Caviar from zucchini and eggplant for the winter is a dish that residents of country houses prepare in the coming autumn. Summer is over, the soul and body are no longer torn between active recreation in the garden beds and the desire to ride a bike or lie on the beach.
When you see a mountain of vegetables in the pantry, a sense of duty to the grown zucchini, tomatoes and other delicacies grows in your soul. Pleasant music turns on and the process of preparing winter preparations begins.I want to share a few recipes.
Squash caviar with baked eggplants
You can prepare caviar only from eggplants with vegetables or only from zucchini with vegetables - both options are tasty and healthy, but the recipe for caviar from zucchini and eggplant for the winter is just to lick your fingers!
Let's see what you need to take for the preparation. Most of it is zucchini. You need about 3 kg of them. This is the weight of pure pulp without skins and seeds. You need 2-3 times less eggplants - only 1 kg. We weigh the eggplants, wash them and put them in the oven on a baking sheet. We will bake them there until soft.
At this time, let's take care of other vegetables. Cut the zucchini pulp, peeled and seeded, into cubes. Wash, peel and grate the carrots. You need about 300 g. Sauté the carrots in oil in a frying pan. Cut the peeled onion into cubes and fry until lightly browned in another frying pan. You also need 300 g of it.
You need a lot of tomatoes - 2.5 kg. We will peel them. The skin is much easier to clean if you first scald the tomatoes with strong boiling water, then immediately rinse them with ice water. The carrots and onions are ready. Transfer them to a saucepan. In one vacated frying pan we fry the zucchini slices, in the second we simmer the tomatoes.
The little blue ones ripened in the oven. Take it out, let it cool a little, peel off the skin, and cut into cubes. To make it easier to chop the tomatoes, simmer them for 20 minutes and chop them with an immersion blender. As you go, add sugar, pepper, salt - everything to your taste.
Pour all the vegetables into one pan, pour in a little less than one glass of vegetable oil. Grind all the vegetables in a blender. Simmer the homogeneous mass for 10 minutes and place in sterile jars. We close (roll up) the jars with lids, place them on the floor, and cover them with a blanket.This winter caviar is finger licking good.
Instant caviar with apple cider vinegar
In just an hour and a half you can cook squash and eggplant caviar for the winter. If you take all the vegetables in the same quantity as I did, you will get 3 liter jars. To process vegetables you will need a meat grinder. I use an electric meat grinder - it takes a minimum of time to chop vegetables.
I take 1.5 kg of eggplants, three times less zucchini - 0.5 kg. You will also need other vegetables: onion heads - 0.3 kg, red tomatoes - 0.6 kg, two types of peppers. You need 2 pieces of sweet, 0.5 pod is enough for spicy. I forgot about garlic - you need 2 medium-sized heads. Everything is clear with vegetables, there are still spices.
There aren’t many tomatoes in this recipe, so we’ll add 20 ml of apple cider vinegar to the caviar; if there’s no apple cider vinegar, it’s okay, you can use the same amount of table vinegar. For liquid ingredients you will need vegetable oil, one glass is enough.
Dry ingredients to taste:
- allspice;
- bay leaf;
- ground black pepper.
Let's take 1.5 tablespoons of sugar, and measure the salt in teaspoons - you only need 2 pieces without a slide.
Wash all the vegetables, peel them, cut them into pieces and grind them in a meat grinder. Pour the resulting vegetable mixture into the pan. The pan should have a thick bottom. All spices, excluding vinegar, are sent after the vegetables.
Place the pan on the stove, heat it, and simmer for about an hour. Stir the mixture periodically and add vinegar at the very end. Squash caviar is ready. All that remains is to pour it into liter jars, sterilized in the microwave for 5 minutes, close with boiled lids and put on the shelf.
Zucchini caviar in a slow cooker
Sometimes a slow cooker helps me out.I use it when I don't have time to keep an eye on pots and pans. Cooking in a slow cooker is easy and simple. This recipe will be without vinegar, the preservative will be tomatoes. You need 5 of them. You will need one large or 2 medium sized zucchini.
Peel 4 onions and 2 medium sized carrots. Squash caviar should have a uniform structure, so grind all the vegetables in a meat grinder. Pour 50 ml of vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl, add chopped vegetables, salt to taste and add sugar. You need 2 tablespoons for this volume.
Let's set the extinguishing mode. Duration: 50 minutes. Open the lid several times during this time and stir the vegetables in the multicooker. When the mode ends, taste the dish for salt; if necessary, add salt and pepper. I additionally grind the mixture with an immersion blender. Run the multicooker for another 20 minutes and you can put the mixture into jars.
Squash caviar with eggplants in a slow cooker
With eggplants, the taste of any preparation is much more interesting. You can prepare a light vegetable snack very quickly. You will need: 2 zucchini, 3 eggplants, 2 large red tomatoes, 4 onions. We will cook in a slow cooker.
Peel the onion and cut into arbitrary cubes. Grease the bowl with oil, set the “Baking” mode, fry the onion. Wash the eggplants, peel them, sprinkle with salt. After 5-7 minutes, rinse and send to the onion. Add 1/3 cup vegetable oil.
Chop the tomatoes into pieces with a knife and place on top of the eggplant layer. The fourth layer is zucchini cubes. Turn on the “Extinguishing” mode for 45 minutes. The eggplant caviar is almost ready. You need to add salt, mix, add two chopped garlic cloves, a teaspoon of vinegar essence, and simmer for another 30 minutes.
Caviar - appetizer
I recommend preparing original caviar for the winter without sterilization. We will not chop the vegetables, so the caviar will resemble the consistency of an appetizer. Let's start cooking with eggplants. You will need 3 kg of them. First of all, we’ll cut them into pieces, then play it safe and soak them in a little salty water. There is bitterness in eggplants; soaking them in salt water helps get rid of it.
Chop 1 onion into cubes, grate 500 g of peeled carrots. Let's start frying the onions and carrots, and we'll start cooking the tomatoes. Let's select 1 kg of red tomatoes, scald them with boiling water, pour over them with cold water and, making a cross-shaped cut, remove the skin from each. We need a homogeneous mass of tomatoes, so we chop them with a blender.
Place all the vegetables in a large saucepan, mix with a wooden spoon, add salt and pepper, add sugar, peppercorns, a glass of butter and simmer for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Spices can be added to taste. For this volume of vegetables it takes me about 10 black peppercorns, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1.5 tablespoons of salt. All that remains is to pour the hot caviar into sterilized jars and roll up.
Conclusion
Try any of the recipes, you will definitely like the result. In winter, a jar of delicious snacks prepared in a slow cooker will never be superfluous. Eating caviar made with your own hands is both tasty and healthy.
