A quick snack, a delicious spicy dish, a huge storehouse of vitamins - squash caviar for every day. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of the preparation of the most popular appetizer. Video recipe.
With a thin skin, without seeds, small, tender … zucchini, hiding in the garden under giant leaves. What to do with creamy white, green, striped and other beauties? A rich harvest takes up a lot of space if the fruit is kept intact. Every year, gardeners solve the problem of disposing of an unforeseen crop every year. The best and most effective way to process an abundance of fruits is to cook delicious homemade squash caviar for every day. The appetizer is prepared simply and quickly: all products are sequentially "jammed", without useless waiting. However, if desired, caviar can be rolled up in jars for the winter. Then you need to add preservatives: 1 tbsp. table vinegar for a 2 liter jar of ready-made caviar. Place it while still hot in hot sterile jars, sterilize, roll up with clean lids and wrap it in a warm blanket to cool slowly.
To make the caviar tasty, you need to take the same amount of tomatoes as zucchini. Then the appetizer will turn out to be moderately sweet and sour and tasty. The pungency of caviar can be adjusted independently, depending on the amount of added garlic and hot pepper. In addition, if you do not like caviar with the consistency of mashed potatoes, then vegetables can not be chopped, but simply chopped very finely. It will turn out to be no less tasty appetizer. Zucchini caviar is used for stewing meat and vegetables, muffins and soufflés are prepared from it, added to pies and consumed just like that or with a slice of bread.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 95 kcal.
- Servings - 1 kg
- Cooking time - 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Sweet red pepper - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Bitter pepper - 1 pod
Step-by-step cooking of squash caviar for every day, recipe with photo:
1. Peel the carrots, wash and cut into pieces of any size. The cutting method is not important, because vegetables in the future will be pureed with a blender. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and send the carrots into it.
2. Peel the onions, wash, cut into pieces and send after the carrots.
3. Fry the carrots and onions over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 5-7 minutes.
4. Wash the courgettes, dry, cut into cubes and add to the pan. If the fruits are ripe, then first peel the hard peel and clean out the large seeds.
5. Peel sweet and bitter peppers from seeds, remove the stalk, cut off the partitions. This is especially important to do with hot pepper, because it is in its seeds that there is a lot of bitterness. Send the peppers to the vegetable skillet.
6. Season food with salt, stir and continue to cook for 7 minutes.
7. Wash the tomatoes, cut and put in the pan.
8. Stir and continue braising.
9. After boiling, simmer vegetables over low heat, covered until soft. This process will take you about 10 minutes.
10. Remove the cooked vegetables from the pan and transfer to a deep bowl.
11. Grind vegetables with a blender until smooth and smooth. If there is no blender, then use a meat grinder.
12. Return the vegetable mass to the pan, add the garlic passed through a press, stir and simmer for 3 minutes. Zucchini caviar for every day is ready. Chill it well in the refrigerator and start your meal.
See also a video recipe on how to cook squash caviar.
