Stuffed Zucchini with Ajoarriero and Fried Bacon

A recipe for vegetables with some heartiness thanks to the ajoarriero and bacon. A typical dish from the towns of Castilla, from an era when fish was not always fresh and local river fish or dried, salted, and desalted cod was consumed.
Ingredients
4
Servings
  • 1 zucchini, large
  • 10 milliliters olive oil
  • 100 grams pork belly
  • 50 milliliters sunflower oil
  • 1 potato, or large potato
  • 1 egg, hard-boiled
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 30 grams dried cod, desalted
  • 30 milliliters vegetable oil, (for frying the bacon)
  • 10 grams parsley, chopped
Preparation
2 mins
6 mins
Low
  • First, we cook the potato with its skin. When it's ready, we peel it and mash it with a fork.
  • Next, in a skillet, we sauté the bacon until golden.
  • We add the bacon fat to the bowl of potato along with the flaked cod, the chopped hard-boiled egg, and parsley.
  • Finally, we cut the zucchini into four and, using a melon baller, hollow out the insides to leave hollow cylinders. We cook for 2 minutes in boiling water with oil.
  • We chop the garlic and brown it in a skillet with olive oil. We add it to the potato mixture along with the zucchini balls we removed and put everything into a piping bag.
  • We fill the zucchini cylinders with the ajoarriero and top with the bacon.
  • We plate and serve.

Nutritional Information

* * Information per 100g serving, percentage of daily values based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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