating across the entire skillet.
    Form patties or use a measuring cup to drop 1/4 cup size cakes onto the skillet.
    Fry on both sides until gold brown.
    Do not overcrowd the pan.
  • Serve with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce.

Making the Red Pepper Sauce

  • Place 2 roasted red pepper halves, along with the remaining Sauce Ingredients, into a small blender cup and process until smooth.
  • Serve hot or cold. Keeps in fridge for about a week.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 219kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 104mg | Sodium: 737mg | Potassium: 521mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 2458IU | Vitamin C: 98mg | Calcium: 188mg | Iron: 2mg
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The Roasted Red Pepper Sauce in this zucchini cakes recipe is also delicious on Crab Cakes!

Pacific Northwest Dungeness Crab Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce | The Good Hearted Woman

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About Renée

Renée is writer, music maker, artist, and storyteller. In her spare time, you can find her writing love songs about cowboys, exploring the moss-covered nooks and crannies of the Pacific Northwest, and making music with her talented singer-husband.

Comments

  1. blankAnita Fitzwater-Stevens says

    August 20 at

    What a great idea for zucchini! I’m always looking for new ways to prepare it. Can’t wait to try this one out!

    Reply
    • blankRenée ♥ says

      August 20 at

      Thanks, Anita! You are going to love these – and the fact the they are baked instead of fried only makes them better.

      Reply
  2. blankJavelin Warrior says

    August 20 at

    I love the sound of the red pepper sauce – a perfect compliment to the zucchini. And I also remember similar over-cooked, limp little pieces of squash on my plate growing up. But these look so tasty!

    Reply
  3. blankRick B. says

    August 21 at

    I find these little cakes wonderfully tasty and I enjoy them greatly. My wife is so talented! I just had to brag. Way to go baby!

    Reply
    • blankRenée ♥ says

      August 21 at

      Thank you, Mr. B. ♥

      Reply
  4. blankKristy @Loveandblasphemy says

    August 24 at

    Tis the season for zucchini recipes!!! I have tons growing in my backyard and am always trying to find new ways to cook it, which is a good thing because we love zucchini around here.

    Reply

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