Zucchini and squash flowers

Description

Recently the site had a recipe using squash flowers in cooking. I also want to put your contribution on this topic. Offer several options for use of zucchini and squash (pumpkin) flowers.

Ingredients

Zucchini

9 piece
Carrots

3 piece
Onion

1 piece
Minced meat

400 g
Figure

6 Tbsp
Parsley
Salt
Black pepper
Red sweet pepper
Lemon

2 piece
Chicken egg

2 piece
Flour

2 Tbsp
Olive oil

Cooking

Option 1: Stuffed squash flowers. When the hostess decides to cook this dish, then go out to collect squash flowers early in the morning, so they were open. The garden I have (as I can Only DREAM!), so you have to manage vegetables from the market. Rinse the zucchini under running water, to select only the florets, the courgettes can be used in another dish.

To prepare minced meat, rice, finely chopped onion, herbs. Season with salt and pepper. I add a little water to the meat was tender, and add a little olive oil to the stuffing.

Stuff the flowers (pistils are not removed, they too take in food) and put in pan.

Cover with water and cook approximately 30 minutes.

But that's not all, the taste need to adjust lemon-egg sauce. Before cooking the sauce, I poured some more olive oil, it should as little as possible subjected to heat treatment.

Lemon-egg sauce "AVGOLEMONO" in Greek the "avgo" - egg, "lemony" - lemon. The sauce will give a nice tart taste to the dish.

Cooking sauce: separate the whites from the yolks, the yolks add the lemon juice, well beaten egg whites combine with the yolks. If you want the sauce to be thick, add a spoonful of flour, if not - then the flour can not be added. About the sauce I have already described in the recipe "Greek meatball soup" http://www.povarenok .ru/recipes/show/67 333/

Pour the warmed mixture into the pan, to prevent inappropriate, but shaking the pan to smooth movements, you can give the mixture to unite with other components. The contents of the pan is already quite hot, so the pan leaving only two minutes on the fire. So, stuffed the flowers are ready!

Option 2: Stuffed zucchini.

The whole process is repeated, only the flowers are replaced by courgettes. I have a zucchini of medium size, but I have divided them in half, cored - turned hollow cylinder.