Caviar from cucumbers for the winter saves my harvest every summer. I grow cucumbers in a greenhouse; when they start to ripen in July, we simply don’t have time to eat them. We pickle small cucumbers, but there are always “harmful” cucumbers that successfully hide in the leaves and therefore grow to enormous sizes. It is from these overgrowths that I usually prepare cucumber caviar for the winter, all the recipes are finger licking good.
The simplest cucumber caviar recipe
I only take overripe cucumbers. I make this caviar with the most delicate consistency, so I clean the skin.Naturally, I wash the cucumbers well before doing this. I cut them together with the seeds into pieces. Weight of prepared cucumbers 500 g.
I take 1 large carrot and 1 onion. First, I cut the onion into cubes and send it to simmer in a saucepan (saucepan) with a thick bottom. I pour some of the vegetable oil into the bottom; in total you will need 50 ml. While the onions are stewing, peel, grate the carrots and add them to the onions.
To make the vegetables release their juice faster, add salt. You only need 15 g of salt. We also add a tablespoon of sugar and the same amount of tomato paste. If desired, the portion of pasta can be doubled, it will not be worse. You can't spoil caviar with paste. After 5 minutes, add the cucumber slices to the vegetables, pour out the remaining oil, and cook the vegetables for 20 minutes.
As I already noted, this caviar should have the most delicate structure, so I take an immersion blender and grind the mixture into a homogeneous puree. I season it with vinegar (30 ml), simmer for 5 minutes, pour into jars. Agree, this is a very simple recipe.
Caviar from overripe cucumbers and tomatoes
Making cucumber caviar using this recipe couldn’t be easier. All vegetables are available, the preparation is prepared without sterilization. Take overripe cucumbers (2 kg), be sure to peel them, and grate them. You need half as much tomato (1 kg). We twist them in a meat grinder.
Peel and finely chop the onion 400 g, carrots 600 g. It is better to grate the carrots like cucumbers on a grater. All that remains is to prepare the sweet peppers, you need 4 of them. Without seeds and partitions, cut the pepper pulp into cubes. All the vegetables are on the table, all that remains is to prepare the caviar.
First, fry the grated carrots and onions in oil, and then proceed to the main preparation:
- Place all vegetables in a large saucepan.
- Add 3 tablespoons of oil.
- Salt the workpiece with 3 tablespoons of salt; if the salt is very salty, you can reduce the dose slightly.
- Simmer for 40 minutes.
The consistency of the workpiece is closer to a snack. If desired, caviar from cucumbers can be crushed in a blender, boiled a little and poured into jars. From this amount of vegetables I usually get 4 liter jars of caviar from fresh cucumbers.
Sterilized caviar from fresh or pickled cucumbers
Cucumber caviar for the winter can be very easily prepared from both yellowed cucumbers and salted ones. And if you wish, you can take pickled gherkins. Sometimes you open the jar, but no one eats the cucumbers. In this case, so that you don’t have to throw them away, we prepare a delicious snack for the winter.
You need 1 kg of cucumbers. Yellow cucumbers need to be skinned. Grind the fruits on a grater and set aside for now. Peel one carrot and one onion. It is better to take vegetables in large sizes. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Take out a cauldron, pour oil into it, 5 tablespoons is enough. Fry the onion and carrots in oil until tender.
Pour grated cucumbers into the cauldron, simmer for 15 minutes. Peel and chop 3 garlic cloves, mix them with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, and add them to the cauldron with the vegetables. After 10 minutes, salt the workpiece to your taste, add spices to your taste, pour in 3 tablespoons of vinegar (9%).
Place the hot preparation into hot, sterilized jars. Caviar from pickled cucumbers is ready, but for long-term storage the jars need to be sterilized. Liter - 15 minutes, 0.5 liter jars need 10 minutes.
Cucumber caviar in a slow cooker
How to bypass the multicooker with your attention. When there is no time to cook, she always comes to the aid of the hostess. Now I’ll tell you how to prepare a delicious appetizer from overripe cucumbers in a slow cooker.
Take the same amount of carrots and onions (400 g). We take more cucumbers - 1.8 kg. We wash all the vegetables, peel them and cut them into pieces. We take out a meat grinder. To make the appetizer, grind all the vegetables in a meat grinder.
Place the multicooker and start the “Frying” mode. Pour oil (100 ml) into a bowl, add the vegetable mixture, stirring, fry for 15 minutes. Pour in 1 glass of tomato juice, add a dessert spoon of salt, mix.
Switch to the “Soup” mode. Cooking continues for 45 minutes. To keep the prepared snack for a long time, add a tablespoon of vinegar. Add vinegar 5 minutes before the end of cooking. All that remains is to pour the cucumber snack prepared in the slow cooker into jars and roll it up.
