Fried Stuffed Squash Blossoms - Squash Flowers Stuffed with Goat Cheese

hello this is chef john from food wishes comm with fried stuffed squash blossoms this was one of the most delicious things i've eaten in a long time and i really hope you have access to squash blossoms wherever you happen to live of course if you have a garden and you planted zucchini you will have an abundance of squash blossoms so there they are gorgeous beautiful squash blossoms I believe these our from zucchini but I can't confirm that all right so step one here we're going to blanch the squash blossoms in some boiling salted water so bring some water to a boil on the stove you're also going to want to have a bowl of very cold water to throw the squash blossoms in as soon as they come out of the boiling water so when the water is boiling and throw your squash blossoms in and we're only going to do this for about thirty seconds or so maybe forty five all right so this is kind of almost real-time although I did a little bit editing so basically we're just wilting them very slightly so that we're able to stuff them so as soon as they look like that which again is only going to be about a half a minute plunge those into your ice water or very very cold water and when they're completely chilled remove two paper towels to drain so while our squash blossoms are draining we're going to go ahead and make our stuffing which is basically a goat cheese filling so I've room-temperature goat cheese nice and soft I'm going to add an egg yolk and then a little bit of grated sharper style cheese now I'm using a sheep's milk cheese called Hardy gasma I believe it's how it's pronounced but you could use anything like a Gris err or a cheddar or even a manchego alright I'm also going to give it a little bit of black pepper and some cayenne and I'm going to stir that until completely smooth and that is our filling transfer that into a heavy duty plastic bag we're going to do the old trick where you snip off the end there and make like a little piping bag alright you seen this do that before right okay so once the filling is done and in the bag we are going to stuff our now drained squash blossoms so at the bottom at the base here we're going to have a little bit of an opening a little bit of a cavity you can kind of see down in there so that's where most of the stuffing is going to go so you want put your piping bag or your plastic bag with the cutoff tip all the way to the bottom pipe in about a tablespoon and then use the pedals which are now very soft and easy to work with we're going to drape the pedals over any exposed cheese filling and it doesn't look like it when you first start but there's going to be enough to cover beautifully see that and just fold any excess back all right one more time stick your piping bag or in our case our plastic bag with a cut off tip all the way to the base squeeze in about a tablespoon into the opening and then carefully fold those delicate petals over any openings until covered and you're always going to have a couple extra petals which you're just going to want to fold back over like that so really not that hard all right those are going to go in the fridge until we're ready we want those very firm when we dip them in the batter all right so those go in the fridge speaking of batter could not be easier cornstarch self-rising flour and water and by the way let this be a lesson to you do not be stubborn in the kitchen that bowl was too small I realized it as soon as I added the flour so I switched to a bigger bowl all right to the cornstarch and self-rising flour we're going to add some ice-cold water now I'll give you measurements on the site of course but the water there's not really a measurement I just add a little bit at a time until we have a mixture that's basically the same consistency as a pancake batter all right you can see it right there next I'm going to put about an inch of vegetable oil and a heavy-duty pan I'm using cast iron here and I'm going to get it nice and hot if you're going by temperature about 350 you can test it with a little piece of batter all right so that's ready I'm going to take out my squash blossoms I'm going to dust them lightly wood flour on all sides that's going to help the batter stick alright and after they're dusted I'm going to dip them into my batter you can again see that consistency you want it just like that let it drip off and quickly carefully place them in your hot oil I'm just doing three here because I got a filament and work at the same time but you could probably do six in this pan easy and these are only going to take a couple minutes so on the first side I went about a minute I flipped it and because of the way the batter flattens out a little bit you're basically going to get three sides not two so I flipped it once I want another minute I flipped it onto that third side and went about I don't know maybe half a minute they really do cook quickly I'm going to remove those to a paper towel to drain of course we're going to let these cool for a few minutes so you don't burn your guests and are those gorgeous or what so beautiful so once those have cooled a little bit we're going to transfer those to a plate and then oh man it's time to dig in and it's really almost impossible to describe how amazing these are all right I know two fried stuffed flowers can you believe it but just amazing that tangy goat cheese alright that little bit of extra sharp cheese we have in there the egg yolk kind of tightens it up a little bit but not too much adds a little richness and that batter so simple so light crisp but not oily just really really beautiful so anyway like I said I really hope you can find some squash blossoms near you this is such a treat and by the way when people are like hey what do we have and you could say cheese stuffed reproductive organs which is you know always a great conversation starter so anyway I really hope you give this a try all the ingredients are on food wishes calm as usual and as always enjoy

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Id: c-KH-GyfWUQ

Length: 6min 9sec (369 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 19 2011