Spices are everything when it comes to ringing the changes around yet another tasty courgette dish.
Today at The Phoenix, I served them nestled amongst the oven roast veg simply sprinkled with salt, pepper, olive oil and a dash of balsamic, in a very fruity curry seasoned with darkly roasted cumin, cloves & mustard seeds. But what about puddings! My friend Cat licked her lips and mentioned a chocolate courgette cake she and her bother used to make "back home in Chigago".
All the C's Cats Chocolate Courgette Cake from Chigago.
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2 mugs young courgette, coarsly grated
2 mug apples, grated
6-9 plums, chopped
1 mug quinoa flour
1 mug desicated coconut
1/2 mug organic sugar
200 grams dark chocolate in flaky chunks,
1 mug cream
2 eggs
3 tbls olive oil
a dash of lemon
1 teaspoon baking powder
beat the eggs and cream together and add to all the other ingredients, pour into a well oiled medium flan dish and bake until the mixture turns golden brown and sets.
Cool and serve with dark chocolate sauce.
oh.... so I'm not the only one who knows the deliciousness of courgettes and cocoa :-D
ReplyDeletetalking about choco-vegetables..... It is typical of the south of italy cooking a dessert with aubergines.... check this out (this is the english version of my favourite vegan blog):http://www.veganwiz.com/2011/06/23/38613/
have a look at this photo too: unfortunately there's only the italian version, but when I'll be there.... I could translate it for u :-D: http://www.veganblog.it/2012/06/04/torta-cioccolanzana/
I definitely prefer making it without sugar and with apples like u did in this recipe.... I think that both aubergines and courgettes have already something sweet.....
And regarding the salt recipe..... with the biggest courgettes....... have u ever tried to make a sort of small "pizzas" using courgettes slices, tomato sauce, oregano or basil and cheese or tofu cream on the top: try and let me know :-D