Wednesday 31 August 2016

Globecooking recipe : Courgettes Involtini (Italy)


The first recipe that I tried from last month's Italian-themed Kitchen Trotter box was these Courgettes Involtini or Dried Courgette Rolls.They are designed as a starter but they are also perfect as nibbles to accompany drinks or as part of a smorging platter.


They used one ingredient from the Kitchen Trotter box - a bag of grilled and dried courgette strips - but you could use fresh grilled courgette strips too.

Courgettes Involtini


ingredients :

a bag of grilled, dried courgette strips (or 1 large courgette, cut into strips and grilled)
1 tin of tuna in oil (about 100g)
4tbsp parmesan
1 egg
a few capers, chopped
salt & freshly ground black pepper
a few fresh basil leaves (or 1tbsp dried basil)
a drizzle of olive oil
a sprinkle of dried breadcrumbs


After soaking the dried courgette strips in hot water for 15 minutes, remove and drain on kitchen paper.


In a bowl, mix together the tuna, parmesan, egg, capers, basil, salt and pepper.


Mash it all together with a fork and season to taste - only a little bit because it's got raw egg in it. Make sure you put in plenty of black pepper. I only had dried basil to hand and we were out of capers so I substituted in finely chopped gherkin slices.


Spread some of the tuna mixture along the whole length of each courgette strip.


Then carefully roll it up tightly.


Use a cocktail stick to hold it in place.


Put them on a baking tray covered in foil.


Drizzle with olive oil - I used lemon-infused oil to give it a nice zing.


Sprinkle liberally with dried breadcrumbs.


Then pop them in the oven at 200°C for 10-15 minutes until the lovely smell of baked cheese and breadcrumbs starts wafting around the kitchen and they are nicely browned on top.

They can be eaten hot or cold - we ate ours just warm and they were very tasty. The only thing I would change is cutting the bigger strips in half lengthways because they were slightly too big to eat comfortably in one mouthful and they're not easy to bite in half !

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Fancy trying some more Italian cuisine? How about Chicken Breast with Pine Nuts & ParmesanCrostata, Parmesan Crusted Risotto Balls or Sicilian Salad?

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing, i will have to make these with the kids.

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  2. these look interesting, fun to make and tasty

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