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Making preparations with vinegar is not welcome in every family. Some cannot consume it for health reasons, while others adhere to a healthy diet. In both cases, vinegar is excluded from the diet. Therefore, the recipe for tender squash caviar without vinegar for the winter is very popular. Zucchini dishes are recommended for diabetes, for those who want to stay slim and for dietary nutrition.
Few people decide to make preparations without vinegar for the winter. Vinegar helps preserve food in the winter, but proper sterilization helps squash caviar withstand a long time in jars and without it. We will look at how to do it below.
Necessary components for caviar
Of course, connoisseurs of zucchini dishes prefer young vegetables. They have thin skin and very soft seeds. The taste of the product is delicate, and the consistency is homogeneous. For more “mature” zucchini, you will have to carefully cut off the skin and remove all the seeds. Only in this case, squash caviar without vinegar will turn out without lumps.
For tasty and nutritious caviar, the list of products includes:
- 2 kilograms of the main ingredient - young zucchini;
- 1 kilogram of juicy carrots;
- 5-6 pieces of fresh tomatoes or 1 glass of prepared tomato paste;
- 0.5 kilograms of onions;
- 1 cup unrefined vegetable oil;
- 2 tablespoons salt;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 8 tablespoons of sugar.
Each ingredient requires preliminary preparation:
- Before processing, the zucchini for caviar must be thoroughly washed. We cut the young ones right away, and clean the older ones first.
- Remove the skin from the onion and cut it into cubes.
- We peel the carrots and then chop them in the desired way.
- First, cut the tomatoes, pour boiling water over them and remove the skin. Then grind in a meat grinder or grind in a blender.
At the end, we will always get a paste-like homogeneous mass, and the preparation of caviar from zucchini without vinegar for winter use at the initial stage may differ. Different recipes for zucchini mixture usually contain a similar set of components, but the technology for processing them is different.
There are several options for preparing vegetables:
- Wash and peel all vegetables. Then grind the zucchini, onions, carrots and tomatoes in a meat grinder. Pour sunflower oil into a container and warm it up a little. Add vegetables, mix and simmer. At the end of the process, salt the caviar, add chopped garlic, sugar and spices (if desired) and continue cooking until fully cooked.
- Cut the peeled vegetables into small cubes.
First fry the onion, then add the carrots and lastly the zucchini. Stir the mixture and simmer until tender for an hour. - Next, it is recommended to grind the mass. To do this, use an immersion blender, mashed potato masher or meat grinder. Naturally, load slightly cooled vegetables into the meat grinder so as not to burn your fingers. We will obtain a homogeneous puree of a beautiful color. It needs to be salted, peppered, added sugar and salt and simmered for another hour.And now - the nuances of sterilizing the workpiece, with the help of which winter squash caviar without vinegar will stand safely all winter.
- During preparation, we will sterilize the jars and, most importantly, the lids! We put the zucchini puree into jars, but don’t roll them up, just cover them with lids. Pour water into a saucepan and place the jars in it. The water should be at the level of the neck so that it does not flood the jars when boiling. Boil the jars for 40 minutes. Then we take it out of the pan, roll it up, turn it over and be sure to wrap it up. Our caviar will cool slowly and for a long time, so it will warm up well. And this is the main condition for its long-term storage.
Varieties of recipes for preparation without vinegar
To diversify the taste of their favorite zucchini caviar, many housewives like to experiment and add extraordinary ingredients to the recipe.
Squash caviar for the winter, which does not require vinegar, can be prepared with celery root. For this option, you will need to add 50 grams of celery root to the main set of ingredients.
We wash the young zucchini well, and peel the “older” zucchini. Cut into circles no more than 1 cm thick. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the zucchini. Let cool and grind in a meat grinder. Let's move on to the rest of the ingredients. Finely chop the celery root and carrots, fry the onion separately in sunflower oil. Peel the tomatoes and chop them. To do this, we use a meat grinder or a regular kitchen grater. Mix the ingredients prepared for cooking, add basic spices, salt and sugar to taste. Simmer the zucchini puree without vinegar until the moisture evaporates.
We put the finished zucchini preparation into sterilized jars, cover with lids, place in a bowl with water and sterilize for 30-40 minutes, depending on the volume. For half-liter jars, half an hour is enough; liter jars need more time. After this, we roll up the jars and wrap them to cool.
Housewives like the original recipe for squash caviar without vinegar for the winter with the addition of mushrooms for its nutritional value and unusual taste.
To prepare the preparation you will need for 1 kilogram of young zucchini:
- 0.5 kg of fresh champignons;
- a pair of onions;
- 3-4 ripe tomatoes with good taste;
- 2 pcs. sweet pepper, maybe thick-walled;
- 1 dessert carrot;
- 1 bunch of fresh dill;
- 1 medium-sized garlic head;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of thick tomato paste;
- 0.5 cups sunflower oil;
- 1 tbsp. spoon of lemon juice;
- salt, pepper and sugar to taste.
First, wash all the vegetables well and prepare them for stewing the caviar. To do this, grate carrots, zucchini and sweet peppers on a coarse grater. Onion into half rings, tomatoes into a meat grinder. Cut the mushrooms into strips and, first of all, put them in a frying pan. As soon as they are fried, take them out of the oil and put the onion in it. After 5 minutes, add the carrots, after another 15 minutes, add the zucchini. Continue to simmer for a quarter of an hour, then add peppers and tomatoes. After half an hour, add mushrooms and tomato paste. Next, add salt, your favorite spices, lemon juice, and chopped herbs to the pan. Let's bring the mixture to readiness, put it in sterile jars and sterilize for 30 minutes to be sure. Roll up and cool.
Conclusion
There are a lot of recipes for squash caviar without vinegar. The ones listed in this article are a small part of the creativity of lovers of culinary preparations.You can add your own ingredients to instant caviar to check the taste and quality. And then prepare the winter preparations.
