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| Alternative names | Sohquttahhash |
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| Type | Vegetable dish |
| Course | Main course |
| Place of origin | United States and Canada |
| Region or state | New England |
| Created by | Narragansett |
| Serving temperature | Hot |
| Main ingredients | Sweet corn, lima beans, butter, salt, tomatoes, bell peppers, black pepper |
| Variations | Can also be served with kidney beans |
| ~100 kcal | |
Succotash is a North American vegetable dish consisting primarily of sweet corn with lima beans or other shell beans. The name succotash is derived from the Narragansett word sahquttahhash, which means "broken corn kernels".[1][2] Other ingredients may be added, such as onions, potatoes, turnips, tomatoes, bell peppers, corned beef, salt pork, or okra.[3][4] Combining a grain with a legume provides a dish that is high in all essential amino acids.[5][6]
- ^ Trumbull, James Hammond (1903). Natick Dictionary (PDF). Bulletin 25. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Entry for sohquttahham (page=152).
v.t. he breaks (it) in small pieces, pounds (it) or beats (it) small. The formative tahum according to Howse (Cree Gr. 86), 'implies he beats or batters the object, after the manner of the root.' Inan. pl. sohquttahhamunash, they (grains of corn, Is. 28,28) are broken; otherwise s?hq-, sukq-. Adj. and adv. sohquttahhae, pounded; pl. sohquttahhash, whence the adopted name, succotash. Cf. pohqunnum. [Cree séekwa-tahúm, he beats it into smaller pieces.]
- ^ Trumbull (1903). Entry for *msickquatash (p. 67; archive p. n194): (Narr.) n.pl. 'boiled corn whole' (i.e. mo-soquttahhash, not broken small or pounded?). See soh-quttahham. When broken, soquttahhash without the prefix. Hence the common name succotash, improperly applied, however, to the unbroken corn.
- ^ "succotash". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4 ed.). Houghton Mifflin Company. 2004. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
- ^ Bowles, Ella Shannon (1947). Secrets of New England Cooking. Barrows.
- ^ Annigan, Jan. "Nutritional Sources of Essential Amino Acids". Retrieved April 28, 2022.
- ^ "Essential Amino Acids". hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu. Retrieved April 28, 2022.