Cooking question; squash

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So.... I wanted to ask about cooking squash. For reference this is the basic recipe where people coat the sliced rounds of squash with flour, cornmeal. Then they air fry it. There's several versions of this recipe where you basically use eggs or milk with salt, pepper, flour, and cornmeal.

My question is, if you can get this kind of recipe to work without cornmeal (and still have it taste decent)? Thanks.
 
My favorite recipe for zucchini is to make a wet batter like pancake batter with Bisquick. Before dunking the squash rounds in this, I dip them in plain white flour seasoned with salt and pepper. That's so the batter will stick. Fry them in hot oil till golden brown, drain and salt immediately. Serve with ranch dressing. Make more than you think you need!
 
BigBlueHen53 said:
My favorite recipe for zucchini is to make a wet batter like pancake batter with Bisquick. Before dunking the squash rounds in this, I dip them in plain white flour seasoned with salt and pepper. That's so the batter will stick. Fry them in hot oil till golden brown, drain and salt immediately. Serve with ranch dressing. Make more than you think you need!
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Thank you very much! I want to try that lol. I used to avoid stuff like Zucchini and squash. But now I realize, its more like you just need to find recipes with it to make it taste good.
 
nao57 said:
So.... I wanted to ask about cooking squash. For reference this is the basic recipe where people coat the sliced rounds of squash with flour, cornmeal. Then they air fry it. There's several versions of this recipe where you basically use eggs or milk with salt, pepper, flour, and cornmeal.

My question is, if you can get this kind of recipe to work without cornmeal (and still have it taste decent)? Thanks.
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When you say squash are you referring to zucchini or butternut squash or spaghetti squash ??? For us zucchini is not classified as a squash.
Confused from France
 
Loving my girls said:
When you say squash are you referring to zucchini or butternut squash or spaghetti squash ??? For us zucchini is not classified as a squash.
Confused from France
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Yes. There are some big differences between zucchini and squash.

To answer your question; Well... to explain, I've been a gardener for a while. I've grown almost everything possible that I could. So I've grown yellowneck squash, the really big ones, and butternutt squash also. I've grown zucchini also.

I like growing pumpkins more than both of those. Pumpkins can make a LOT of food, in poor soil. And they taste better. You can make a lot of things with them. Also people like to say to get better taste by picking squash and zucchini small, but with pumpkins you can purposely get them big. You can make French Fries with Pumpkins instead of potatoes also.

I also like pumpkins more than the other 2, because I'm in a hot, dry climate with low water resources. This means, I can grow the pumpkin vines around other vegetable plants to help them survive the heat better and have less evaporation. Pumpkin plants are more ideal for this than the others because they spread out all over the place; and this works well to put cucumbers next to pumpkins for this reason.

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But for cooking, here many people cook most of those the same with like a tempura style cooking. Or breading them and cooking them. We do this and it helps the taste.
 
Yes, "squash" is a family of plants and includes both summer (soft fruit) and winter (hard rind) types. This time of year, I assumed OP meant the soft kind like zucchini. Pick them small (10 inches or less) and you get an unlimited supply, as the plant wants to produce seed, and will keep trying. Eventually, if you leave a fruit on until the seeds inside reach maturity, it will stop producing fruit. Such a fruit may reach 24" or more in length. At this point, it's good to cut in half lengthwise, scoop out the seeds, fill with a savory stuffing, top with cheese and bake.
 
nao57 said:
So.... I wanted to ask about cooking squash. For reference this is the basic recipe where people coat the sliced rounds of squash with flour, cornmeal. Then they air fry it. There's several versions of this recipe where you basically use eggs or milk with salt, pepper, flour, and cornmeal.

My question is, if you can get this kind of recipe to work without cornmeal (and still have it taste decent)? Thanks.
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Crushed cornflakes or bread crumbs will work just fine
 

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