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Ricotta and Basil stuffed Courgette Flowers in tempura batter
Ricotta and Basil stuffed Courgette Flowers in tempura batter
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This is a delicious starter utilizing the flowers of the courgette and stuffing them with all that is good! Cheese, basil, pine nuts and garlic. Yum yum!

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Prep time
  • 5 minutes
Cook Time
  • 12 minutes
Servings
  • 4
Ingredients
  • 12 Courgette Flowers
  • 110 Grams Fresh Ricotta Cheese
  • 1 Garlic Clove, crushed
  • 1 tbsp Freshly Chopped Basil
  • 1 tbsp Toasted Pine nuts
  • 1 Free range Egg
  • Salt and Pepper
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  • For the batter
  • 175g Self Raising Flour
  • A pinch of Salt
  • 390ml/13fl.oz. Ice cold ale
  • 2 medium free range Eggs, beaten
  • Rapeseed Oil for shallow frying
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Directions
1. Remove the pistol and stamen from the flowers and gently wash the flowers then dry on kitchen paper and set aside. 2. Crush the garlic and mix with the ricotta, basil, pine nuts and egg until well blended. Season with a bit of salt and pepper to taste. 3. Fill each flower with some of the cheese mixture, making sure you don’t overfill. Refrigerate whilst you make the batter. 4. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, salt, ale and eggs until combined. 5. Heat about 5cm/2 inches of oil in a large frying pan until quite hot (about 180C/350F) and heat the oven to low. 6. Whilst holding the petals together, dip a stuffed flower into the batter ensuring the entire flower is coated, then place into the hot oil carefully. Only place a couple into the oil at a time to keep the oil hot. (You will probably have to cook them in a couple of batches.) 7. Fry for a couple of minutes until lightly browned on one side, then turn and continue to fry until lightly browned on the other side. 8. When each is cooked remove from the oil and place on kitchen paper and keep warm in the oven.
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yarnsbab...
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Tried this recipe last night, tasted good but was tricky to keep the batter on the flower it seemed the batter needed to be a little thicker. Great use for the flowers though

lemonlav...
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This sounds delicious.

hadenoug...
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yummy sounding - probably need a week or two of patience till I harvest some of my courgettes flowers ;)

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