Content
- 1 Recipe 1 (from tomatoes and peppers)
- 2 Recipe 2
- 3 Recipe 3
- 4 Recipe 4 (no cooking)
- 5 Recipe 5 (with zucchini)
- 6 Recipe 6 (with plums)
- 7 Recipe 7 (from bell pepper)
- 8 Recipe 8 (with zucchini and apples, without tomatoes)
- 9 Recipe 9 (with tomato puree)
- 10 Recipe 10 (with eggplant)
- 11 Recipe 11 (adjika green)
- 12 Recipe 11 (with horseradish)
- 13 Conclusion
The traditional dressing of the Caucasian peoples, adjika, has undergone several changes in the Russian tradition, which are primarily due to natural conditions, the need to keep vegetables processed in winter and the desire to soften the spicy taste of the seasoning.
Therefore, other vegetables were added to the main composition of adjika (hot peppers, herbs, garlic, salt): sweet peppers, tomatoes, carrots, eggplants, zucchini.
Recipe 1 (from tomatoes and peppers)
What you need:
- Tomato - 3 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 kg;
- Garlic - 300 g;
- Hot pepper - 3 pcs.;
- Carrots - 1 kg;
- Sour apples - 1 kg;
- Salt (preferably coarsely ground) - 1/4 tbsp.;
- Granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- Acetic acid 9% - 1/2 tbsp.;
- Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp.
Procedure:
- Vegetables are washed, water is allowed to drain.
- The seeds and the stalk are taken out of the bell pepper, the core of the apples.
- Carrots are peeled, tomatoes are also peeled.
- Peel the garlic.
- All prepared components are passed through a meat grinder 2 times.
- Set to cook for an hour.
- When the cooking time is up, add salt, sugar, vinegar, sunflower oil and finely chopped garlic. Boil for another 10 minutes.
- Divide into clean jars and sterilize for a quarter of an hour.
- Then roll up the containers and place them under a blanket to cool slowly.
Adjika made from tomato and pepper has a milder taste than its Abkhaz counterpart. It will come by the way for the second courses of rice, potatoes, pasta, meat and poultry.
Recipe 2
Composition:
- Chili pepper - 2 pcs.;
- Tomatoes - 3 kg;
- Sweet pepper - 2 kg;
- Garlic - 1 head;
- Salt - 2 tbsp l .;
- Coriander - 1 tbsp l .;
- Parsley - to taste;
- Cilantro to taste;
- Allspice - 5 peas;
- Ground black pepper to taste.
Procedure:
- Vegetables and herbs are thoroughly washed and dried.
- Sweet peppers are freed from seeds and stalks.
- Peel the garlic.
- Vegetables are minced with a meat grinder or blender.
- Add salt, finely chopped herbs and coriander powder.
- Cook the mixture for about half an hour.
- At the end of cooking, add acetic acid.
- Roll the still hot mass in sterile jars.
The seasoning is kept in the refrigerator. It is used as an addition to meat, poultry, fish, side dishes and as an addition to soups. Adjika from pepper it turns out to be medium spicy and very aromatic.
Recipe 3
Required products:
- Basil - 1 bunch;
- Dill - 1 bunch;
- Cilantro - 1 bunch;
- Tarhun - 1/2 bunch;
- Mint - 2-3 branches;
- Thyme - 2-3 branches;
- Garlic - 100 g;
- Salt - 2 tbsp l .;
- Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp l .;
- Capsicum - 3 pcs.
Procedure:
- Spicy herbs wash well and shake off excess moisture, pass through a meat grinder or cut very finely.
- Garlic is peeled and also crushed.
- It is better to dry hot peppers in advance. Can be dried in the oven at 40 degrees for 3 hours.
- Prepared pods are crushed.
- All crushed parts are mixed, salted, oil is added, kneaded well.
- They are laid out in small sterile jars. The seasoning is stored in the refrigerator for up to six months.
Adjika pepper with herbs should be used with caution, as it has a pungent taste. This recipe is very close to the classic version of the Abkhaz seasoning.
Recipe 4 (no cooking)
What you need:
- Sweet pepper - 1 kg;
- Garlic - 0.3 kg;
- Hot pepper - 0.5 kg;
- Tomatoes - 1 kg;
- Salt - 1 tbsp l .;
- Acetic acid 9% - 100ml.
How to cook:
- Tomatoes, peppers are washed, garlic is peeled.
- All are crushed with a meat grinder, salted, vinegar is added.
- The mass should stand in a warm room for 2 days. Stir it occasionally.
- Then the pepper adjika is laid out in jars.
The prepared seasoning is stored in the refrigerator. It is good for borscht, red soups, gravy.
Recipe 5 (with zucchini)
Composition:
- Zucchini - 3 kg;
- Sweet pepper - 0.5 kg;
- Capsicum - 3 pcs.;
- Carrots - 0.5 kg;
- Tomatoes - 1.5 kg;
- Garlic - 0.1 kg;
- Sugar - 1/2 tbsp.;
- Salt - 2.5 tbsp l .;
- Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp.;
- Acetic acid 9% - 100 ml.
Procedure:
- Vegetables should be washed beforehand so that the glass is water.
- Zucchini is stripped of skin and seeds.
- Peel the carrots.
- Tomatoes are peeled.
- All vegetables are ground with a meat grinder. Hot peppers and garlic are set aside. You will need them later.
- The rest of the parts are combined with salt, sugar, butter.
- The mass is boiled for 40-50 minutes.
- Add garlic, pepper, vinegar at the end.
- Boil for another 5 minutes and put in jars.
Adjika from sweet pepper with zucchini has a pleasant aroma, delicate structure, balanced taste.
Recipe 6 (with plums)
What you need:
- Plum - 1 kg;
- Sweet pepper - 1 kg;
- Bitter pepper -
- Garlic - 1-2 heads;
- Sugar - salt -
- Acetic acid 70% - 1 tsp
- Tomato paste - 0.5 l
Procedure:
- Wash peppers, remove seeds, cut in half.
- Wash the plums, remove the seeds.
- Pass everything through a meat grinder.
- Add salt, sugar, tomato paste and cook for 30-40 minutes.
- Add acetic acid at the end.
- Arrange in dry sterile jars.
Adjika made from plums and peppers has a very pleasant taste.
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Recipe 7 (from bell pepper)
Products:
- Sweet pepper - 5 kg;
- Hot pepper - 5-6 pcs.;
- Parsley - 3 bunches;
- Garlic - 0.3 kg;
- Salt - 1.5 tbsp l .;
- Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
- Tomato paste - 0.5 l
Procedure:
- Prepare sweet peppers for use: rinse, remove seeds and stalks, cut into slices. Grind with a meat grinder.
- Cook, season with salt, for 10 minutes.
- Peel and chop the garlic. Fold separately.
- Wash the parsley, shake off the water well, scroll through a meat grinder. Put separately.
- Chop hot peppers and put them in a separate container.
- After 10 minutes of cooking pepper, add herbs, odorless sunflower oil and cook for another 15 minutes.
- Then add tomato paste and hot pepper. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Add garlic and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Add acetic acid.
- Arrange in jars.
Bulgarian pepper adjika recipe easy for the winter. The seasoning is aromatic, medium-sharp. The pungency can always be adjusted to your taste by adding or subtracting the amount of hot peppers and garlic.
Recipe 8 (with zucchini and apples, without tomatoes)
Composition:
- Zucchini - 5 kg;
- Sweet pepper - 1 kg;
- Capsicum pepper - 0.2 kg;
- Garlic - 0.2 kg;
- Apple - 1 kg;
- Carrots - 1 kg;
- Sunflower oil - 0.5 l;
- Acetic acid 9% - 1/2 tbsp.;
- Sugar - 200 g;
- Salt - 100 g
Procedure:
- Vegetables are prepared for further processing: washed, peeled, cut into pieces.
- Grind with a meat grinder.
- Salt, sugar, oil are added. Set to cook for 2 hours.
- After 2 hours of cooking, vinegar is added and placed in containers for further storage.
Homemade adjika with zucchini and apples does not include tomatoes, therefore, the taste is significantly different from other recipes. The taste is very unusual, it will appeal to all lovers of special recipes.
Recipe 9 (with tomato puree)
What you need:
- Bulgarian pepper - 5 kg;
- Tomato puree - 2 l;
- Garlic - 0.5 kg;
- Capsicum - 0.1 kg;
- Salt to taste;
- Granulated sugar - to taste;
- Sunflower oil - 500 ml;
- Parsley - 1 bunch
Procedure:
- Tomato puree can be made from store-bought products. Buy tomatoes in their own juice and grind with a blender. If the tomato crop is rich, then you can cook tomato puree yourself.
- For this, the tomatoes are washed, peeled, chopped with a meat grinder or blender. And they put it to cook.Time from 30-60 minutes, depending on the juiciness of the tomato. In order to get 2 liters of tomato puree, take about 5 kg of tomatoes. The cooking time depends on how thick you want to get. In this recipe, it is better to boil the puree as thick as possible.
- Pepper is peeled from seeds and crushed.
- Garlic is peeled and also crushed.
- Oil is poured into a cooking container and garlic is added.
- Heat for 5 minutes. As soon as the garlic aroma starts, add the peppers. Cook for about an hour.
- Then add chopped parsley and tomato paste.
- Knead everything well and cook for another quarter of an hour, gradually adding salt and granulated sugar, focusing on your taste. If there is not enough pungency, then you can add red ground pepper.
- Ready-made pepper and tomato adjika are laid out in sterile dry jars. The workpiece is stored in the refrigerator. For storage at room conditions, the jars are additionally sterilized for 15 minutes.
The recipe allows you to save the tomato harvest for the winter. Depending on the density, the preparation can be both a seasoning and a full-fledged dish for snacks and snacks.
Recipe 10 (with eggplant)
Products required:
- Eggplant - 1 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 kg;
- Tomatoes - 1.5 kg;
- Bitter pepper - 5 pcs.;
- Garlic - 0.3 kg;
- Salt - 2 tbsp l. (you can taste);
- Granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp.;
- Parsley - 1 bunch;
- Dill - 1 bunch;
- Honey - 3 tbsp. l .;
- Acetic acid 6% - 100 ml
Procedure:
- Vegetables are washed, tomatoes are peeled, peppers are removed from seeds and stalks.
- Grind with a blender or meat grinder.
- Placed in a cooking container, add oil, salt and sugar, put on fire.
- Meanwhile, the eggplants are diced.
- Send them to the boiling mass by adding honey.
- Cooking time - 40 minutes. It can be increased if it seems that the adjika is watery.
- Adding vinegar and herbs, they warm up for another 10 minutes, put in jars.
- In order for the workpiece to be stored in room conditions, the jars should be additionally sterilized for 10 minutes.
- Then the jars are rolled up.
This seasoning goes well with pasta and meat bread.
Recipe 11 (adjika green)
What you need:
- Green bell pepper - 0.5 kg;
- Green bitter pepper - 1-2 pcs.;
- Garlic - 3 cloves;
- Salt to taste;
- Sugar - 1 tsp;
- Cilantro to taste;
- Parsley - to taste;
- Green onions to taste;
- Dill - to taste;
- Fenugreek - 1/2 tsp
Procedure:
- Wash peppers, dry, grind with a blender, meat grinder.
- Attention! Wear gloves. Seeds hot pepper and the septa cause a burning sensation on the skin. Avoid touching your face and especially your eyes.
- Finely chop or grind the herbs.
- Mix everything well, salt and add sugar to taste.
Advice! Fenugreek can be substituted with roasted hazelnuts or walnuts.
This seasoning is stored in the refrigerator, it is better to prepare it in small portions, directly for consumption, and not for storage.
Recipe 11 (with horseradish)
What you need:
- Tomatoes - 2 kg;
- Sweet pepper - 1.5 kg;
- Hot pepper - 0.2 kg;
- Horseradish - 0.5 kg;
- Garlic - 0.3 kg;
- Dill - 1 bunch;
- Parsley - 1 bunch;
- Cilantro - 2 bundles;
- Salt - 5 tbsp l .;
- Granulated sugar - 4 tbsp. l .;
- Acetic acid 9% - 1/2 tbsp
Procedure:
- Vegetables are washed, horseradish roots are well cleaned, tomatoes are freed from the skin, peppers from seeds and stalks, garlic from the skin.
- The herbs are washed, shaken vigorously.
- Vegetables and herbs are crushed with any of the available kitchen devices (meat grinder, blender, mill).
- Combine with salt, sugar, vinegar. Leave alone in a warm place for a day.
- Then they are laid out in sterile jars.
Adjika made from tomato, sweet pepper and horseradish is suitable for sauces, for example, it can be added to mayonnaise or served with meat, poultry, with bread to the first hot dishes. The workpiece is stored in the refrigerator.
Conclusion
It is not difficult to prepare adjika. In addition to being insanely tasty, it is also very healthy.The preparation of peppers can be very different in taste and appearance: pungent, spicy, moderately spicy, very salty or sweet, thin or thick. The proportions in the recipes are approximate, there is no need to strictly observe the dosages, there is room for culinary creativity.
