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.Β 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! Β 

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!Β 

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Have a lovely Sunday,

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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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  • For your gluten-free followers…using ground pepitas (pumpkin seeds) ….I do mine in my coffee grinder…..instead of wheat flour works beautifully and complements the zucchini nicely!….

    Fabulous apΓ¨ro fare here…Thank you so much for this wonderful idea.

  • Im trying these tonight, sound super yummy. Just wondering if they should be placed in a single layer on the cooking racks or is piled ok? Also can u recommend any dips?

    • I would definitely place them in a single layer! They will not cook evenly if you pile them! πŸ™‚ A great dip would be something simple made from greek yogurt, with chives, and maybe a ranch dressing packet – I would look for a natural/organic brand! πŸ™‚ Enjoy the chips – they are fantastic just on their own too!

  • Hey Christal ! Do you think I could make these vegan by using daiya instead of parmesan ? Or nutritional yeast maybe ? They look amazing !

    • Definitely! I would go for the nutritional yeast instead of the daiya just because the daiya might be “too heavy” if that makes sense!

  • I baked these for 40 minutes and could not get them to crisp up. Finally served them soft. Any suggestions on how to get them crisp?

    • Did you have them on a cooling rack not directly on the pan? If directly on the pan they don’t get heat from both sides and won’t crisp as fast!

    • Hmm.. I haven’t! I’d be worried that once defrosted they would go mushy πŸ™ It’s worth a try though, with just a few to test out! Let me know how it goes!

  • So, I joined this new co-op today called Bountiful Baskets & in my basket full of yummy fruits and veggies I had 2 very beautiful zucchinis! I love zucchini, my husband does not. So I googled amazing zucchini recipes & landed here. (Yay!!) Anyways, I made these chips today for my family (I have a 4 year old & and 8 year old) and they loved them. EVERYONE! Even hubs. πŸ™‚ So thanks so much for this awesome recipe! I’ll be stopping by more often to see what yummy you are offering up.

    • That’s awesome Misty! I love that the kiddies likes them too – sneaky way to get veggies into the kids! πŸ™‚

  • These are fantastic. I messed up by mixing everything together to make a mush before fully reading the directions. I know, really smart. At that point I was also out of milk. So I found some evaporated milk and made a 50/50 mixture with water, dipped each zucchini slice in the milk mixture then pressed the mush onto each side of the slice. Then I sprinkled everything with more bread crumbs and finished with a coat of oil spray. Finished in 25 minutes and was delish!

    • I’m glad it still worked out for you Kishagd! Way to improvise! I always have to do that in the kitchen when testing out recipes! πŸ™‚

  • I would love to make these,,,the only thing I am concerned about is whether I have an oven-proof rack to bake them on. I have “cooling racks” ,,,,do you think they would work?