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Squash Blossom Qs

Squash Blossom Qs

Squash Bloosm Qs

Looking for a little something different, maybe a little out of your comfort zone?  I have just the thing for you!Squash Bloosms

We eat plants/veggies all the time but not so much the bloom from them.  Introducing the Squash Blossom, coming to you from the Santa Fe, NM Farmers Market. As I walked into one of my favorite booths at the farmers market the owner laid these beauties out and I FELL IN LOVE!  I looked like the heart eyed emoji.

Squash Blossoms

SO, what can I make with these gorgeous rays of sunshine I asked, he wasn’t exactly sure but he mentioned a couple of ideas so I ran with it and they were AMAZING!  You don’t find them often so when you do GRAB a couple dozen!

Squash Blossom Qs

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By Brandy Sanchez Serves: 2-4
Prep Time: 10-minutes Cooking Time: 15-minutes Total Time: 25-minutes

Squash Blossom Qs

Ingredients

  • Siete Foods cassava flour tortillas
  • Baby spinach
  • 1 small sweet onion
  • Olive oil
  • Avocado oil
  • 2 cups of Monterrey jack cheese
  • 1 dozen squash blossoms
  • Kosher salt

Instructions

1

Dice or slice the sweet onion.

2

Cut the stem end off the squash blossoms.

3

In a skillet over medium heat, heat 2 tbsp of olive oil.

4

Cook the onions until clear and they've started to caramelize.

5

Once the onions start to caramelize add in 2 cups of fresh baby spinach, cover and turn down to low.

6

Once the spinach starts to wilt, add a very light sprinkle of salt and mix with the onions, turn the heat off.

7

In another skillet add 2 tbsp of avocado oil, let heat up over medium to high heat.

8

Add one tortilla in the middle of the pan, sprinkle a little bit of cheese on it.

9

Add a spoonful of the spinach and onions mixture on the cheese and spread the ends of the tortilla.

10

Lay 4 squash blossoms in a circle with the stem end in the middle of the tortilla where the petals extend just past the edge of the tortilla.

11

Add another sprinkle of cheese to hold the Q together.

12

Once melted and crispy on one side flip to get the other side melted and crispy.

13

Remove from the pan, let sit a minute or two and then slice into quarters with a pizza slicer.

14

Repeat and MAKE MORE!

15

Enjoy!

Notes

Love, Olive and Honey

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