Zucchini In Italy, zucchini is served in a variety of ways: fried, baked, boiled, or deep fried, alone or in combination with other ingredients. At home and in some restaurants, it is possible to eat the flowers, as well, deep-fried, known as "fiori di zucca" (cf. Pumpkin flower fritter). In Levantine countries, zucchini is stuffed with minced meat and rice plus herbs and spices. The dish, called محشي ("mahshi"), is then boiled in tomato based sauce, commonly cooked with ورق دوالي ("warak dwali"; stuffed grape leaves). Zucchini is also used in various kinds of stew. Stews that have low salinity are
Cuisine of Veracruz paste to make this sauce is now commercialized by a number of small businesses. The mountains areas have more corn-based dishes. Xalapa is known for its street foods of this type, such as picaditas and a related dish called garnadchas. Both are thick, bean-stuffed corn cakes. One notable dish of the mountain areas is zacahuil, which is generally described as a giant tamale often several feet long, able to feed between fifty and 150 people. Like tamales in Mexico, it consists of corn, flavorings and meat, which are wrapped then cooked. For sacahuil, the wrapping is either leaves from a