Oven baked to perfection, these crispy, flavorful, and healthy Italian Baked Zucchini Fries will be gone in a flash!  Seasoned with a perfect blend of Italian spices and baked with a crisp coating of deliciousness, the whole family will gobble them down. Couple them with our delicious Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce and you have a great meal, appetizer, or side dish that is sure to put a smile on your face.

Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, gluten free, no highly processed ingredients.

Hi there, Ameera here!

We are a zucchini loving family.  We grow tons of zucchini in our garden every year.  Every summer we always have an abundance of beautiful zucchini to eat and enough to give away as well.

Zucchini plants are easy to grow, maintain, and is the gift that keeps on giving.  If you grow zucchini, then you know what I am talking about. Mom and I were on a mission to try to come up some new WFPB zucchini recipes!

Check out some of our other delicious WFPB zucchini recipes:

• Vegan Cheesy Zucchini Soup
• No Oil Vegan Buffalo Zucchini Fritters
• Vegan Veggie Bean Cassoulet
• Middle Eastern Stuffed Zucchini Boats
• Vegan Zucchini Muffins.

Zucchini Fries

When I told Mom that I wanted to make oven baked zucchini fries, she was concerned because zucchinis tend to hold a lot of water, and it is very difficult for zucchini to not get soggy once they are baked.

Actually, even if you fried zucchini in oil, then will get soggy as well after a while.  They can only hold their crispness for so long before they release their moisture.

Crisp Coating

The key was to come up with a “glue” and “dredge” that will allow the dredge to stick to the zucchini fries.  We decided to go back to a previous success which is our Oven Baked Potato Wedges recipe and tweak it for the zucchini fries. It worked perfectly.

Keys for Success

1. If the zucchinis have been refrigerated, remove them from the fridge and allow them to come to room temperature. This helps eliminate condensation.
2. If the tahini has been refrigerated, remove the amount you need for this recipe from the fridge and allow it to come to room temperature as well. You want free flowing tahini, not cold, thick tahini.  It sticks better to the zucchini fries and allow for even coating of the dredge.
3. Bake them in a spaced out, single layer. If you pile them up on top of each other or put them too close together, they steam rather than bake and they will be soggy.
4. Take the necessary time to ensure that all the sides of the zucchini have been evenly coated in the dredge.
5. If you want them very crispy, then place them under the broiler for about 3 to 5 minutes after baking time.
6. You control the tenderness of the zucchini. Some like their zucchini very tender (my dad) while others prefer them to be crisp/crunchy (me).  Just note the more tender they are, the less firm they are, which is perfectly fine, you just need to understand that when you bake zucchinis longer, they become more flexible.
7. Eat them immediately. The zucchini fries will eventually become less crisp over time as the moisture will start to come out of the zucchinis as they start to come to room temperature after being baked.
8. Serve them with a great marinara sauce. Click here for our awesome marinara sauce.

I’ll let Mom tell you more.

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Hi! Robin here!

Monkey made this incredible marinara sauce to go with the zucchini fries!  They are a delicious combination.  We devoured them up like our lives depended on it.

I really can’t wait for our readers to try our Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce with these amazing Italian Baked Zucchini Fries dish!  So tasty!! We would love for you to try this recipe!

If you try these tasty zucchini fries, we would love to know if you enjoy it as much as we do! Please leave us a review! Post a picture on Facebook or Instagram and tag us!  We would love to hear from you.

Products Used:

• Large baking sheet

Italian Baked Zucchini Fries

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• Author: Monkey and Me Kitchen Adventures
• Prep Time: 10 Minutes
• Cook Time: 10-15 Minutes
• Total Time: 20 Minutes
• Yield: about 4-5 servings 1x
• Category: Appetizer, Side
• Method: Oven
• Cuisine: Italian

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Oven baked to perfection, these crispy, flavorful, and healthy Italian Baked Zucchini Fries will be gone in a flash!  Seasoned with a perfect blend of Italian spices and baked with a crisp coating of deliciousness, the whole family will gobble them down. Couple them with our delicious Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce and you have a great meal, appetizer, or side dish that is sure to put a smile on your face.

Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, gluten free, no highly processed ingredients.

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Ingredients

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• 4 medium zucchinis, cut into fries
• 2 Tablespoons tahini
• 1 teaspoon medium grind cornmeal
• 2 teaspoons regular grind cornmeal (+ extra for additional coating)
• 1 teaspoon brown rice flour
• 2 teaspoons nutritional yeast

Herb/Spice Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ¼ teaspoon sweet paprika
• 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
• ¾ teaspoon sea salt (+/- to taste) *
• pinch black pepper

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Instructions

1. If zucchinis are refrigerated, remove from the fridge at least 30 minutes prior to making. This allows the tahini to evenly coat the zucchini pieces. Tahini tends to thicken and clump when cold.  The same applies to tahini that has been refrigerated.
2. Preheat the oven to 400 F. Place the oven rack towards the middle, avoiding the lower oven rack placement.  If using two racks, keep them toward the center and upper position.
3. Line a 14 x 20 baking sheet(s) with parchment paper, set aside.
4. Place all the dry ingredients (medium grind cornmeal, brown rice flour, cornmeal, nutritional yeast) and Herb/Spice Ingredients into a bowl, stir to combine, set aside.
5. Cut all the zucchinis into fries and place into a large bowl, drizzle the tahini over the zucchini fries. Coat the fries with the tahini, using your hands to get some tahini on all sides of the zucchini fries. When all are nicely coated, line the fries up single file/single layer across the baking sheet(s).
6. Sprinkle the fries with the seasoning mixture. Then take each fry and rub it with the seasoning mix that fell onto the baking sheet trying to ensure that each side of the fry has a sprinkling of seasoning mixture on it. Each fry should be thoroughly coated.  Then take a little extra cornmeal and sprinkle it over the zucchini fries.
7. Bake in a 400 F oven for 10 to 15 minutes. See notes. When the zucchini fries are done, you may wish to place them under the broiler for a few minutes to brown them up some more. Keep in mind if you want to broil them, you make want to reduce your baking time to incorporate the additional cooking time of the broiler (depending on how crisp/tender you want the zucchini fries.)
8. Serve immediately with your favorite marinara sauce or our Easy Healthy Marinara Sauce.

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Notes

*Sea Salt:  Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.

*Oven Baking Time:  Zucchini retains a lot of moisture.  If you like your zucchini fries more tender, bake them longer and if you like them el dente, then bake them shorter.  They will have a crispy coating on the outside, but they tend to get limp the longer they bake due to the moisture content of zucchinis.  They will still taste great.  Best served immediately from the oven.  They will not be as crispy as if they were battered and deep fried, but these baked zucchini fries will taste just as awesome!

*Serving:  About 4-5

*Storage: Use within 2 days.

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