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Weekend Dish: Elote y Calabacitas

By Catherine Toth Fox • June 2, 2013 • Food, Weekend Dish

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One of my besties is a vegetarian, and I always felt bad when we went to dinner parties that the only thing she could eat at the buffet was a iceberg lettuce salad.

So I got in the habit of learning how to make hearty vegetarian dishes for potlucks. I mean, it’s not like we carnivores can’t partake in veggies, too. But at least my girlfriend — and other vegetarians — would have something more substantial to eat than baby carrots.

This was one of my go-to recipes, a quick and simple Mexican side dish with corn, tomatoes and zucchini.

And yes, it calls for bacon — not vegetarian! — but I’d always put that on the side.

Here’s the recipe:

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This dish is super easy to make and always a hit at parties. It goes with most anything, not just Mexican food. It's even good in a burrito!

Elote y Calabacitas (Corn and Zucchini)
From “Mexican Cooking Made Easy” by Diane Soliz-Martese

Ingredients:

2 strips of bacon (or more, if you want)
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 cup chopped tomatoes
2 cups zucchini, cut to 1/4-inch slices
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. cumin
Ground pepper
2 c. canned whole kernel corn, drained

Directions:

Fry bacon in a skillet, then remove and crumble for later. Add onions to skillet and saute over medium heat until soft. Add tomatoes, zucchini, salt, sugar, cumin and pepper and cook until vegetables are tender. Add corn. Mix and cook until hot. Place in serving dish, sprinkle on crumbled bacon.

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5 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah Dave June 3, 2013 at 5:42 am

    CAT: Thanks, really enjoy your fuud making posts. At least we get to see what it supposed to look like rather than just reading a recipe!

  • Reply M June 3, 2013 at 5:44 am

    Hello Cat!
    That looks really guud!

  • Reply WildeOscar June 3, 2013 at 7:30 am

    That is one healthy tasty-looking dish of food! Great summer cooking.

  • Reply David Jackson June 3, 2013 at 8:06 am

    Hate to say it but corn is not a favorite… however I have a cousin in Tennessee who uses it as the main ingredient in an old family recipe that is ONO. As in ONO did I really do that. As in God if you let me live I’ll never do that again.

    Me, mo bacon mo bettah.

  • Reply 808 June 3, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    Looks good, Cat! And easy too! Mahalo!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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