Courgette flowers with goat's cheese and violet jelly

A dreamy combination of goats cheese and violet jelly, which can be bought from speciality ingredients stores, gives Pascal Aussignac's courgette flowers recipe a distinctive edge. This is a fabulous dish for summer when courgette flowers are in season.

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Ingredients

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Equipment

  • Piping bag 1-2cm nozzle
  • Steamer
  • Blender

Method

1
For the courgette flower filling filling, mix the goat's cheese, double cream and rosemary, season with salt and pepper. Place into a piping bag with a small nozzle. Set aside while you prepare the flowers
2
Remove the stamen/pistils from the flowers. Pipe the goat's cheese mix into the flowers. Set aside in the fridge
  • 4 courgette flowers
3
Cut the courgette into quarters and remove the white flesh in the centre. Blanch the green of the courgette in salted boiling water for 3 minutes or until tender
4
Strain and place directly into ice water. Pour off the ice water and mix the green courgette skin with the olive oil, orgeat syrup, a pinch of salt and a pinch of Espelette pepper and blend until smooth
5
Season the violet jelly with salt and Espelette pepper and add enough water to have a runny consistency. Keep warm
  • 10g of violet jelly
6
Season the flowers with olive oil and salt. Steam for 4 minutes, remove from the steamer and glaze the flowers in the jelly
7
To serve, spoon the courgette and orgeat purée onto plates and place the courgette flowers on top
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Pascal Aussignac left France with business partner Vincent Labeyrie to champion 'la cuisine de Gascogne' at his restaurant, Club Gascon, in 1998.

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