Food & Recipes from the Alps

Travelling to the Alps, you will enjoy the lovely mountainscape, nice people and of course the lovely food. In this section of our MiaDeRoca-Magazine we will present you typical local recipies. Recipes for things to drink and things to eat, a wide variety of dishes with meat, with vegetabels and the so called "Mehlspeisen". "Mehlspeisen" are dishes with flour, sweet meals like the "Kaiserschmarrn", "Palatschinken" or "Topfenknödel".
You won't be able to get all the traditional ingredients everywhere, but in cases the products are rare, we will mention some alternatives. And if you still doubt, just drop us a line, we will try to help you to get some Alpine savour to your lunch or dinner.

 

Zucchini Muffins

Zucchini or courgette cake might be known as wonderful moist cake. We used this recipe from our family cookbook and adapted it for delicious moist muffins with zucchini. To be honest when adding vegetables to sweet muffins, they don't turn out to be a nutritious meal, yet they are healthier and less heavy and rich than typical desserts. On the other hand you need not to worry, that they taste "healthy", similar to the carrot cake, usually the veggy ingredient won't be noticed, but the green dots of the zucchini skin. And if you have strict carnivores and members of the anti-vegetable gangs in your family, you can peel the green skin of, and they will never know – unless you tell them.

Recipe for sweet Zucchini Muffins

ingredients:
2 eggs
170g cane sugar or brown sugar
100ml oil
50g grounded nuts (e.g. almonds)
150g grounded zucchini
190g flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 pinch of salt
the seeds of a quarter vanilla bean
1 pinch of cinnamon + 1 pinch of ginger

Preheat the oven to 180degrees Celsius, fill a muffin tray with 12 liners.
Mix flour and baking powder, add baking soda and spices.
In a second bowl beat eggs until foamy, add sugar and the seeds of the vanilla pod and mix thoroughly.
Add nuts and oil, and bit by bit add the flour-mix.
When all is well mixed add the grated zucchinis.

Fill the muffin liners evenly with muffin dough.
Bake at 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

250g of zucchini, that is about a middle-sized zucchini. That is quite a lot of zucchini. This muffin recipe is perfect to use up a lot of zucchini, and that is why it is so popular in our family and widely approced. Because during every summer there comes the time vegetable gardeners harvest tons of zucchinis, and although they taste delicious being grilled zucchinis, filled zucchinis, roasted zucchinis, you still have tons of them and don't know where to put them after having made zucchini chutneys and pickled zucchinis and than comes the time where you have given all of your neighbours plenty of zucchini. As zucchini, courgette is as versatile as all squash and pumpkins, desserts are the next thing that comes to mind.

We warmly recommend these muffins. This is an approved recipe and regularly asked for. In the cooler summer weeks when autumn is approaching we recommend to allow these muffins a flush of chocolate. Cover the top of the warm muffins with jam and as soon as the muffins are cold cover them with chocolate glaze. We totally love these muffins without chocolate as well throughout the whole year.

The recipe for zucchini muffins is dairy-free, it is ideal for all with lactose intolerant. If your using chocolate glaze be sure to take one which is without lactose.

You would like to see more muffin recipes: We recommend these baking recipes with photos:
bake moist chocolate muffins
delicious quark-tangerine muffins

 

 

20.05.2013. 17:32