April 21, 2009
Ingredients: 2 courgettes 250 g. tomatoes 2-3 cloves 1 green onion 5 tablespoons of olive oil salt, pepper 3 tablespoons of vinegar 500 g. tortellini How to prepare: Peel the ...
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Zucchini ( in North American and Australian English) or courgette ( or in New Zealand, South African, and British English or French) is a small summer squash. Along with some other squashes, it belongs to the species ''Cucurbita pepo''. The zucchini can be yellow, green or light green, and generally has a similar shape to a ridged cucumber, though a few cultivars are available that produce round or bottle-shaped fruit. In a culinary context, zucchini is treated as a vegetable, which means it is usually cooked and presented as a savory dish or accompaniment. Botanically, however, the zucchini is an immature fruit, being the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower.
A popular summer vegetable similar in appearance and taste to a cucumber, with a dark to light green mottled exterior and white delicately flavored flesh. Zucchini is a versatile vegetable that can be used in stir fries, soups, stews and goes well with a variety of other foods.
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Judith in Umbria
I am the one who added the zucchini ribbons photo. I just wanted to add that zucchini is the English word for the vegetables. In Italian that means the plants in plural. So when you go to an Italian page (like mine written in English) search on zucchine as well as zucchini and you will find many more recipes. I've published perhaps 30 or more already (partly because they're FREE.)