Easy Zucchini Flowers Recipe

Zucchini flowers have a delicate and light taste and we can use them as a primary or secondary ingredient in a variety of recipes. They combine very well with pasta, hams, cheeses, for preparing first unique dishes, salads, or snacks. Today, we want to share this Easy Zucchini Flowers Recipe to learn how to prepare delicious stuffed zucchini flowers.

• 20-30 zucchini flowers
• 100 g mozzarella or pizza cheese
• 100 g smoked ham
• 500-600 ml corn oil for frying

For the batter

• 1 glass or cup of all-purpose flour
• 300 ml cold beer or cold sparkling water
• Salt

Directions

1. First, we prepare the zucchini flowers and the stuffing ingredients.
2. We clean the zucchini flowers carefully because they are delicate. Rinse and dry carefully and eliminate and clean out of the yarns of the sideways and inside on the pistil part. Be careful to not damage the flower.
3. Cut the cheese and the ham in small parts or dices.
4. Inside of each flower, we put a piece of cheese and smoked ham. Close the flower with a light torsion and continue like this with all the zucchini flowers.
5. The next step is the batter preparation. We will prepare in a simple way, without eggs, but using just flour, salt, and beer.
6. In a bowl, mix the flour and salt and add the cold beer, mixing with a hand beater, until it creates a soft and homogeneous batter.
7. In a frying pan, add the oil and put to heat and reach the frying temperature.
8. Take each stuffed flower and put in the batter, carefully to not open. Transfer in the frying pan, to fry. It will take 2-3 minutes until to golden from all the sides.
9. After that, we need to transfer the fried flowers in a dish covered with kitchen paper to eliminate the remaining oil.
10. Serve the stuffed zucchini flowers warm.

Bon Appetit!