Name: Courgettes aux Feuilles de la Coriandre (Zucchini with Fresh Coriander)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ⅔ cup creamy, whole milk yogurt; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 tablespoon roughly chopped fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves; walnut-sized piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated; salt; 1 lb zucchini

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from a French Herb Garden

By Geraldene Holt

Published 1999

About

The influence of the North African countries is still felt in French cooking. A herb much used in Middle Eastern cooking, coriander, is here mixed with ginger and yogurt to sharpen the slightly bland taste of zucchini.

Ingredients

1 lb zucchini
walnut-sized piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated
salt
2 table

Method

Wipe the zucchini with a damp cloth. Slice thinly and place in a colander or a Chinese steaming basket. Sprinkle the grated ginger on top and steam until cooked; this will take 3 minutes if the zucchini are fresh, 6–8 if they are slightly older.

Turn the zucchini into a hot serving dish, season with salt and keep warm. Melt the butter in a pan and mix in the coriander leaves and the yog