Happy Monday!
Hope your Monday is off to a good start, friends. It's sunny here, I repeat, it's sunny here. Yay! Supposedly this whole week we will have sunny days 🤩
Went to the greenhouse earlier and hand-pollinated my "zucchini". As I was about to step out, I realized it wasn't a zucchini but a pumpkin that grew and crawled to the zucchini bed 😅 So I quickly found a male pumpkin flower and pollinated it all over. Wonder if it will be cross pollinated and become pumpcchini 😁
I've been harvesting bazillion blossoms. Now that Summer is almost over, time to fill up the freezer with them. Yesterday when I harvested, I turned some into the following tempura 😍
A dozen blossoms (mine were mixed of zucchini and pumpkin)
1 c of flour
1/2 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
1 c of Sparkling water
1 egg
A bowl of ice cubes
Vegetable oil for frying
Wash clean and pat dry blossoms. Using a scissor, snip the stem and stamen (oh, yeah only male blossoms, as the female would have the pumpkin or zucchini to be 😁)
Preheat your oil to medium high
Place a clean bowl ontop of ice cubes bowl, then mix flour and bouillon powder on the empty bowl
In a small bowl, crack an egg, beat, then pour in sparkling water. Mix
Pour mixture into dry ingredients, mix. Little lumps here and there are okay!
Dip your blossoms into batter and fry until golden brown, turning once
Enjoy immediately!
We love ours with either ketchup or Sriracha 😍
And! If you're wondering why a bowl of ice is needed, it gives a better result when the batter is kept cold while you are frying 😊
See you later!