Creamy Succotash Recipe

[Saviolo]

Here's a nice idea for a delicious and colourful holiday side dish if you're tired of the usual! Succotash is primarily a sweet corn dish that includes either lima beans or other shell beans or green beans. We also add tomato and okra to ours, which is not super traditional but is common. The bright colours and flavours of the dish really perk up any dinner plate, especially if you have a lot of beige food going on, like turkey and mashed potatoes!

This recipe can be made vegetarian by omitting the bacon, or vegan by omitting both the bacon and the cream. Lard, butter, or bacon grease are most commonly used for this dish, but you could get away with a nice olive oil if you wanted to make this vegan.

[procon]

1. That does look really good.

Succotash, like chili recipes vary by family, and most are delicious. I like Succotash because you can make it from whatever ingredients you have on hand and it will always be tasty.

My version has baby butter beans, corn, sweet onions, zucchini, cherry tomatoes and spicy shrimp.

[Saviolo]

2. We almost used zucchini in this one!

Yeah, there are a million different ways to make this, and a million ways to make it well.