Fried zucchini balla - Kolokythokeftedes
From ivy 16 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 6
These delicious morsels are perfect for a pre-dinner snack (meze, as we call it) or light lunch. Kolokithokeftedes are fried patties of mashed courgettes or zucchini (kolokithia), as well as other vegetables depending on preference, flour and egg to stick the mixture together. Read more See less
Ingredients
- 5 green zucchini, grated shopping list
- 1 onion grated shopping list
- 5 spring onions finely chopped shopping list
- ½ bunch of parsley finely chopped shopping list
- dill shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 2 spoonfuls of dried mint shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
- flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoonful of baking powder shopping list
- 1 spoonful of olive oil shopping list
- ½ cup of feta cheese, or xynomyzithra, crumbled or grated halloumi, kefalotyri or graviera shopping list
- extra virgin olive oil for frying shopping list
How to make it
- Wash the vegetables and let them drain the water away.
- Grate the courgettes and place into a colander with salt for half an hour.
- Squeeze to remove any remaining fluid.
- Place in a bowl with a slice of bread to absorb any excess fluid. Through bread away before mixing all ingredients.
- Now break the egg into the bowl and add cheese of your preference, chopped herbs and salt and pepper. Easy on the salt, as all cheese mentioned above are quite salty and don’t forget that we added salt to the grated courgettes.
- Continue to massage the mixture between fingers after adding flour until you have a smooth, but not runny, consistency.
- After this, the mixture is helped by being allowed to stand in the fridge for, at least, an hour, before frying in olive oil.
- Scoop out patties with a spoon, and make flattened patties on a floured surface.
- Fry in hot olive oil. The level of olive oil in the frying pan should cover half the pattie. (Turn the patties once, browning both sides. Finish by placing them on absorbent paper for a minute.
- Serve with Greek ouzo! “Stin ygeia sas” … we usually say “to your health” when we make a toast.
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