Zucchini flower fritters with feta and basil recipe

Zucchini flower fritters with feta and basil recipe

• Cuisine: Modern Australian
• Serves 4

These zucchini-flower fritters are filled with a creamy combination of feta and fresh basil, then fried until crisp. If you have a wok burner on the side of your barbecue, use it to cook the fritters and keep all the cooking aromas outside. Serve the flowers in a paper napkin with a sprinkle of salt for a real taste sensation.

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup water
1 tsp olive oil
1 egg, separated
16 zucchini flowers
1 cup marinated feta, drained
10 basil leaves
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Oil for deep-frying

Preparation

Sift flour and salt together in a bowl. Whisk water, olive oil and egg yolk together, then whisk into the flour until combined. Allow to rest for 30 minutes.

Beat egg white until soft peaks form, then fold through the batter just prior to using.

Gently open each zucchini flower and remove the stamen. Wash gently if needed and dry well.

Mash feta slightly with a fork. Chop basil leaves and add to the feta, seasoning with pepper. Place a heaped teaspoonful of the filling into each flower and press the petals back around it firmly.

Pour a 4–5 cm layer of oil in a large saucepan or wok and heat over a medium–high heat. Dip the zucchinis flowers, one at a time, into the batter and into the hot oil. Fry until golden.

Drain on kitchen paper, season with salt and serve immediately.
Source: http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/1762/Zucchini_flower_fritters_with_feta_and_basil

Lavender Roasted Vegetables

Easy and Delicious

INGREDIENTS

3 red potatoes
5 carrots
1/2 cup whole garlic cloves
1 large white onion, sliced or 2 cups of pearl onions, whole
2 cups zucchini, cut in 1/2 inch slices
3 Tbs. olive oil
sea salt to taste
2 tsp. dried lavender buds or 1 drop of lavender essential oil

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat potatoes, carrots, onions, and garlic with olive oil. If using lavender essential oil, mix with olive oil before coating. Sprinkle lavender buds or essential oil and sea salt over vegetables. Roast 25 minutes. Add zucchini and bake an additional 15 minutes.

Makes 4 servings.

Toxic rapeseed and other low-grade oils with additives are being passed off as olive oil

As much as 50 percent of the olive oil sold in the U.S. is not actually pure olive oil, as some brands claiming to be "extra-virgin" or "100 percent Italian," for instance, have actually been adulterated with toxic rapeseed oil, more popularly known as canola oil, soybean oil, and other low-grade oils. In his new book Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, olive oil expert Tom Mueller explains that not all olive oil is the same, and offers advice on how to spot authentic olive oil amidst all the imposters.

During a recent interview with Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air, Mueller explains how olive oil adulteration is much more widespread than people think, if they are even aware of it at all. For olive oil to truly be considered "extra-virgin," it has to come from fresh, crushed olives, and not be refined in any way or contain any chemical solvents. It also has to pass certain tests of integrity in order to be considered legitimate, for which many of the brands popularly sold today would fail.

"The legal definition simply says it has to pass certain chemical tests, and in a sensory way it has to taste and smell vaguely of fresh olives, because it's a fruit, and have no faults," said Mueller. "But many of the extra-virgin olive oils on our shelves today in America don't clear [the legal definition]."

Beige olive oil in plastic bottles is most likely adulterated

Real extra-virgin olive oil should have a vibrant, almost peppery flavor, for instance, and not taste bland or watered down. It is also typically stored in dark, glass bottles so that its array of health-promoting antioxidants, its taste, and its forceful green color -- yes, olive oil should be green, not yellowish in color -- are not harmed by light or damaging UV rays from the sun. For this reason, avoiding olive oil in clear, plastic bottles is recommended.

"What [real olive oil] gets you from a health perspective is a cocktail of 200-plus highly beneficial ingredients that explain why olive oil has been the heart of the Mediterranean diet," added Mueller during his interview with NPR. "Bad olives have free radicals and impurities, and then you've lost that wonderful cocktail ... that you get from fresh fruit, from real extra-virgin olive oil."

Most imported extra-virgin olive oil appears questionable in authenticity

The University of California, Davis published a report on olive oil back in 2010 entitled Tests indicate that imported 'extra virgin' olive oil often fails international and USDA standards. In this report, researchers found that 69 percent of imported and ten percent of California-based oils labeled as olive oil did not pass International Olive Council (IOC) and US Department of Agriculture sensory standards for extra virgin olive oil.

Of those brands tested, the following failed to meet extra-virgin olive oil standards:

• Bertolli
• Carapelli
• Filippo Berio
• Mazzola
• Mezzetta
• Newman's Own
• Pompeian
• Rachel Ray
• Safeway
• Star
• Whole Foods

The following brands were found to meet extra-virgin olive oil standards as part of the study:

• Corto Olive
• California Olive Ranch
• Kirkland Organic
• Lucero (Ascolano)
• McEvoy Ranch Organic

You can read the entire UC Davis Study here:
http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu

Be sure to avoid any olive oil labeled as "light," as these are the lowest quality olive oils available. Also, be sure to choose either California-based olive oils, the vast majority of which are legitimate, or imported olive oils certified by IOC.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.nytimes.com

http://www.npr.org

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035124_olive_oil_adulterated_canola.html#ixzz1o57McDV5

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bipolar	Lithium!	Omega3-EPA/DHA
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cancer*	strawberries	SELENIUM	vit. E
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insomnia	folic acid	iodine	potassium
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weight loss	bananas
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wrinkles	copper
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