How to cook caviar from zucchini? Recipe

Zucchini caviar is a delicious dish that belongs to the traditional dishes of Russian cuisine. And also light enough for the body, healthy, low-calorie.

All this is due to the richness of vitamins, trace elements, minerals that are contained in the main vegetable - zucchini.

Caviar contributes to better functioning of the stomach, intestines, gall bladder and kidneys. Especially zucchini dish is useful for those who suffer from hypertension, heart and blood diseases.

Recipes squash caviar, discussed in this article, are simple and affordable.

Description

Which of today's adults, whose childhood passed in Soviet times, does not remember their favorite store-made squash caviar? It was bought by parents, often given for lunch in a school cafeteria or summer camp.

Is it possible to make squash caviar such as in childhood, now independently?

In the age of advanced technologies, including information, there is nothing impossible for a modern person. And such a recipe is no longer a secret. In this article, it will also be described.

The main components of this dish: ripe zucchini (young, a little older, as well as zucchini, squash), carrots, tomato, onions. You can add a little pumpkin - for color and taste (but this is individual), eggplant. And also favorite spices and garlic.

A few recommendations:

• Thorough preparation of vegetables (rinse, peel and seeds).
• Wash preservation cans beforehand, dry and sterilize together with covers.

Fans of the savory taste of the dish will like the recipes of squash caviar with mayonnaise, "in Georgian", and bitter - with bitter tomato. Original: with mushrooms, pumpkin, eggplant and other cooking methods.

Zucchini caviar with onion

An easy to prepare dish, the taste of which will not leave indifferent any person who loves caviar. Everything is done quickly and easily.

1. In three containers put vegetables chopped with a grater and knife: zucchini (3 kilograms), carrots (0.5 kilograms) and onions (1 kilogram).
2. In vegetable oil (a total of 200 milliliters will be required), alternately passer, and then mix the ready-made vegetables.
3. Boil the mixture at not too high temperature for 2 hours.
4. At the end of the process add citric acid (8 grams), salt (50 grams) and sugar (20 grams).
5. Squash home-made caviar distributed in sterilized banks and roll up.

Zucchini caviar with tomato paste

According to this recipe, tomato is added to the dish in the form of pasta, spicy additives, spices. All this gives the winter harvesting or seasonal dishes an extraordinary piquancy and pleasant taste.

From pre-cooked in vegetable oil (100 milliliters) in a zucchini pan (1 kilogram), you need to make mashed potatoes (pass through a blender, food processor or meat grinder).

Finely chopped vegetables - onions (200 g), carrots (100 g) - passer until tender.

Mix everything, add tomato paste (100 milliliters), garlic (20 g) and chopped parsley root (5 g), ground red pepper (2 grams), salt (10 grams), sugar (15 grams).

At the end of cooking pour 16 milliliters of vinegar.

Stew caviar from zucchini at a low temperature, then put in pre-prepared jars and roll up.

Step-by-step Soviet caviar recipe

Favorite dish by many, which recalls the happy times of childhood and youth, is prepared as follows.

1. On low heat in vegetable oil (total - 50 milliliters) fry zucchini (1 kilogram), chopped coarsely.
2. Shredded vegetables - carrots (60 g) and onions (40 g) - passer with vegetable oil until tender.
3. Add chopped garlic (10 g).
4. Combine and cook at low temperature until fully cooked.
5. Put freshly prepared vegetables in a bowl of a food processor and turn into a puree state.
6. Cook the mixture at low temperature, adding tomato paste (100 milliliters), sugar (10 grams), salt (20 grams).
7. Half an hour after the start of boiling pour wine vinegar (30 milliliters), add ground black pepper (5 grams) and dried garlic (5 grams), mix.
8. Spread marrow squash for the winter on pre-prepared banks and roll up.

Caviar with bitter tomato paste

For lovers of dishes with an unusual bitter taste, the following recipe is suggested for consideration.

1. Alternately passer with vegetable oil (100 milliliters in total) zucchini (3 kilograms), onions (1 kilogram), carrots (1 kilogram) - pre-chopped.
2. Prepare vegetable puree (using a meat grinder or blender).
3. Boil the mixture in a saucepan over low heat.
4. After boiling add bitter salt (30 g) and spices (red and black ground peppers), reduce the temperature to the minimum.
5. Stew for 40 minutes.
6. Add bitter tomato paste (100 milliliters) and vinegar (50 milliliters) to vegetables, cook at low temperature for another 25 minutes.
7. Put the finished dish in sterile glass jars and roll up.

Caviar with tomatoes and sweet pepper

This dish is very tender and sweet in taste according to this winter recipe.

Delicious squash caviar in this case is completely cooked in a pan and goes through the sterilization process.

Pour peppercorns of black pepper (6 pieces), salt (80 g), a bunch of finely chopped parsley into a bowl. Add sugar (0.2 kilograms), vegetable oil (400 milliliters) and chopped tomatoes (1 kg).

Mix the mixture, cook over low heat until it boils.

Add chopped zucchini (3 kilograms) and sweet pepper (1 kg) into cubes to a spicy vegetable mixture.

Cook before boiling, after - simmer for 50 minutes at low temperature.

At the end of the process pour 100 milliliters of vinegar, add salt (80 grams) and sugar (0.2 kg), mix everything.

Sterilize cans and lids for seaming.

Put caviar in glass containers, cover and place in a large pot with water. Boil (15-25 minutes).

Then roll each sterilized jar with contents.

Caviar with mayonnaise

The original recipe for the dish. Such caviar can be consumed immediately after cooking or rolled up for the winter. The taste comes out gentle, spicy, intense.

Pieces of onion (0.5 kilograms) and zucchini (3 kilograms) put in a meat grinder and chop, season the mixture with mayonnaise (250 milliliters) and tomato paste (300 milliliters).

Add vegetable oil (100 milliliters) and vegetable mixture to the pan. Cook on low heat until boiling, after - another 60 minutes.

Add salt (50 grams), sugar (0.1 kg), ground red pepper (4 grams) - mix. Simmer for another 60 minutes, mix occasionally so as not to burn.

Put caviar in sterile glass jars and roll it with a key.

Caviar with tomato juice

Delicious home-made vegetable caviar from zucchini, which is seasoned with tomato juice, will be a good solution for decorating the table when the whole family is in the country.

Zucchini (1 kilogram) grated and sautéed in vegetable oil (only 50 milliliters) - until a puree state.

Dress with finely chopped carrots (100 g), onions (200 g), sautéed in a skillet.

Add tomato juice (200 milliliters), spices, salt.

Transfer the zucchini mixture to the vegetable and tomato dressing and simmer for 25 minutes at low temperature directly in the pan.

Add chopped garlic, parsley and dill, spices.

Quick recipe

Squash caviar to the summer table with the addition of tomato sauce will be a favorite dish for loved ones and relatives. And she is preparing quickly enough.

Put small pieces of onion (0.2 kg), carrots (0.1 kg) in a saucepan alternately - stew each ingredient in vegetable oil (total 30 milliliters) until cooked.

Mix vegetables, add zucchini (500 g) and cook at low temperature until soft.

Put tomato sauce (50 milliliters) in the vegetable mixture.

Finely chop the parsley (15 g), chop the garlic (15 grams) through the garlic, add to the caviar.

Pour salt (15 grams) and ground black pepper (2 grams) into a vegetable dish, mix.

Serve warm or cold.

Caviar "in Georgian"

For those who like spicy foods, a recipe with enough spices and spices will come in handy. And very simple - in terms of preparation:

1. Zucchini (1 kilogram), chopped into cubes, soak in water for 20 minutes.
2. Sliced ​​onions (0.2 kg) with carrots (0.1 kg) in vegetable oil (50 milliliters) until tender.
3. Squash the squash from moisture, add to the vegetable mixture, cook over low heat for 30 minutes.
4. Salt (15 g), spices hops-suneli (5 grams), ground red pepper (2 grams), chopped garlic (20 g) add and stew for another 10 minutes.
5. Add grape vinegar (16 milliliters), finely chopped cilantro (15 g) and mix.
6. Spread the eggs on pre-prepared jars and cover.
7. Sterilize in a pan with water for 15-25 minutes (depending on the volume of containers).
8. Roll caviar from zucchini for the winter.
   

Recipe with mushrooms and herbs

For a change and to surprise relatives and friends, as well as friends, you can cook and roll zucchini caviar according to an unusual recipe. Mushrooms (forest, greenhouse) will add meatiness to the dish, and greens - spices and tenderness.

Put the finely chopped zucchini (0.25 kilograms), carrots (0.15 kilograms), onions (0.15 kilograms) in a pan and sauté in vegetable oil (total 50 milliliters).

Then put everything in the bowl of the food processor and beat.

Wash and heat the mushrooms (200 g), chop into medium slices and add.

Add onion (50 grams).

Chop fresh dill (80 grams), pour into mushrooms.

Add vegetable puree and simmer for 15 minutes.

Season with salt, pepper and chopped garlic ready caviar, mix.

Arrange the dish in sterilized jars and roll up.

Caviar in a slow cooker

Those people who want to cook a low-calorie ready-made dish - caviar from zucchini, will especially enjoy it, since cooking oil is almost never used. But there will be a lot of tomato and spices.

Tomatoes (0.7 kg) pour boiling water for 15 minutes.

Chop onions (0.3 kg), carrots (0.2 kg) and zucchini (2 kilograms) finely and sauté one by one in a slow cooker (vegetable oil - 25 milliliters) in the “Baking” mode.

Combine everything and add diced tomatoes, tomato paste (50 milliliters), salt (30 grams).

Simmer for 120 minutes (stirring recommended). Cool the finished caviar and grind in a blender. Add spices, herbs, garlic.

If you canned for the winter, then the dish must still be stewed in a saucepan for 10 minutes and put in sterile cans for seaming.

Pumpkin squash

Freshness of taste, a beautiful orange tint and a pleasant aroma of caviar from zucchini will give pumpkin. The proposed recipe just contains this vegetable in small quantities.

You need to make mashed potatoes from raw zucchini (0.35 kilograms), pumpkin (0.2 kilograms), carrots (50 grams), onions (50 grams) - using a meat grinder.

Cook the vegetable mixture in vegetable oil (20 milliliters) at a high degree - 5 minutes.

Reduce temperature, add tomato paste (40 milliliters) and simmer for 15 minutes.

At the end of the cooking process, add chopped garlic to the caviar, as well as salt, pepper, greens. Mix.

Squash caviar with eggplant

This original recipe diversifies the summer-autumn menu and will surprise you with the new taste of the dish. Also, such caviar can be rolled up for the winter:

1. Heat the stewing container (cast-iron pan, stewpan) add 150 milliliters of vegetable oil, chopped onions (0.25 kg) and carrots (0.2 kg) - spasser, put on a plate.
2. Chopped eggplant (0.55 kilograms) and zucchini (0.85 kilograms) cooked in vegetable oil in the same container.
3. Add onions and carrots to the zucchini-eggplant mixture and cook for another 20 minutes over low heat. Mix.
4. Beat the finished mixture with a blender to a puree consistency.
5. Add tomato paste (100 milliliters), sugar, ground pepper (red and black), salt.
6. Cook for another 15 minutes at minimum temperature.
7. At the end of cooking, pour 15 milliliters of vinegar and add chopped garlic.

Caviar in the oven

A great way to cook a healthy dish without frying is in the oven. This will give the caviar a special taste.

Cooking method:

1. Vegetables - carrots (100 grams), onions (150 grams), zucchini (400 grams) - peel and chop into medium slices.
2. Tomatoes (0.4 kilograms) pour boiling water for a quarter of an hour.
3. Put all the vegetables in a cast-iron pan, add salt, spices, basil and olive oil (25 milliliters).
4. Oven in the oven at 180 degrees 60 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Turn the finished caviar into mashed potatoes using a blender, a meat grinder.
6. Serve warm.

Summary

It is wonderful that squash caviar can be consumed all year round: cook in season (summer and autumn), as well as preserve for the winter. Moreover, there are a great many ways of harvesting. And the most important thing is a natural, home-made product.

In time, the preparation of squash caviar (the recipes in the article confirm this) takes from 1.5 to 2.5 hours, plus the seaming process itself.

All products are recommended to choose fresh, high-quality, especially welcome home - from the cottage or the garden.