Winter is the time when it is difficult to find fresh vegetables of good quality to make a delicious salad out of them, which is suitable for porridges, potatoes, and meat. During this period, most of the vegetables are sluggish, while the amount of pesticides in them goes off scale.
In order not to supply your body with harmful elements, from the summer and autumn you can prepare various twists for the winter. We also offer the Troika salad recipe for this. Cooking it is very simple, but at the same time the spin itself is very tasty.
Salad "Three"
The products needed for the salad are not difficult to purchase. You will need:
- Zucchini - 3 pieces.
- Salt - 2 pinches.
- Eggplant - 3 fruits.
- Sugar - 30 grams.
- Zucchini - 3 pieces.
- Sunflower oil - 100 milliliters.
- Bell Peppers - 3 fruits.
- Vinegar - 1 spoon.
- Tomatoes - 3 pieces.
Cooking salad
The Troika salad recipe with eggplant for the winter can be found, probably, in almost all housewives. Such a twist is considered classic. They called it so because when harvesting one can per liter, the amount of each of the products is three. For example, three tomatoes, three bell peppers, three zucchini or eggplant. The process of preparing the Troika salad will take about one hour.
On the eve of the day of preparation of the Troika salad or earlier, at your convenience, you need to thoroughly wash the cans with baking soda and then sterilize them. With the covers do the same procedure. By the time they are full, the jars should be clean and dry.
- It is advisable to select all medium vegetables for Troika salad. Be the first to take the eggplant and wash it well. Then, using disposable kitchen towels, dry them and cut off their ponytails.
- Then eggplant must be chopped. There are three ways to do this. The first is to cut them into circles, the thickness of which should not exceed one centimeter. The second - cut each circle in half and get semicircles. And the third - just cut them into cubes. The only difference is that the cubes are a little stronger boil.
- Next come the zucchini, which should also be washed and dried well before chopping. Then cut them into cubes, a size of one and a half to two centimeters. For salad, you can use both young and overripe zucchini. Only in overripe, it is necessary to cut off the skin and clean the seeds.
- Wash the tomatoes, put them in a saucepan and pour boiling water for one minute. Then remove the film from them, cut the seal and cut into four identical parts.
- Bell pepper for the brightness of the salad can be taken in different colors. Rinse it, cut the tail, then cut into two identical elongated parts. Remove seeds, grind with straws or cubes.
Now you can move on to the most important part of the preparation of the Troika salad.
The beginning of canning
- You need to take a pot with a thick bottom. Add oil and vinegar. Then add salt and sugar. For conservation, in no case should you use extra or iodized salt.
- Combine oil, salt, vinegar and sugar and lay the vegetables on top in a saucepan. The first to put tomatoes on the bottom. Then evenly spread a layer of eggplant, on top of which place the zucchini. And the last to put the bell peppers in the pan.
- Place the pot with vegetables laid in it on the stove for minimal heat. Cover and wait for boiling. And from that moment, stew them for forty minutes.
- To prevent vegetables from burning to the bottom of the pan, they sometimes need to be gently mixed.
- Once the vegetables for the Troika salad are ready, remove the container from the stove and immediately place them in a jar and roll them up.
- So that when filling the cans with salad, it does not crack, it must be held over the steam. Be sure to wrap the jar with a blanket and leave it to cool for twelve hours.
The number of ingredients in this Troika salad recipe is calculated per one liter jar.
"Three": a spicy salad for the winter
This salad will be slightly different from the previous one. Ingredients Composition:
- Onions - 3 pieces.
- Chili pepper - 1/3 part.
- Tomatoes - 3 pieces.
- Garlic - 3 cloves.
- Carrots - 3 pieces.
- Allspice - 6 peas.
- Bell pepper - 3 pieces.
- Oil - 100 milliliters.
- Eggplant - 3 pieces.
How to cook a salad
To prepare the Troika winter salad, all vegetables will need a little preliminary preparation:
- You need to take sweet bell pepper, you can color, wash it and cut into two halves in length. At each part, then remove the insides and cut them into thin long strips.
- Wash eggplant, like all vegetables, and cut into circles, about one centimeter thick. Fold them in any suitable container and lightly salt. Stir the eggplant with salt and set aside for twenty minutes.
- Peel the carrots, then wash it very well and chop with a thin straw.
- Rinse the tomatoes, rinse with boiling water, peel off the films and cut into fairly large pieces.
- Separate onions from the husk, rinse it under running water and chop coarsely.
- Peel and push the garlic cloves through the garlic. Finally, drain the resulting juice from the eggplant.
- Now you need to take the cauldron, pour oil into it and put on fire.
- Once the oil is hot, put the onion in it and fry for about seven minutes.
- Add all other vegetables to the onion and reduce the heat after boiling.
- Pour in salt and sugar, as well as peas of allspice and simmer them for forty minutes.
- Stew the vegetables during stewing. After thirty minutes, add the garlic and chopped chilli to the cauldron. Stir and stew vegetables to the end.
- At the end of the recipe, put the Troika salad in previously prepared cans, put the lids on top and sterilize for another thirty minutes. Then roll up the cans with lids and be sure to turn them upside down.
- Cover with something tight and do not touch the workpieces until they cool completely. From the amount of vegetables needed for this recipe, you get three half-liter cans of salad for the winter.
Two simple winter salad recipes with eggplant and zucchini help to prepare a tasty and satisfying workpiece that goes well with many dishes. “Troika” is prepared very simply, little time is spent, but the finished workpiece will delight you throughout the winter.