Squash Casserole with Cheese 🥒🧀🧅🧄👨‍🍳

Squash casserole with cheese is an easy and delicious summer recipe. Yellow squash plants grow prolifically and produce bumper crops, so there are many traditional Southern recipes using summer squash. Along with Ritz crackers, sour cream, zucchini, onions, and spices, this summer squash casserole is full of flavor. This recipe has no canned cream of chicken soup and no stuffing, so it is definitely unique.

Learning how to make squash casserole is easy. Although I used yellow squash and zucchini, about 75% summer squash and 25% zucchini, you can definitely make this recipe is just either one. Onions are used in many summer squash recipes, so I made sure to add plenty of onions. Normally, the squash is simply cut into round pieces, but I have noticed that those circular pieces never completely break down or mix thoroughly with the onions, making some bites almost entire squash and others almost entirely onions. While researching this recipe, I someone had the idea of grating the yellow squash and zucchini on a cheese grater. I am also an Argentine chef, and in Argentina many people like to grate vegetables like carrots on cheese graters. Somehow I made the connection between Argentine cooking and Southern cooking, and I realized that by grating the squash and zucchini, I could more evenly distribute it with the onions throughout the casserole, making sure that there was a bit of everything in every bite.

Cheese is an important part of any Southern squash casserole recipe, so I made sure to include a whole 9 oz block to make it extra cheesy. Ritz crackers helped to only soak up some of the extra moisture but also added nice crunch to the top. Unlike other recipes that use cream of chicken soup, I decided to use sour cream in my squash casserole recipe. The sour cream added not only creaminess but also tanginess, a flavor that combined well with the herbs and spices. I wanted to add even more flavor, so I used a packet of onion soup mix as well: onion soup mix is common in many old fashioned Southern recipes, so I thought it was a good way to change up the recipe while still staying true to the concept.

This squash casserole with cheese recipe was the best because of not only the combination of flavors but also the contrast in textures. If you make this, I am sure you will fall in love with it. 🥒🧀🧅🧄👨‍🍳

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