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Sterilization in a water bath makes canned food more resistant and prolongs its shelf life. But the event is troublesome and takes a lot of time. There are few happy owners of home autoclaves. Everyone else has to act the old fashioned way.
If the cans and lids are thoroughly sterilized without violating the temperature regime, and the product itself is prepared correctly, with sufficient heat treatment time for a given recipe, then it is quite possible to immediately lay it out in the cans and seal it tightly. Such canned food can be stored well even at room temperature.
Without sterilization, you can cook marinades, compotes, various salads and, of course, caviar from various vegetables. There are many recipes that you can use to cook eggplant caviar for the winter without sterilization.
In order for such canned food to be well stored at the end of cooking, vinegar must be added to the vegetable mixture, in extreme cases, you can do with a sufficient content of tomatoes or paste from them.
There are a lot of recipes for eggplant caviar. Not all of them use sterilization. The result of almost every piece is a thick mass in the form of mashed potatoes. This is exactly what the caviar should be. But they get it in different ways. You can first bake the eggplants, and then turn them into caviar, you can pre-fry all the vegetables and make mashed potatoes from them using a blender. But there is an easier way - caviar from raw vegetables, turned through a meat grinder.
The simplest eggplant caviar
For 4 kg of medium sized eggplant you will need:
- sweet pepper - 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 2 kg;
- lean oil - 200 ml;
- vinegar 6% - 8 tsp.
Season the caviar with salt, sugar and pepper to taste.
We wash and clean the vegetables, remove the seeds from the pepper, cut everything into pieces and twist it through a meat grinder. You will get a fairly liquid puree. Pour it into a thick-walled saucepan and bring to a boil. At this stage, add salt, sugar and the necessary spices to the vegetable mixture. The mixture should now simmer over low heat for about 40 minutes. During this time, it will thicken.
Vegetables absorb salt and sugar gradually, so the taste of the dish will change during the cooking process.
While the caviar is being prepared, you need to sterilize the jars and lids. This should be done very carefully, since the canned food will not be sterilized in the future.
Ready caviar is immediately packaged in jars and hermetically sealed. Since we prepare caviar for the winter without sterilization, it is imperative to turn the jars over and wrap them well. So, they have to stand for a day. Then we take out the canned food for storage. Better if it is a basement or some other cool place.
Different peoples have different traditions of preparing blanks for the winter. Among the many recipes for eggplant caviar for the winter without sterilization, there was a recipe from Ukraine. They love the blue ones very much and harvest them in large quantities.
Ukrainian eggplant caviar
It is prepared without bell peppers and garlic. The absence of hot spices and vinegar, a small amount of vegetable oil allows you to use this blank even for baby food.
For 2 kg eggplant you will need:
- tomato - 8 pcs.;
- onions and carrots - 4 pcs.;
- lean oil - 400 ml.
Season this piece with salt and sugar to taste.
Peel the eggplants, cut into small cubes, finely chop the onion, also cut the tomatoes, three carrots on a grater.
Tomatoes need to be peeled. This is easy to do by scalding the tomatoes and then immediately pouring them over with cold water.
You will need 2 pans for cooking. Simmer eggplants on one until soft, add tomatoes to them and simmer for another 10 minutes. In another pan, fry the onions and carrots. The onion should turn golden. Mix vegetables, season with salt and sugar and simmer together for about half an hour.
We lay out the finished caviar in sterilized jars, seal it tightly with well-boiled lids. We insulate banks for a day. Store in a cool place.
Eggplant caviar is also prepared in foggy Albion. True, in the English version this dish is called mashed potatoes. The word caviar has a completely different meaning here. There are also many fans of homemade goodies in England. This recipe has an equal share of eggplants and tomatoes, which gives the caviar a special, tomato flavor.
Eggplant caviar in English
For 3 kg of eggplant you will need:
- tomatoes - 3 kg;
- bell pepper - 2 kg;
- onions and carrots - 1 kg each;
- 9% vinegar and refined vegetable oil - 150 ml each;
- salt - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 150 g.
Cut the eggplants into slices, without peeling them from the skin, three carrots, cut the onion in half rings, and the sweet pepper into slices.
Combine all vegetables in a bowl or large bowl. For pouring, you need to prepare the marinade. It is made from salt, sugar, vinegar, oil and tomatoes. We mix all the components in a blender. Pour the marinade over the vegetables and simmer the mixture over a medium heat for 20 minutes. If taste is the main thing for you, and appearance is not important, at this stage you can stop and pack canned food into sterilized dishes, hermetically sealed.
But if you definitely want to get English puree, you will have to grind the finished mixture with a blender.
Spread out in sterilized dishes and hermetically sealed eggplant caviar in English will remind you of a warm generous summer on frosty winter evenings.
In order to be able to cook caviar at any time when the hostess needs it, you can make a semi-finished product from eggplant, which also does not require sterilization.
Eggplant for winter caviar
It only needs eggplant and vegetable oil and, of course, salt.
The proportions are as follows:
For 2 kg of eggplant, you need 0.5 liters of oil for pouring. Salt this dish to taste, but in order for the blank to be well stored, you do not need to feel sorry for it.
Bake washed and dried eggplants in an oven heated to 220 degrees until soft.
While the eggplants are baking, sterilize the dishes and lids. We take out the eggplants from the oven and take out the pulp with a neatly sterilized spoon and place them in sterile jars. Boil the salted vegetable oil and pour the eggplant with boiling oil. This must be done carefully so that the banks do not burst.
Rolled up banks need to be well wrapped for a day. From such a blank in winter, you can cook any dish with eggplant.
Eggplant caviar is a dish that has many cooking options. The products are used in different proportions and combinations. But whatever recipe the hostess chooses, the result is a delicious and healthy dish that will delight the whole family.
