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# Kolokythokeftedes se Pita (Κολοκυθοκεφτέδες)
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/kolokythokeftedes-se-pita/
- Published: 2026-05-17T16:01:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T12:33:38.000Z
- Description: Zucchini fritters in pita; fried zucchini balls.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Greece, Wraps and Burritos, Κεφτέδες σε Πίτα, #auto-imported

**🇬🇷 Greece** · Family: [Κεφτέδες σε Πίτα](https://onesandwich.com/tag/keftedes-se-pita/) · Heat: Fried · Bread: pita

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Ingredients

pita · zucchini · feta · onion · mint · tzatziki

*Kolokythokeftedes se Pita (Κολοκυθοκεφτέδες)* is fried zucchini fritters wrapped into a soft round, *se pita* meaning "in pita": the Greek courgette *keftedes*, little fried balls or patties of grated zucchini, herbs, and cheese, rolled into a warmed flatbread as the vegetarian member of the souvlaki-counter family. The angle is moisture management. Zucchini is mostly water, so the whole dish hinges on whether the fritter was made dry enough to fry crisp, and then whether the wrap keeps that crispness from drowning in sauce.

The build starts well before the bread. Grated zucchini is salted and squeezed hard to drive out water, then mixed with grated onion, herbs (commonly mint and dill), crumbled cheese such as feta, and just enough flour or breadcrumb to bind, shaped into small rounds, and fried until the outside is deep golden and crisp while the inside stays soft and green-tasting. The *pita* is warmed flat on the griddle until pliable and faintly blistered. The hot fritters are laid down the length, usually with tomato, onion, and a stripe of *tzatziki*, then rolled tight and papered. Good execution is obvious: the squeeze-out was thorough so the fritters fried crisp instead of greasy and dense, they go into the wrap hot so they hold texture for a few bites, and the sauce is restrained so it does not instantly turn them to mush. Sloppy work skips the salting and squeezing, so the fritters are wet, pale, and oily, or floods the wrap with *tzatziki* until the crisp shell is gone before the second bite, or uses a cold *pita* that cracks at the fold.

How it shifts is in the herb mix and the binder. Some kitchens lean heavily on mint, others on dill; some keep the cheese generous, others minimal for a lighter, more vegetal fritter. Fries in or out, *tzatziki* sometimes swapped for a yogurt-mint sauce. The plain meat *keftedes* in pita is its own build and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. What this version reliably offers is a genuinely vegetarian wrap with real texture, where the entire quality question is whether the cook squeezed the zucchini dry and got it into the bread before it went soft.

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## More from this family

Other [Κεφτέδες σε Πίτα](https://onesandwich.com/tag/keftedes-se-pita/) sandwiches in Greece:

- [Melitzanokeftedes se Pita](https://onesandwich.com/melitzanokeftedes-se-pita/)
- [Revythokeftedes se Pita](https://onesandwich.com/revythokeftedes-se-pita/)
- [Tomatokeftedes se Pita (Ντοματοκεφτέδες)](https://onesandwich.com/tomatokeftedes-se-pita/)