Αύριο είναι η γιορτή του 'Αη-Γιάννη του Νηστευτή, όπως έλεγαν οι παλιοί και το εορτολόγιο προτάσει αυτστηρή νηστεία. Γιαυτό κι εγώ έκαμα ένα φγακι νηστίσσιμο για την αυριανή μέρα.
Πρέπει να είναι σφιχτά ο ένας πλάι στον άλλο για να μην ανοίξουν. Συμπληρώνουμε νερό μέχρι να μισοσκεπαστούν τα λουλούδια. Περιχύνουμε με το ελαιόλαδο. Σκεπάζουμε το τσουκάλι με το καπάκια και ψήνουμε σε μέτριο φούρνο σκεπασμένο 20΄περίπου και αφού το ξεσκεπάσουμε λίγο ακόμη. Το φαγητό ιδανικά τρώγεται κρύο.
Tomorrow is the feast of 'Saint John the Faster', as the old people used to say, and the calendar suggests fasting. That's why I also made a fasting meal for tomorrow.I had planted some seeds from small colorful decorative pumpkins. The two or three gourds that grew from these seeds harvested, climbed walls and fences and also produce abundant gourd flowers, at least ten to fifteen every morning. Although you can get your hands on zucchini flowers, make this delicious fasting snack.
First we cut the flowers every morning, when they are open. put them in a bowl of water to kill any insects that may be present and cut the inner stamen, preferably with eyebrow tweezers, because it becomes bitter when cooked. After cleaning and draining them, we keep them in an airtight jar in the refrigerator for two or three days so that they gather enough.
Prepare the filling: Grate onions on a grater, also separately grate a carrot and chopped herbs of your choice. Heat a deep frying pan and add half the olive oil. Sauté the onion in olive oil for 3 minutes, stirring. Add some chopped zucchini, carrot and rice, Carolina rice or parboiled rice or buckwheat or a mixture of rice and semolina. Season with a grated tomato and a little tomato sauce and a little water and boil the filling for a few minutes, salt, pepper and spice. It must be half-boiled because the zucchini flowers in the oven should not stay too long because they are soft. After the filling has cooled, fill the flowers with a spoon and close the flowers to close the filling. We place the flowers close to the crock, making layers. Cover crock with the lid and bake in a moderate oven, covered, for about 20 minutes and after uncovering it a little longer. The food is ideally eaten cold.with the lid and bake in a moderate oven, covered, for about 20 minutes and after uncovering it a little longer. The food is ideally eaten cold.
They have to be tight next to each other so they don't open. Add water until the flowers are half covered. Pour over the olive oil.
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