How to Cook Summer Squash

The joys of summer is undoubtedly the most beautiful varieties of pumpkins, including the ubiquitous zucchini flower, but for those of us who are always able to kill everything that appears to have grown in our gardens.

The term "squash" refers to various pumpkins, between Frost and deliberately before their shells harden crops cultivated. Grow on Bush-like plants, rather than the more typical spread of the vine or winter squashPumpkins.

Pumpkins are available in many colors and forms that have been used are often very different from each other, so that we can not know if she was told.

I mentioned zucchini, perhaps the best known of summer squashes. Its green color and shape are a class club like pumpkin, that Caserta and cocozelle typical. While green is the predominant color in this category those of the squashes, sometimes you see a yellow orwhite.

A second category includes the varieties of pumpkin fruits in which the "neck" from one end narrower than the others. Further, they fall further "crookneck" and "straightneck", which is self-explanatory. The yellow color of this pumpkin is the rule.

Finally, there is Patty Pan squash. Sometimes referred to as squash from the oven, the fruit is round and flat, while some have molded described as a flying saucer. Color isin general know how, but green or yellow can be seen at times.

Despite the apparent diversity may be all varieties of pumpkin used interchangeably in the kitchen. So every time they enter a recipe for a boy, and you have a type different from the other - no problem. Go ahead and cook!

Here is a recipe for one of the most popular dishes of pumpkin, zucchini croquettes.

Ingredients

2 large zucchini

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

2Garlic

2 eggs

1 teaspoon oregano

1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

1 onion

Oil

Directions

1. Grate the zucchini in a bowl. With salt, stir and let stand for 45 minutes. Drain excess liquid, which have sweaty, is out of the zucchini.

2. Gloves garlic. Lightly beat eggs. Dice the onion. Add this type, with the other remaining ingredients (except for cooking oil) into the bowl.Mix well.

3. Heat is a non-stick frying pan and drop the zucchini into batter with a spoon. Cook until croquettes are less well-browned, then turn and brown the other side. You may need only some dog food 'at a time, cook until they have exhausted all your money.

4. You croquettes served cool a bit ', then enjoy.

Here's a super-simple recipe for grilling any kind of pumpkin in the oven:

Ingredients

1 1 / 2 lbs. Squash

3 teaspoons olive oilOil

2 tsp salt

Directions

1. Cut the skin of the pumpkin. Cut each squash into bite size pieces.

2. Mix the olive oil and salt in a bowl and cover the parts in the squash mixture.

3. Place squash pieces on a basket of baking tray. Roast in the upper rack of the oven preheated to 420 degrees soft) until they are (test with a fork or a knife. Roasting time should be 12 to 16 minutes.

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