Mexican
Calabacitas con Puerco (Squash with Pork)
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Calabacitas con Puerco (Squash with Pork) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. 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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Dice the pork shoulder small and brown it in the oil over medium-high heat for 6 minutes.
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Add the onion and garlic and cook 2 minutes until soft.
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Stir in the tomato and cook until it breaks down, about 5 minutes.
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Add the zucchini and corn, cover, and cook 12 minutes until the zucchini is tender but not falling apart.
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Season with the salt and serve, sweet with the corn and rich with the pork.
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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 con Puerco (Squash with Pork), 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. Calabacitas con Puerco (Squash with Pork) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| 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
- 370 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 16 g
- Fat
- 23 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 7 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Calabacitas con Puerco (Squash with Pork) takes about 30 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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