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Showing posts with label zucchini. Show all posts

Quest 94: Creamy Sundried Tomato & Pesto Cucco with Zucchini Noodles


In Breathe of the Wild I am so happy they brought back cucco corralling. This little piece of nostalgia helps bring the story back for people like me who have been playing Zelda since we were four. It is also good because it gives you a sense of purpose for a moment in the game - instead of ooh shiny! and running in the opposite direction you were heading until the next shiny thing comes along. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying BotW, especially in Master Mode. I just have to deal with my own demons with keeping concentrated on the task at hand. Speaking of which, today's recipe is Creamy Sundried Tomotoes & Pesto Cucco with Zucchini Noodles - Say that 3 times fast. Go ahead, I'll wait..... Anyways, this recipe seems like it has a lot going on, but it really isn't too bad on the difficulty scale. More time consuming with making the zoodles. If you can handle a nest of golden bokoblins, you can handle this recipe without issue. Enjoy!

Gear!
20 oz. Chicken Breast
3 Medium Zucchini
3 T Pesto
1/4 cup. Sundried Tomatoes
1 Lemon
1/4 cup Parmesean Cheese
3 oz. Goat Cheese with Herbs
3 oz. Corn Spaghetti
1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream

Quest!
Gather your ingredients!












Trim fat from chcken breasts. Season with salt and pepper.


Cook chicken breast in a pan until just white.

Zoodle your zucchini ti make long noodles. Cut longer pieces shorted for better noodle management.

Add pesto, sundried tomatoes, lemon juice, lemon zest, goat cheese and heavy cream to the pan of chicken. Stir to help the goat cheese melt. Bring to a simmer for about 2-3 minutes.


Bring together 6 qts of boiling water with salt. Add corn spaghetti to water and cook for 5 minutes. Add zoodles and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Drain noodles.
Add noodles to chicken.
Stir.

Add Parmesean on top and enjoy!

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Quest 44: Zucchini Muffin Minish Caps


It's zucchini time! I have been looking ways to incorporate more green ideas into the blog, and today I think I may have succeeded. Minish Cap is a great game in the LOZ series that takes advantage of size in a bigger way that Ocarina of Time. It also brings to life the hat that Link wears in a way that is beyond imagination. With this in mind, today we will attempt to make Minish caps to place upon our zucchini muffins. It will be an interesting and tasty quest that I hope you give a try! Enjoy!


Gear! - Get the Printable Recipe Here!
Muffins!
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 t. vanilla
1/4 cup apple sauce - I used unsweetened
2 cups GF All-purpose flour with xanthan gum mixed in
2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. cardamom
1 T. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 cup finely grated zucchini
1/2 cup walnuts chopped

Streusel Topping!
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 T cinnamon
2 T. butter cold and cubed
1 T. GF flour

For the Minish caps!
carrots
zucchini
toothpicks
mandolin

Quest!
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Prep a muffin pan with muffin liners. Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs, sour cream, vanilla, and apple sauce. Mix together.






To the mixture, add flour, cinnamon, cardamom, baking powder, baking soda, salt, grated zucchini and walnuts.







Spoon the muffin mix into the muffin liners and push the thick dough into the liners to remove bubbles.







Make the streusel topping by adding all ingredient to a bowl and crumb with a fork. Do not cream!







Spoon the streusel topping over each of the muffins.








BEING VERY CAREFUL!! Set your mandolin to 1/8 inch setting. Slice zucchini lengthwise creating 12 equal pieces. A medium zucchini should get you just enough. Set the mandolin to 1/16 setting and repeat with peeled carrots.





After some trial and error, the best way to make little caps is to start rolling on one end until it makes a nice spiral. Use a toothpick to secure at the top. Add the carrot piece to bottom and press into the muffin. If you don't press them into the muffin, as it rises, it will push the cap off and it will tip over.
Make a cap for each muffin. I added a little vanilla sugar over the top of the caps.


Bake muffins for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool for a few minutes and Enjoy!





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