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 Frying 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:
Yes, I made “Zoodles” – you know how you do that, right?
T followed a recipe from Actor / Cookbook Author Stanley Tucci and I loved them!
Here’s the recipe:
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, for 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!”
Check out the video my wife Alex shot as my friend David and I pulled it out of the oven and “flipped” it:
What a wild way to end 2022 – with the wildest “pasta pie” I ever made!
Click here for the recipe and how I pulled it off!
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That does look appetizing! Have always loved zucchini and use it in a lot of my everyday stirfries . . . yours is a delightful variation of such and doesn’t it make one feel good emptying out the fridge . . . 🙂 ?