Oven Fried Zucchini Recipe - Vegan Vegetarian Fried Chicken Strips
Hey my Sweet Vs, it's The Sweetest Vegan here. Today on the show we will be making oven fried chicken . . .
No were not, I'm just kidding. But it is a recipe in the Southern Cooking Bible, so we have to veganize it.
And I was wondering, what am I going to replace this chicken with, because I am not about to eat tofu today.
I am not in the mood, not about to replace the meat with an imitation meat.
I was like I could use mushrooms, but I dont know, not in the mushroom mood.
So I was like okay, so just go to the grocery store and see what happens. So I did that and as soon as I walked into the produce
section zucchini were on sale for 10 pounds for 10 dollars.
And I got 2 of them for $1.18. Which is amazing. And I did remember that I used to like fried zucchini all the time.
And I ate it when I first went vegan, but then I had to give up fried food,
because I was gaining weight. Even while I was vegan.
So, today we will be learning how to oven fry zucchini and it is going to be so good.
It is going to replace our chicken fingers and I just can not wait. Can you? Okay so here we go.
Oven Fried Zucchini Recipe - Vegan Vegetarian Fried Chicken Strips
So you want to start this recipe by preheating your oven to 450 degrees F.
And you want to go ahead an lightly grease 2 baking sheets because that is how many you will need for this recipe.
Then you are going to take your two Zucchini's and cut the ends off of them. Then I am just going to cut a sliver
off of the back, like a slice off them back, and roll it over to the flat side.
Because that is the safest way to cut your produce.
Then I am going to go down and cut slices of my zucchini and in after thought, this was my first time making this recipe
I would probably use bigger slices, because once the bake, they thin out even more.
So then I layed them out on a cookie sheet ( *dry rack) you can lay them flat on the paper towel
I salted them to help draw out some of the water so that they can bake up nice and crisp
And while that was working I went ahead and made a flax seed mixture like we did for the fried green tomatoes.
If you haven't seen that video, I will put an annotation for it here. You can check that out, it's really cool.
But you just mix together water and flax seed, whisk it up really good, and let it sit for about 5 minutes.
And it will become kind of gluey to help coat your zucchini so that the flour mixture ww are about to make will stick to it.
So the flour mixture consist of wheat flour, corn meal, poultry seasoning, and I will put what that is a blend of in the
description below if you do not know, and old bay seasoning. And that will also be below.
So you can know whats in it if you can not find those two seasoning blends. So whisk that together,
now you want to pat off your zucchini, dip it into you egg wash flax seed mixture, its just flax seed but it is kind of like an
egg wash. Dip it in that. Let the excess drip off then you want to put it in your four mixture and coat it.
And kind of dust off the excess flour so you won't have caked up flour , because it won't adhere really well.
Then lay those out onto your baking sheet in a nice orderly fashion.
Don't you like how orderly mine are fashioned.
Then you are going to stick those into the oven for 15 minutes on the first side.
Take them out, flip them, then cook them for 15 more minutes on the other side.
And as you can see if you cook them too close to the wall, you might want to do these in batch,
because I jammed both of them in there. And I had a little casualty of zucchini.
You can serve these up with Bar B Que sauce, mustard, ketchup, hot sauce.
Or you can just eat them plain, they are seasoned really well.
They taste really fantastic, so lets give them a try.
And also after I salted them, I was not able to bake them all, and zucchini by itself raw is pretty darn delicious
But this is really good, if you want something that taste kind of fried, and baked and hot and
is a nice treat that you can dip and give to your friends. It's really good.
Thanks for watching. Bye.
Oven Fried Zucchini Recipe - Vegan Vegetarian Fried Chicken Strips