Air Fryer Zucchini
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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
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.
14 Comments on “Air Fryer Zucchini”
These were so tasty and crispy! And I finally got my kids to try zucchini!
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.
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. 🙂
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.
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!
Really awesome recipe. Loved how tasty these zucchini fries came out.
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!
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 ?
They make great veggie side dishes. Super tasty. Love it. Thanks for the recipe.
Try some Mayo on top when eating the air fried zucchini delicious