During the summer period, you need not only to have time to relax, but also to prepare delicious preparations for the winter. The favorite of many housewives is adjika. This is not only a spicy sauce, but also an excellent appetizer, as well as an addition to many dishes and side dishes. Why, just spread it on fresh bread, and a wonderful snack is ready. Most housewives cook quite a lot of adjika, as it quickly disperses. Therefore, you can try several options for its preparation at once. In this article we will see unusual recipes for simply awesome adjika. The first option is prepared with apples, and the second with zucchini. Agree, very intriguing.
Adjika awesome with apples
The best winter recipes are usually passed down from generation to generation. It is to such rolls that the following recipe can be attributed. This dish turns out to be quite spicy. But as you know, not everyone likes spicy food. Therefore, the amount of hot pepper can be changed depending on your taste preferences and health status. Those who have an inflamed stomach, it is better to refuse spicy food.
So, to prepare this blank, we need to prepare the following components:
- 5 kilograms of ripe tomatoes;
- 1 kilograms of carrots;
- 1 kilogram of bell pepper;
- 8 pieces of red hot pepper;
- 1 kilogram of medium-sized apples;
- 250 grams of peeled garlic;
- 0,5 liters of vegetable oil;
- 6 tablespoons of granulated sugar;
- 4 tablespoons of kitchen salt.
Cooking such adjika does not take much time, which is its main advantage. The first step is to wash and clean all the vegetables. Tomatoes can be dipped in boiling water and peeled. But you can miss this moment, because after grinding it is practically not felt. We remove the stalk and core from the pepper, carefully shake out all the seeds. We cut the apples into 4 parts and also remove the cores. You can leave the skin on the apples. We clean the carrots and wash them under running water.
Now we grind all the prepared ingredients (carrots, peppers, apples and tomatoes) with a meat grinder or blender. We mix the finished mass and put on a small fire. In this form, adjika is cooked for about 2 hours. Now you can add the rest of the components.
Garlic should be crushed with a knife or blender. Prepared garlic, granulated sugar, vegetable oil and salt are added to boiling adjika. Now it remains to boil the workpiece for another 10 minutes and you can start rolling. There is no need to put out the fire. Still boiling adjika is poured into prepared containers and rolled up. Banks before this should be thoroughly washed and sterilized.
From this portion, 14-15 half-liter jars are obtained. If you need more or less adjika, then adjust the amount of ingredients accordingly. If you roll the blank into 700-gram cans, you will get about 10 pieces.
Adjika is amazing with zucchini
The following recipe is no less amazing and unusual. The main ingredient in this adjika is zucchini. Since they do not have a pronounced taste, they can easily absorb the richer flavors of other ingredients. Thus, you can increase the amount of cooked food and give it a special flavor.
Now consider the list of required ingredients:
- 1 kilogram of zucchini;
- 150 grams of bell pepper;
- 0,5 kg of ripe tomatoes;
- 150 grams of carrots;
- 1-2 red hot peppers;
- 4 tablespoons of tomato paste;
- 60 ml of vegetable oil;
- 2 heads of garlic;
- 30-40 ml table 9% vinegar;
- 50-60 grams of granulated sugar;
- kitchen salt to taste.
As you can see, most of all in this dish is zucchini. To do this, choose young fruits without seeds. If the zucchini has a rather dense skin, then it would be better to peel the fruit before cooking. Hot pepper can be omitted from the dish, or you can add it a little. The taste of adjika will not suffer from this, since garlic will give it an already piquant taste.
Preparation of the workpiece consists of the following steps:
- First of all, clean (if necessary) and cut the zucchini. The size of the pieces does not matter, as long as they are placed in a meat grinder or blender. Alternatively, you can cut the fruit into 4 parts lengthwise, and then cut each into slices.
- Next, clean, wash and cut the carrots into arbitrary pieces.
- Wash the bell pepper, cut off the core and chop.
- We chop the tomatoes. Before this, you can remove the skin from the fruit. To do this, the tomatoes are placed in boiling water for a couple of minutes, and then transferred to cold water. Now the skin is easily removed from the tomatoes.
- Grind all prepared vegetables with a blender or meat grinder. The finished mass is transferred to the prepared pan, and put on a small fire. After boiling, adjika is cooked for another 20 minutes. All this time, the mass must be stirred frequently so that it does not stick to the walls of the pan.
- After 20 minutes, tomato paste, kitchen salt, granulated sugar, and chopped hot pepper should be added to the adjika. Next, pour vegetable oil into the mass and continue to cook for another 10 minutes.
- Now you need to add finely chopped garlic to the mixture and cook for five minutes.
- At the end, 9% table vinegar is poured into adjika, the mixture is thoroughly mixed, waiting for it to boil again and turn off.
- Now the mass is poured into sterilized jars and rolled up with lids. After this, the blanks must be turned upside down and wrapped in something warm (a blanket or towel) until the blank has completely cooled.
For seaming adjika use clean sterilized containers. This means that before use, the jars should be thoroughly washed with soda, and then held in boiling water or a preheated oven. Immediately after cooling, adjika moves to a cold place for further storage for the winter.
Conclusion
As we could see, a tasty and original workpiece can be prepared quickly and easily. Awesome adjika can be made from the simplest vegetables and spices. The above recipes show that for this you can use components that are completely unusual for adjika, such as zucchini and apples. In general, there is no need to be afraid of bold experiments. This is usually how culinary masterpieces are born.
