Zucchini With a Pine Nut Crust and a Creamy Feta Sauce

This is a quick easy side dish with amazing flavor. Using fresh thick cuts of zucchini, a nutty crust and creamy feta cheese sauce. This goes great with grilled steak, chicken or a grilled halibut or white fish. Good flavor with just a little work, makes this a very unique side dish.

• Ready In: 35 mins
• Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

• 3  large zucchini, cut into planks about 1/4-inch thick
• 1 1⁄2 cups  dried  Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
• 1⁄4 cup pine nuts, chopped fine
• 2  eggs, beaten
• 1⁄2 cup flour
• 2  tablespoons olive oil
• 1  tablespoon butter
•  salt
•  pepper

• Sauce

• 1  cup feta cheese, crumbled
• 1  cup heavy cream
• 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1  tablespoon of fresh mint

Directions

1. Crust -- Coat the zucchini very lightly but just adding the flour to a baggie and then shaking to give the zucchini a light dusting of flour.
2. In a small food processor chop the nuts and mix with the bread crumbs. Set up a small breading station -- 2 pans. One with the egg and another with the bread crumbs.
3. Dredge -- Dip each of the zucchini planks coated in the egg and then into the bread crumb and nut mixture.
4. Saute -- Heat a large sauce pan on medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon butter and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Saute the zucchini until golden brown on each side.
5. Sauce -- As the zucchini cook, make the sauce -- In a small sauce pan on medium low heat add the cream and cook for 3-4 minutes, letting it reduce just a bit. Then add the cheese and cook another 3-4 minutes. Add the mint and black pepper right before you serve it.
6. Drizzle the sauce over the zucchini and serve. Really good and really just a bit different. I promise you will love it.