Fiori di Zucchini Ripieni

There are two types of courgette flowers. The one sold with the little courgette attached is the female. However, if you know a farmer or a keen gardener who grows courgettes, go and see him as he may give you male flowers, which are the ones attached to a stem without the courgette.

I can still remember the face of Padre Emiliano, a very nice orthodox Catholic from Grotta Ferrata near Rome, when I invited him to come and eat some stuffed courgette