Southern

Squash Casserole

Name: Squash Casserole
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2.5 lb yellow squash, sliced; 1 onion, chopped; 4 tbsp butter; 1.5 cups sharp cheddar, shredded; 2 large eggs; 1/2 cup sour cream; 1.5 cups saltine crackers, crushed; 3/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Tamika @tamika_clt

Squash Casserole is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is 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.

55 min Medium Eggetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 lb yellow squash, sliced
1 onion, chopped
4 tbsp butter
1.5 cups sharp cheddar, shredded
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1.5 cups saltine crackers, crushed
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 350F and butter a baking dish.
Cook the squash and onion in 2 tbsp of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes, then drain off any excess liquid.
Whisk the eggs and sour cream together, then stir in the squash mixture and half the cheddar; season with salt and pepper.
Spread into the baking dish and scatter the remaining cheddar on top.
Melt the remaining butter, toss with the crushed crackers, and sprinkle over the casserole.
Bake until set and golden on top, about 35 minutes.

Watch how to cook Squash Casserole

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Squash Casserole, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

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. Squash Casserole carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Squash Casserole
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Fried Okra
Gluten	Yes	Green Beans Cooked Down with Potatoes
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Fried Okra
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: 330 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbs: 19 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 560 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Squash Casserole takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.