Making stuffed fried zucchini flowers is something I always wanted to do. When we returned from Louisiana, my garden looked stunning with several of these yellow flowers. So I looked up how to make it, and in order to spare you from extremely long articles preceding recipes, I’ll just cut to the chase.
Only picked the boys! I don’t know about anyone else, but I was always taught that plants weren’t male or female- only people, and animals. Girl zucchini flowers will have little zucchinis at the end of them. They’re “pregnant”. Boys will have just a stem. If you cut the girls, you won’t have any actual zukes.
Cut the bottoms off and remove the stamen. Make batter with flour, milk, water and salt. (About a third cup of flour, three oz of water, 1/4 tsp salt and 1 tsp of milk. I mixed it all into the measuring cup I measured the flour into and whisked with a fork. It was way more than I needed.
I stuffed each flower with mozzarella and pan fried, flipping occasionally until they looked brown. They’re amazing!
I've seen this made of cooking shows but I've never made them myself. That looks good.
ReplyDeleteThese look very tasty. I did know about the male and female flowers, it is interesting how nature works.
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