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Super Bowl Appetizers – Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters (aka, Mücver)

August 22, 2020 This post may contain affiliate links.

Football fans at your Super Bowl, tailgating or homegating parties will cheer when you serve these Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters. Filled with zucchini, carrots, potatoes, and onions, these fun appetizers can be baked or fried.

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Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters

If you are looking for a tasty Super Bowl appetizer that your friends and family will love, you’ve got to give these Football Shape Zucchini Fritters a try.

These crispy game day appetizers are loaded with zucchini, carrots, onions, and potatoes and can be fried or baked.

Our exchange student introduced me to this recipe for Mücver (zucchini fritters) and I was so glad she did.

Zucchini fritters shaped like footballs decorated with Greek yogurt laces.

When she showed me how she shaped her fritters into patties I envisioned shaping them into other things, like footballs as I did with my

  • Football Shaped Proscuitto and Asiago Rice Cake Footballs,
  • Fried Taco Footballs,
  • Football Chicken Nuggets, and
  • Football Shaped Hamburgers.
  • See all of my Football Party Food ideas, here.

It turned out to be really simple. Let me show you how.

Supplies needed to make these Zucchini Fritter Footballs

  • cheese grater or food processor with the grater attachment
  • football-shaped cookie cutter
  • salad spinner or strainer

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How to make Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters

Frying Instructions:

Make Mücver using shredded zucchini, potato, onion and more then shape them like Footballs for your Super Bowl party.

Shred and drain your vegetables.

  • Peel the zucchini, carrot, potato, and onion.
  • Shred the zucchini, carrot, and potato using a cheese grater or a food processor fitted with a shredding attachment.
  • Finely slice and chop the onion.
  • Place the vegetables in a strainer, sprinkle and toss with salt, and let sit for 10 minutes.
  • Press down on the vegetables, allowing excess water to drain off.
    • I used a salad spinner and spun the vegetables dry, which worked perfectly.
  • Let sit for 5 more minutes and drain again, removing as much liquid as possible.

Mücver Recipe using shredded vegetables.

Toss with flour and egg.

  • Pour shredded vegetables into a mixing bowl.
  • Sprinkle the flour over the shredded vegetables. Toss to coat.
  • Add eggs and mix until well combined.
  • As you work, if you have a lot of excess moisture, drain it off.

how to make zucchini fritter footballs

Use a football cookie cutter to shape fritters.

  • Heat 1 cup vegetable oil in a 12″ non-stick pan until it reaches 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Set your metal football-shaped cookie cutter down on a spatula/turner.
  • Fill the cookie cutter with a spoonful of the zucchini mixture.
  • Press down to create a 1/4 inch thick football.

how to fry football shaped veggie fritters

Fry for crispy fritters.

  • Carefully slide the filled cookie cutter into the oil, lifting the cutter, allowing the football-shaped mixture to gently glide into the pan. I recommend using metal tongs to do this job.
  • Move quickly, don’t allow the cookie cutter to get really hot or it will begin to cook the filling as you create your next football fritter. Wipe the cookie-cutter clean, often.

NOTE: I also found that I could shape the football on the spatula then lift it off and slide the fritter into the oil, reshaping it as needed. The football fritters weren’t as perfectly shaped, but this way you don’t have to worry about lifting up a hot cookie cutter.

how to fry football shaped zucchini fritters in a skillet

Brown the fritters on both sides.

Our exchange student and I worked together; I filled the cookie cutter and slid them into the skillet while she fried them, flipping them over as they browned on each side.

You want your fritters to be nice and crispy but not burnt, so fry them to a deep golden brown. The edges of your football fritters will be a bit darker, and that is fine.

By baking them, as I did for the video version of this tutorial, the fritters stayed a bit thicker and didn’t brown around the edges quite as much.

I personally preferred them fried, but they taste really good when baked too. They just aren’t as crispy. Of course, the baked zucchini fritters have few calories which is always a bonus!

drain zucchini fritters on paper towels

Pat off the excess oil.

  • Once you have fried your football-shaped zucchini fritters, set them on paper towels to drain off excess oil. I also pat the tops with paper towels to really remove as much oil as possible.

Can I make these ahead for my party?

  • At this point they can be decorated and served, however, I’m guessing most of you won’t want this mess in your kitchen while you have guests.
    • So, make your fritters then put them in an airtight container and refrigerate them for up to a few days.
    • When you are ready to serve them, place them on a baking sheet and heat them in a 350-degree oven for about 10 minutes, until heated through.
  • If you just bake them then heat the oven to 400 degrees F and bake on each side for 12-15 minutes.
  • You want both sides to be golden brown.
  • The baked fritters will be thicker as not as much moisture will evaporate while they are cooking.

How to decorate football shaped zucchini fritters.

Decorate using Greek yogurt or sour cream.

  • To decorate them: fill a disposable pastry bag, optionally fitted with a small round decorating tip, with plain Greek Yogurt or sour cream. You can also just use a zip top bag with a small hole cut in one tip.
  • Pipe laces and stripes onto each football fritter.
  • Place on a platter and serve alongside the remaining Greek yogurt.

The Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters are great hot but are also quite good room temperature or even cold.  

Can I bake these zucchini fritters instead of frying them?

  • Yes, you can bake zucchini fritters instead of frying them.
  • See the recipe below.

Football Fritters Video

Be sure to watch my video tutorial to see how you can make these Zucchini Football Fritters for your party. In this version, I baked my fritters.

Super Bowl Appetizers Recipe

Recipe originally posted on January 18, 2013. 

5 from 1 vote
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Super Bowl Appetizers - Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters (aka, Mücver)
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
26 mins
Total Time
46 mins
 
Fry or bake football shaped Zucchini fritters for the big game then decorate them with yogurt or sour cream laces.
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: Turkish
Keyword: super bowl snacks, zucchini fritters
Servings: 20
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 2 medium size zucchini
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 large russet potato
  • 1 small onion
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • 2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
  • if baking, olive oil spray
  • if frying, 1 cup vegetable oil, plus more if needed
  • serve with 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
Instructions
  1. If baking, preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Shred the zucchini, carrot, and potato using a cheese grater or food processor.
  3. Finely slice and chop the onion.
  4. Place the veggies in a salad spinner or strainer.
  5. Sprinkle with salt and toss to evenly coat the veggies.
  6. Set aside for 10 minutes to allow the moister to drain from the vegetables.
  7. Spin, if using a salad spinner, or press down using paper towels if using a strainer to remove as much liquid as possible.
  8. Stir then let sit another 5 minutes and repeat until the veggies are quite dry.
  9. Pour into a large mixing bowl.
  10. Sprinkle on the flour and toss to coat.
  11. Stir in the eggs.
  12. If baking, spray a non-stick baking pan with olive oil cooking spray.
  13. Spoon the veggie mixture into a football shaped cookie cutter, creating a fritter that is about 1/4 inch thick.
  14. Remove cookie cutter and repeat.
  15. Spray olive oil spray over top of the fritters.
  16. Bake for 12 minutes, then remove and flip the fritters over.
  17. Bake for another 12-15 minutes until evenly browned on both sides.
  18. If frying, heat the 1 cup of oil to about 350 degrees.

  19. Carefully slide the filled cookie cutter into the oil, lifting the cutter using metal tongs, allowing the football-shaped mixture to gently glide into the pan. (see the tutorial for detailed instructions)

  20. Fry until golden brown on both sides.

  21. Spoon 2 tablespoons of the yogurt or sour cream into a pastry bag or zip top bag.
  22. Pipe laces and stripes on each of the footballs.
  23. Serve immediately.

Your party guests will cheer when you serve them some of these amazing Super Bowl Recipes. Each of these fun party food ideas will score big during any football themed event.
If you want more tailgating or homegating party ideas for the college football season
or you are looking for more Super Bowl recipes,
be sure to check out my 50+ Football Party Food ideas.
Football fans at your Super Bowl, tailgating or homegating parties will cheer when you serve these Football Shaped Zucchini Fritters. Filled with zucchini, carrots, potatoes, and onions, these fun appetizers can be baked or fried.

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  1. Karen Person

    January 10, 2018 at 3:19 am

    Could you tell me how many the recipe makes or how many it will serve? We go to a party every year that has around 30 people.
    They look yummy and I would like to try a new recipe. Tell your exchange student thank you from Texas. 😉

    Reply
    • Beth

      January 10, 2018 at 11:45 am

      It makes around 20-24 so you might need to double the recipe especially because people will want to eat more than one. They are so good!!!!

      Reply
  2. Laura

    January 24, 2018 at 10:09 am

    Sounds good but can these be baked instead? I know the football cutter would work then but if they were just formed into circles or even put in the bottom of muffin tins. Any recommendations on what temperature and time to try?

    Reply
    • Beth

      January 24, 2018 at 11:09 am

      I have not tried them in the oven but am actually going to be making some of them this week so that I can create a video. I’ll have to bake a few to see how they turn out. I looked around at some other recipes and it seems like spraying a baking sheet with cooking spray then baking them at 400 degrees F for about 22 minutes might work out well. Flip them over midway through the baking cycle. If you give them a try let me know how they turn out.

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