Stuffed courgette flowers with chickpeas, new potatoes and lemon olive oil

Name: Stuffed courgette flowers with chickpeas, new potatoes and lemon olive oil
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: 50 g plain flour (plus a little extra for coating); 1 garlic clove, crushed; 1 free-range egg; 1 red pepper, roasted, deseeded and chopped; zest and juice of ½ lemon; 50 g stoned black olives; 50 g watercress, leaves only; 4 tablespoons cold water; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 100 g chickpea flour (gram flour); 2 hard-boiled free-range eggs, shelled; 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary; 12 courgette blossoms (female, small courgette attached); 1 litre vegetable oil; 300 g new potatoes, scrubbed; 1 small onion, chopped; 100 ml extra-virgin olive oil; 50 g rocket leaves; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 200 g cooked chickpeas (tinned are fine)

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pure Vegetarian

By Paul Gayler

Published 2006

About

Chefs eagerly await the summer and the arrival of the first courgette flowers to adorn their tables. If you are not lucky enough to grow your own or know someone who does, they can be found in specialist shops or country farm shops.

Ingredients

12 courgette blossoms (female, small courgette attached)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1

Starter
Summer
Vegetarian

Method

Firstly clean the courgettes by gently washing the flowers and drying the outside.

For the stuffing, heat the olive oil in a pan, add the onion, garlic and pepper and cook over a low heat for 4-5 minutes until soft. In a separate pan bring to the boil 200 ml water, pour in the chickpea flou