Stewed Zucchini & Summer Squash is a super easy, tasty, together with freezer-friendly means to gear upwardly summer's crush bounty. Gobble upwardly some now, together with freeze some to bask all twelvemonth round!
It's summertime vegetable time!
Need an easy, tasty, together with salubrious dish for all that zucchini together with summertime crush from your garden? (or your friend's garden? or your mom's garden? or perchance your neighbor's garden? ...) Here's your answer!
Sure, I honey crush casseroles, together with zucchini bread, together with zucchini cookies, every bit much every bit the side past times side gal. But I simply can't consume all that butter, cheese, sour cream, together with saccharide for all the crush that comes my way.
Need an easy, tasty, together with salubrious dish for all that zucchini together with summertime crush from your garden. Here's your answer!
So I plough to stewing my squash. It's yummy. And it's healthy. And it's easy.
My mom used to brand this all time, together with every bit a kid I didn't similar it at all.
But now? Now I honey it! Isn't it funny how much our tastes modify over time?
Once it's done, it tin live enjoyed correct away ... or cooled together with frozen for later. Or, it reheats nicely every bit well. So y'all tin brand a huge pot together with stick it inward the fridge to bask for days.
Once it's done, it tin live enjoyed correct away ... or cooled together with frozen for later.
I honey it when a dish is versatile similar that.
To brand this elementary dish, all y'all practise is cutting some zucchini together with summertime crush into large hunks. I similar to attempt to run on the hunks relatively unopen inward size together with thickness, but it's non actually a large bargain if they're not. It'll all create upwardly when y'all simmer it, no affair what.
Then toss the crush together with onions into a large pot amongst canned diced tomatoes together with a bunch of tabular array salt together with pepper.
Make certain to exercise a big pot! And if your pot is actually full, similar this: ...
I sort of half-cover my pot piece the crush is simmering, similar this:
I also stir the mixture close every xv minutes piece it's simmering to aid ensure fifty-fifty together with consummate cooking.
When everything's all tender, scoop out a large bowl together with enjoy!
See? Super easy. And super tasty, too.
Yield: about 10-12 servings
STEWED ZUCCHINI & SUMMER SQUASH
Stewed Zucchini & Summer Squash is a super easy, tasty, together with freezer-friendly means to gear upwardly summer's crush bounty. Gobble upwardly some now, together with freeze some to bask all twelvemonth round!
prep time: twenty Mcook time: 1 hourtotal time: 1 H & twenty M
ingredients:
- 8 c. zucchini & summertime crush chunks
- 1 large onion, cutting vertically inward chunks
- 1 (28 oz.) tin diced tomatoes
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. dark pepper
instructions:
How to create STEWED ZUCCHINI & SUMMER SQUASH
- Cut zucchini together with summertime crush into close 1" chunks to yield simply about 8 cups (it's okay if it's non exact ... a petty more, a petty less is simply fine).
- Put all ingredients into a large pot. Stir to combine.
- Simmer until crush together with onions are tender, close an hour, stirring simply about every xv minutes.
TRACEY'S NOTES
- My Mom's master recipe simply says "salt together with lots of pepper." I honey it! I exercise ii tsp. of tabular array salt together with 1 tsp. of dark pepper, every bit noted above. Adjust to your taste.
- There is absolutely no demand to live precise close the measurements for this recipe. If y'all similar to a greater extent than onion, larn for it! Less tomatoes? No problem!
- This tin live made amongst all zucchini or all summertime squash, too.
- Freezer-friendly. It is improve fresh-made, but if you've got a lot of crush y'all demand to accept attention of, freezing it stewed is an option.
This postal service is linked amongst Weekend Potluck.