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Monday, April 28, 2025

Fried Zucchini Flowers



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!  

2 comments:

  1. I've seen this made of cooking shows but I've never made them myself. That looks good.

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  2. These look very tasty. I did know about the male and female flowers, it is interesting how nature works.

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