This is a dish to be made and savoured immediately. You can even make it as a pre-dinner nibble while you finish cooking something time-consuming with friends.
Prep Time:0 hours
Cook Time:0 hours
Total Time:15 minutes
Yield:5
Ingredients
10 large zucchini blossoms
1 cow’s milk mozzarella (125g/4 oz)
A few basil leaves
For the batter
3 tablesppoons all-purpose flour
1 egg
100 ml/3 oz beer
Pinch of salt
Instructions
In a large bowl, beat the egg with the flour. Add the salt.
Add the beer gradually and beat well to obtain a homogeneous, quite liquid batter.
Take out the stamen from the flowers. Fill with pieces of mozzarella and basil.
Put plenty of oil (to deep fry) in a frying pan to heat.
When the oil is hot, take one flower at a time, dip in the batter and fry until golden.