Zucchini - a storehouse of vitamins and minerals, so necessary for the human body. This vegetable is available to every housewife, and there are many recipes for its preparation. It can be successfully combined with absolutely all products, even with sweets. Winter preparations such as lecho, salads and zucchini sauce are also popular.
Beneficial features
The benefits of fresh juicy zucchini can hardly be overestimated, because they contain an incredible amount of vitamins and minerals, while the abundance of fiber and a minimum of fats and carbohydrates provide the vegetable with dietary properties.
The components contained in them help to establish metabolism, improving intestinal motility and actively removing toxins. The abundance of vitamin C helps strengthen the walls of blood vessels, ensures the proper functioning of the cardiovascular apparatus, and in combination with keratin, which is contained in the peel of a vegetable, is an excellent prevention against cancerous lesions. Zucchini also contains a lot of iron, which maintains normal hemoglobin levels, and elements such as potassium, magnesium, copper and phosphorus strengthen bone tissue. Vitamins A, B, E and PP together with other useful substances strengthen the immune system, increasing resistance to viruses and infections.
Vegetable sauce with zucchini for the winter
Zucchini is one of the most popular vegetables for winter harvesting. Among the favorite recipes of many housewives there are salads, caviar and zucchini sauce, even jam and compotes.
For the preparation of vegetable sauce, the following set of products will be used:
- Zucchini - 1 kg.
- Tomatoes - 1 kg.
- Sweet pepper - 1 kg.
- Onion - 400 g.
- Garlic - 8 tooth.
- Sunflower or olive oil - about 100 ml.
- Vinegar - 1 tbsp. l
- A bunch of greens (preferably parsley).
- Salt and sugar - 1 tbsp. l
- Allspice - 10 peas.
- Carnation - 3 pcs.
- Cinnamon - 1/2 teaspoon.
Practical part
All vegetables should be washed and peeled, tomatoes chopped randomly and boiled for 15-20 minutes, then chopped with a blender until smooth. Meanwhile, fry the onion, chopped into small cubes in a saucepan, add chopped sweet pepper, then zucchini. After some time, pour the vegetable mixture into tomato and simmer for half an hour. At the end add the finest chopped remaining ingredients, wait for the dish to cook, pour the vinegar into the total mass and turn off the fire after a couple of minutes. You can roll zucchini in tomato sauce for the winter right in this form, or you can grind everything with a blender until smooth.
Spicy sauce
For lovers of savory preparations, spicy zucchini sauce for the winter will be an indispensable recipe. A half-liter jar will require ingredients such as:
- 2 zucchini.
- 3 tomatoes.
- 1 hot peppercorn.
- 1 tsp of salt and sugar.
- 1 tbsp. l of acetic acid.
All vegetables must be cleaned of dirt and peel and chopped using a meat grinder or blender. Pour salt and sugar into the mass, garlic can be added if desired. In a pan with a thick bottom, you need to wait for it to boil, cover with a lid and boil for 20 minutes at minimum heat, until the color changes completely. Then it is better to beat the mass again with a blender to a pasty state, add vinegar and boil for another five minutes.
Pour the sauce into sterilized jars and allow to cool in an inverted form.
Tatar sauce
Zucchini in tomato sauce for the winter - recipes are common, but usually the same. The recipe for this blank will pleasantly surprise all conservation lovers.
Products for the dish:
- Zucchini - 1 kg.
- Tomato - 200 ml.
- Carrot - 100 g.
- Bulb - 1 large.
- A large apple or 2 small ones.
- Garlic - 5 prongs.
- Salt - 25 g.
- Sugar - 100 g.
- Sweet pepper - 1 pc.
- Hot pepper - 1 pcs.
- Hot ground black pepper - 1/2 teaspoon.
All vegetables must first be prepared by thoroughly washing and peeling. Then twist everything except vinegar in a meat grinder or grind it, mix all the ingredients and simmer in a thick-bottomed container for about an hour. A couple of minutes before turning off the fire, add 35 ml of vinegar to the mass. You can lay out on the banks both in this form and in pasty, for which everything needs to be whipped with a blender.
Preserving zucchini sauce is not at all troublesome, nor is it financially expensive. And when the zucchini season comes and ideas for processing are exhausted, the recipes of these blanks can help many housewives and delight their families with the wonderful taste in the winter cold.