Pasta ai fiori di zucca
From glutenfreeglitter 16 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 1
A twist on something traditionally Italian, but probably quite new to the UK/US palate. I use gluten free pasta, but I've placed it under "vegetarian" rather than "special diet" as it can be made with normal pasta too.
Ingredients
- 70g pasta shopping list
- 5 pumpkin flowers (fresh) shopping list
- 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- 1 small clove garlic shopping list
- 1 handful fresh parsley (dry will do, 1 tbsp) shopping list
- 1 tsp saffron shopping list
- Dash salt shopping list
- cornflour (GF approved) to thicken. shopping list
- Grated parmesan cheese to taste. shopping list
How to make it
- Fill a pan with water and heat to boiling point.
- In the meantime, rinse the pumpkin flowers and remove and discard the yellow stigma from the centre and chop roughly.
- Finely chop the garlic and the parsley.
- Heat the olive oil in a small pan.
- Add the garlic and cook until it begins to brown.
- Add the parsley, the saffron and two ladles of hot water.
- Add the flowers and stir, then simmer for 10 minutes, adding cornflour to thicken if necessary.
- Salt the water, and cook the pasta for 6-8 minutes.
- When the pasta is ready, drain and stir in sauce. Serve with parmesan to taste.
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