Beer battered courgette flower stuffed with sunflower seed and avacado pesto, charred courgette, carrot and olive oil purée.

Owen Morrice

Owen Morrice

10th August 2018
Owen Morrice

Beer battered courgette flower stuffed with sunflower seed and avacado pesto, charred courgette, carrot and olive oil purée.

This is a great vegan stuffing for courgette flowers, really rich, satisfying and simple. Hope you enjoy!

Ingredients

  • 2 avacado
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • Bunch of basil
  • 100g of pine nuts
  • 100g of sunflower seeds
  • Tbsp olive oil
  • Salt
  • Juice of two lemons

Method

Toast pine nuts and sunflower seeds and set half a side.
Add half the pine nut sunflower seed mix to a processor and blend until smooth and adjust seasoning.
Mix the rest of the sunflower seeds and pine nuts to the blended mix for texture.
Transfer to piping bag and pipe into courgette flowers when needed.

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