Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, zucchini flowers stuffed with feta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Clean mushrooms and cut into small cubes. Peel shallot and garlic and finely chop. Season with salt, lemon juice and pepper.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have zucchini flowers stuffed with feta using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta:
- Get 12 fresh zucchini flowers
- Take For the filling
- Get 100 g feta cheese, cut in 12 sticks
- Get 12 big spearmint leaves, washed and strained
- Make ready For the batter
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Take 2/3 cup lukewarm water
- Get 1 egg
- Make ready 3-4 tbsp ouzo
- Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1/2-1 tbsp boukovo (crushed chili flakes)
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
Serve this with a hearty green salad for a simple delicious vegetarian meal or a tasty appetizer! Here's a truly traditional Greek recipe for stuffed zucchini flowers. This stuffed courgette blossoms recipe is very easy to make and even easier to enjoy. Drain, rinse under cold water, drain again and let cool.
Steps to make Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta:
- Fill the sink with water and salt and put your flowers in. Salt will make the bugs run for their lives (if there are any in there) and water will make the flowers open more easily.
- Remove the flowers from the zucchinis very carefully. Use your hands, or a knife to be more sure.
- Open the flowers (again very carefully) and remove the stamen. Take care not to tear the flower.
- Wash the flowers under running water and strain them on a towel.
- Take a flower, open it and put inside a stick of feta and a spearmint leaf.
- Twist the petals to close the flower. Put them all in a plate and place them in the fridge until it's time to fry them.
- Make the batterput all ingredients in a bowl and mix until you get a nice smooth batter. If you are not going to do the frying immediately, place it in the fridge until then.
- The flowers should be served hot, so fry them just before you want to serve them. When it is time, put the oil in a pan, and fry them in medium-hot temperature, for about 3 minutes, turning them until they get golden brown all over.
- You can use your fork to flatten the flowers a bit (while frying). They will fry quicker this way.
- When they are golden brown all over, put them on a paper towel to absorb the extra oil and serve hot.
When the zucchini are cool enough to handle, cut a thin strip off the top side of each one with a sharp knife and gently score around the inside edges to help scoop. When you stuff your zucchini flowers keep in mind that the rice will expand with the cooking. For this reason, and because the zucchini flowers are quite delicate, you don't want to overstuff them. Loosely fill your blossoms with the rice and herb mixture and then fold the petals over to keep the filling in place. These cooked zucchini flowers are all over various restaurant menus in Rome and Italy, consumed in pizzerias and trattorias.
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