Château Crémade - Accueil
Fleurs de courgettes farçies
Flowers of stuffed zucchinis


As an accompaniment of a Château Crémade Rosé 2006.


The shopping for 6 people:

Male zucchini flowers 12 pièces
For the stuffing    
Zucchini 2  
Shallot 1  
Garlic 3  
Mushrooms 150 gr
Egg 1  
Olive oil 10 cl
Parsley   pm
Powder of almond   pm
Tapenade 50 gr
Thyme   pm
Optionally    
Small smoked bacon cubes 100 gr
Finishing    
Flour 100  
Eggs 2 pm
Breadcrumbs 100 pm
Tomato Coulis   pm
Basil   pm
Salt and Pepper   pm

Preparation :

Wash and cut the shallots, mushrooms and zucchini into a fine burnoise. Peel and crush the garlic.

1 - Make go back the shallot to the olive oil, add the brunoise of zucchini. Spice with fresh thyme, add a touch of minced garlic at the end of cooking, spice. Reserve. Cook mushrooms with (optionally) some bacon cubes. Mix the vegetables, add egg yolk, a spoonful of tapenade, fresh cream and a little of almond powder to give some substance to this farce.
2 - Take away the pistils of the flowers of zucchini.
3 - With the aid of a pocket, stuff flowers by closing the end of petals.
4 - Bread the flowers in English way (flour, eggs and breadcrumbs).
5 - Fry quickly in olive oil and serve on a coulis of tomato and basil.