Yellow squash with red peppers is a tasty way to enjoy this sweet summer squash.
Even though fall is my favorite season, I still resist the end of summer, primarily because of the abundance of produce. Yellow squash is one of those vegetables that I hate to see disappear; therefore, I continue to buy it as long as it’s on the shelves. Recently, we’ve been growing it in the garden which is even better.
There are so many ways to prepare it and most are relatively easy. This squash recipe is one of the easiest. This dish is just yellow squash sauteed in garlic oil with some onion and red peppers. You can use roasted red chile or bell pepper, or fresh red bells. You can use sweet peppers or medium/hot chile, depending on what you want or have. Our favorite is a hot roasted red New Mexico chile. It gives this dish a pleasant mix of sweet and spicy.
A simple and tasty squash side. Yellow summer squash sauteed in garlic oil and toasted with roasted red peppers. Roasted red chiles add a little zip to this dish.
Prep and Cook time assumes you already have roasted red peppers
“*” See Kitchen Notes for more information
- 1 medium yellow squash (about 8 ounces), sliced
- 1/4 small onion, sliced thin
- 1 Tbsp. garlic-infused olive oil*
- 1 large roasted red pepper*, diced
- a sprinkle of salt
- generous amount of cracked pepper
- If you don’t already have a roasted pepper, then you can roasted one under the broiler, on the grill, or over an open flame on the stovetop. Once roasted, let cool, peel, remove stem and seeds, and dice.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Once hot, add the onion. Saute’ for 1 minute.
- Add the squash by spreading it out on top of the onion. Cook for 1 minute. Using a spatula, flip the squash over and let cook for another minute. Continue to flip and move the squash around until all of the pieces are done (soft but not mushy).
- Add the diced peppers, a sprinkle of salt and a generous amount of cracked pepper. Mix it into the squash and onion mixture. Cook for about 30 seconds.
- Remove from heat and serve immediately.
Garlic Infused Garlic Oil – If you don’t have any garlic infused oil, then use 1 Tbsp. of olive and 1 large garlic clove, minced. Add the garlic with the onion.
Type of Red Pepper – This dish can be made with sweet bell peppers, mini sweet peppers, or hot/medium/mild red chile peppers. You could also use orange or yellow, but the red really makes this a beautiful dish.
Roasted or Not – Roasting peppers brings out the flavor and the sweetness of red pepper regardless of if it’s a sweet pepper or hot chile. Therefore, roasted peppers work best. However, this year I grew mini sweet peppers and found that just slicing them up raw and throwing them in this dish at the last minute worked as well. The main difference was the crispy texture that the raw peppers added to the dish.
Yellow squash with red peppers makes a great side dish for a wide variety of entrees. It comes together very fast, and can be easily doubled, tripled or quadrupled to fit the number of people you’re serving. Hope you enjoy!
If you like this dish, then you give these other squash dishes a try.
Pingback: Meals Suggestions for an Abundance of Garden Produce | MJ's Kitchen
That is my kind of squash MJ spicy makes it tasty. thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning and tweeting.
Thanks so much Swathi!
Thank you so much for bringing this gorgeous recipe to the Hearth and Soul Hop, MJ. I’ll be featuring it at this week’s hop later today. Have a lovely week!
Thank YOU April!
I made this for dinner tonight and IT WAS A 3 WAY HIT!!!! All of us loved it, including Brynn, who will eat squash but isn’t really a fan. I didn’t have any infused oil so I used fresh garlic.(For 3 medium squash I used 6 small cloves of garlic.) I put it in at the end so we got the full affect. Generally I cook squash about the same but without the peppers and garlic. These really add a great dimension to it. Thanks for another great recipe!!
Oh Goodie! Thanks for letting me know! So glad that ALL of you liked it. 🙂 Hope you’re having a great weekend.
Oh no! I think I just saw yellow squash disappearing from the market recently… will have to wait till the next summer to make this!
I know…it’s getting harder and harder to find. There was some at the market today but it didn’t look so good. Thanks for dropping by!
I hate giving up on summer produce, too, and yellow squash is one of my favorites! This looks so succulent and delicious!
Thanks so much Marcie!
Ah, garlic, OO + salt — is there anything better on warm veggies? well, maybe the addition of roasted NM chile :D. Love the simplicity and deliciousness of this dish and those colors are simply radiant. It may be summer squash but it has a certain fall feeling to me… (now if we could only get some of that autumn weather over here!). Lovely, peaceful photos Mj.
Actually – no! 🙂 Sometimes that’s all it takes. But sometimes I like to add just a little more, especially when I have these lovely red peppers. Thanks Kelly!
I know what you mean about hating to see some vegetable disappear when the seasons change. Love the color that the red pepper adds to this dish…simple and delicious.
Thanks Karen! You’re should see a long grower season now that you’ve move to the south. Enjoy!
This is a great autumn recipe, sounds great.
Thanks!
Fall is my favorite season too and just like you, one of the only few things I like about summer is the abundance of fruits and veggies. I love the beautiful color of this dish let alone the flavor. Enjoy the week, MJ. 🙂
Thanks so much Ray! Hope you have a great week as well.
We’re in agreement about summer squash, MJ. I hate to see it disappear. I only wish I wasn’t so far behind reading everyone’s posts. I would have brought home more squash last Saturday, or, at least cooked those I bought as you did here. What a great looking dish!
Thanks so much John! Glad to have you back.
Reminds me of the “fried” yellow squash and onions I grew up on, though this is a bit more sophisticated! 🙂
Thanks Debra! Oh yeh…I remember “fried” yellow squash with onions, but my mother always overcooked the squash. 🙂
It has been squash season here since July. Everything was early this year. I will have to look for a small squash in the store, this is a very tempting dish Peach Lady.
Hope you can still find some squash. With our warmer than normal weather this fall, the squash is still available. Thanks!
I am a MAJOR yellow squash person. I love the color combo of the squash
and the pepper. You jazzed it up wonderfully, but simply.
Thanks so much Carol!
This is a lovely and flavorful late-summer side dish!
Thanks Amy!
I love yellow squash and this looks so yummy. It looks like something I could make a meal off of. I’m grocery shopping today. If I see any good looking squash and peppers i’ll give this a try.
Thanks Nads! That’s funny because I did make a meal of this the other night when Bobby was out of town. I made the dish for this pictures, then just ended up having it for supper. 🙂 Hope you get to try it. I think you would all like it and you can use regular red bell peppers. XOXO
Love this recipe, MJ! It’s simply delicious, nutritious and easy to make too. I’d love it if you would share it with us at Hearth and Soul. We haven’t seen you for a long time and it would be lovely to see you there. Things have changed a bit and we don’t insist on a link back so sharing is quick and easy 🙂
Thanks so much April! I will add it to next week’s hop! Sorry for the long absence. I’m hoping to catch up and have more time by the end of October. It’s been nuts.
Although winter can be rough sometimes here, I, too, longed for fall. Although I bet after couple of months I will wish it will be summer again. This dish looks like the Greek, bright, summer sun and so delicious!
Thanks so much Katerina! I think I’m going to be wanting summer back by the end of this fall. 🙂 I do not like winter!
Gorgeous fall colour and flavour, MJ.
Thanks Angie!
The colour of this dish is gorgeous, MJ. I do love yellow squash although it’s not all that common here xx
Thanks so much Charlie! I love dishes that are as pretty as they are tasty. 🙂
Hiya MJ loving this quick and easy but vibrant dish. I love yellow squash and of course garlic!!!! Just pinned!
Thanks Bobbi! Of course garlic! Do I make anything without it. 🙂
This is actually a nice time of the year — still plenty of summer squash, and loads of winter squash. So I have fun combining the two! Anyway, love the combo of yellow squash and red pepper. They look gorgeous together, of course, but more importantly taste fantastic. Wonderful recipe! Thanks so much.
Thanks John! The summer squash has just about disappeared out here, unless I go to a commercial grocer which I try to stay away from. 🙂 Love the idea of combining the two – summer and winter.
I really got into yellow squash this summer because our neighbor was overloaded in his garden. I think sometimes it gets overlooked in favor of zucchini and I like it better. Love this simple and delicious preparation, MJ!
I bought some tiny yellow squash yesterday – can you believe we don’t have yellow crookneck or straight squash? I am going to try this recipe tonight!
Thanks Maureen! I do hope you enjoy it! And NO, I can’t believe you don’t have crookneck or straight neck. That’s crazy!
Lucky you ! I miss summer so much… maybe if I lived in such a hot climate as yours, I’d prefer the autumn, but here it means shorter days, rains, lower temperatures (meaning warm coats, socks and boots, i.e. the clothes I hate). We still are lucky to have milder days… so I can survive in wool sweaters, but it’s not for a long time…
Your squash and chile look so sunny I almost feel in the middle of the summer! Yellow squash is not very popular here, but if I see it, I’ll try to copy your delicious early autumn dish.
I bet you do have a very short summer, don’t you? I wouldn’t like that at all. I would like some of your rain, but not constant…just now and then. You can keep the extreme cold because it get plenty cold here for me. I’m already looking for places to travel this winter in southern Arizona. 🙂 No yellow squash? How about zucchini? Is the growing season just too short for summer squash? Well, if you do ever find some, this recipe is well worth a try. Thanks for your comments as always Sissi!
Thank you for the tip. I love zucchini and it still grows here and in France, so I buy it almost all year long.
Summers here are quite long and mild (in comparison for example with French Paris region), but nothing to do with New Mexico! For me who grew up in Poland the south-western Switzerland I live in is like south of France 🙂 so I really shouldn’t complain. One gets older and yearns for more sun, I guess… hence my bad mood when summer goes away.
Oh how I’m with you about being in a bad mood when summer goes away. Having grown up in the southern U.S. summer, and those the growing season stretched from March through November. But the heat was unbearable. In comparison, NM’s growing season is from April/May to September – not as long, but long enough.
Even with the shorter days and cooler nights my squash plants are still producing. Which means I’m always looking for another recipe to use up my bounty! A wonderful recipe, short, sweet and scrumptious! The vivid color is a summer bonus that we will hold on to for as long as we can!
Glad to be of assistance Deb. 🙂 My squash didn’t do so well this year, but it was pretty cheap at the market. I’m envious that you’re still picking it. Hope you get a chance to make this. It’s really one of our favorites.
I strongly resist the end of summer! As in when I can no longer wear sandals I am miserable…like now. But I would get a smile on my face with this colorful and tasty yellow squash recipe.
I know what you mean – I want my flip flops on! Thanks!
Looks like winter is heading your way, last one for the season dish will always be missed specially if you love them. Nice and simple recipe definitely a keeper
Yes, the heat went on today so winter is on it’s way. Thanks Raymund!
Lovely MJ! I so agree with you on holding on to the fresh summer squash as long as possible! One consolation “prize” in leaving NM and moving to the south TX Rio Grande Valley is the year-round availability of produce. There seem to be no seasons here other than hot and humid. Haha!
Thanks Tamara! I’m so envious of your abundance of produce. We were at Corpus Crista a couple of weeks ago and the grocery was packed with fresh seasonal produce. I wanted to a truck to bring it home. 🙂 However, you stated exactly why I would never move there – hot and humid. 🙂