Greek appetizer with beans for the winter is an easy to prepare and very tasty appetizer. All the ingredients for this salad can be found at your dacha. This pickling can be served as a side dish for main courses or eaten as a salad. In both cases, this appetizer will not leave anyone indifferent.
Recipe for a Greek winter snack with beans and eggplants
This preservation can be served as an independent dish, and used as a dressing for borscht or cabbage soup. And if you heat it up, you get a full-fledged vegetable stew. Greek salad is quite simple to prepare.
Required ingredients:
- 600 grams of medium-sized eggplants;
- 550 grams of beans (you can take white, purple or spotted);
- 3 large carrots;
- 1 kg of tomatoes (it is better to take the sour variety);
- 350 grams of bell pepper;
- Vegetable or olive oil;
- 150 g garlic;
- 3 tbsp. l. finely ground table salt;
- 1.5 cup granulated sugar;
- 100 ml acetic acid.
How to prepare Greek salad
Wash the eggplants thoroughly, cut into medium-sized cubes and soak in cold salted water. Soak the beans overnight, drain the water the next morning and add new water. Cook until done.
Rinse the carrots under running water and peel. Then grate it. Remove the core and seeds from the sweet pepper. Cut into medium sized cubes. Peel the tomatoes and grind in a meat grinder along with the garlic cloves.
Place the tomatoes and garlic in a saucepan or cauldron and bring them to a boil. Add acetic acid, granulated sugar, salt and 3 tbsp. l. oils Then add the grated carrots and wait until everything boils. Then add the pepper and bring to a boil again. Add eggplants. When the salad boils, reduce heat and simmer for 35 minutes.
After half an hour, add the boiled beans and cook for another 20 minutes. Stir regularly.
Place the preservation into jars and sterilize them for 20 minutes. Then cover with sterile metal lids and roll up. Turn the jars over, cover with a cloth and let them cool to room temperature. Place in a cold room.
Greek salad recipe:
A Greek winter snack is prepared with the addition of various vegetables. You can experiment and add any vegetables.
Required ingredients:
- 1 kg white beans;
- 500 grams of white onions;
- Filtered water;
- 4 small carrots;
- 1.5 kg bell pepper;
- Chilli;
- 1 cup granulated sugar;
- 200 ml tomato sauce;
- Oil (you can take any);
- 2 small heads of garlic;
- Black pepper (you can take ground or peas).
Recipe for a Greek snack with beans for the winter with photo:
Soak the beans overnight in cold water. The next day, change the water and boil it until tender. Cook for about 1 hour. Peel the onion, cut into thin rings and fry until golden brown.
Wash the carrots, peel and grate on the coarsest grater. It is advisable to fry carrots together with onions. Peel the bell pepper from seeds and cut into thin strips. Place all vegetables in a large saucepan, add sugar, tomato sauce, butter and ground pepper. Bring to boiling temperature and cook for half an hour. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add hot chili pepper and chopped garlic.
This winter salad contains a large amount of useful substances. It is especially good to use as a dressing for borscht. The snack will add an unusual taste and aroma.
Greek salad with beans, tomatoes and herbs for the winter
Greek bean salad will be an excellent alternative to summer salads. If you add ground black pepper or chili pepper, the appetizer will turn out to be very spicy.
Required ingredients:
- 2 kg purple beans;
- 1.5 kg of medium tomatoes;
- Several large carrots;
- 500 grams of bell pepper;
- 4 onions;
- 50 grams of granulated sugar;
- 100 grams of coarse table salt;
- 1 liter of oil;
- Black pepper (it’s better to use ground pepper, but peas will also work);
- 1 tsp. vinegar essence;
- Several sprigs of dill;
- A bunch of fresh parsley;
- Cilantro;
- 100 grams of garlic.
The process of preparing Greek preserves:
Soak the beans for 24 hours in ice-cold clean water. Then change the water and cook until done. Peel the tomatoes (you can soak them in hot water for 2 minutes to make it easier to remove the skin). Immediately after this, they must be immersed in cold water.
Cut the tomatoes into small cubes and fry in a frying pan in 3 tablespoons of vegetable (or olive) oil. Then put the tomatoes in a large saucepan, add beans to them and cook over low heat.
Chop the pepper into strips and fry in a frying pan. Then add it to the tomatoes and stir with a wooden spatula.
Chop the onion and fry until tender. Peel and grate the carrots. Add to the prepared onion. Then add these ingredients to the rest of the vegetables in the pan.
It is recommended to cook the salad over low heat all the time. Pour sugar, salt and all other spices into it. Then add vegetable oil and vinegar essence.
Wash the greens thoroughly and chop finely. Crush the garlic. Add the herbs and garlic to the vegetables and cook until tender. The total preparation of the snack takes about two hours.
Place the salad in jars and close the lids tightly. They can be placed in the refrigerator or stored in the basement.
