Pattypan Mash Bake

Ingredients:
iv medium pattypan squash, sliced into 1/8- 1/4-inch rounds
1/2 white onion, sliced into 1/2-inch half-moons
iii eggs
1/4 (loose) loving cup chiffonade'd* basil
1 1/2 tablespoons milk
bounding main salt
freshly dry soil dark pepper
12 saltines, crumbled
two tablespoons butter, melted

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9-inch pie plate. Layer the mash together with onion inwards unmarried layers starting together with ending alongside squash. Set aside.

In a modest bowl, trounce together the eggs, basil, milk, tabular array salt together with pepper until fluffy. Pour over the squash.

In a modest bowl, stir together the saltines together with butter until the crackers are good coated. Sprinkle an fifty-fifty layer over the squash. Bake 45 minutes or until the mash is tender.



* I used my herb scissors together with cutting from the leafage conduct into the beaten eggs

My thoughts:

I intend pattypan (also known equally "scallop squash') is my favorite summertime squash. It is sure the cutest. I similar how it doesn't withdraw to live on peeled together with the seeds to flesh ratio is perfect; modest seeds, lots of flesh. It doesn't give off a lot of liquid which makes it perfect for casserole-like dishes similar to this one, at that spot is no puddle of H2O at the bottom of the pan similar what tin hand off alongside undrained zucchini. This dish super light, the egg keeps it from beingness simply a pile of mash hanging out all dry out inwards a pan but it doesn't add together a lot of mass to the dish.