Cheesy Summertime Mash In Addition To Crab Bake

Ingredients:

1 pocket-sized onion, diced
1 large clove garlic, minced
v pocket-sized Japanese eggplants, cutting into 1/4 inch coins
ii small-medium zucchini, cutting into 1/4 inch coins
ii small-medium golden zucchini, cutting into 1/4 inch coins (like goldenrod squash)
3/4 loving cup bluish crab meat*
1 loving cup shredded extra abrupt cheddar cheese
Old Bay (if needed)
body of body of water salt
freshly solid seat down dark pepper

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease an 8x8 inch baking dish.

Heat a pocket-sized amount of butter or crude oil inwards a pocket-sized pan. Saute the onion together with garlic until the onion is soft together with translucent, nigh v minutes. Allow to cool slightly. Scrape into a large bowl. Add eggplant, squash, crabmeat together with spices. Toss to evenly distribute all ingredients. Scrape into prepared dish. Cover alongside foil together with bake thirty minutes. Uncover together with sprinkle alongside cheese. Continue to bake for fifteen infinitesimal or until the cheese is bubbly together with the vegetables are tender.

*I used leftover crabmeat from steamed crabs, it was a mix of hook together with lump. It was also well-seasoned. Add additional Old Bay every bit needed.

My thoughts:

This is variety of similar a tian but less fussy. I only don't accept it inwards me to artfully seat a billion 1 1/2 inch slices of summertime vegetables inwards a gratin dish. No thanks. This is the lazy American crab version of that but made improve alongside crab. There is a farm stand upwards that isn't likewise far away that I similar to instruct to during the summertime months because they e'er accept a broad hit of fresh vegetables for sale. This fourth dimension they had tons of summertime squash: pattypan, zucchini, crookneck together with a type of yellowish zucchini called goldenrod. The goldenrod was the prettiest squeeze ever! Bright yellowish together with perfectly straight. You tin grab a glimpse of the coloring inwards the raw veggie shot above. It tastes pretty much similar regular zucchini but was easier to spell together with cube since it is basically a tube; no flaring out or narrowing. I was going to brand a at in 1 trial squash/eggplant casserole but I had to a greater extent than or less crab meat leftover from steamed crabs (just a few crab's worth) together with therefore I tossed that inwards together with loved it. It is nonetheless a piddling low-cal to serve every bit a top dog dish (though alongside a heavy grain similar wild rice or kamut it mightiness work) but the crab makes it look similar the fanciest of side dishes.