The main advantage of canned food is that they are a ready-made dish that can be eaten immediately after opening the cans. This is what makes winter preparations so popular. Canned foods are made from various vegetables.
However, fried zucchini with garlic is often rolled up for the winter. There are various recipes you can use to make canned fried zucchini. Before creating such a preparation, you need to familiarize yourself with how to preserve fried zucchini.
Preparing containers
Some people seal fried zucchini for the winter without sterilizing the jars. However, many people still prefer to sterilize them before sealing the fried zucchini.Each person who sterilizes jars prepares them in one of the following ways:
- In the microwave. Roasted zucchini curls are often placed in microwaved containers. During sterilization, several jars are placed in the oven for a few minutes. You cannot put an empty container in the microwave, so add a little water to it before doing so.
- In the oven. You can also roll fried zucchini in marinade into jars that have been sterilized in ovens. To do this, the container is placed on its neck and placed in a heated oven. The jars are processed for about half an hour at a temperature of more than one hundred degrees.
- In a saucepan. Most often, fried zucchini with vegetables is rolled into jars that have been sterilized in a saucepan. A large saucepan is filled with water and boiled on the stove. After boiling, a metal grate is placed on its surface, on which containers are placed to wrap the zucchini for the winter. 15-20 minutes will be enough for the container to be completely cleaned.
Classic recipe
There are different recipes with which you can preserve spicy fried zucchini in a marinade. However, the classic one is one of the most common. To finish the delicious prepared preserves, you will need the following ingredients:
- kilogram of vegetables;
- head of garlic;
- five branches of parsley;
- 60 g salt;
- 120 ml vinegar;
- 100 ml oil.
Before you prepare the zucchini appetizer, you need to start preparing the vegetables. They are cut into small circles, salted and mixed in a bowl. After this, you should start preparing the pan. First, its surface is covered with vegetable oil, after which it will have to be heated.When the frying pan is heated, place the chopped rings on its surface and fry them.
5-10 minutes will be enough for frying. During this time, the fried zucchini will have time to become covered with a golden crust.
After everything is fried, you can start preparing the greens and other ingredients. I thoroughly wash all the greens and chop them with a knife. Then I cut the garlic into small circles. I also immediately sterilize the jars, since all the prepared ingredients are placed in them. Squash fruits, cut into rings for the winter, are placed in containers after the greens. After this, the containers can be filled with oil and marinated. Prepared preserves in marinade should be stored in the cellar for the winter.
With tomatoes
Some cooking recipes differ from the classic ones in the ingredients used. Quite often, housewives cook pickled zucchini with tomatoes. The preparation turns out so tasty that you will lick your fingers. This delicious recipe contains the following ingredients:
- two tomatoes;
- two garlic heads;
- 100 g spices;
- two squash fruits;
- 30 g tomato paste.
To prepare fried zucchini in a marinade without vinegar, you must wash and chop the zucchini fruits in advance. Each zucchini and tomatoes are cut into small cubes. Then the frying pan is placed on the stove and the prepared vegetables are poured into it. They are fried for 10-15 minutes, after which tomato paste is added. The mixture is thoroughly mixed and simmered for half an hour over low heat.
Place the prepared mixture into jars and close. After everything has been pickled, the jars are transferred to the cellar to store the preparations.
With garlic
Recipes for preserved garlic have always been popular. Zucchini can also be cooked using garlic.For this you will need:
- 700 g vegetables;
- three heads of garlic;
- 170 ml oil;
- 50 g salt;
- 50 ml vinegar;
- parsley with dill.
Preparing fried zucchini for the winter begins with preparing vegetables. They are thoroughly washed and cut into rings of small width. Then they need to be put in a saucepan, covered with salt and flour. Each circle is fried in a frying pan until it becomes soft.
After this, a special garlic preparation is made. To do this, each garlic head is peeled and chopped. Then all this, along with the herbs, is added to the water, boiled for 20 minutes and added to a sterilized container.
Fried fruits are also added to the jars and seasoned with the remaining garlic. When all the vegetables are in the container, fill it with oil and add a little vinegar. We roll up all containers with lids and sterilize them a second time. To do this, the preservation is placed in a saucepan with boiling water and simmered over low heat for 40 minutes.
Conclusion
Rolling up canned fried zucchini is not that easy. To do this, you should study the most well-known recipes for preparing such a preparation and choose the most suitable one from them.
