If you’re like every other gardener that I know, you’ve got an abundance of squash going on right now. If you’re like us, you’ve yet to harvest a single squash from your plants! Not sure what we’re doing wrong, but we’ve had TONS of cucumbers (which I don’t like) and a big fat ZERO squash. Any advice appreciated. 🙂
Anyway, we’ve still had some fresh squash, mostly from my mom, and one of Ben’s favorite side dishes is squash casserole. I decided this time to kick it up a notch and make Jalapeno Cheddar Squash Casserole. It’s easy, and could even work as a main dish if you’re so inclined.
What’s your favorite summer vegetable?
Jalapeno Cheddar Squash Casserole
Author: Kelli @ eat pray {read} love
Recipe type: side dish
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Serves: 6
This casserole is a notch above because it uses jalapenos and cheddar to give it a little kick. Use fresh squash if you have it- yum!
Ingredients
- 6 yellow squash, sliced into ¼ inch slices
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 2 T white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk (or buttermilk)
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ⅓ cup sliced, jarred jalapenos (You can add or decrease from this number depending on how hot you like it)
- ⅓ cup shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Heat oil in iron skillet. Sautee squash with salt and pepper until edges are beginning to brown, but squash isn't mushy.
- Layer squash in a casserole dish sprayed with cooking spray. (Or you can just continue in the iron skillet)
- Combine ingredients from flour to vegetable oil for cornbread topping.
- Mix in jalapenos and cheddar.
- Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes, or until cornbread is starting to turn golden brown.
Originally posted Aug 5, 2014
About Kelli Hays
This looks delicious! One quick question…for the squash, would I use 6 smaller squash such as typically found at HEB, or the larger squash typically picked fresh from the garden? The squash my parents used to get in their garden made the HEB squash look puny, so I wanted to verify so I’d have enough squash!