Deep fried stuffed courgette flowers

One of my favourite recipes. You can use female flowers (the one attached to the courgette) and male flowers the one with the long stem. In general the male one is bigger and easier to stuff.

 

 

Both flowers will open once for few hours often early morning and then will close and wilt if not picked, that is an unforgivable error! Try to pick them just about when they are closing so will be easier to stuff them.

This time I had 5 female and one male ready to pick, then what you need is some mozzarella and anchovies (although anchovies paste can do the trick).

 

So cut the mozzarella and anchovies in small pieces place them inside the flowers, deep in a light batter (flour, cold sparkling water no salt the anchovies are already salted enough) and deep fried
them in sunflower oil

 

And enjoy them warm ;)