I found a recipe in the last Better Homes & Gardens for Zucchini Pancakes, and adapted it for low carb. I have some CarbSense bake mix, but any lc bake mix, even Carbquik or Carbalose flour, would work.

This is the recipe. The only substitution I made was the bake mix for the flour.

5 cups coarsely shredded zucchini (1 1/2 lb)
Mix with 3/4 tsp salt, put in colander over a bowl, put a plate on top, weight with some cans, and let drain for about 20 minutes.

Put into a large bowl. Add the following:

4 eggs (I used large)
1 clove garlic or equivalent minced from a jar
3/4 all purpose flour or lc flour or bake mix
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 TBS finely chopped onion (I used dehydrated, it worked fine)
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Mix well. Drop by tablespoons onto lightly oiled skillet or griddle. I used coconut oil. Spread to 3 inch circle, cook until golden on both sides. Serve warm with sour cream.

To freeze, layer with waxed paper between, freeze up to 3 months. Preheat in 450 degree F oven in single layer on greased baking sheet for 8 to 10 minutes.

Makes 30 pancakes.

Their original nutritional analysis and mine per 2 pancakes:

Theirs
Cal 62
Fat 2
Carbs 6
Protein 4

Mine
Cal 52
Fat <2
Carbs 2.5 (Not net carbs, just straight carbs)
Protein 5

The total carbs would be less due to the fiber content of the zucchini and the bake mix. I assume I added right, but I think these figures are pretty close.

I just ate one plain, and thought it was very good. It will be a good side addition to a lunch. The recipe made 30 nice pancakes (or fritters, if you prefer). Next time I plan to use the same basic recipe, but instead of savory, I plan to make it sweet and add cinnamon and maybe some chopped nuts, for a kind of zucchini bread pancake.

These are very pretty, too, and would look nice on a platter for a buffet.

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Nita

Sounds delicious, Nita.

I've made zucchini pancakes similar to these, but I think the garlic and cheese would take them up a notch.

Is that 1/2 cup cheese?

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Oops! Yes, I'll go back & edit that. It's a 1/2 cup cheese.

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Nita

If you grate zucchini, and then place it in a dishtowel, you can wring an awful lot of water from it when you wring the towel.

Just a thought.

That works great, too. Another dishtowel trick - use a plain cotton towel, not a terry cloth towel, put your lc spaghetti in it, roll up the towel, then run it over the edge of your counter, and it will break up the spaghetti into little pieces so you can use it as noodles in your soup. I like the Dreamfields linguine for noodles. But any lc long pasta will work. And it doesn't take much of it to make a nice noodly soup. (I noodly a word? It is now!)

Still haven't tried the sweet zucchini pancakes - maybe tomorrow night I'll give it a shot.

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Nita

Nita, sounds like you are doing a lot of cleaning, I sure could use a good dd or dil to help me do some cleaning. Sure nice you have such a peach of a dil.

Nita, I have made zucchini pancakes and love them. I don't know where you find the lc bake mix. I have never seen it. That would be so handy.

Hope the rest of your week goes well.

Carrole

Carrole, you can use Carbquik, soy flour, or look to sources such as netrition.com or low-carb.com, or dixiediner.com, just to name a few. I might try using my whey protein powder in the sweet ones I'm going to make tonight.

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