Who Has Leftovers?
Well, the answer is simple: we all do! So when I found myself with an eclectic collection of leftover ingredients – including zucchini, sausage, avocado and mozzarella cheese, I decided to make one of my favorite dishes – using fried zucchini!
It all started when I took some frozen sausage and cooked it up with lots of sliced garlic in olive oil…then, I heated up more olive oil and did this:
Cue The Flying Zucchini!
I sliced an entire zucchini very thinly and cooked them in batches – stirring so they wouldn’t stick and get some uniform crispness on them…
I put the hot slices on a paper towel and sprinkled lots of basil on top as well as a nice amount of salt.
Next, I cooked some Bucatini pasta, plated it, then added the sausage garlic mixture with the olive oil it was cooked in, added a big topping of zucchini, then threw on some diced avocado, mozzarella cheese and a big squeeze of lemon!
Here is a video showing it all coming together from beginning to end:
For me, the final dish was a fun, fresh and delicious use of ingredients…I loved the tartness of the lemon along with the olive oil and avocado – and I can put mozzarella cheese on anything!
I love cooking fried zucchini – the basil adds a very sweet herbal pop – and finish this off with a glass of red wine and the night is complete!
Of course, this obsession with zucchini all began thanks to Stanley Tucci:
I also cooked another dish thanks to this great Actor:
I made his Mother’s classic recipe for Chicken Cacciatore – and you can make it here:
And of course, as the grand finale of my “52 In 22” cooking challenge, I made Tucci’s greatest dish ever:
Yes, it’s the “Timpano” from the film “Big Night!”
Click here for the recipe and how I pulled it off!
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Looks tasty!
It was, thanks! The lemon really brought a nice pop to it, and the taste of a fried zucchini is delicious to me!
Oh, I adore the flavor of fried zucchini, so I know I’d like this one John.
This looks wonderful. I like everything about it. I may not have fried the zucchini just because, well, frying, but I bet the slices stay together better that way! Love the sausage.
Well now, that looks fabulous! 🙂
this must be amazing
An absolutely delicious combo of flavours I could eat this now:)
Not a fan of courgettes, but shared the recipe on Twitter, John.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thank you as always Pete, much appreciated!
Hi John, I like the look of this dish
It was delicious Robbie – using Stanley Tucci’s fried zucchini pasta recipe as a base and adding whatever leftovers I had sitting around…thank you for commenting!
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