Calabacitas Casserole

In New Mexico, Calabacitas is a common side dish to any meal, typically squash, corn & green chile are combined & sautéed in a skillet for the New Mexican Calabicitas dish. Here I make it into a casserole.

Calabacitas Casserole

The Calabacita Squash grown in New Mexico has a light green skin and is round in shape, the flesh is like a zucchini. You'll find it in New Mexican supermarkets when it's in season in summer & early fall. Which is also when the green chiles & corn are ready for harvest, too, making it an inevitable combination. But, you'll see the Calabacitas dish made just as often with zucchini. It's a little reminiscent of Succotash, a Southern dish of corn & lima beans.

This Calabacitas Casserole has now become one of our favorite creamy corn comfort food side dishes and it's taken the place of corn pudding at the Thanksgiving table. I also like to make it in summer when zucchini is coming out of your ears and you've had as much zucchini bread as you can stand.

Click on the caption below the photo for the full recipe.