Crispy Baked Zucchini Fries

A yummy, healthy pre-braai snack recipe from our guest blogger Part-Time Veggie!

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Healthy recipes are the new black these days. Instagrammers have become so good at photographing their food that you get sucked into the raw chocolate tart abyss and for a moment you’re convinced you can create a masterpiece that looks just like their professionally captured creation. Then you try it and you end up with a comical copy that defines the phrase ‘nailed it’.

It can be quite intimidating. Luckily I don’t have those mad photography skills, so my recipes and pics err on the side of ‘real girl with passion’ rather than ‘unachievable gourmet goddess’.

That said, I follow some amazing foodies on Instagram and I am completely inspired by them. I always have about 20 recipes saved that I’m dying to try.

One of my favourite IGers is @chocolatecoveredkatie – she is a vegan who eats chocolate every single day, sometimes twice. Her recipes are all healthy but she gives you different options in case you want to be a rebel and use  white flour and sugar. Check her out, I guarantee you’ll love her.

The reason I mention her is that my crispy baked zucchini fries are inspired by her recipe, but since I’m not vegan I used eggs instead of milk and I made a few other adjustments. And just to prove my first point, they also flopped spectacularly because I put the oven on grill instead of bake and burnt the whole batch – here’s to keeping it real!

The few that I managed to salvage were amazing though. They’re a fantastic healthy side to serve with a plate of ribs or at a braai.