How to Make Succotash with Butter Beans, Corn, and Red Pepper

[@derderdo]

INGREDIENTS: -4 ears corn (3 cups) -½ of a red pepper, ¼ inch diced -1 can butter beans + 2 T bean liquid -3 T butter -1 onion, finely diced -1 tsp kosher salt -2 cloves garlic, pressed -pinch cayenne pepper -2 tsp lemon juice -"a little" parsley (2-3T?)

[@lorupan1]

Thank you very much for the ingredient list.

[@sarrel48]

I don't eat this at all but I thumbs it up because it's Elle and who doesn't like her videos. Today is going to be a good day #MoreElle

[@kathleensmith8365]

So good to see Elle, one of my favorite chefs on America's Test Kitchen. A true American recipe. You mentioned squash, when I lived in New Mexico I learned squash is a frequent ingredient among indigenous people there as well. I have a great deal of respect for the wisdom of the originators of the recipes. Would love to see you prepare the original. Fresh, organic, local ingredients in a recipe handed down to each new generation. Sign me up.

[@angelathomas3415]

You put the work in! Thanks for the inspiration to get fit! May God continue to bless your endeavors. You’re an inspiration and my 85 year mom would love this👌🏾🙏🏽

[@betsyrocks]

I'm from the U.K. and during the past 5 decades I had no idea what Succotash was. I didn't even know how to spell it. Now I finally know. Thank you.

[@jeSuperfly]

My mother used to wrap the cobb in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze all the residual corn liquid and add it to the pan too. Nice video!

[@skidmark7845]

That’s a good point. No waste

[@ohioguy215]

Use an adjustable cabbage cutter to skin the cob. It works perfectly and gets the milk in the bowl as well.

[@jimw544]

Thank you and please post the other versions of Succotash. I am now retired and have never really cooked. But I'm cooking simple things. I tried this and it was great, even the wife packed some in her lunch bag.

[@chococat3028]

I made this today and it is SO good!

[@hoilst265]

Huh. I finally learned what "succotash" is. Both Sylvester and Daffy weren't very informative about it.

[@tlsnana9539]

Aww, I always thought Sylvester and Daffy talked about thuffering thuccatash.

[@ingridramey8082]

Suffering Succotash..lol

[@henrydavid5886]

"Say it, Don't Spray it!"

[@cherylrosalis1948]

LOL

[@doloresboston8571]

😂😂😂😂all of you are just too funny.

[@rachellemazar7374]

Elle, I love the tip for removing corn from the cob. This looks so delicious, i look forward to trying it.

[@ohioguy215]

Use an adjustable cabbage cutter if you have one ... much easier and safer than a knife.

[@aidah832]

Here we go! Firstly, I am the biggest fan of ATK and Cook’s country for a long time. I have learned so much from you all and love, love, each one of you! Thanks for being there and teach us to enjoy great meals! Now, without checking what I really have in my fridge, I had the urge to cook your dish. I am telling you, it came out excellent! I promise to use your original recipe next time though. I had half green and half red bell peppers, no cayenne but crushed red pepper, no real butter but vegan butter (added a drizzle of extra virgin oil). Everything else, I had the items you mentioned and followed the steps you showed, Thank God! It came out great and I was the happiest to eat this dish. Thank you million times! I am hooked 😃

[@danielledriscoll128]

Excellent recipe. That corn technique really sped things up.

[@bertdavis9320]

It’s Chef Elle. Thanks for sharing your recipe with your fans.

[@Zionist_Eternal]

Love love love this.

[@Vicflash]

So genuine

[@alexanderivory-brown118]

Thank you Elle!!!!

[@venessatalbert9232]

Awesome! Will be making this for dinner this week.

[@strll3048]

Great! Definitely making this.

[@salleee]

Just made this and it was delish!!!

[@JeniWoo]

I love Elle!

[@michellemcmichael4680]

Love, she should show more of her recipes 😋

[@JohnBodoni]

Elle could be cooking up fresh sawdust with a side of hoof scrapings, I'll still watch. She's got a gentle, relaxed manner in front of the camera and I love it.

[@ohioguy215]

I've eaten fresh sawdust and hoof scrapings. I add BBQ sauce.

[@kknight339]

Gonna try it

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

I've never seen canned beans on grocery shelves where I live, labeled "butter beans." Butterbeans look like very big flat limas but if you'd wanted limas, you would've used that. Looks tasty, as opposed to the appalling erstwhile "succotash" they made us eat in the public school cafeterias long ago. As a vegetarian, I'd be tempted to use edamame because of the major protein (and it's what's on hand in my freezer) and it would add bright green color, too. Thanks for doing something quick that we vegetarians can eat (and vegans can easily use a different fat). Although you're correct about what the three sisters are in the garden, one of the three is squash, and there's none in this. People don't realize that all vegetables have some protein and the three sisters complement each other. :)

[@TwistedD85]

After some Googling it seems butter beans are just large white lima beans instead of the smaller green ones that were rebranded to sell better. I guess people liked the sound of buttery white beans over the "nasty" old green lima beans.

[@m.theresa1385]

Butter beans are the buttery tasting large white Lima beans as opposed to the younger green ones. You may find them in cans in the Goya section, also by Eden organic. Bush’s puts them out in cans too (though I don’t see those here in NYC.) They are available dry but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them frozen which is how I usually buy the younger and smaller green Lima beans.

[@O2life]

@@TwistedD85 But butter beans are actually delicious, whereas lima beans taste like the unripe plants that they are.

[@kknight339]

Looks good

[@sbsphotographer]

Reminds me of my late aunt Layla’s only difference is we had to get the vegetables from the field… Only thing disappointing was that I was not invited for lunch :) eat some ‘mators for me

[@ndzapruder]

My grandmother's succotash was a chunky tomato, lima bean, and corn soup seasoned with a ham bone. Even between neighbors, no two succotash recipes are the same in eastern NC. This is a *fine* recipe that I encourage you to make, but personally speaking, delicious as this is, it will never taste like the love I remember in hers. Make this. Just do it.

[@mrd3863]

Elle is the best

[@alexandrawelch84]

This is delicious and healthy - we love it

[@andymercado6192]

Love the recipe.

[@drewsanders7502]

It's winter and you're putting up recipes requiring fresh corn. Guess I'll save this and forget about it until after fall ☹

[@billtodd999]

This is also a great dish served chilled with balsamic vinegar or a light champagne vinegar and a tablespoon of a light vegetable oil.

[@m.theresa1385]

Sounds delicious served in a lettuce cup. Yum

[@eaglechas]

3 sisters yes corn, beans and squash native style ❤️

[@CoCo-bb6ou]

This is delicious! I use a whole red bell.

[@deltas4114]

I like mine with stewed tomatoes. But I'm up to trying it with red peppers.

[@ohioguy215]

If you have an adjustable cabbage cutter, it's easier and quicker to skin a corn cob than using a knife. We freeze fresh sweet corn in the summer. I can't imagine doing 25 bags of corn using a hand-held knife.

[@thomashughes4859]

Intéressant !: I wonder if the Haudenosaunee (Their own name for themselves "The People of the Long Houses" ) shared in their pre-history with the Aztecs "esquites", which are: white corn, Poblano chile, garlic, and "chile de árbol" ("tree chile" - and VERY spicy). Of course, in Mexico, we have beans (haven't seen "butter" beans; however, it seems that the Yucatán beans would be an excellent option here as well. I am happy that the ol' "THufferin' THuccotash" - THylvester (Looney Tunes) is something I am quite fond of, and I never really knew what that was. I eat very low carb now; however, a "schmidgen" here an there of esquites are quite delicious! I am unsure if that corn la chef used was white or yeller, but I would reccomend highly the Mexican white corn, as it has a superior texture to corn that "crunches" and turns to water. Mes deux centimes; mis dos centavitos; my two cents for the interested ... Truly educated today, thank you, Chef !

[@greatboniwanker]

Elle, I'm so intrigued! But I'm left wondering - could we get a whole series of '3 Sisters' Succotash variation recipes?

[@ed10523]

Hello Chef Elle. Could use a different Bean in place of the Butter Beans?

[@jeanb.7963]

You can use any bean you like.. There are various recipes to make this dish, depending on were you were born and raised..Succotash is primarily a vegetable dish consisting of sweet corn with lima beans or other shell beans. I hope I hope this helps...

[@dawnm9161]

What type of onion do you recommend?

[@damnpam8259]

I loooove butter beans. For a quick dinner, I'll fry a little sausage, add my beans a put them on rice.

[@johnwehner8096]

Sounds like a good recipe.

[@mgellerster]

I add garlic, cherry tomatoes and Serrano peppers and season with smoky paprika chopped parsley and leave out the ceyenne

[@mariaconsuelothomen]

If you can't get fresh corn, can you use canned or frozen corn?

[@oldtimerlee8820]

In my neck of the woods, it's not succotash if it doesn't have tomatoes and okra. It's with served with the cooking broth as a soup or is the basic for a more complex soup or stew. This version is just a nicely flavored side dish of butterbeans and corn. Same thing with Three Sisters. It's not Three Sisters if it doesn't have all three ingredients, corn, beans AND squash. Interesting how regional differences come into play with a host of foods.

[@deborahchapman222]

Wow, you need to “milk” your cobs after cut the corn off. That makes any recipe better.

[@elizabethjanik510]

Hi gang, my mom use to make Suckatash with corn and Lima Beans.I didn't care for the Lima beans though.

[@GaelinW]

Same with my grandmother. I was thinking, I don't remember it having butter beans.

[@smokey7640]

Fresh corn isn’t really a thing here in winter in PNW. Frozen corn acceptable or just don’t even try? Use hominy instead?

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

Which kosher salt did you use? 1 1/2 tsp Mortons equals 2 tsp Diamond Crystal, equals 1 tsp fine sea salt.

[@BFerry10]

How much squash would you normally use? I’m thinking Butternut squash and leave in some of the red bell pepper.

[@woltews]

"use only fresh corn" - its 20 below zero today

[@krazynarzy722]

What can you use instead of raw onion, if the host is allergic?

[@davidthomas6094]

Looks like a good recipe. I'd only add that explaining "butter beans" would have been welcome. That's a regional term that I only encountered when staying a while in the South of USA. My sense is that it means what most Americans call baby lima beans. I'm not sure. Keep up your good work!

[@laurreneberry3480]

I really like succotash.

[@vicfm1574]

DAMN SHE LOSS ALOT OF WEIGHT!! ✊🏽💪🏽

[@crashstlmo]

My gran used lima beans instead of butter beans.

[@m.theresa1385]

White mature lima beans are the same as butter beans - they have a creamy buttery taste. Green immature Lima beans have a different texture and flavor.

[@mariaconsuelothomen]

I've seen people using a Bundt pan or a tube pan, instead of two bowls.

[@ohioguy215]

PS ... the cabbage cutter also cleans the cob perfectly as well as getting the corn milk. Wouldn't do it any other way.

[@haroldtakahashi8875]

is there a difference between butter beans and lima beans?...

[@Strovil]

They are the same bean.

[@haroldtakahashi8875]

@@Strovil ...i figured...does anyone know why the change?...also, why are some/most people saying 'plate it up', instead of 'dish it up'?...just things i wonder about...

[@nolaragz2558]

Different flavors

[@comesahorseman]

Replacing the usual lima beans 🤢 with butter beans is an improvement. Less mealy.

[@billythekid2050]

Look's good, reminds me of Sylvester on looney tunes..lol.

[@skidmark7845]

Just needs some shrimp and ham hocks

[@Boaz6262]

Kool now make some fried corn.

[@whatsupdate]

Why does bean liquid make it “silky”? What’s going on?

[@nickcontini8952]

A lot of beans release a starch into the water that will help emulsify flavors and give a different mouth feel. It's a similar idea to using pasta water in pasta sauce.

[@Jacksirrom]

That looks good. I thought "succotash" was just a funny word they used in old cartoons.

[@ireneguzman2879]

Would this be considered vegan?

[@tylerwunder]

No, because she used butter. But other than that, yes.

[@GaelinW]

If you don't use butter, it would be.

[@vishunte5276]

Omg. She has changed!

[@thomashughes4859]

ATK - don't know if it's _YOU_ , but please relax your "censored words" to include different languages, please. I would hope that you wouldn't mind an international audience; and doing the whole "English only rubbish" detracts from the fine people who might like to comment on your videos. Sincerely, Tom

[@kibudubudu]

Nah but Kikuyus from kenya have githeri how is this not the same

[@marilynsnider8183]

I'd use carrots instead of the peppers. Can't eat any kind of peppers or chillies.

[@Mars-nh7nr]

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[@marrionhickson6687]

Good recipe. But how did you lose the weight?? You look good.

[@privatename7797]

This recipe is fine but damn I don't want this lady anywhere near my kitchen. Drains beans into a huge colander over a giant frigging bowl over a full sized dinner plate. This lady just filled the dang dishwasher instead of just draining the beans using the can lid, into a cup or something. Heck.

[@Strovil]

She keeps mentioning the three sisters but there are only corn and beans. Where is the squash? Bell pepper is not squash.

[@MJKtube1]

At 0:44 she states she is going to use red pepper instead of the squash.

[@Strovil]

@@MJKtube1 Yes, but when she tastes it at 4:37 she says, "I can see why it's called the three sisters." It's like eating a bacon, lettuce, and cheddar sandwich and saying, "I can see why it's called a BLT."

[@davidwhite2608]

But why would you want to?

[@RyanCoomer]

If a waiter or waitress is waring a Mask I make it a POINT NOT TO TIP them at the end of my meal. Sometimes I will not even pay for the meal and walk out disgusted 😒

[@kippaseo8027]

Does anybody believe this wall of a woman woman has ever seen the inside of a farmer's market?

[@cosmos9688]

Well considering she's a professional chef I find it hard to believe that your assumption is correct.

[@tylerwunder]

What's that even supposed to mean? Like she can't fit?

[@MommaZim2]

What is it Kip...you need attention... don't be so disappointing...

[@DearHenryA]

Haha, I get it. You made a joke because farmer's market's are outside.

[@jeanb.7963]

She's a Chef and of course she's been to a farmers market. ATK is located in MASSACHUSETTS there are lots of farmers markets...Also not all farmers markets are located outside..I grew up in upstate NY, we had markets inside and outside!!