Zucchini blossoms and goat cheese tamales salad
Zucchini blossoms and goat cheese tamales salad recipe in the zucchini category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 bag dried corn husks
- 20 zucchini blossoms
- 1 sprig fresh oregano
- 4 ounces goat cheese
- 1 ounce olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 2 pounds masa harina or cornmeal
- 6 ounces olive oil
- 3 dry cascabel peppers
- 1 tomato
- 3 cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon whole cumin seeds
- 1 small garlic clove
- 2 cups water
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Three tomato salad:
- 2 beefsteak tomatoes
- Preferably vine ripened
- 2 yellow tomatoes
- 8 tomatillos
- 1 ounce extra virgin olive oil
- 2 lemons
- 2 sprigs basil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- Salt and pepper to taste
Recipe method:
- In a saucepan, boil cascabel peppers, 1 tomato cut into quarters, cloves, cumin seeds and garlic.
- Simmer until liquid is reduced by half.
- Place liquid into blender and mix until smooth.
- Cool blended mixture.
- When cool, put mixture into a mixing bowl and add masa harina, or cornmeal, and 6 ounces olive oil.
- Work mixture with your hands while slowly adding water until mixture becomes dry and rubbery.
- Lightly saute zucchini blossoms with 1 ounce olive oil and cardamom.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Place in a flat pan and cool.
- When cool, chop leaves of fresh oregano and crumble goat cheese.
- Mix oregano and goat cheese together with zucchini blossoms.
- Set aside for tamale mixture.
- Soak cornhusks in water until soft.
- Smear cornhusks with tamale mixture.
- Place a dollop of zucchini blossom filling and fold cornhusks so that the tamale mixture and cornhusks seal in the filling.
- Tie tamales with a strip of cornhusk and steam for 45 minutes.
- Three tomato salad:
- Quarter all tomatoes and tomatillos.
- Seed and core these quarters and put in a sieve or chinois over a mixing bowl to catch the juices.
- Press cores and seeds with a rubber spatula catching as much of the juices as possible.
- Add to the tomato juice, extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, chopped basil, salt and pepper.
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