Eggplant caviar for the winter

It is so nice to open a jar of vegetables on winter days and enjoy the taste of summer, get a dose of vitamins and just have a tasty meal. One of my favorite canned snacks is eggplant caviar... There are many recipes for eggplant caviar: it is cooked with different vegetables and even with fruits, for cooking, both raw and fried, boiled or baked ingredients are used, and absolutely any greens, roots and spices can be used as seasonings and spices.

Today's article will describe how to cook eggplant caviar and make eggplant caviar blanks for the winter. Below are the best recipes with photos and detailed cooking technology. It's just a crime not to prepare at least a jar of a fragrant snack!

The easiest eggplant caviar recipe for the winter

This recipe is best used as a snack rather than as a side dish or a separate dish. The caviar turns out to be quite spicy and spicy, it is good to eat it with black bread and even with a glass of strong drink.

To prepare eggplant caviar, you will need the following products:

• directly eggplants in the amount of three kilograms;
• one and a half kilograms of ripe tomatoes;
• two hot peppers;
• two heads of garlic;
• 1.5 tablespoons of salt;
• 1.5 cups granulated sugar
• a glass of vinegar (9%);
• 2 cups sunflower oil;
• 12-15 bay leaves.

Eggplant caviar is prepared for the winter like this:

1. All products are thoroughly washed.
2. The blue ones are cut into small cubes (you need to chop the eggplants as hard as possible).
3. Now the cut blue ones need to be salted and left for several hours in order for the bitterness to go away from them.
4. Peel the tomatoes. The best way is to immerse the tomatoes in boiling water for a few seconds. Previously, an incision is made crosswise on each tomato - so the skin is removed very easily.
5. Tomatoes, hot peppers and garlic must be twisted through a meat grinder.
6. The crushed mass is laid out in a large enamel pan, where it is mixed with all the spices.
7. Boil the tomato mixture a little, stirring regularly with a wooden spoon. The optimal time is 15 minutes.
8. The eggplants that have let the juice are added to the boiling tomatoes and cook with them over low heat with constant stirring for another 15-20 minutes.
9. During this time, you can wash and sterilize the eggplant jars. The caps should also be sterile.
10. Still hot caviar is placed in clean jars, which are immediately sealed.

On the first day, eggplant caviar is best stored in inverted jars, covered with warm blankets. The next day, you can take the eggplant sauce jars to the basement or put them in a dark closet.

The classic eggplant caviar recipe

A distinctive feature of this recipe is that there are no preservatives like vinegar among the ingredients. Many do not like sourness, but for some, vinegar is completely contraindicated - then this dish is just right.

The list of necessary products for caviar is rather short:

• one kilogram of medium-sized blue;
• two medium carrots;
• two onions;
• three bell peppers;
• a spoonful of salt;
• a stack of refined sunflower oil.

It is necessary to cook eggplants in the following sequence:

1. Wash the blue ones and peel them.
2. Cut the eggplants into small cubes.
3. Fry the blue ones in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil.
4. All vegetables are also washed and peeled and peeled.
5. Grate the carrots, cut the pepper into cubes, chop the onion as finely as possible.
6. Each ingredient should be fried separately from the rest.
7. After frying, all vegetables are poured into a large saucepan, where they are mixed and salted.
8. Now the main feature of this caviar recipe is that the vegetable mixture is placed in the oven and baked for 20-30 minutes.
9. Hot caviar is placed in sterile jars and additionally sterilized, only after that the jars can be rolled up.

Eggplant caviar for the winter with the addition of plums

Probably, every housewife was visited by such a thought: "I cook the same thing every year, but I want variety." You can dilute the monotonous eggplant caviar recipes by adding the spicy taste of fruits or berries. A very successful combination is obtained when juicy plums are added to vegetables: the dish comes out spicy, with sourness and the aroma of a good sauce.

Cooking such caviar is not difficult, the ingredients are the most common:

• 1 kilogram of small eggplants;
• 0.5 kilograms of ripe plums;
• 0.5 kilograms of tomatoes;
• 3 pieces of bell pepper;
• two medium onions;
• a few cloves of summer garlic;
• a stack of vegetable oil;
• a tablespoon of apple cider (or regular) vinegar;
• a glass of granulated sugar;
• a spoonful of salt;
• a third of a teaspoon of ground black pepper.

Cooking caviar with a step-by-step process description:

1. The blue ones need to be washed and the stalks cut off from them.
2. Cut each eggplant lengthwise into several plates (the thickness of each layer is about 1.5 cm).
3. Arrange the eggplants on a greased sheet and place in the oven. Each plate must be slightly sprinkled with sunflower oil and salt.
4. The rest of the vegetables are laid out on the second sheet. They should not be cut, it is enough to wash them thoroughly. Plums are also placed here. All products are sprinkled with oil and salted.
5. Both leaves are put in the oven at the same time, vegetables are baked until cooked.
6. When the food has cooled down, they are cleaned, and bones are removed from the plums. All ingredients are minced using a meat grinder.
7. The crushed composition is laid out in a saucepan, mixed with spices and boiled for 15-20 minutes.
8. A couple of minutes before cooking, you need to add vinegar.
9. Ready caviar is laid out in sterile jars and rolled up or closed with airtight lids.

Eggplant caviar with apples recipe with photo

If plum caviar seems too exotic, then we will make the recipe more traditional and add apples to the eggplant. Apples of sweet and sour varieties are most suitable for these purposes, they will give the dish the desired sour aftertaste.

Cooking this eggplant caviar is even easier than the previous one. You only need a few ingredients:

• 1 kg of young small eggplants;
• 2-3 medium apples;
• 2 small onions;
• 2 tablespoons of refined oil;
• a teaspoon of vinegar;
• a spoonful of sugar;
• a third of a teaspoon of black ground pepper (less possible).

The principle of preparing a winter snack is very simple:

1. All products are washable.
2. The eggplant is baked, but not in the same way as in the plum recipe. Here the blue ones should be whole, only the stalk is cut off.
3. Then squeeze the juice from the cooled blue ones.
4. Cut the eggplants in half. The pulp is selected with a spoon.
5. This pulp is chopped with a knife (if necessary) and spread in a pan, where it is lightly fried.
6. Peel and finely dice the onion, also fry in oil.
7. The washed and peeled apples are rubbed on a coarse grater.
8. All components are put in an enamel bowl and mixed, spices are also added here.
9. Caviar should be boiled for no more than 15 minutes, after which it should be immediately rolled into sterile jars.

In such a dish, the eggplants will not burn, the temperature will be more even, which will allow the vegetables to stew slowly. The main thing is that the container is not aluminum, then the dish is not saturated with a metallic taste and smell.

Eggplant and zucchini caviar

Not everyone loves zucchini caviar, but this vegetable is very useful, besides, zucchini is a dietary product recommended for the elderly, allergy sufferers and children. You can significantly improve the taste of zucchini by adding eggplant to the caviar.

For such caviar, the following components are needed:

• 1 kg of blue;
• 1 kg of medium-sized zucchini;
• 0.5-0.6 kg of tomatoes;
• 4-5 onions;
• oil, salt and black pepper to taste.

You need to cook the dish in the following sequence:

1. Wash vegetables.
2. Cut the blue and zucchini into thick circles (1.5-2 cm).
3. Fry the workpieces over medium heat.
4. Cut the cooled food into small cubes.
5. Cut the onion into small pieces, remove the peel from the tomato and cut it too. Fry these ingredients separately in sunflower oil.
6. All vegetables are mixed, peeled and salted. The caviar should boil for at least five minutes.
7. The caviar is laid out in jars and sterilized along with the container.

Eggplant caviar is undoubtedly worth trying to make at least one of these recipes. You can eat caviar as a separate dish, use it as a side dish, replace meat with it during fasting or on fasting days, treat unexpected guests by serving it as a snack.

If you experiment, every housewife will find her favorite eggplant caviar recipe!

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