I am a huge fan of air fryer recipes, as you can see with my Air Fryer Donut Holes, Air Fryer Sweet Potato Wedges, or Air Fryer Cauliflower. It makes delicious dinners and desserts super quickly and without frying in oil. These air fryer zucchini chips have been on the menu on the weekend as fun party food and kids love them. It’s a fun alternative to Vegan Zucchini Fritters. So let me share with you how to turn your zucchini into crispy zucchini chips that everyone loves.
Ingredients and Substitutions
Zucchini – The recipe is for 1 large zucchini simply because you can’t fit more than that in an air fryer basket. But feel free to double up the recipe or repeat to make more zucchini chips. Flour – Use any flour: gluten-free, all-purpose, or spelt flour. Flax Egg – This acts as an egg replacer. We made our flax egg by whisking 1/3 cup almond milk with 1 tablespoon of golden flaxseed meal, stirring and setting aside for 10 minutes until an egg-like texture forms. Note that brown flaxseed meal works as well but the chips will be less golden. Unsweetened Almond Milk or any dairy-free milk you love. Onion Powder, Garlic Powder – or fresh crushed garlic with minced onion. Dried Oregano – or dried parsley. Panko Crumbs – If gluten-free, make sure you choose gluten-free panko crumbs. Regular panko contains wheat and it’s not gluten-free. Nutritional Yeast or dairy-free parmesan cheese – totally optional, but it adds a great cheesy flavor to the zucchini chips. Nutritional Yeast is perfectly vegan-friendly.
How To Make Air Fryer Zucchini Chips
Most recipes use eggs to coat the zucchini slices, but you can make even crispier chips of zucchini without eggs. Since we are going to air fry the zucchini in this recipe you need an air fryer. It doesn’t matter if yours have a preheating function or not, any air fryer will do. An oil spray. I recommend using an oil spray dispenser and filling it up with a high-smoke point oil like avocado oil. High-smoke point olive oil resists higher temperatures. Also, commercial cooking sprays contain additives that often damage the non-stick coating of air fryer baskets, so it’s better to avoid them.
Meal Prepping Zucchini Chips
This recipe serves only a small batch of zucchini chips because you can’t fit more than 1 zucchini in a single air fryer basket. But feel free to double up the recipe and make more zucchini chips for later. You can meal prep some of these up to 1 hour in advance. I don’t recommend meal preparing zucchini chips much earlier because the panko crumb softens. This results in soft zucchini chips. So if you prepare more than one batch of these vegan zucchini chips, place the prepared coated zucchini rounds on a wire rack at room temperature. Set aside until the air fryer is ready. Always spray oil at the bottom of the air fryer basket before adding a new batch of zucchini chips.
Serving Suggestions
These zucchini chips are crispy and they are delicious served as a side dish or fun finger food dipped in creamy sauce like:
Guacamole Tomato passata Aioli Cucumber dip or tzatziki
Storage Instructions
I don’t think there will be leftovers after you make this recipe. It’s very tasty and addictive and hard to stop eating these crispy zucchini chips. But, if you have some left for any reason, you can reheat them later on in the air fryer. Store the leftover air-fryer zucchini chips in an airtight container in the fridge. They will soften and that’s normal. The next day, spray the air fryer basket with oil, lay the zucchini round in a single layer in the basket, and air fry at 150°C (300°F) for 4 minutes, open, flip on together side, and air fry a few more minutes until crispy.
More Healthy Zucchini Recipes
I love to cook zucchini to create tasty, nourishing meals or bread. Below I listed more zucchini recipes for you to try:
More Air Fryer Recipes
