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How sometimes it’s nice to open a jar of homemade squash caviar in winter, when there are not enough vegetables and vitamins. It's even more pleasant when squash caviar prepared for the winter with my own hands. We offer you several recipes and tips on how to make squash caviar, and we will also tell you why zucchini is healthy, how many calories are in squash caviar and what is best to serve it with.
What are the benefits of a zucchini dish?
Zucchini caviar is not only delicious, it is also incredibly healthy. The dish improves digestion, saturates the body with useful microelements and vitamins. The calorie content of squash caviar is very low. One hundred grams contains only 70 kcal. This suggests that it can be used by people who are on a diet for health reasons or want to lose extra pounds. The dish is very quickly and easily absorbed by our body.
Also, the squash dish contains a lot of potassium, which is useful for people prone to swelling, with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. Paste made from this vegetable stimulates peristalsis, improves intestinal function, and normalizes its microflora.As you understand, the healthiest homemade squash caviar is made with your own hands, without the use of various artificial preservatives and from proven ingredients.
So, this dish:
- reduces cholesterol levels;
- improves digestion;
- has low calorie content;
- normalizes hemoglobin levels;
- has diuretic properties;
- It is useful for people suffering from diabetes.
Recipes for homemade delicious caviar
There are an incredible number of recipes for making squash caviar at home. We offer you several classic options for home-cooking the most delicious dish.
Recipe No. 1
For the future dish you will need the following ingredients:
- one and a half kg of zucchini;
- 2 pieces of medium onion;
- 4 medium young carrots;
- 2 pieces of small bell pepper;
- 2 small packages of tomato paste;
- 150 gr. sunflower oil;
- salt and sugar 3 teaspoons each.
Preparation: First, chop the onion and pepper into smaller pieces. Heat the oil in a comfortable frying pan and add the onion there, fry thoroughly, but make sure that the product does not burn. Add chopped zucchini and carrots to the onion. Add half a glass of clean water. Now all the ingredients in the pan need to be simmered well, but without covering, so as not to retain excess liquid.
After 10-15 minutes you need to add spices and tomato paste, simmer for another 5-7 minutes. All you have to do is remove it from the stove and you can start eating. If we are talking about harvesting for the winter, then for this you need to prepare a certain container. Freshly prepared zucchini dish can be placed in convenient hermetically sealed jars and sent to a cold place.
Recipe No. 2
There is another way to prepare squash caviar for the winter at home. To prepare we need:
- 250 gr. tomatoes;
- 400 gr. zucchini;
- 700 gr. eggplant;
- 300 gr. carrots;
- 300 gr. pepper;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 440 gr. onions;
- 20 gr. salt;
- 160 ml olive oil;
- 5 gr. fine black pepper.
First you need to finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Then cut the bell pepper into cubes. Now all these vegetables need to be fried in olive oil.
Now chop the eggplants, tomatoes and zucchini into cubes.
Then transfer the vegetables from the frying pan to the cauldron and add zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes. Add a little olive oil and leave the vegetables to simmer for 60 minutes. After about 30 minutes after you put the vegetables in the cauldron, add spices and pre-chopped garlic to them.
When you see that the vegetables have become soft, you can remove them from the heat and grind them in a blender to a paste. Then this mass can be rolled into sterilized jars. The recipe for this squash caviar is quite simple, but it turns out excellent.
Recipe No. 3
Another interesting cooking recipe, which we give step by step. Some may say that this is vegetable caviar, but still its basis is zucchini.
Ingredients: mushrooms 1 kg, zucchini 3 kg, carrots 1.5 kg, eggplants 2 kg, onions 0.5 kg, tomatoes 1 kg, dill, parsley, bell pepper 1.5 kg, lemon juice, salt, pepper, vegetable oil .
Preparation: in this recipe, vegetables must be thoroughly peeled and seeds removed, then cut into small cubes.
Mushrooms need to be boiled in salted water.
Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots, fry them in oil. Now add the zucchini and eggplant to the vegetables.While the ingredients are simmering, finely grate the bell pepper and gradually add it to the main vegetables.
Now finely chop the champignons and also place them in a frying pan or cauldron.
Now it's time for the tomatoes: peel them and grate them. Now add the remaining ingredients to the cauldron. All vegetables should be thoroughly stewed, and then leave them to simmer over very low heat.
When the dish is ready, it can be packaged in containers and rolled up.
Oddly enough, homemade preparations can bring pleasure during their preparation if everything is done correctly and promptly. By the way, any dishes should be prepared only in a good mood, then they will turn out to be the most delicious and soulful.
Recipe No. 4
And this recipe does not involve frying, but baking vegetables.
For this we need the following ingredients: zucchini 2 kg, onions 1 kg, carrots 1.5 kg, tomatoes 1.5 kg, bell peppers 0.5 kg, hot green peppers 2 pcs, garlic, turmeric, paprika, olive oil, ground pepper, salt, sugar.
Preparation: cut all the vegetables into equal cubes, and cut the carrots into rings. Place all the ingredients on a baking sheet and drizzle with a little olive oil.
Now you need to preheat the oven to 200-220 degrees and place our vegetables on the middle shelf. Bake the vegetables for about 40 minutes, try to stir them occasionally.
Now take out the vegetables and grind them with an immersion blender, adding spices and sugar, which will add piquancy. After this, the dish needs to be boiled in a saucepan for about 5 minutes and can be put into jars.
Creating such caviar at home does not take much time, and in winter you will happily enjoy a delicious dish.
What is squash caviar served with?
Such a simple dish, as it seems to us, can be served very beautifully. For example, buy a baguette, lightly toast it in a clean pan, and serve rolled up zucchini paste on that piece of bread. For beauty, you can add a few green onions.
Caviar goes very tasty with brown bread and herbs.
Preparing these breads will not take you much time, but you will definitely delight your household with a modern presentation of a familiar dish. For winter options, to make it more satisfying, you can apply a small amount of butter to a piece of bread.
It goes well with potatoes, any type of meat and other vegetables. It is served both as a cold snack and as a hot one. But in many homes they make zucchini joy just to spread it on bread.
Squash caviar is often wrapped in pita bread, making a kind of homemade shawarma. Zucchini paste goes well with thin bread. Some housewives make pancakes from squash caviar in winter, adding rye flour first. For lunch, squash caviar with any porridge is a good choice. This will be a very filling and tasty lunch. In the morning, zucchini paste goes great with an omelet and thinly sliced cucumber. Or you can boil the rice and serve it with some of your homemade pasta.
Recommendations for preparing squash caviar
- It is very important to have good cookware: a cauldron with thick walls, a high frying pan.
- If you want the zucchini paste to be tender, then it must be passed through a blender or meat grinder.
- Choose young fruits for the dish, then it will be tender and very tasty. And in this case, there is no need to peel the vegetables.
- Preparing dietary squash caviar is not at all difficult: just soften the vegetables in a frying pan without using oil, and then simply chop the vegetables in a blender.
- You can make pasta from vegetables that have previously been completely baked in the oven. In this case, more vitamins and beneficial microelements are retained.
Conclusion
There are countless recipes for squash caviar: it is made with apples, spicy, with vinegar, with mayonnaise (well, this is not for everyone), with sour cream, it is cooked in a slow cooker, on the grill, with or without tomatoes, large with pieces and tender, as in store. In any case, if a piece of your soul is put into this dish, then it will definitely be appreciated by your family and friends.
