Courgettes, Borlotti Beans and Green Sauce
I've never tried to breed courgettes, but apparently they shag like rabbits. Given a little space to make their own, they'll give you lot back. Probably why they're inexpensive, and why you should be eating a lot of them in summer. This is hardly a recipe, so simple and really actually so delicious, thanks to the green sauce (bagnet verd) we made on a previous recipe. As for the beans, I've just gone cheap and cheerful tinned. If you fry them off a little bit they're much tastier.
INGREDIENTS: (to feed 2)
-1 tin of Borlotti beans
-400g courgettes
-clove of garlic
-some Green Sauce (see the Bagnet Verd recipe elsewhere on the blog)
-olive oil, salt and peps
-goes well with some nice bread
METHOD:
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Roughly chop the courgettes into interesting chunky shapes and sauté gently in several glugs of olive oil in your widest frying pan with a few pinches of salt and the chopped garlic for about 10 minutes until almost tender. Set aside.
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Drain the tin of borlotti beans and just fry them off in the same hot oily pan you cooked the courgettes in for a few mins until they have a bit of a crust on them. We just want some texture on them. Add a generous pinch of salt and pep to them.
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Get the beans on a plate, then pour over the courgettes.
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Finally, chuck on a few dollops of the green sauce and finish with a good drrizzle of olive oil so it all comes together.
- Tuck in with a spoon in one hand and a chunk of bread in the other.