Mexican
Calabacitas a la Mexicana (Squash Mexican Style)
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Calabacitas a la Mexicana (Squash Mexican Style) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Saute the onion in the oil for 2 minutes until soft.
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Add the tomato and cook until it breaks down, about 5 minutes.
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Stir in the zucchini and corn, cover, and cook 12 minutes until the zucchini is tender.
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Season with the salt.
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Scatter the crumbled queso fresco over the top just before serving. This is the everyday meatless version of the dish above, and one of the easiest ways a household builds a vegetarian day without a parallel menu.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Calabacitas a la Mexicana (Squash Mexican Style), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Calabacitas a la Mexicana (Squash Mexican Style) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 180 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 18 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Calabacitas a la Mexicana (Squash Mexican Style) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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