Pasta with courgette flowers and bottarga: a delicious first course recipe.

difficulty: low

Preparation and cooking time: the same as your favorite pasta

PASTA WITH ZUCCHINI FLOWERS AND BOTTARGA RECIPE

This quick recipe is both fragrant and delicious. Perfect for fresh zucchini season, when the flowers bloom in all their vibrant colors, it can be prepared any time of year using flowers we've frozen or frozen.

ALSO READ: Edible flowers: how to choose and use them safely in the kitchen.

PASTA WITH ZUCCHINI FLOWERS AND BOTTARGA

Ingredients (For 4 people)

• 320 grams of dried pasta, of your preferred shape (either long or short)
• 12-15 courgette flowers
• 2 sprigs of wild fennel
• 1 clove of garlic
• 4 generous turns of extra virgin olive oil
• 4 heaped teaspoons of powdered bottarga
• Coarse and fine salt

Preparation

• Put to heat the pasta water, which should be salted with coarse salt when it boils
• In the meantime, clean Zucchini flowers—if they're fresh—recovering the corolla and cutting it into strips. The central pistil has a bitter taste and, unfortunately, should be discarded.

• In a large pan that can also contain the pasta, warm up the oil and gently fry the garlic clove. Please note: so as not to burn it, it just needs to release its scent.
• Add cut the courgette flowers, do them as soon as possible heat and flavor, salt them lightly and turn off the heat.
• Meanwhile, cook the pasta.
• In a minute before draining it, warm up the courgette flowers and add the fennel.
• Drain, but not too much, the pasta, and pour it in the pan.

• Mix quickly to combine ingredients and flavors.
• PREPARATIONS the portions on individual plates, and finished with a sprinkling of bottarga.

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• Battered Zucchini Flowers: The Original and Delicious Vegan Recipe

Recipes

Recipe Name

Pasta with courgette flowers and bottarga

Author

Don't waste

Posted on

2023-01-01

Preparation time

10M

Cooking time

10M

Total time

20M