Chanterelles are quite healthy mushrooms with excellent taste, which are often harvested before the start of winter. Chanterelle caviar for the winter is a very popular mushroom preparation. It is an excellent filling for pies or pizza. It can also be used as a pate to create sandwiches.
Before you cook caviar with zucchini and mushrooms, you need to figure out how to make it correctly.
Classic recipe
There are various recipes for chanterelle caviar for the winter. However, the classic method of creating a blank is the most common. To do this, you will have to prepare the following ingredients in advance:
- a kilogram of chanterelles with zucchini;
- 400 g carrots;
- three onions with garlic;
- 100 ml oil;
- five peppers;
- 100 ml vinegar;
- 85 g salt.
Before preparing chanterelle caviar, you need to start preparing the main products. First, you should carefully process the chanterelles. It is necessary to cut off the tip of their legs and clean them of sand or dirt.
Then they should be washed with cold water and passed through a meat grinder. The mixture is prepared in a slow cooker or placed in a small saucepan and filled with oil. When preparing mushroom caviar from chanterelles for the winter, the contents of the pan are periodically stirred so that the mixture does not burn.
In parallel with this, you should work on all the other ingredients. Zucchini and other vegetables are washed in water and cut into small pieces. You don’t have to cut the carrots, but grate them using a grater. After this, a little oil is added to the frying pan and all the prepared vegetables are placed in it. They simmer for 20 minutes. This time should be enough for all the ingredients to turn golden.
After this, caviar is made from the prepared squash and mushroom mixture. To do this, stewed vegetables with pepper and salt are added to the chanterelle puree. Then everything is mixed, covered with a lid and simmered for another half hour. The prepared dish is distributed into sterilized jars, mixed with vinegar and closed with sealing lids. Then the container with caviar cools down and is transferred to the basement for further storage.
With tomatoes
Many housewives prefer to prepare chanterelle caviar with tomatoes. To prepare these delicious winter preparations, you need to use the following products:
- a kilogram of tomatoes with eggplants;
- 2 kg of cooked chanterelles;
- three peppers;
- four onions;
- 150 ml tomato sauce;
- 200 ml oil;
- 100 g salt;
- 70 g sugar;
- two heads of garlic.
The preparation of the workpiece should begin with the preparation of the main ingredients used to create caviar. Cooked mushrooms must be cut into small cubes. Then the frying pan is filled with oil and mushrooms are laid out in it. They are cooked until their surface turns golden.
Immediately after frying the mushrooms, you can start preparing everything else. The garlic bulbs are peeled, cut into pieces and also placed in a frying pan.
Then the pepper is cut in half, de-seeded and added to the pan with the onions. The vegetables are fried for 5 minutes, after which they can be removed from the heat. Then the tomatoes are cut into slices and ground using a meat grinder. They are added to the vegetables and simmered for 15-20 minutes over low heat. The mixture in the pan must be constantly stirred so that it does not burn.
The eggplants are peeled, cut into strips and added to the vegetables. Then the previously fried mushrooms are added to the mixture and simmered for 20 minutes.
The prepared vegetable mass is crushed in a blender, after which it should be mixed with sugar, salt and tomato sauce. All this is thoroughly mixed and simmered over low heat for another hour. Before removing the squash caviar from the heat, add chopped garlic and stir the dish. Only after this is everything distributed into sterilized jars and rolled up with lids.
It is recommended to store cooled caviar in a dark and cool room. In rooms at room temperature, its shelf life is reduced several times.
Conclusion
Cooking mushroom caviar in a slow cooker or on a gas stove is not so difficult.To do this, just read the recipes, which describe in detail how delicious caviar is made.
