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Summer Squash & Onions – a elementary uncomplicated dish that is healthy, delicious, together with the perfect agency to bask the season’s best yellowish squelch together with zucchini.

Originally posted July 2011, updated June 2018

If you lot accept a summertime vegetable garden, you lot may accept constitute that all at 1 time you lot accept tons of zucchini together with yellowish squash. If you’re similar me, you lot don’t desire to waste matter fresh homegrown vegetables, but sometimes demand a piddling assistance using it  up. That’s where this recipe comes inwards handy.  We’ve been making our favorite Summer Squash & Onions for years, together with years, together with years! I’m non certain when I started making it but I mean value it was when the kids were minor together with I wanted a recipe they mightiness eat. I never wrote it downwardly until 2011 together with withal wing-it every fourth dimension I made it. This is thus easy, delicious together with adept for you lot too!  And the best role – it freezes beautifully.

You tin use zucchini or yellowish squash, or a combination of both.

In add-on to the squelch you’ll need a large sugariness onion together with your favorite seasonings.  Pick upward a tin of chopped or diced tomatoes seasoned with basil, garlic together with oregano, or Italian manner depending on the brand.  You volition also demand a piddling butter together with roughly olive oil.

Rough chop one large or ii minor sugariness onions.  Warm a large skillet over medium estrus together with add together 1 tablespoon of butter together with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. While the butter melts chop or patch the onion together with squash. Add the onion to the skillet together with saute until crisp tender together with starting to brown, close five minutes. Add the zucchini to the skillet together with thus the yellow squelch too. Finally, flavour with your favorite flavored tabular array salt (like Accent) together with plenty of salt-free Mrs. Dash (we similar the tabular array blend). Dump the whole tin of tomatoes into the skillet, juice together with all. That’s it!

Cook’s NOTES:

At this hollo for you lot tin laid upward the squelch until it’s crisp tender, or encompass the skillet together with laid upward until the vegetables are soft. Remove the lid together with boil it downwardly to evaporate roughly of the love apple tree juice.  When making a large batch, I similar to undercook it a fleck thus when I freeze the vegetables they’re withal inwards pieces together with non mushy.  We unremarkably accept plenty for several meals thus every bit it’s reheated it becomes less crisp, but withal rattling tasty.  In fact I actually similar it mushy, almost similar a stew. This dish is rattling hearty together with filling, together with for those of us that demand to picket our weight, it’s a terrific together with delicious agency to bask fresh vegetables that are completely guilt-free!

This Summer Squash & Onions recipe is versatile too.  Feel complimentary to add together other vegetables, supersede the canned tomatoes with fresh, serve amongst quinoa or over rice for a consummate meal, or utilisation every bit a base of operations for vegetable soup this winter!  I dear an all-purpose recipe 🙂 The possibilities are endless.

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Summer Squash & Onions

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

35 mins

 

A elementary uncomplicated dish that is healthy, delicious, together with the perfect agency to bask the season's best yellowish squelch together with zucchini.

Course:

Vegetable

Servings: 10 people

Author: Tricia @ Saving Room for Dessert

Ingredients

• 
  1
  tablespoons
  olive oil
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  butter
  


• 
  1
  large or 2 minor sugariness onions,
  chopped or sliced
  


• 
  2-3
  medium zucchini,
  chopped or sliced
  


• 
  2-3
  yellow squash,
  chopped or sliced
  


• 
  1
  (15 ounce) tin diced tomatoes with basil, oregano together with garlic, with juice
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  freshly the world pepper
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  seasoning salt
  like Accent
  


• 
  1-2
  teaspoons
  Mrs. Dash
  any flavor (no tabular array salt added - nosotros similar Table Blend)
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Warm a large skillet over medium heat.  Add the olive crude together with butter. Once the butter is melted, add together the chopped onions together with sauté until crisp tender together with starting to brown, close five minutes.
   
   


2. 
   

   Add the squash, zucchini, tomatoes with juice, pepper, tabular array salt together with Mrs. Dash.

   
   


3. 
   

   Heat until boiling. Cover together with laid upward over medium-low until the squelch is crisp tender but non falling apart. Remove the lid together with boil until roughly of the liquid is evaporated.

   
   


4. 
   
   If freezing for afterward use, laid upward exclusively a few minutes to mix all ingredients, cool together with freeze.
   
   

Recipe Notes

You tin laid upward this downwardly until it's similar a vegetable stew or but sauté until crisp tender.

 

If freezing for afterward use, lightly laid upward the vegetables without a lid on the skillet. 

 

See the Cook's Notes to a higher identify together with allow me know if you lot accept questions!

Another favorite agency to bask fresh garden vegetables, is our Baked Squash, Tomatoes, Onions together with Potatoes. The vegetables are layered for a pretty presentation. It’s a favorite inwards our household unit of measurement every bit well.

If you’ve got roughly extra zucchini, hold out certain to endeavour our Corn & Zucchini Casserole with jalapeños.

How close roughly Chocolate Zucchini Bread – dessert together with vegetables inwards 1 seize with teeth … bonus!

If you’re looking for to a greater extent than delicious ways to utilisation your summertime squash, cheque out this Easy Baked Zucchini from Spend with Pennies. Healthy together with slowly ever makes me happy! I actually desire to endeavour these Taco Zucchini Boats from Belly Full too. They await thus delicious together with filling together with cracking for a weeknight dinner. For roughly other salubrious twist, endeavour the Best Skinny Zucchini Casserole from Give Recipe.

I can’t halt thinking close this Lemon Zucchini Cake from Mom on Timeout – thus moist together with no dubiety delicious! And finally, don’t missy this beautiful Zucchini Pie from The View from Great Island. It’s thus pretty together with creative together with at nowadays I’m drooling 🙂

I accept a pie related question.  If person mentions pie, what variety similar a shot pops inwards your mind?  Do you lot come across apple, pumpkin, lemon meringue or a childhood favorite?  Feel complimentary to larn out your answer inwards the comments section!

Thanks thus much for stopping by!  I promise you lot accept a adept weekend.  Tricia

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