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Winter preparations are very popular. They allow you to diversify your diet during the winter months, not give up your favorite foods, and save on groceries. Recipes you like spread quickly. How to cook squash caviar All housewives know, but the version with mayonnaise and tomato paste became known not so long ago.
The popularity of squash caviar for the winter has not decreased for many years, and with the addition of mayonnaise, this type of preparation is very reminiscent of store-bought caviar. Suitable for both canning and quick cooking.
Some housewives are afraid to use mayonnaise in canning. For squash caviar, it is best to take the preparation of mayonnaise into your own hands. Then you will be confident in the quality of the components. But if this is not possible, then the option with store-bought sauce has been tried by many and it is quite reliable. Zucchini caviar with mayonnaise turns out tasty, aromatic and stores well.
Squash caviar without mayonnaise has lower calorie content than the option with its addition. But mayonnaise adds an unusual piquant taste to a familiar dish.
Necessary components for preparing the product
The name of the dish suggests that the main ingredient is zucchini. In addition to them, the recipe includes squash caviar for the winter - tomato paste, mayonnaise, spices, garlic and vegetables. The photo shows the main components.
To prepare tender caviar you need to prepare:
- Zucchini. After peeling, the zucchini weight should be 3 kg.
- Tomato paste – 250 g. If it is possible to replace the paste with juicy tomatoes, then the recipe for squash caviar with mayonnaise will only benefit from this. It should be taken into account that a dish with tomatoes will take longer to stew than with tomato paste, because more liquid will have to evaporate.
- Onions – 0.5 kg.
- Sugar – 4 tablespoons.
- Mayonnaise – 250 g. It is recommended to use fatty mayonnaise.
- Salt – 1.5 tablespoons.
- Ground black pepper – 0.5 teaspoon. You can add other favorite spices to the dish - curry, paprika, turmeric or dried basil. Calculate the quantity according to your taste.
- Unrefined vegetable oil – 150 ml.
- Bay leaf – 3 pcs., take a large one to make it easier to remove from the dish before rolling up the jars.
- Garlic – 4 cloves. Spice adds flavor and heat to the finished dish. If you don't like garlic, you can leave it off the list. The caviar will still be very tasty and tender.
- Vinegar preferably 9% - 2 tablespoons.
Some recipes for zucchini snacks with mayonnaise contain another component - carrots. If you include it in the list of ingredients, it will add sweetness and diversify the vegetable taste of the dish.
The process of preparing caviar from zucchini with mayonnaise
First, prepare all the vegetable components:
- Peel the zucchini and cut into strips. To ensure that the finished squash caviar with mayonnaise for the winter is tender, you need to take young vegetables with immature seeds.If this is not possible, then carefully peel the skin from the fruit and remove all the seeds.
- Peel the onion and cut into 2 or 4 parts, depending on the size of the onion.
- Peel the carrots (if you decide to add them to the recipe).
Now there are several options for how to prepare caviar. Popular recipes contain various ways to process vegetables.
The simplest one is to pass all the components through a meat grinder. First, pour sunflower oil into the container in which the caviar will be prepared, and transfer the vegetable mass into it. Add mayonnaise and tomato paste, mix everything well and cook for 1 hour. This method requires constant attention and presence. Chopped vegetables must be stirred regularly to prevent the caviar from burning. The closer the process ends, the more often this will have to be done.
An hour after starting to stew the vegetables, add spices, bay leaves, chopped garlic, salt and sugar. We continue to cook the caviar for another hour. At the end of cooking, pour in vinegar, remove the bay leaf from the squash caviar and place it in sterile jars. We roll up the lids (also sterilized), turn the jars over, and wrap them up. After cooling, place the jars in a cool, dark place for storage. The photo shows a decent result.
Squash caviar with tomato paste for the winter can be prepared a little differently.
In the second option, onions and zucchini are cut into small cubes, and carrots are grated. First, the onions are fried, it will give the oil an amazing aroma, then the zucchini and carrots are fried in this oil. Place all the vegetables in one pan, add tomato paste and mayonnaise, mix and simmer for one hour.
The next step is to add all the spices, salt, sugar, bay leaf and the mixture is simmered again for an hour. 10 minutes before the dish is ready, chop the garlic and add it to the pan with caviar. Now remove the bay leaf and place the finished aromatic zucchini caviar into sterilized jars. Roll up and cover with a warm blanket so that the mixture cools more slowly. With this method of preparation, some housewives recommend chopping the mixture when the vegetables become soft. In this case, the workpiece is homogeneous and tender.
Recommendations for housewives
Basic recipes for the dish are based on the addition of tomato paste, but in the summer version it is good to replace this component with ripe tomatoes. Juicy, meaty “cream” will make the snack very pleasant to the taste. We leave the composition of the ingredients the same, but instead of tomato paste, we take fresh tomatoes. We need to add tomatoes to summer squash caviar, so we pour hot water over them, remove the peel and grind them in a meat grinder. At the end we need to get tomato in the amount of 25% of the total volume of the mixture.
We will simmer this caviar until the liquid has completely evaporated. The main thing is that the tomatoes have a rich color and dense consistency. Preparation takes more than 2 hours, so set aside time in advance. Garlic is optional for this option, but if you want a spicier taste, you can't do without it.
During the cooking process, the caviar is boiled down by half. This must be taken into account when calculating the amount of snacks at the exit and preparing the jars.
When adding mayonnaise, the mixture brightens. Don't worry, it will become darker towards the end of boiling.
If you replace tomato paste with sauce or tomatoes, watch the amount of salt. Adjust it to your liking.
The listed recipes for zucchini snacks with mayonnaise can be easily prepared in a slow cooker. In this case, it is important to chop all the vegetables equally. A regular meat grinder or blender will do. Vegetables are placed in a multi-bowl, oil, salt, pepper are added and the “Stew” mode is turned on for 1 hour. After 30 minutes, you need to add garlic and tomato paste and finish cooking the dish. The recipe for the winter takes 2 hours to prepare.
Homemade preparations are always useful. If the products are grown on your own plot, then the benefits of such caviar increase markedly.
