Zucchini flowers stuffed with feta cheese

Kolokythoanthoi gemistoi me tyri feta

Ingredients

  • 20-25 fresh zucchini flowers
  • 400gr. spicy feta (crushed by hand into small pieces)
  • 3 tablespoons dill (dry)
  • 2 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • salt, freshly ground pepper

for the batter

  • 1 cup of self-raising flour
  • 4 teaspoons cornflower soup
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil soup
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup of beer
  • olive oil for frying

Method

  1. Wash carefully the zucchini flowers, remove the stamens from the inside and let them drain on a kitchen towel.
  2. Beat the eggs and add the cheese, the onions, the dill, the olive oil, salt and pepper.
  3. Carefully fill the flowers and twist their ends to close the filling well.
  4. Mix all the ingredients for the batter and keep it in the fridge to get tight.
  5. Heat plenty of oil in a heavy pan. Dip the stuffed flowers in the cold batter and fry in hot oil until golden brown.
  6. Leave them on kitchen paper to absorb extra oil and serve them hot.
Tips:

You can prepare them and keep them in the fridge until you fry them (NOT days…).

If the batter is very tight, dilute it with a little extra beer.

You can also add to the batter 1 cup of grated kefalotyri or kefalograviera for extra flavour.