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🌽 Best-Ever Succotash

Best-Ever Succotash

🍽 Serves ⏲ Total Time
6 24 minutes

🧂 Ingredients

  • 🫘 10 ounces (175 g) fresh or frozen baby lima beans
  • 🥓 4 center-cut bacon slices
  • 🍵 1 cup (140 g) chopped sweet onion
  • 🍎 4 ounces fresh okra
  • 🧄 1 garlic clove
  • 🌽 3 cups (456 g) fresh corn kernels
  • 🧂 0.25 tsp kosher salt
  • 🧂 0.25 tsp (1 g) black pepper
  • 🧈 3 tbsp butter
  • 🍅 5 ounces (210 g) cherry tomatoes
  • 🌿 0.25 cup (10 g) fresh basil

🍳 Cookware

  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 skillet
  • 1 skillet
  • 1 skillet

📝 Instructions

Step 1

Place fresh or frozen baby lima beans (2 cups) in a medium saucepan, and add water to cover. Bring to a boil over medium-high. Reduce to medium-low, and simmer until beans are just tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Step 2

While beans simmer, place center-cut bacon slices in a large cast-iron skillet over medium. Cook until crisp, about 8 minutes, turning once after 5 minutes. Transfer bacon to paper towels; crumble and set aside. Reserve drippings in skillet.

Step 3

Add chopped sweet onion (from 1 small onion), fresh okra (cut into ½-inch-thick slices), and garlic clove (finely chopped) to skillet over medium, and cook, stirring often, until onion is just tender, about 6 minutes.

Step 4

Stir in fresh corn kernels (4 ears), kosher salt, black pepper, and the drained beans, and cook, stirring often, until corn is tender and bright yellow, 5 to 6 minutes.

Step 5

Add butter, and cook, stirring constantly, until butter is melted, about 1 minute. Remove from heat.

Step 6

Stir in cherry tomatoes (halved, 1 cup) and thinly sliced fresh basil; sprinkle with crumbled bacon, and serve immediately.

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