In the summer, many people love zucchini with rice, and close zucchini with rice for the winter, because it is a healthy and satisfying dish, as well as an excellent snack. However, it is difficult to prepare something like this in winter. This is because during the cold season, fresh, delicious zucchini is expensive. A good housewife knows that she needs to prepare zucchini in the summer and will definitely prepare a dish of zucchini with rice, for example, a salad for the winter.
Recipe for making zucchini salad for the winter
Let's start with the traditional classic recipe for making zucchini salad for the winter, which is familiar to many. Although there are many variations of preparations, this is the one most housewives know and use.
What you need to prepare rice with zucchini:
- A kilogram of zucchini;
- Half a kilo of sweet bell pepper;
- Three hundred grams of carrots and onions;
- A kilogram of tomato;
- A couple of cloves of garlic (to taste);
- Chili pepper, just a little bit, because it can be very hot;
- One hundred milliliters of sunflower oil;
- A glass of rice;
- 9% vinegar, you need about fifty milliliters;
- Two tablespoons of sugar (tablespoons);
- A tablespoon of salt.
Now let's move on to the preparation itself. The recipes for canning this dish are quite simple and will take about an hour to prepare, so:
- First you need to properly prepare the rice. You can put it on the stove and cook until half cooked, or you can do it easier by pouring good boiling water over it and putting it in the microwave for about five minutes.
- Next, a multicooker will help us a lot, as it will greatly simplify the whole process. Now you should prepare the vegetables. To do this, place half the required volume of vegetable oil, that is, 50 ml, into the multicooker bowl. Leave them to warm up. You just need to set the mode for frying.
- During this time, you need to chop the onion (finely) and throw it into the bowl. Close the lid and wait until it becomes translucent.
- Now let's take on the carrots. It should be peeled, rinsed thoroughly and cut on a grater (large side).
- Add all this to the onion and mix.
- Take a bell pepper and chop it. This can be done in any way that is more convenient for you.
- Throw it into a container with other vegetables, you also need to switch to the stewing mode and set the time to 50 minutes.
- After 10 minutes of stewing the peppers and onions, take finely chopped tomatoes and add them there. Then throw in the remaining ingredients - sugar, garlic and chili pepper. Please note that there should be a little chili pepper, otherwise the dish will turn out to be hellishly spicy.
- Mix all this and wait until it simmers for about 10-15 minutes.
- During this time you can chop the zucchini, but not very finely, then add them to the bowl. Then stir and leave for 15 minutes.
- You can roll it into 0.7 liter containers, taking into account that based on the proportions of the ingredients, the dish should contain exactly 5 cans. They should be washed very well, doused with hot water and turned upside down. The water should drain, the lids should be wiped with cotton wool previously soaked in alcohol.
- Now you need to remember about the rice that was left in the microwave and take it out. It has swelled, so it's time to add it to the vegetables.
- After stewing, the zucchini should remain the same shape as before, and taste crunchy. There is no need to wait until they are completely cooked, otherwise the salad will turn out to be porridge.
- After adding the rice, you need to stir and simmer for about five to ten minutes. At the end, pour out the remaining vegetable oil and vinegar. Once boiling, you can start filling the jars.
- You need to close containers in the usual way that everyone uses.
- The finished jars with the dish must be wrapped in a blanket or blanket and must be placed with the lids down.
Preservation can be safely stored even in a non-cool place, for example, at room temperature.
Recipe No. 2 with carrots
As already mentioned, there are a huge number of recipes for this dish. Another method suggests cooking zucchini with rice and carrots.
Ingredients for zucchini with rice:
- Two kilos of zucchini;
- A kilogram of tomato;
- Onions – 1 kilogram;
- Carrots – kilogram;
- Four hundred grams of rice;
- Sunflower oil – 250 milliliters;
- Eighty grams of salt;
- One hundred and twenty grams of sugar;
- Garlic, five cloves is enough;
- Fifty milliliters of table vinegar.
How to cook zucchini:
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into pieces. Next, using a blender, you should grind them.
- Peel the carrots thoroughly, and then, using a grater, grate them.
- Take the pepper and wash it. Then remove the seeds and chop into small cubes.
- Wash the zucchini, and if necessary, remove the seeds and peel off the skin. Try to chop them into larger cubes.
- Next, rinse the rice.
- Throw all the vegetables into the pan. Squeeze the garlic into them, add salt and sugar, butter, and then wait half an hour.
- Rice needs to be added to the vegetables and boiled for another half an hour.
- After adding vinegar, wait 5-10 minutes.
- All this needs to be scattered into containers that should have been prepared earlier. Then roll it up and let it cool upside down and wrapped.
This particular version of the dish is considered the most economical, as it contains only cheap ingredients.
Recipe No. 3 Spicy rice and zucchini salad
This is another option for preparing this dish for spicy lovers.
Required ingredients:
- Two kilos of zucchini;
- A kilogram of sweet pepper;
- A kilogram of tomato;
- A kilo of carrots;
- Four hundred grams of rice;
- Two heads of garlic;
- Hot capsicum 100 grams;
- Eighty grams of salt;
- Two hundred and fifty milliliters of sunflower oil;
- Five milliliters of vinegar.
How to cook zucchini for the winter:
- First you need to properly prepare the zucchini: wash them, cut off the nose and tail - if they are young, if they are mature, remove the peel with a vegetable peeler, remove the seeds using a spoon. Then, using a food processor, you need to cut them, that is, chop them.
- You also need to chop the carrots, which have been previously peeled and washed.
- Take the bow. Each onion needs to be peeled and cut into cubes, but not very finely, because this is of no use.
- The tomatoes should be chopped.
- Take a sweet pepper, chop it into strips, but first you need to peel it.
- Hot peppers and garlic should be made smaller using a blender or meat grinder. If you want a spicier salad, you should not remove the seeds from the pepper; if it is spicy, but not too much, then you need to get rid of them.
- Next, the vegetables should be cooked by throwing them into a bowl, adding oil and adding salt.
- Add vinegar, stir and let cook for another 5 minutes.
- The snack that has been prepared should be rolled into sterilized containers and sealed with lids to form blanks.
If something doesn’t work out, you can find a video on the Internet where you can watch how these recipes are prepared.
Conclusion
We reviewed the most delicious recipes. A good housewife can prepare zucchini and rice for the winter so that you will lick your fingers. They should be prepared in the summer, while fresh zucchini is available. In winter you won't regret it. Another interesting recipe is squash caviar with rice, which is no worse than the previous ones.
