Simple Squash Recipe
This simple squash recipe is easy and tasty. Don’t blink or you might miss the short list of ingredients.
Sometimes it really is the simple things in life that can make you happy.
So that is how I’m going to show you how to cook squash today. The simple way.
Recipe Ingredients:
- Yellow squash
- An onion
- Salt
- Pepper
- Sometimes I add a little garlic too.
This is one of those recipes where you can make as much or as little as you like.
I’d suggest 1 squash and 1/4 onion per person. I’m going to use half of this onion.
Chop your onion and slice your squash.
Place them both in a large skillet.
I’m showing you how to do this on the stove top but I have instructions on how to do it in the microwave at the bottom as well.
add about a cup of water, just enough to cover the bottom of the skillet.
Now at this point, you can add about a tablespoon of bacon grease if you want to add in a bit more flavor. I’m just leaving mine water though because I dearly love the flavor of the squash on its own and the onion is compliment enough for me today.
Sometimes I do add bacon grease though, totally up to you.
Place on medium high heat just until the water in the bottom of the pan is gently boiling, then reduce heat to medium.
Put the lid on that and let it cook over medium heat for about ten minutes, or until the squash and onions are translucent
Translucent is fancy talk for “til they ain’t so white like they was when ya cut ’em”
Now see this is a photo of some squash translucent and some not. See that squash in the center?
That one is done, stick a fork in it and eat up right now if ya want!
You can see some of the other ones still have a bit of white on them so they need a few more minutes
There, all done! Now we just gotta get them out with a slotted spoon to drain the water, place them on a plate and salt and pepper them!
Isn’t it pretty in this Jewel Tea bowl?
Salt and Pepper according to taste and you’re ready to go!
Ingredients
- Yellow Squash I am using two, sliced
- 1/2 Onion chopped, I use Vidalia if I can get them otherwise a white onion will do.
- 1 Tbsp bacon grease optional (I left it out this time)
- 1 tsp garlic optional
- 1 cup water
- Salt, Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place squash and onion in skillet. If you are using bacon grease add it now. You can also add the garlic here too then about 1 cup of water, just enough to cover bottom of pan and bring to a gentle boil over medium high heat. Reduce heat to medium and cover, simmering for about ten minutes or until squash and onions are translucent. Strain out of the pan and salt and pepper to taste. Serve warm.
Notes
Microwave instructions:
Place squash and onion in microwave safe bowl. Add water (garlic and a bit of bacon grease, remember these 2 are optional). Cover and microwave on high three to four minutes, or until translucent. Drain water and salt and pepper to taste.Microwave instructions:
Place squash and onion in microwave safe bowl. Add water (Add garlic and a bit of bacon grease, remember these 2 are optional). Cover and microwave on high three to four minutes, or until translucent. Drain water and salt and pepper to taste.
My squash casserole recipe may be found by clicking here.
And don’t forget squash and zucchini. You will love that and find it here.
Happiness is where you find it, seldom where you seek it.
Christy! Onion and squash together are so delicious, the onion gives the squash such a sweet flavor! Sometimes I sautee my onions with some tomatoes and jalapenos and then when the onions are soft and translucent I add the squash, some water and salt. Makes such flavorful squash! Even my husband who doesnt like squash eats it.
Christy, where was your bacon grease? Stewed squash needs bacon grease to put them over the top.
OK, here’s one better.
Brown some cubed potatoes in a small amount of oil, add the onions next and then the squash.
I usually add a little butter, salt and pepper and brown to taste. You will think you have died and gone to heaven.. A complete meal in itself
This sounds good with potato and the squash. Bet that does taste good. I often do a stir fry in which I add carrots onions, chicken pieces, celery and then I add things that don’t take as long to cook like peppers, green and red, squash, zucchini, baby corn that is canned, bean sprouts near the last, sweet pea pods, and sometimes get a bag of veggies to have the mix. the squash makes it all taste so sweet and good. Could add a bit of cabbage earlier on as well.
I cook stir fry like my mother would have had she ever fixed stir fry, just by what I had and what looked good and what I thought of and by sight and feel.
Love your Jewell T bowl!
I cook mine in the oven. cut up squash , some onion and water. Plus I add a couple of spoons of sugar. Bake at 350 degree oven
My mother taught me how to make squash when I was younger and I thought
someone else might like to try it. You cut your squash and onions up same size so it will cook evenly. You stick this in a pot , you cover squash and onions with water. Enough to boil. Add salt and pepper. Wait 10 minutes before done and add a can of evaporated milk and a little bit of butter. It’s done! It’s almost like a soup.
My Mother made squash as Dianne’s did. She would brown it, most of the time. She would make it like this when I would tell her I couldn’t wait that long to eat it! I make it for my 5 & 6 yrs olds. Everytime we go to the grocery store, my 5 yr old son says “we need some more of that yellow vegable” I’ll let him pick it out, and he is just so tickled! I love your site. You cook like my Mother did, and how I cook now for my kids. I tell them stories about my Mom, and why she would cook something a certain way. It keeps the memories alive for me. Thank you Christy for all you put on here.
How neat. I didn’t pay much attention when my mom cooked. The kitchen was small and she didn’t want us underfoot most of the time. She had a Chocolate Gravy Recipe we got by measuring everything before she put it in as she never used directions. She did it by feel and look. I don’t recall her making squash, but we do. I like to add zucchini slices in my squash, too, as both are really a squash, one yellow neck and the other zudcchini. We love the onions and add a bit more. We have eaten them soft like this but browned sounds interesting. might try that with a little next time, though I think I’d rather fry it in a bit of spray oil. I sometimes wrap it in parchment and put a piece of tilapia on top and cook the veggies with the tilapia and add a bit of lemon pepper.