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Ricotta-Stuffed Zucchini Flowers
Ingredients
1 lb Ricotta cheese

1 Onion, minced

1/2 cup Toasted almonds or pine nuts (finely chopped)

1/2 cup Grated Italian Asiago cheese OR- Parmesan cheese

1/2 tsp Ground pepper

1 tsp Seasoning salt

2 tbsp Minced fresh basil, -=OR=-

1 tsp -Dried basil

2 tbsp Minced parsley

1 tsp Butter, melted

20 medium Zucchini flowers, or more OR- any squash flowers, Freshly picked and rinsed in cold water

Nasturtiums for garnish

Preparation
Mix together all ingredients except butter and flowers. With filling at room temperature, use a pastry tube to carefully stuff flowers; do not overfill. Drizzle melted butter over flowers and cook in microwave on medium power for 3 minutes, or at 350 F in regular oven for about 15 minutes. Be careful not to let filling ooze out of flowers. Garnish with nasturtiums stuffed with extra filling.

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