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Adjika has a separate and honorable place among home preparations for the winter. There are so many cooking options that it takes a lot of time just to read the recipes. Starting with the classic and adding original ingredients, the hostesses have developed a recipe for adjika "Lick your fingers."
The main characteristics for which everyone loves adjika can be distinguished into a separate group:
- aroma;
- piquancy;
- saturation with vitamins and nutrients;
- original taste;
- beautiful colour;
- multivariance.
Adzhika "Lick your fingers" is used as a sauce, seasoning and even as an independent dish, instead of caviar. You can easily spread it on a fragrant piece of bread and enjoy the taste of your favorite vegetables on a winter evening.
In addition, a slightly pungent taste gives the adjika "Lick your fingers" warming qualities, which is very important during cold weather. Also, this preparation option is perfect for any side dish and meat dishes.
Cooking components
The main ingredients of "Lick your fingers" adjika are, of course, vegetables and spices. They contain a tremendous amount of nutrients, vitamins and energy. Cooking adjika will not be difficult. They use it as a regular dish or as a preparation.
For the classic version, we need:
- tomatoes in the amount of 2.5 kilograms;
- carrots, it is enough to take 0.5 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper, better than red, also 0.5 kg;
- onions in the amount of 300 grams;
- bitter red pepper - take 3 medium sized peppers;
- peeled garlic 400 grams;
- vegetable oil - a glass (250 ml);
- sugar 1 cup;
- salt - a quarter of a glass;
- vinegar 250 milliliters (6%).
All ingredients are available and inexpensive. Many housewives grow them on their plots, therefore adjika - a very budget option.
Naturally, you may not be attached to the color of the products. If you have green bell peppers, use it calmly. This will not affect the taste of adjika at all. Maybe the color will be slightly muted, but this is also individual.
Cooking process
Each component must be properly prepared before starting the preparation of adjika. This is necessary for the winter preparation to be uniform, tasty and aromatic.
- Tomatoes... For adjika, it is best to take cream. They are fatter than the usual round varieties and at the same time, the flesh of the cream is tender and dense. Sort out, wash, dry slightly, cut into quarters (if large) or halves (small). Pass through a meat grinder.
- Pepper... If you like spicy adjika "Lick your fingers", then take the Ratunda variety. It tastes more pungent than other peppers. The meatiness of the walls of Ratunda is of a high level, so the adjika will be juicier. Wash the peppers, peel them, cut them into strips and grind them in a meat grinder too.
- Carrot... Take the tender and sweet varieties. This will spice up the taste. The combination of pungency and sugar, which emphasizes the hotness of the pepper, will enrich the workpiece with a variety of flavors. Wash and peel the root vegetables, cut into cubes, mince.
- Onion... It's up to you to decide which variety is best. You can even take a sweet one, but the usual table variety for adjika "Lick your fingers" is better suited. Clean the heads, and then two options are possible - grate on a fine grater or a meat grinder. It's up to you to choose.
- Bitter pepper and garlic... Take a medium-sized pepper, fleshy and juicy. The garlic is large, ripe, without damage.It is better to grind the components so that the consistency of the adjika is homogeneous. When peeling hot peppers, wear kitchen gloves so that you do not inadvertently touch your face, especially your eyes. The seeds can not be removed, but grind together with the pulp. Then the mixture will be more pungent.
Combine prepared vegetables, mix well. Adjika "Lick your fingers" for the winter is being prepared for several hours, so take a thick-walled dish or a cauldron. This will prevent the vitamin blank from burning. Cook for 30 minutes, stirring regularly. Then add sugar and salt in the specified amount, vegetable oil, vinegar to the mass. We continue to cook adjika for an hour. A good indicator of the correctness of the preparation will be the fact that during this time the adjika will be boiled down 1.5 times for the winter.
We continue to prepare the sauce for another 1.5 hours, then it remains to add the garlic, bring to a boil and put in jars, which must first be sterilized and dried.
The blank for the winter must be laid out in jars while hot, then rolled up, the jars must be turned over and wrapped. Leave as it is until it cools completely.
Some Prescription Recommendations
If you do not have 6% vinegar, then you can take 9% in the same amount. This will not affect the taste of the seasoning. Garlic gives an amazing aroma, but if your household doesn't like it very much, reduce the dose. Some housewives cook the sauce without garlic; such recipes are also very popular. But with garlic, adjika wins. Worth a try.
When choosing ingredients for seasoning for the winter, you should listen to the wishes of your family and friends. If you need a spicy snack - take more garlic, hot pepper (chili), if you like a milder taste - increase the amount of tomatoes and carrots.
Preparation options for the winter table
Housewives never stop at one recipe for a long time. Constantly share their findings or creative inventions. Almost all recipes contain identical components, only with small additions. The most popular varieties of adzhika "Lick your fingers" for the winter are compositions with the addition of:
- Apples... Lovers choose sour or sweet-sour varieties. They give the seasoning a unique flavor, but sweet ones are not suitable for cooking. From apple varieties it is advised to give preference to "Antonovka" or other green varieties. By the way, the classic "oriental adjika" is prepared without apples and even without tomatoes. But in other regions they like to pamper themselves with different compositions. To prepare the sauce, take the same amount of tomatoes and apples.
- Zabachkov... Young tender zucchini are often used when cooking adjika. They give the dish a peculiar taste, are very accessible and useful. The composition of the components is left the same as in the classic version, only 3 kg of zucchini are added. Vegetables should be taken young, so as not to cut off the skin and remove seeds. During the cooking process, they are cut into strips and passed through a meat grinder. Add to the total mass and cook adjika with zucchini according to the usual recipe.
- Combination with apples and zucchini... A very popular version of the "Lick your fingers" sauce for the winter. The components are accessible, easy to handle, and fit perfectly.
Among the favorite recipes for adjika, cooking without boiling should be distinguished. In this case, all components are ground, mixed and put into prepared sterilized jars. Close such adjika sauce "Lick your fingers" for the winter under nylon lids. Store the workpiece in the refrigerator. There is no need to be afraid that adjika will not survive. It is so delicious that it will go away in a very short time.
Try any options, invent your own and enrich the piggy bank of winter preparations.
