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Winter blanks are very popular. They allow you to diversify your diet in the winter months, not give up your favorite foods, and save on food. The recipes you like spread quickly. How to cook squash caviar all housewives know, but the option with mayonnaise and tomato paste became known not so long ago.
The popularity of squash caviar for the winter has not diminished for many years, and with the addition of mayonnaise, this type of preparation is very similar to store caviar. Suitable for both preservation and instant cooking.
Some housewives are afraid to use mayonnaise in canning. For squash caviar, it's best to take the preparation of mayonnaise into your own hands. Then you will be sure of the quality of the constituent components. But if this is not possible, then the option with a purchased sauce has been tried by many and it is quite reliable. Zucchini caviar with mayonnaise turns out to be tasty, aromatic and well stored.
Zucchini caviar without mayonnaise has a lower calorie content than the option with its addition. But mayonnaise lends an unusual savory flavor to a familiar dish.
Required components for the preparation of the workpiece
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 should weigh 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 noted that a dish with tomatoes takes longer to stew than with tomato paste, because more liquid will have to be evaporated.
- Bulb onions - 0.5 kg.
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons.
- Mayonnaise - 250 g. It is recommended to take 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. Count the quantity to your taste.
- Unrefined vegetable oil - 150 ml.
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs., Take a large one, so that it is easier to remove from the dish before rolling the cans.
- Garlic - 4 cloves. Spice gives aroma and pungency to the finished dish. If you don't like garlic, you can exclude it from the list. The caviar will still be very tasty and tender.
- Vinegar, preferably 9% - 2 tablespoons.
Some mayonnaise zucchini recipes contain another ingredient - carrots. If you include it in the list of ingredients, it will add sweetness and diversify the vegetable flavor of the dish.
The process of cooking zucchini caviar with mayonnaise
First, let's prepare all the vegetable components:
- Peel the zucchini and cut into strips. In order for the finished squash caviar with mayonnaise to be tender for the winter, it is necessary to take young vegetables with unripe seeds. If this is not possible, then carefully remove the skin from the fruit and remove all the seeds.
- Peel the onion and cut into 2 or 4 pieces, 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 cook caviar. Popular recipes contain different ways to process vegetables.
The easiest is to pass all the ingredients through a meat grinder.First, pour the sunflower oil into the dish in which the caviar will be cooked, 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. Stir the chopped vegetables regularly so that the caviar does not burn. The closer the process ends, the more often it will have to be done.
An hour after the start of stewing 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 the vinegar, remove the bay leaf from the squash caviar and put it in sterile jars. We roll up the lids (also sterilized), turn over the cans, wrap them up. After cooling down, place the jars in a cool dark place for storage. The photo shows a decent result.
Zucchini caviar with tomato paste for the winter can be cooked a little differently.
In the second version, cut the onion and zucchini into small cubes, and grate the carrots. First, onions are fried, it will give the oil an amazing aroma, then zucchini and carrots are fried in this oil. Put all the vegetables in one pan, put tomato paste and mayonnaise, mix and stew for one hour.
The next step is to add all the spices, salt, sugar, bay leaf and the mixture is stewed again for an hour. 10 minutes before the dish is ready, grind the garlic and add it to the pot with caviar. Now the bay leaf is removed and the ready-made aromatic caviar from the zucchini is placed in sterilized jars. Roll up and cover with a warm blanket so that the mixture cools more slowly. With this cooking method, some housewives recommend chopping the mixture when the vegetables are soft. In this case, the workpiece is homogeneous and delicate.
Recommendations for housewives
The main 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 fleshy "cream" will make the appetizer very tasty. We leave the composition of the components the same, but instead of tomato paste, we take fresh tomatoes. We need to add a tomato to the summer squash caviar, so we pour over them with hot water, remove the peel and twist it in a meat grinder. At the exit, we need to get tomatoes in the amount of 25% of the total volume of the mixture.
We will stew such caviar until the liquid has completely evaporated. The main thing is that the tomatoes are rich in color and dense in consistency. Cooking takes more than 2 hours, so set aside time in advance. Garlic is optional for this option, but if you want a spicier flavor, you can't do without it.
During the cooking process, the caviar is boiled down in half. This must be taken into account when calculating the number of snacks at the exit and preparing the cans.
When adding mayonnaise, the mixture brightens. Don't worry, it will get darker by the end of boiling.
If you've replaced tomato paste with sauce or tomatoes, keep an eye on the amount of salt. Adjust it to your liking.
The listed recipes for zucchini appetizers with mayonnaise can be easily prepared in a slow cooker. In this case, it is important to grind all 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 switched on for 1 hour. After 30 minutes, add garlic and tomato paste, finish cooking. The recipe for the winter is being prepared for 2 hours.
Homemade preparations are always useful. If the products are grown on their own site, then the benefits of such caviar are noticeably increased.
