Healthy Oven Baked Zucchini Chips

Easy Oven Baked Zucchini Chips - dairy free and gluten free

Let’s Eat Oven Baked Zucchini Chips!

This is an old, old, old recipe from the blog. I’m all about revamping old content to bring it back into the light! Over the years some posts just get lost in the web and this one while it did have quite a time to shine (it was one of the most popular posts on the blog for a while!) it seems to have lost it’s sparkle. I’ve given these oven baked zucchini chips some brand new photos and a few swaps to the recipe for relevancy to the NITK brand that it is today!
Delicious and Easy Oven Baked Parmesan Zucchini Chips - vegan and gluten free
When I first made this oven baked zucchini chips recipe back in the day (August of 2012 to be exact!) I was eating dairy and gluten on a daily basis. I definitely had some digestive issues at the time but still hadn’t pinpointed the culprits. So, my original recipe contained real parmesan and whole wheat breadcrumbs. I decided to revamp this recipe to make it friendly for those who eat gluten free and dairy free, and even vegan, and leave the options for those who can have allll the gluten and dairy (lucky you!).
Easy Oven Baked Parmesan Zucchini Chips - vegan and gluten free

How to Make Zucchini Chips:

The key to making the best, crispy, crunchy, cheesy, and perfectly salty yet still relatively healthy zucchini chips is BAKING. No frying for these chippies. Baking keeps these chips from being loaded with saturated fats and helps the parmesan breading crust stay nice and crispy. There’s also a few other tips to know when it comes to making zucchini chips:
1. Slice thin. The thicker the zucchini slice the less likely of a crunch you’ll get out of your chip.
2. Bread and parm sparingly. Although you definitely want a little bit of breadcrumb and parmesan in each bite, you don’t want to go too overboard as that will weigh down the chip and make it soggier and not too crispy.
3. Use a wire rack over the baking sheet. Placing the chips over a wire cooling rack that sits on top of a regular baking sheet will help the chips get nice and crispy as the air and heat will hit both sides of the chip!
Healthy and Easy Oven Baked Parmesan Zucchini Chips - vegan and gluten free

I want to encourage you that aside from the above pointers, which are relatively simple, these oven baked zucchini chips are incredibly easy to make and it’s actually a bit of a fun process. Slice, dip, dredge. Slice, dip, dredge. You’ll see what I mean when you read the recipe.

Simple and Easy Oven Baked Parmesan Zucchini Chips - dairy free and gluten free

Everyone deserves chips now and then and why not enjoy a healthier version. These baked zucchini parmesan chips are actually pretty low in calories, low in saturated fats, and they totally satisfy a salty-tooth hankering. Not to mention they are made with baked zucchini, but I guarantee your veggie-hating littles will never know that! For the parmesan I used Earth Island dairy free parmesan which by far is the best dairy alternative parmesan cheese I’ve had. The texture is great, the taste is awesome and it’s made with mainly potato starch, certified organic palm oil and water, and it also melts like a charm on these zucchini chips.

Vegan Oven Baked Parmesan Zucchini Chips - gluten free

Have you ever made healthier veggie chips? Which kind is your favorite? I’d love to read about it in the comments below!  

4.1 from 17 reviews
Healthy Oven Baked Zucchini Chips
 
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Oven Baked Zucchini Chips Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 30 mins Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup dry gluten free breadcrumbs (store-bought or homemade)
  • ¼ cup grated dairy-free parmesan, I used Earth Island (or regular parmesan cheese)
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk
  • 2½ cups zucchini, sliced into ⅛" thick rounds
  • 1 teaspoon coconut oil
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  2. Grease the top of a wire cooling rack with the coconut oil and place on a regular baking sheet.
  3. Combine the first 4 ingredients in a medium bowl stirring with a whisk.
  4. Add almond milk to a small bowl.
  5. Dip zucchini slices in milk and then dredge the slice in the breadcrumb parmesan mixture to lightly coat both sides.
  6. Place coated slices on the wire rack.
  7. Repeat with each slice until all are coated and evenly dispersed on the wire rack.
  8. Bake for 30 minutes or until browned and crisped, watch closely to make sure the chips don't burn!
  9. Enjoy immediately and dip in a healthy ranch or marinara sauce if preferred!

 

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This healthy oven baked parmesan zucchini chip recipe is to die for! It's crispy, salty, and perfect for any chip craving. The dairy-free parmesan and gluten-free breading work wonderfully keeping these chips vegan and healthier than your regular run-of-the-mill fried chip! Perfect for those with food allergies too! 

 

Have a lovely Sunday,

 

Author: Christal Sczebel

Christal is the creator of Nutrition in the Kitch. She's a Certified Nutritional Consultant, twice published author, gluten and dairy free recipe developer, food photographer, speaker, wife, and mama. Christal loves good food, all things wellness, and loves to travel. Her wellness philosophy is centred around balance and sustainable health, life's way too short for boring diets and restriction!

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  • Sounds like a great recipe. I am on a very low sodium diet for health reasons, will substitute no salt seasoning salt. Will check out other recipes you might have that I can adapt to my needs.

    • Hi Donna, it really depends on how thin you slice your zucchini. The nutritional information is based on about 20 chips per serving!

  • Hi Christal, So I am obsessed with French Fries, and have bad cholesterol, how can I make them better for me!! These Zucchini Chips look fantastic.

  • These look amazing….I am going to make them tonight, andw a garlic aoili that I always serve w my eggplant fries. Mayo (or Greek yogurt }) with fresh garlic, lemon juice, a lil chili powder, salt, ppper, and parsley mixed together. I rarely use a recipe, sorry I don’t have measurements…
    Take care
    Suzanne

    Psnthnx for the recipe, I’m excite!

  • Thank you Christal,
    I can´t wait to bake! se ven deliciosas estas ricas calabacitas! yumm!
    I really appreciate you share this healthy recipie. I´m in Mexico, wher we have 1st in children´s obesity. and I´m mother of two kids, one of them is overweight and some time I don´t know what kind of snak could be atractive for him. Finally i found something that could work.
    Thank you!

  • I am trying these on the weekend a friend has just given me enough of these beauties to make chips for the whole city Thanks

  • I’ve been making these for years….they’re even better if you make a dip with 50/50 mixture of low-fat or fat-free ranch dressing and horseradish….takes it to a whole other level! 🙂

  • I am an Italian was raised by my Nana cause parents owned a sm market in Ma.Anyway was raised on a farm use to make eggplant parm. Have been useing Zuccinni for the longest time,but never tryed these. Boy was I missing out thank you for the recipe.