Recipe: Perfect Ranch Squash Casserole

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Ranch Squash Casserole. HIDDEN VALLEY RANCH SQUASH CASSEROLE recipe by Patsy Allen - Genito Presbyterian Church, is from , one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. Family cookbooks are an important way to preserve our mealtime traditions for future generations with individual printed recipes or your own professionally printed cookbook. This Ranch Chicken Spaghetti Squash Casserole is delicious, flavorful, and full of veggie goodness.

Ranch Squash Casserole This squash casserole is filled with flavor and baked with a wonderful stuffing crust. It's neither bird nor plane - just a great summer recipe! Sprinkle with Parmesan Cheese Sprinkle with Italian cheese. You can have Ranch Squash Casserole using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ranch Squash Casserole

  1. It's 1 1/2 lb of Yellow Squash.
  2. Prepare 8 oz of Softened Cream Cheese.
  3. Prepare 6 tbsp of Sour Cream.
  4. You need 2 tbsp of Softened Butter.
  5. Prepare 1 tsp of Salt.
  6. You need 1 tsp of Ground Black Pepper.
  7. Prepare 1 tsp of Dried Parsley Flakes.
  8. It's of Topping.
  9. You need 1/4 cup of Panko Bread Crumbs.
  10. It's 2 tbsp of Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Layer more squash and repeat sprinkling. Add a few Tbsp of butter. Many think that Southerners prefer their vegetables smothered in butter, cream, and cheese. That especially holds true for yellow squash, which more often than not is at the center of the classic squash casserole.

Ranch Squash Casserole instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Use a mandolin to slice yellow squash into 1/4-inch thick slices..
  2. Add squash, cream cheese, sour cream, butter, salt, pepper, and parsley to mixing bowl and stir until mixed thoroughly..
  3. Pour mixture into 9x13 baking dish. Top with Panko bread crumbs, then drizzle extra virgin olive oil over entire top..
  4. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, then increase temperature to 500 and bake 5 minutes or until bread crumbs have turned a golden brown..

While we love the squash itself, it is the creamy sauce (made from cheese, mayonnaise, and eggs) and crunchy, buttery crack topping that keeps us coming back for seconds. Squash casserole is pure comfort food. When you're in the kitchen prepping one, you do as your mother did, and you prepare another. Mama would make an extra casserole to have on hand for enjoying on a later day, or for serving at a celebratory occasion. Your mother made another to bring to a friend or a neighbor.