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All housewives love preparations for the winter. Summer pampers you with fresh vegetables and fruits, but for the winter table it’s good to prepare canned dishes from your favorite products.
Zucchini is a rewarding vegetable. It’s worth setting aside a small garden bed for them, and you’ll get a wonderful dietary vegetable throughout the summer. The quantity and quality of zucchini is always at its best, so it’s a pleasure to prepare dishes from them. There are a lot of options; every housewife knows her own “signature” recipe. The popularity of zucchini preparations is due to the beneficial qualities of the vegetable. The very first thing is suitability for dietary and baby food. Every family member can enjoy a delicious dish.
An excellent recipe for the whole family - squash caviar through a meat grinder.
You will need few ingredients for preparation, and the finished zucchini caviar will surprise you with its delicate taste.
Preparing components for winter harvesting
To prepare a dietary dish, it is better to take small young zucchini. In this case, your “overseas” squash caviar will be very light, tender and incredibly tasty. Young zucchini has a thin skin and undeveloped seeds, so the consistency of the caviar will be uniform. And the cooking process will take much less time.But when you need to make caviar from old vegetables, you will have to cut off a thick layer of peel and remove all the seeds.
The main partners of zucchini are carrots and onions. And the rest of the ingredients can be added according to your taste and family preferences. Zucchini goes perfectly with spices, herbs and other vegetables. Therefore, your final result may taste completely different from what you originally selected.
Today we will look at the option of preparing caviar in a meat grinder for winter consumption.
The dish does not take long to prepare. All components are passed through a meat grinder, placed in a deep container (very good if you have a cauldron) and simmered until the dish is ready. In addition to ordinary dishes, housewives use an oven, slow cooker, frying pan or pressure cooker. This does not reduce the quality of the product. You can grind both raw and pre-processed vegetables in a meat grinder. Before grinding, they are baked or fried as desired. Let's look at the most common recipe for zucchini caviar in a meat grinder.
Recipe of products for preparing dietary caviar
Squash caviar for the winter is easy to prepare in a meat grinder. The recipe is clear and tested by many housewives. The main ingredients for the preparation are designed for 1.5 kg of young zucchini. You need to prepare:
- greens (quantity at your discretion);
- onions – 2 pcs. medium size;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- salt – 1.5 tablespoons without top;
- sugar – 0.5 teaspoon;
- table vinegar 9% - 30 ml;
- tomato paste – 70ml;
- black and allspice in equal quantities - 1 gram each.
This is a classic set of products for caviar from young zucchini. If you like any other spices, feel free to add to your taste.
The process of preparing caviar in a meat grinder
First, you should prepare each component for adding to the caviar.
- Wash the zucchini, dry and cut into small cubes or cubes.
- Peel the carrots and grate on a grater with medium holes.
- Peel and chop the onion.
Further, the classic recipe provides for a small thermal preparation of vegetables.
In this case, lightly fry in a deep frying pan. First, heat the oil, add the zucchini and fry until golden brown. Now it’s the turn of carrots and onions. They are fried together with zucchini in one pan for no more than 10 minutes.
Be sure to wash and dry the greens. Cool the vegetables.
Grind all the ingredients (greens and the contents of the frying pan) in a meat grinder, place in a bowl with thick walls, season with salt, sugar and spices, add tomato paste. Mix everything well and simmer for 20 minutes. A zucchini dish in a meat grinder requires constant stirring, otherwise the contents may burn.
At the end of cooking, add table vinegar and simmer everything together for 5 minutes.
Sterilize and dry glass jars. Lay out the finished winter preparation, roll up the lids and wrap for a day to cool slowly.
The recipe for caviar from zucchini for the winter in a meat grinder can be varied by adding or replacing some components. Add fresh tomatoes and bell peppers - the caviar will get a richer vegetable taste.
The garlic will make it spicy. Ginger, celery, cumin - your favorite spices will warm you up on winter days. The cooking process does not change, but you can change the composition. Don't be afraid to experiment.
