This week the Good Friends Good Food group is focusing on zucchini. I picked up Nigel Slater’s Tender * and stumbled on „marrow“. Blogging educates. Now I know that marrows are more mature courgettes, with a creamy flesh and mild taste. They are named courgette in Britain, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand or zucchini in North America, Australia, Czechia, Italy, Germany and Austria. Nigel Slater is a British food writer, journalist and broadcaster, I am German so I used both terms.
Baked courgettes/zucchini with minced meat
A delicious meal to Use up the annual courgette/zucchini glut from your garden.
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Baked courgettes/zucchini with minced meat
Menge: 2 -3 servings
Ingredients:
Courgettes or zucchini
- 750 grams young marrow or large courgettes, halved, fibre removed, cut into thick chunks
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- handfull mint leaves, coarsely chopped
- olive oil
- 1/2 lemon, the juice
minced meat
- 1 small handfull dill, coarsely chopped I used frozen
- 1 small bunch parsley, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
- 2 small chillies, hot, deseeded, chopped
- olive oil
- 450 grams mixed minced meat
- 1 lime, zest grated and the juice
- salt
- black pepper, freshly ground
Instruction:
- Toss the courgettes with garlic, mint and a couple of generous glugs of olive oil and lemon juice into a roasting tin and set aside for about 1 hour.
- Set the oven to 180 °C/Gas 4/356 °F. Bake the courgettes or zucchini for 45 minutes until soft and tender.
- To cook the minced meat, get a cuple of tablespoons of olive oil smoking hot in a shallow pan, then add the meat. Don’t turn or stir it until the underside has had a chance to colour and crisp. Turn to brown the other side. Add dill, parsley, garlic and chilli. Let the mixture cook over high heat, till all is fragrant, sizzling and golden. Season generouslw with salt and black pepper, then stir in in the lime juice and zest.
- Serve with the baked courgettes.
total time: 2 hours
15 minutes
cooking time: 45 minutes
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