These Air fryer Cucumber Fritters, coated with oats flour and spices have an amazing crispy exterior and a melt-in-mouth interior. Made quickly in little oil, these no breaded cucumber chips or fries gather in less than 20 min. Dunk them into a dip of your choice for a quick healthy and vegan snack!
These addictive and flavorful Air fryer Cucumber Fritters with perfect texture are best way to indulge in low carb snacks. Can you believe these are made in just 2-3 teaspoon of olive oil? If you are looking for a healthy alternative to deep fried fritters, you would love these air fried cucumber chips.
Crisp, golden-brown bites of the freshly chopped cucumber slices coated with salt, red chili, turmeric powder, dunked in cornflour batter and smothered with olive oil and oat flour are perfectly air fried in 15 min.
While you may use panko breadcrumbs to make crispy breaded cucumber chips, I wished to make a gluten free vegan cucumber snack and oats flour worked really well- the perfect replacement of bread crumbs.
If you are a fan of cucumber, you may try a simple recipe of air fryer cucumber chips made with just spices, olive oil and mustard sauce without any breading. Get more Air fryer chips from the blog: Air Fryer Beet Chips, and Air Fryer Carrot Fries or a side dish like Air Fryer Broccoli and Cauliflower
Try More Fritters- Rice Fritters, Onion Fritters (Indian pakora), Hara Bhara Kebab.
Enjoy this delightful side dish with tomato ketchup or soy sauce or a dip of your choice!
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Why Would You Love This Recipe?
- Healthy Low Carb Cucumber Snack.
- Perfect Addition to Snacks Menu.
- Air fryer yields similar crunchy exterior like deep fried fritters without too much of oil.
- Vegan Gluten Free.
- Easy, Quick, No Fuss Recipe.
- Versatile and flavorful Appetizer.
- Kids Friendly
- The Best Air Fryer Cucumber Fritters Recipe!
Ingredients
- Cucumber- Cucumber is the star ingredient of this recipe. English cucumbers without seed work best as they don't have high water content and can be easily made crispy. You may try using any local variety of cucumber as well. The other vegetables that can be used to make fritters using this exact recipe include Zucchini, Butternut squash, Beet, carrots or pumpkin.
- Corn flour- works best to make these fresh cucumbers crunchy. I had made a batter of corn flour with little water to coat over cucumbers. You may also make Chickpea batter or almond flour mixed with milk.
- Oats Flour- The crunch comes best when the cucumbers are soaked in cornflour batter and then again coated with breadcrumbs or oat flour before air frying.
- Olive Oil- Olive oil adds much needed depth to these cucumber fritters. You may use any vegan or vegetable oil of your choice.
- Spices- I love adding red chili powder and turmeric to my savory snacks. Feel free to adjust the ratios and add any spice of your choice- cumin powder, garam masala, etc.
- Lemon Juice (Optional)- Just like any other snack, adding lemon juice adds perfect tangy flavor.
- Salt- Normal salt works well. You may use sea salt too.
- You may add leafy greens like spinach, kale, or cilantro.
How To Make Air Fried Cucumber Fritters
Step 1 Wash, Dry, Chop
Wash the fresh cucumbers and dry them with a kitchen cloth. Slice them round with ¼ inch thickness or as desired.
Too thin slices can't hold the coatings.
While you prep cucumbers, pre heat air fryer at 190 ℃ for about 5-10 min.
Step 2 Spice, Coat and Prep Cucumber Fritters
In a large bowl, add sliced cucumbers and mix them with salt, turmeric powder and red chili powder.
If you don't have oats flour, you may dry grind good quality rolled oats or use breadcrumbs.
In small bowl, mix cornflour with water to make a not-so thick paste or batter. The batter should stick to cucumber when dunked into it. Roll the cornflour coated cucumber with oats flour from all sides and place in a plate.
Do this with all the cucumber slices.
Step 3 Air Fry
Grease air fryer basket with olive oil and place the cucumber fritters at even gaps. Brush oil over the fritters too. Air fry these fritters for about 10-15 min or till browned at 190 ℃. Make sure to flip them half way through to cook from the other side as well.
Step 4 Serve It
The Crispy and browned Air fried Cucumber Fritters are ready to serve. Team them with tomato ketchup or a sauce of your choice.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, cucumbers when coated with spices and oil turn out crispy and well cooked in the air fryer.
While the left over cucumber fritters may be stored in a dry container with a lid for about 1-2 days in the refrigerator, I recommend consuming them fresh as they lose crispiness when stored.
The best way to consume cucumbers is having them raw. I may suggest trying this recipe of cucumber fritters as they tasted similar to zucchini or eggplant fritters.
Expert Tips
- Make sure to dry cucumbers after washing and before slicing or else they won't be crispy. While you may peel them, I like the fritters with peel.
- When using air fryer for making chips, usually there is not much need to flip the vegetable. Just shaking is fine. But since this is oat coated fritter, I had flipped it to cook from both sides for browning.
- Apply oil over fritters and air fryer basket for non sticky frying.
- Serve the fritters fresh as they lose crispiness if stored for long.
How To Make Cucumber Fritters in Oven
This recipe of air frying cucumber works fine if you want to bake the fritters in oven. You may have to pre heat the oven at 220°C for about 10 min and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the fritters are golden brown and crispy. You may want to flip them halfway through the baking time for even crispiness.
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Air Fryer Cucumber Fritters (No Breading Quick Snack Recipe)
Equipment
- 1 Large Bowl
- 1 Small bowl
- 1 Air Fryer steps to make in oven are given
- 1 Chopping board
Ingredients
- 2 medium cucumber english cucumber works best
- 3 tablespoon cornflour
- ¼ cup oats flour
- 2.5 tsp olive oil
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice optional
- water to mix cornflour as needed
Instructions
- Wash the fresh cucumbers and dry them with a kitchen cloth. Slice them round with ¼ inch thickness or as desired. Too thin slices can't hold the coatings.While you prep cucumbers, pre heat air fryer at 190℃ for about 5-10 min.
- In a large bowl, add sliced cucumbers and mix them with salt, turmeric powder and red chili powder. If you don't have oats flour, you may dry grind good quality rolled oats or use breadcrumbs. In small bowl, mix cornflour with water to make a not-so thick paste or batter. The batter should stick to cucumber when dunked into it. Roll the cornflour coated cucumber with oats flour from all sides and place in a plate.Do this with all the cucumber slices.
- Grease air fryer basket with olive oil and place the cucumber fritters at even gaps. Brush oil over the fritters too. Air fry these fritters for about 10-15 min or till browned at 190℃. Make sure to flip them half way through to cook from the other side as well.
- The Crispy and browned Air fried Cucumber Fritters are ready to serve. Team them with tomato ketchup or a sauce of your choice.
Notes
- Make sure to dry cucumbers after washing and before slicing or else they won't be crispy. While you may peel them, I like the fritters with peel.
- When using air fryer for making chips, usually there is not much need to flip the vegetable. Just shaking is fine. But since this is oat coated fritter, I had flipped it to cook from both sides for browning.
- Apply oil over fritters and air fryer basket for non sticky frying.
- Serve the fritters fresh as they lose crispiness if stored for long.
How To Make Cucumber Fritters in Oven
This recipe of air frying cucumber works fine if you want to bake the fritters in oven. You may have to pre heat the oven at 220°C for about 10 min and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the fritters are golden brown and crispy. You may want to flip them halfway through the baking time for even crispiness.| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving size: 6 | |
| Servings: 3 | |
| Amount per serving | |
| Calories | 120 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 5.6g | 7% |
| Saturated Fat 1g | 5% |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 14mg | 1% |
| Total Carbohydrate 23.9g | 9% |
| Dietary Fiber 3.3g | 12% |
| Total Sugars 3.5g | |
| Protein 3.9g | |
| Vitamin D 0mcg | 0% |
| Calcium 45mg | 3% |
| Iron 2mg | 9% |
| Potassium 389mg | 8% |
| *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calorie a day is used for general nutrition advice. | |
Jacob says
Was looking for an easy and low calorie snack and landed on your page. Looks so perfect and healthy! Thanks for sharing.
Deepti says
Hi Jacob,
I am so glad to know this! Keep visiting for more such healthy recipes. Thanks for sharing!