I sourced some absolutely divine smoked salmon from Eveleigh Markets as well as some zucchini flowers and made zucchini flowers stuffed with smoked salmon and smoked salmon served on butter bean salad. This was really, really, really, REALLY good!

Smoked salmon stuffed zucchini flowers

Batter

1/2 cup flour (I used gluten free)
1/2 cup white wine
1/2 tsp baking powder
salt to taste

Mix ingredients and refrigerate for 1 hour

Stuffing

1/2 smoked salmon fillet
1/2 cup of sour cream
1 tbs chopped dill
1tbs lemon juice

Mix together well into a lovely pinkish paste.

6 large zucchini flowers – baby zucchini still attached

Check inside of flowers for bugs etc (do not wash as they will not fry well). Spoon mixture into the flowers, dip in batter and generously coat then fry in about 1/2 an inch of very hot vegetable oil. To check if oil is ready for frying drop in a tiny bit of batter and if it fizzles straight away it is ready. Don’t overcrowd the oil as it will bring down the temperature and the delicate flowers and the batter will soak up too much oil.

Butter bean salad

1 tin or equivalent of butter beans
1 tsp chopped dill
1 tbs chopped parsley
1 tbs lemon juice
1-2 tbs olive oil

Mix together and serve with a 1 inch thick strip of fresh smoked salmon as seen below and the zucchini flowers on the side.

This was a seriously great meal. We decided we could have done with less zucchini flowers though. They were really filling.

Enjoy! 🙂