Thursday, September 10, 2015

Summer Squash with Tomatoes, Onion, and Dill

Look, just as I promised - it's not a salad! Instead, we have this simple, delicious side dish of yellow summer squash cooked with red onions, tomatoes, and fresh dill. We ate this as part of a fairly elaborate dinner of noochy kale, stuffed zucchini, and rice pilaf (recipes for the latter two to follow), but if you add chickpeas or white beans it's easily a main course, especially with a salad and/or some good bread thrown in to round things out.


Summer Squash with Tomatoes, Onion, and Dill
Ingredients
~ 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
~ 3 yellow summer squash, sliced into ¼" half-moons
~ 1 red onion, rough dice
~ 1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes, quartered
~ Salt and pepper
~ ¼ - ⅓ cup chopped, fresh dill

Directions
~ Place a large, nonstick skillet on medium-high heat and coat generously with cooking spray. Add the summer squash in batches and cook for about 3-5 minutes on each side, until just starting to char. Remove each batch from the pan and repeat with the rest of the squash.
~ When all the squash has been cooked, add the olive oil to the skillet and cook the onion for 5 minutes; stir in the tomatoes and cook about 3 minutes more.
~ Return the cooked squash to the pan along with ½ tsp. kosher salt, a few grinds of black pepper, and the fresh dill.
~ Stir well, remove from heat, and serve hot or at room temperature.

2 comments:

  1. totes gonna make this with the abundance of yellow squash and tomatoes in my garden right now.

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    1. I hope you like it! We've been inundated with yellow and green summer squash (I'll be posting a stuffed zucchini recipe later this week) and this is an easy, fast, and yummy way to make use of it.

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