Very often in the summer we stew a variety of vegetables, preparing stew from them. Preferences are given to those who are more fond of in the family. However, to eat such a dish in cold weather, you need to make blanks. For example, you can preserve a delicious vegetable stew with zucchini for the winter. It is done in many ways, adjusting the number of products and their names. Also in this dish you can put vinegar, but you can not do this. So, in this article we will look at how to cook vegetable stew for the winter in two ways.
Vegetable stew without vinegar
What do we need to cook vegetable stew for the winter without adding vinegar? The following ingredients will be listed:
- onions - five hundred grams;
- carrot - five hundred grams;
- zucchini - five hundred grams;
- tomatoes - five hundred grams;
- sweet pepper - five hundred grams;
- vegetable oil - two hundred and fifty milliliters;
- coarse salt - one and a half tablespoons;
- sugar - five tablespoons;
- bay leaf - four to five leaves.
How to cook?
Now consider how to cook vegetable stew for the winter in stages.
1. The first step is to peel the onions and carrots. Wash them thoroughly. Rinse zucchini and tomatoes as well. Pass all vegetables through a meat grinder. Prepare a deep frying pan and put mashed vegetables in it.
2. Now peel and wash the pepper. Cut it into small cubes and add to the pan to the rest of the vegetables.
3. Now put the amount of sugar, salt and vegetable oil indicated in the recipe. Throw the bay leaf. Stir all the products and put the pan on the fire. Wait for the boil, make the fire a little smaller, cover with a lid. Stew the stew for about an hour, while occasionally stirring it.
4. While the stew is preparing, you must wash the jars and sterilize them. In the meantime, everything was ready. Remove the stew from the stove and arrange it in jars. Next, you should pasteurize them in water that is eighty degrees above zero.
5. Twist the finished cans with boiled lids, turn over and wrap with something warm. After. as they cool, you can put them in the cellar.
As you can see, vegetable stew for the winter, the recipe of which was described above, is not difficult to prepare.
Vinegar Stew
There is another option for the preparation of this type of preservation, but vinegar is already added here. Consider the necessary ingredients.
- three medium squash;
- four tomatoes;
- four sweet peppers;
- two onions;
- one and a half liters of water;
- two tablespoons of salt;
- five tablespoons of sugar;
- forty milliliters 9% vinegar;
- five to six peas of black pepper;
- two to four bay leaves;
- two hundred milliliters of vegetable oil.
Next, we will consider how to cook vegetable stew (harvesting for the winter).
How to cook?
1. First, wash the zucchini and, if necessary, cut off the damage to the skin. Next, cut them into cubes and put them in a stewpan.
2. Now rinse the tomatoes and cut them into thin slices. Also put them in a stewpan.
3. Peel the sweet pepper and wash it. Each peppercorn needs to be cut into not very long thin strips. Add it to the stewpan to the already chopped vegetables.
4. Peel the onions and rinse them. Then cut into small cubes. Put the onions in a saucepan.
5. Now the vegetable stew for the winter should be salt and add sugar in the amount indicated in the recipe. Pour in vegetable oil at the end. Put the stewpan on the fire (it should be small) and simmer the stew for thirty minutes. At the end of cooking, all vegetables should be soft. Do not forget to stir it, so as not to burn. Vinegar must be poured into the saucepan at the very end of the stew.
6. Roll-up cans must first be washed well. Fold the stew in them (until it has cooled), then dip the cans in boiling water and immediately roll it up.
7. Place the cans on the floor by turning them over. Put something warm on top (such as a blanket). After a few days, cans can be put in the basement.
Conclusion
As you can see, vegetable stew for the winter, the recipe of which is proposed in this article, will not be difficult to cook even for a beginner. And in the cold season you can get a jar of delicious vegetables and use them as a snack or just spread on bread. Stew can also be a complement to meat and fish dishes. In addition, this type of preservation is suitable for vegetarians.