Zucchini caviar, salads and snacks are dishes that we are happy to serve on the table at any time. They are especially relevant in winter, when there is snow and frost outside the window, and we dream of a warm, gentle summer.
Snack salad
Appetizer from zucchini "Mother-in-law's tongue" got its poisonous name, apparently, for the pungency and richness of taste. It is really harsh, although the amount of pepper and garlic can be adjusted according to their own addictions. But this salad is perfect for any meat dishes, cereals, potatoes and is gladly eaten by both gourmets and inexperienced people in gastronomy. And now more about how to prepare a snack from the squash "Mother-in-law's tongue".
Required Products:
- zucchini - 4 kg;
- 3 heads of garlic (large or smaller);
- bell pepper - 2 kg;
- sugar - half a glass or a little more;
- tomato juice - 1.5 liters (or tomatoes - 3 kg);
- water - 50 ml;
- sunflower oil - one and a half glasses;
- salt - 2 teaspoons (or more to taste);
- allspice - 8-10 peas;
- several clove inflorescences;
- a pinch of coriander;
- vinegar (6%) - 120 grams.
Cooking
Peel the zucchini from the peel and seeds, pepper - from the stalk, garlic - from the husk. Crumble tomatoes with peel. Finely chop everything, put it in cast iron and simmer for 35-40 minutes over medium heat. 15 minutes before the end of salt, add sugar and spices, pour juice if you do not use tomatoes. In 5 minutes pour vinegar into the pan before removing from heat. Hot appetizer from zucchini "Mother-in-law's tongue" is laid out on pre-sterilized banks and rolled up.
Squash salad with tomatoes
This is another way of cooking "Mother-in-law's tongue". There are many variations of this appetizer. Each in its own way is tasty and interesting, and various components give it a peculiarity, a twist. By the way, many cook it from eggplant. However, the appetizer from the squash "Mother-in-law's tongue" turns out to be softer in taste. To prepare this salad for 3 kg of the main product, you need to take one and a half kilograms of tomatoes, 1 kg of pepper, 3 pieces of
hot pepper (red pods) or 3 heads of garlic, vegetable oil - 1 cup (250 g), salt - from 1 tablespoon (each taste), sugar - 1 cup (or a little more - to taste), 6% vinegar - 1 cup.
Zucchini is cleaned and cut into thin strips. Tomatoes and both types of pepper are passed through a meat grinder. Now preparing the appetizer "Mother-in-law's tongue". The zucchini recipe recommends first boiling the tomato-pepper vegetable mass. To do this, you need to shift it into cast iron or a deep volumetric pan and put it on high heat, then stir constantly. Pour zucchini into boiled tomato, add butter, sugar and salt. Next, the mixture needs to be stewed over medium heat, interfering so that the vegetables do not burn. Shortly before cooking (5-6 minutes), add vinegar and put the garlic (if you do with it). Appetizer "Mother-in-law's tongue" from zucchini, the photo of which you see in the article, is packaged in sterile jars in a hot form and twisted.
Tomato Paste Option
This recipe is similar to the previous one, only tomato paste is used as a dressing. Zucchini (3 kg) are cleaned and chopped into thin slices.
Sweet peppers (5-6 pieces), bitter pod (without seeds) and garlic (about 100 grams) are grinded in a meat grinder. Sugar (to your taste) is put in the mixture, salt - 2 tablespoons without a hill, 500 g of tomato paste and 100 g of vinegar. Everything is stewed for 40 to 45 minutes, then closed in jars.
Preserve with pleasure!