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Tuesday 18 December 2012

zucchini tuesday

Louise at gardenglut has been encouraging us all to learn to have a new found joy for zucchini. Now I do love a good zucchini and so I thought I would take on her challenge of growing them and cooking them.  I have posted a couple of times on the great use of the zucch which has been fun and yes I have a new one this week but first look I think I see flowers!!!

It is not enormous yet but it is not doing so bad
I am not sure if they are male or female flowers but they sure afre pretty
Here they are I can almost taste the zucchini.  We are no doubt going to be great friends and make a great many dishes together.

Anyway this week while at the markets I saw more zucchini flowers and I just couldn't walk past, not while they are still in season.  But I couldn't decide what to do with them....  So I stuffed them and crumbed them to pan fry (we don't have a deep fryer). I also thought I would make use of a small glut of tomatoes I had. I had a quick look at a couple of recipes and put this together.

Jen's stuffed zucchini flowers with quinoa and veg

* Mix some feta (I used Yarra Valley) with lemon rind, a touch of parmesan and seasoning.
* Remove the stamen inside the zucchin flower and stuff with the cheese mix.
* Crumb and leave in the fridge for a bit.
* Cook quinoa according to packet
* Pan fry a whole pile of veg.  I used Mushroom, Zucchini, Carrot, Broccoli, Spinach, Snow Peas and oven roasted tomatoes.

Lovely home grown toms
* Add the cooked Quinoa and a touch of soy and beetroot balsamic. You can add any flavours you like.
* Chop herbs for the top, I used coriander
* Have your lovely assistant pan fry the zucchini flowers and add to the top


* Eat

Quinoa and veg with crumbed zucchini flowers



6 comments:

  1. That looks divine, my zuchinni seeds have only just gone in. Sigh, a long time to wait for this dinner.

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    1. Well you know they won't be too long before you will have some gorgeous stuffed zucchini

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  2. This sounds so good - another one to try. Not sure my 'helper' is up to frying though. He can do stirring and putting in oven but frying may be one request too far...

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    1. Well perhaps you could spray them and pop them in the oven?

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  3. Your end dish looks fantastic. I bet the herbs really add fantastic flavour to it.

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  4. Always got to have fresh herbs I think they really make the dish

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