Sweet fried zucchini flowers
Sweet fried zucchini flowers recipe in the zucchini category
Recipe ingredients:
- 8 male zucchini flowers, 8 to 12
- Flour
- Dry breadcrumbs
- Light olive oil
- Rum
- Alchermes liqueur
- Caster sugar
- Custard:
- 5 egg yolks
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 5 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 l milk, 3/4 pint
- Peel of 1/2 lemon
Recipe method:
- Make the custard first.
- Beat the egg yolks, sugar and flour together.
- Bring the milk to the boil with the lemon peel.
- Lower the heat and slowly add the egg, sugar, flour mixture, stirring constantly.
- Cook for 10 minutes and keep on stirring. Be careful that the bottom does not catch.
- Remove from the heat and leave to get cold.
- Wash and dry the zucchini flowers. Remove the pistules.
- Fill each flower with 1 tablespoon of the thick custard.
- Gently squeeze the petals together just above the mixture.
- Dust the flowers first in flour.
- Dip them in the beaten egg, finishing with the breadcrumbs.
- Deep-fry the flowers, in a light olive oil until golden.
- Drain on absorbent kitchen paper.
- Sprinkle the flowers with rum and Alchermes.
- Shake caster sugar over them and serve at once.
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