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Omelet with Vegetable Marrow Flowers
Created by Chef Juliette
Young squash flowers, cut cisel and stewed gently in butter, turn a tender French omelette into summer supper, with parsley inside and a fine ring of tomato sauce around it.
Omelette aux fleurs de courgette (omelet with vegetable marrow flowers) teaches one true thing: the blossoms must surrender their water before they meet the eggs. Stewed gently, they become tender, faintly sweet ribbons; left raw, they leak into the omelette and turn its soft curd watery.
The source entry assumes a saucier has smooth tomato sauce waiting beside the stove and an omelette cook can move without pause. At home, warm a modest amount of finished sauce first, then make two four-egg omelettes in an ordinary skillet. The classical proportion is kept, with 1½ ounces of flower cups for six eggs becoming 2 ounces for eight. The separate sauce station is brigade scaffolding and can go; the cisel, the buttery stewing, the tender fold, and the thread of tomato sauce are the dish itself. One cook, one stove, one evening.
Cisel, the source's crosswise fine slicing, lets the delicate cups cook evenly without disappearing into paste. Stew that cisel until the pan is dry and the flowers shine with butter. This is the step that decides the omelette, so don't hurry it.
Ingredients
large eggs
Quantity
8
young vegetable marrow or courgette flower cups
Quantity
About 12 flowers (2 loosely packed cups / 57 g)
stems and stamens or pistils removed
unsalted butter
Quantity
4 tablespoons (60 ml / 56 g)
divided; mild olive oil may replace it measure for measure
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| large eggs | 8 |
| young vegetable marrow or courgette flower cupsstems and stamens or pistils removed | About 12 flowers (2 loosely packed cups / 57 g) |
| unsalted butterdivided; mild olive oil may replace it measure for measure | 4 tablespoons (60 ml / 56 g) |
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