Air Fryer Zucchini
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Want a fantastic vegetable side dish? Our Air Fryer zucchini recipe is a great way to enjoy vegetables that’s quick and easy. This air fried zucchini is a healthy way to eat. Lastly, the zucchini gets an amazing crispy crust! Cooking close to the heating element gives the zucchini a delicious crust that’s hard to achieve in the traditional oven. Sure, you can broil the zucchini in the oven. But the results are so much quicker and easier in the air fryer. Best of all, it’s a low carb and low calorie dish. It’s perfect for anyone following the paleo diet and is keto friendly.
Easy Air Fryer Zucchini Recipe
Zucchini doesn’t have to be boring and learning how to cook it in the air fryer will change your life. It’s way easier than roasting in the oven for so many reasons. First of all, if you’re cooking smaller portions the air fryer is perfect. Servings for 2-4 is easily attainable, depending on the size of your fryer. Second of all, it’s so much faster than roasting zucchini in the traditional oven because you don’t have to wait to pre-heat. And the zucchini cooks much faster in the air fryer.
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How to Cook Zucchini in Air Fryer
- Cut zucchini into thick slices or thick coins. Spray with oil on both sides of the zucchini. Season with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Make sure all the cuts are the same thickness so they can cook evenly.
- Lay the zucchini slices or coins in a single layer. This ensures that the tops and bottoms cook evenly. If you stack the slices, you’ll have the top ones that will cook too fast or burn. And then the bottom ones will still be raw.
- If you have a favorite seasoning add that if you like. Some ideas are using Italian seasoning, lemon pepper or curry powder.
- Air Fry until crispy! Time will change depending on the size of your air fryer and how thick you cut your zucchini.
- All air fried zucchini recipe details and photos are in the recipe box below.
Can you air fry summer squash?
Yes, summer squash is great! Timing and recipe is the same if you’re using summer squash. Even yellow zucchini cooks exactly the same too. Make air fryer zucchini chips with the yellow squash and you won’t regret. These coins or chips are delicious.
Air Fryer Garlic Zucchini
Ingredients
- 2 zucchini (@ 1 lb. or 455g total)
- Olive oil or cooking spray
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt , to taste
- black pepper , to taste
Equipment
Instructions
- Trim the ends of the zucchini, if desired. Cut the zucchini into 1/2” thick slices (either into lengthwise slices or into coins).
- If cutting into lengthwise slices, cut to length to fit the width of your air fryer basket if needed. Lightly oil or spray the zucchini slices on both sides and then season with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Air Fry at 400°F for 8-14 minutes or until browned and cooked through. Round or coin cuts will cook quicker.
- Zucchini strips will cook a little longer depoending on the thickness. Once you cook your first batch, you'll know the best timing for your prefereed donenss.
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Nutrition Information per Serving
What to serve with air fried zucchini?
- As a side dish with any type of meats like lemon herb roast chicken, garlic butter steak bites, grilled pork shoulder steaks.
- Add your favorite dipping sauces for the coins or chips.
- This is the perfect side dish to so many grilled dishes or air fryer meat dishes.
- Chop it up and make a Summer zucchini salad! Here’s our great vegetarian zucchini salad recipe
- These are great with air fryer pork chops.
- Grilled garlic pork chops are great with zucchini.
Hope you enjoy our air fried zucchini recipe. Here’s more great zucchini recipes to cook:
- grilled garlic zucchini for Summer
- Baked keto parmesan zucchini fries
- keto zucchini noodles with garlic and parmesan
- lots more easy zucchini recipes here.
23 Comments on “Air Fryer Zucchini”
Do you preheat air fryer for this recipe?
Hi Sarah, you don’t have to. But if you do pre-heat, check the zucchini a little earlier as it might cook quicker.
Wanted to use my “just picked” zucchini and didn’t want to just sauté it again, so looked for air fryer recipes… and found yours. Made it for dinner, just made one zucchini and ate the entire thing! I cut mine into coins and had it with air fried chicken legs and air fried perogies and dinner was KILLER! This is my new zucchini favorite! Thanks SO MUCH for posting this one, I’ll be making this a few times a week! Oh, and I did add some parmesan cheese to the tops. Like I said… DELISH!
Awesome! Thanks so much Char and so glad you enjoyed the recipe.
I made this for Thanksgiving and it was great. Everyone loved it. I’m making them again for Christmas dinner.
I came here just to check the air fryer temp & time— I’m going to try it with egg instead of the oil. Can’t wait to try some
air fry zucchini long slices
Sounds like a great idea!
Zucchini was awesome! The air fryer really does a good job at making the outside nice and crispy.
Try some Mayo on top when eating the air fried zucchini delicious
They make great veggie side dishes. Super tasty. Love it. Thanks for the recipe.
Cut zucchini length wise got 4 in my air fryer. Cooked it over 15 minutes but it never crisped, however, it didn’t need to be. I followed recipe and topped them off with Parmigiano Reggiano. Yummy ?
What would be a good dish to serve with this?
Hi Teresa, you can serve this with a meat dish for dinner. Or chop it up and add it to a salad. Another idea is to make a veggie sandwich with the zucchini! Enjoy!
Really awesome recipe. Loved how tasty these zucchini fries came out.
Wow – I didn’t think such a simple recipe could be that good! I’ll be buying a lot more zucchini from now on to cook this way. I did the coins and used olive oil to coat the zucchini.
So glad you loved it. Simple & tasty is the always great!
These are delicious. Can you cook ahead of time and keep them warm?
Hi Nancy! So glad you enjoyed the zucchini. If you cook it ahead of time, it might get mushy and more soft as it sits. But if you re-heat in the air fryer, it should get a little closer to it’s original texture when you cooked it the first time.
Had lots of garden zucchini and came across your recipe. I cut them into thick coins, cooked them a little longer cause i like them crispier. Added some bbq sauce on top and it was perfect. Thanks guys.
Garden zucchini sounds perfect and looks like you have lots of air frying in your future. 🙂
Perfect way to cook zucchini. Absolutely loved that you chose to cook it in the air fryer. It tasted like it was cooked on the grill with crispy edges.
These were so tasty and crispy! And I finally got my kids to try zucchini!