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Pattypan with Feta, Mint and Chili

Pattypan squash with feta, mint and chili​ peppers.

Total Time: 10 Minutes

Serving: 4

Vegetarian

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Inspiration

This recipe is quick, easy and so good it’s all you’ll want to eat, it’s also filling enough to work as a main. The star undoubtedly, is the pattypan squash – a varietal of summer squash with a round, shallow shape and scalloped edges – leading to one of its other names: the scallop or scallopini squash. No matter what you call them, they are incredibly good and only available seasonally during the summer months, so get them while you can. I found the sunburst variety pictured above at a local farmers market.

THE ORIGINAL SUMMER SQUASH
Until 100 years ago the most common summer squash was the pattypan. An ancestral food of eastern North America, pattypans were the only type of squash that were eaten when young and tender, with other varieties allowed to ripen into pumpkins and gourds.

Ingredients

  • Small pattypan squashes, rinsed, trimmed and halved
  • 1 Red Chilli Pepper
  • Olive oil
  • Feta – I used feta made from goat milk
  • Champagne vinegar
  • Sea salt – I like to use finishing salt in this recipe
  • Freshly cracked black pepper
  • Lemon zest
  • Mint
  • Balsamic vinegar

Preparations

  1. Heat a splash of oil in a pan – I used a cast iron.
  2. Add pattypans and chili and cook for 5-10 minutes until tender and starting to get browned.
  3. Remove from heat, and toss with crumbled feta and a splash of champagne vinegar
  4. Garnish with finishing salt, freshly cracked black pepper, lemon zest, mint and a drizzle of balsamic.
  5. Serve immediately and enjoy!

Tips

  • Pattypans can be roasted, fried or steamed, even eaten raw as an addition to salads or charcuterie boards.
  • I recommend reaching for the good stuff with the balsamic vinegar – you’ll thank me later.

SOURCES

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Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit. Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.

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