American

Succotash

Name: Succotash
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups frozen lima beans; 2 cups corn kernels; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 red bell pepper, diced; 1/4 onion, diced; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Paul @paul_northshore

Succotash is American 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.

20 min Easy High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups frozen lima beans
2 cups corn kernels
2 tbsp butter
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
1/4 onion, diced
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Cook the lima beans in boiling salted water until tender, about 8 minutes, then drain.
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat and cook the onion and bell pepper until softened, about 4 minutes.
Add the corn and lima beans and cook, stirring, until heated through and glossy with butter, about 5 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Watch how to cook Succotash

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

Serve it with

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

The dish at the centre
- Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
  
  45 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 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. Succotash carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Succotash
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Grilled Asparagus
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: 200 kcal
Protein: 6 g
Carbs: 31 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 330 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

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

When to cook it

Succotash takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.