Carrots are called a sunny vegetable due to the fact that it contains seventy-five percent of carotene. That is why carrots have such a bright orange color. The benefits of carrots are difficult to overestimate. It contains a large number of vitamins and minerals that contribute to the normal functioning of the body.
Doctors recommend eating carrots all year round. But in winter, carrots lose their taste, become stiff and bitter. In addition, not everyone likes raw carrots. An excellent way out of this situation is conservation. Spins help preserve not only the beneficial properties of vegetables, but also their taste.
Salad "Orange Wonder"
To make a salad you will need:
- Carrot - 2 kilograms.
- Tomatoes - 3 kilograms.
- One glass of sugar.
- Two tablespoons of vinegar.
- Two medium heads of garlic.
- Ground pepper - 2 tablespoons.
- Oil - 2 cups.
- Salt - 2 tablespoons.
The process of making salad
First you need to gradually prepare all the ingredients for the Orange Miracle salad. Rinse the carrots well and peel them with a special knife. Tomatoes must be red and ripe enough. You need to remove the peel from them - this is easy to do if you douse them with cool boiling water, then cut into four parts. Grind carrots and tomatoes in a meat grinder. Then put the mass of vegetables into a large pot, preferably with a thick bottom, add salt, sugar and butter, mix and put on fire. Simmer for about two hours from the moment of boiling over low heat, not forgetting to stir occasionally.
Separate the cloves of garlic from the husk and grind with a knife or garlic. About twenty minutes before removing from heat, put garlic and black pepper on the vegetables, and pour ten percent vinegar into the pan for ten minutes and mix well.
For the time while stewing vegetables for the Orange Miracle salad, you need to sterilize the jars and lids. After preparing the finished vegetable mixture, fill the jars and immediately roll up hermetically with lids. Tasty and, most importantly, healthy salad for the winter "Orange Wonder" is ready.
A delicious and mouth-watering salad can be decorated with herbs and served as a side dish or main course.
"Orange Miracle" with bell pepper
The classic salad “Orange Wonder” can be varied with the help of various vegetables: zucchini, eggplant, cabbage and, of course, bell pepper. Pepper goes well with tomatoes and carrots. Salad "Orange Wonder" with the addition of pepper is prepared very quickly.
For cooking you will need:
- Carrots - one and a half kilograms.
- Pepper - one and a half kilograms.
- Tomatoes - three kilograms.
- Onions - one and a half kilograms.
- Salt - ninety grams.
- Oil - three hundred milliliters.
- Sugar - one hundred twenty grams.
Cooking salad
To cook a vegetable carrot spin, you need to prepare all the vegetables for the Orange Miracle salad. Wash bell pepper, cut into two halves, peel the seeds and partitions and finely chop into cubes. Rinse the carrots under the tap, cut off the peel and rub through a fine grater. Wash the tomatoes, rinse with boiling water and immediately remove the skin, then chop into small cubes. Peel the onion, rinse and finely chop.
Pour oil into a large cast-iron, heat it well, pour onion into it and fry until golden brown. Then add carrots to the onion, mix and simmer over low heat with the lid closed for about twenty minutes. Then put the bell pepper, mix again and simmer another ten minutes. The last to put tomatoes in a cast iron, pour sugar and salt. At this stage, it is advisable to try on salt and sugar and, if necessary, you can still salt or sweeten.
After adding all the ingredients for the preparation of Orange Miracle salad to the cast iron, they still need to be boiled over the smallest fire under a tightly closed lid for twenty-five minutes, sometimes remembering to stir.
While the salad is being cooked, jars should be prepared. They must be thoroughly washed, and then the cans and lids placed in boiling water for several minutes. When the vegetable mass is ready, it needs to be boiled in a jar and immediately rolled up with lids. Bright, vitamin and very healthy salad "Orange Miracle" from carrots with the addition of bell pepper and tomatoes is ready. It remains only to turn the filled cans with the lids down, cover with something dense and allow to cool in this position.