Freezing courgette flowers

[matrignano]

Google yields conflicting points of view.

Can they be frozen without overly impairing taste/appearance?

If they can, is it best to freeze them raw or cooked (I would do them Roman style, stuffed with mozzarella and anchovies, battered and fried)?

[anonymous-user]

Flowers are much more delicate than other parts of the plant and from an aesthetic point they will be ruined

[21TonyK]

Interesting idea. They will freeze blanched and stuffed a million times better than raw.

However, I suspect they will still come out like mush whatever you do. So expect stalks with lumps of stuffing and gloop.

Unless you can freeze at a million degrees below zero ice crystals will form puncturing cell walls which will turn to liquid when defrosted.

If they could be frozen this way there would probably be a good market for them.