Each summer I compile a list of summer squash recipes to address the abundance that a few squash plants can provide. Below is a list of delicious recipes created to help you use up your summer squash. This year I am adding the option for you to link up your squash recipes at the bottom of this post.
Summer Squash is a broad term that includes all squash that reach maturity in the summer (instead of fall squash like pumpkins). When I am in the garden I am inclusive in my definition, but once I step into the kitchen I tend to limit my definition to the yellow varieties.
Recipes that allow us to savor fresh picked squash:
Grilled Chicken and Vegetable Fajitas
Sautéed Summer Squash and Zucchini
Herbed Chicken on Vegetable Confetti
Sautéed Squash with Onions Shelia at KnitsCooksCrochets prepares her yellow squash in a similar manner only she sautés her onions in butter instead of olive oil.
Breakfast Recipes with Squash:
Hash Browns with Summer Squash
Don’t feel guilty sneaking squash into breakfast recipes. Desperate times call for desperate measures. You can also work summer squash into lunch with recipes like this Squash Calzone:
Recipes where the squash acquires more flavor from the recipe’s other ingredients:
Chicken Pesto and Couscous Salad
Angel Hair Squash with Garden Vegetables
Pasta and Vegetables in Lemon Parmesan Sauce
Squash-sagna and here are more recipes that use squash as an alternative to noodles
Squash Tips:
If someone give you a large yellow squash, enjoy it, but if you are buying it by the pound choose smaller squash since they have fewer seeds.
Grated summer squash can be used to replace carrots in carrot cake or zucchini in zucchini bread!
You can freeze your squash. Cut it up into bite size pieces or shred it then freeze it. Erin at $5 Dinners cuts up summer squash along with zucchini, carrots, onion,and celery then freezes it so she can pull it out and add it when she makes Zucchini Freezer Soup.
Amy at The Finer Things in Life has compiled a wonderful list of zucchini recipes, many of which could be adapted to include summer squash.
You can pickle squash! Kendra at New Life on the Homestead shares her recipe for Squash Pickles.
You can eat summer squash raw. Try adding some to your next salad or one of these salads: Italian Squash Salad, Pasta Salad with Squash, and Southwest Pasta Salad.
You can easily grill squash. Cut yellow squash in half inch thick slices, coat with your favorite marinade, and grill it alongside your steaks. Grilled Squash is great in Grilled Ratatouille.
What is your favorite way to eat squash? If you have any favorite summer squash recipes that you would like to share, use the linky below to add it to the round up. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to share a recipe or link in the comments.
To add your summer squash recipe, include a link to this round up in your post. Then link to your summer squash post, rather than to your blog.
I am sharing this post with the Hearth and Soul Hop and Delicious Dish Tuesday.
Full Time Mama says
I LOVE these! We love squash and really love to BBQ it. Thanks for these other great ideas, and for the awesome tips! I’m so happy to know I can freeze it!
Thanks for linking up with Delicious Dish Tuesday!
Amanda says
Our squash plants are just starting to bloom, but I have bookmarked this page for when we have more than we know what to do with! Thanks for providing such a great list of recipes and sharing them with Delicious Dish Tuesday 🙂
Penniless Parenting says
Where I live, you can’t really get summer squash, only zucchini, but I find them to be pretty interchangable in recipes. One of my favorite recipes is a “rainbow salad spears” salad- long thin slices of squash, long carrot spears, pepper spears, green beans, etc… marinated in a viniagrette with sugar, vinegar, garlic, raw onions, salt, pepper, etc… and then after you marinade it, you tie the sticks in bundles with a scallion for a fancy presentation… Or just serve it as is if you don’t care about the fanciness, only the taste.
'Becca says
Thanks for all the ideas!! Within a month, we’ll have gobs of zucchini and yellow squash from our CSA farm here in Pennsylvania. I love it, but it is a challenge to prepare for my 7-year-old because he doesn’t really like the consistency.
Beth @ Aunt B's Kitchen says
Good job Alea! I don’t have the garden I’d hoped for this year but I’m always the recipient of lots of summer squash. It’s nice to have a collection of recipes on hand.
Elise says
Thanks so much for this list! Our squash plants have just begun producing but I’m already looking for more ways to cook them.
amber says
Hi Alea,
What a FUN round up. I just love summer squash. I just made a vegan, grain free, SCD legal lasagna with yellow summer squash and sauteed onions.
Thanks for allowing us to share.
Hugs,
–Amber
Alea says
Thanks for sharing your recipe Amber, it looks delicious! I like how you cut your squash. I usually cut mine length wise, but your way looks much more manageable.
April @ The 21st Century Housewife says
Wow, I am feeling a bit jealous here…Thanks to the rain in England, I have yet to actually be able to plant my garden, let alone harvest anything … I am hoping to be able to get some plants in when I get home 🙂 It will be lovely to have this wonderful post with lots of inspiring recipes on hand when I (hopefully) harvest some bounty much later this year!