Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, zucchini flowers stuffed with feta. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Great recipe for Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta. One of the best meze dishes. Take a flower, open it and put inside a stick of feta and a spearmint leaf.
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To get started 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta:
- Get 12 fresh zucchini flowers
- Make ready For the filling
- Take 100 g feta cheese, cut in 12 sticks
- Make ready 12 big spearmint leaves, washed and strained
- Take For the batter
- Take 1 cup flour
- Make ready 2/3 cup lukewarm water
- Make ready 1 egg
- Get 3-4 tbsp ouzo
- Take 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1/2-1 tbsp boukovo (crushed chili flakes)
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
For those times when you find yourself with a pile of zucchini blossoms -or if you've ever wondered what you would do if you did. Its a basic fried recipe but I put a cube of feta in each flower before frying. 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.
Instructions 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.
The delicate flower of young zucchini is something I look forward to each summer. They are a real delicacy in most countries however, they grow in abundance in their native Central America. When I was in Oaxaca, Mexico, I'd see mountains of the flowers being sold in the. Mediterranean Baked Zucchini Sticks Recipe is crunchy oven roasted zucchini with feta cheese, fresh parsley and no breading. I oven roasted them stuffed with tomatoes, bell peppers and Kalamata olives until soft but still crunchy.
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