Have a nice meal with this dish: Cheers Pandora
here the recipe:
BUTTERFLY with ZUCCHINI, SPECK AND SAFFRON
Category: First dish Nb persons: 3
Thanks All was Block Party groanDog3 wrote on 30 Sep 2005 in rec.food.cooking This usually goes over well and is fairly fast and easy. Chocolate Oh Henry Squares cookies, desserts Whole...
300g pasta - butterfly 3 zucchini - small and cut in round slices(5 -millimeters thickness) 100g speck (smoked ham) - 1 thick slice, cut in -little stripes. 1-2 cup olive oil - EVOO 1 little onion - chopped 2 tsp salt - For zucchini's sauce 1tsp black pepper - powder 1 sachet saffron
FOR THE ZUCCHINI SAUCE: Put the oil in a large fryingpan; when it is hot put the slices of zucchini and fry them till they become nearly brown but not burnt. When they are ready, dry on a kitchen paper and salt a little.. In the same oil, fry speck and onions (just 2-3 minutes). Turn off the fire and add the zucchini, salt pepper and saffron. Cook butterfly "al dente" in boiling and salted water , dry and season in the frying pan with zucchini and speck. If you want, put other saffron or paprika powder over your dish. Nb: if speck is hard. Boil it for few minutes in a pan full of hot and boiling water.
Nutritional facts per serving (daily value): Calories 722kcal Protein 15g (30%) Total Fat 38g (58%) Sat. 5g (26%) Chol. 0mg (0%) Carb. 82g (27%) Fiber 5g (19%) Sugars 3g Calcium 52mg (5%) Iron 2mg (14%)
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